Apple Inc. is refining its plans to annex the living room into its entertainment empire. Apple CEO Steve Jobs smiles during the Apple news conference in San Francisco, Wednesday, Sept
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Home Front: Sacramento County sales rise again, prices edge toward $200K
Home sales numbers and prices continue to edge upward in Sacramento County and the City of West Sacramento, the Sacramento Association of Realtors reports. In this June 28, 2010 photo, a New Price is advertised on this home for sale in Palo Alto, Calif.
US teen sailor reunited with brother after ordeal
Abby Sunderland, 16, is seen with her brother Zac, partially seen in rear, from California, who sailed around the world at age 17, on the French fisheries patrol boat “Osiris,” Saturday, June 26, 2010, at Saint Denis de la Reunion, in the Reunion island, a French overseas territory in the Indian Ocean. Zac is coming to pick up his sister Abby who was rescued by a French fishing boat after her boat became crippled by storms while trying to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo and nonstop. Sixteen-year-old Californian sailor Abby Sunderland got a big hug from her older brother Saturday on the appropriately named Reunion Island, and again defended her family for letting her try to sail around the world alone
Amazon cuts Kindle price to $189 after Nook move
A price war is heating up in the electronic reader market, as Amazon cut the price of its Kindle e-reader below $200 Monday just after Barnes & Noble did the same with its competing Nook device. The rapid-fire moves are fanning flames in the still-small but rapidly growing market that the book industry sees as a major part of its future. On Monday afternoon, online retailer Amazon.com Inc.
In California, license plates might go electronic
As electronic highway billboards flashing neon advertisements become more prevalent, the next frontier in distracted driving is already approaching – ad-blaring license plates. The California Legislature is considering a bill that would allow the state to begin researching the use of electronic license plates for vehicles. The move is intended as a moneymaker for a state facing a $19 billion deficit
Consumers: Recession should be over by 2012
More than half of consumers in a national survey think the recession will end before January 2012 and plan to buy big-ticket items, a PriceGrabber consumer spending survey found.
Memorial planned to honor Coast Guard crew lost in crash
As a relatively small branch of the military, the U.S. Coast Guard views itself as a close-knit family
Torch Club – Lara Price – 2010-05-29
At the Torch Club *** Lara Price *** Lara is based in the San Francisco Bay area, Lara has built quite a top-notch band, Lara can belt out a song, purr through a ballad, knock you out with her sensuality and make you want to get up and dance.
Popular percussion program in peril; benefit planned
The Nada Brahma Music Ensemble (featured, above) and percussionist Alex Jenkins are performing a benefit concert to save a crucial and popular drumming program. That program is called the “William Land Drum Class,” and it recently lost most of its funding from the Sacramento City Unified School District. The popular program, offered free to the public, is the brainchild of percussionist Jenkins.
Plumbers union flexes muscle in local campaigns
From prison guards to teachers, organized labor wields influence over California politics like an iron pipe.
