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Seattle Times, 24.04.13 04:11 UTC

College Football Playoff is name of BCS replacement

The Bowl Championship Series will be replaced by the College Football Playoff. BCS conference commissioners Tuesday announced the name of the new postseason system that starts after the 2014 regular season

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Los Angeles Daily News, 24.04.13 01:09 UTC

Foreclosure activity in L.A. County plunges

Foreclosure activity plunged more than 60 percent across the region in the first quarter in response to rising home prices, a strengthening economy and a government assistance program that kicked in ...

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Seattle Times, 24.04.13 00:22 UTC

Calif. woman gets 1 1/2-year term in funeral scam

A 70-year-old woman was sentenced Tuesday to 1 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $315,000 in restitution for defrauding insurers by faking deaths and staging sham funerals while she worked at a Los Angeles mortuary.

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Los Angeles Daily News, 23.04.13 23:59 UTC

Jon Coupal: The bill for unfunded pensions is coming due

Expect to hear a lot more pronouncements from state and local government officials about the need for tax increases, cuts to public services, or both. CalPERS, the huge pension fund that serves most ...

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Reuters - Top News, 23.04.13 23:58 UTC

Alleged Canada plot turns focus to rail transport's vulnerability

By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON | Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:52pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An alleged al Qaeda-backed plot to derail a U.S. passenger train in Canada sought to exploit the vulnerabilities of ...

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Wired, 23.04.13 23:12 UTC

Yemeni Tells Senators About 'Fear and Terror' Caused by U.S. Drones

Farea al-Muslimi, center, told a Senate Judiciary committee today about a recent lethal drone strike in his Yemeni village. Photo: Spencer Ackerman/Wired For the first time, the Senate heard from ...

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BBC World News, 23.04.13 22:14 UTC

US women shot by LAPD in Dorner manhunt get $4m payout

The city of Los Angeles will pay $4.2m (£2.8m) to two women shot by police as they searched for an ex-policeman on a murder spree.

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NPR, 23.04.13 21:35 UTC

Could An 'Artificial Leaf' Fuel Your Car?

It's easy to feel dispirited about climate change because the challenge of dealing with it seems so overwhelming. But Miguel Modestino is actually excited about the challenge. He's part of a large ...

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Popular Science, 23.04.13 21:11 UTC

Can Oxytocin Get Me A Boyfriend?

A personal experiment with the love hormone

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Seattle Times, 23.04.13 21:00 UTC

New deadline ordered for FDA food safety reforms

A federal judge is siding with two California advocacy groups in ruling that the Food and Drug Administration must set a new timetable to implement delayed food safety reforms.

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California is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil. It is located on the West Coast of the United States, and is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, the Mexican state of Baja California to the south, and the ...

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