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Air board OKs toughest limits on ship exhausts Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:44:40 PDT
State air-quality officials approved the toughest-known restriction on ship emissions in the world Thursday, cutting the diesel exhaust that exposes millions of people along the California coast to harmful air pollution. The measure, adopted by the state Air...

McCain visits German restaurant _ in Ohio Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:22:16 PDT
Republican presidential candidate John McCain had his own German experience Thursday _ at a restaurant in Ohio. He asserted that he was happy to devote his time this week to touring the nation's heartland. "I'd love to give a speech in Germany. But I'd much...

4 Spitzer appointees accused of ethics violations Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:34:09 PDT
Three former aides to ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer and the former head of the state police were charged with ethics violations Thursday over travel records released to discredit a political rival, a scandal that consumed Spitzer's administration before it was...

McCain to meet with Dalai Lama Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:13:11 PDT
Republican presidential candidate John McCain is scheduled to meet with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, on Friday in Colorado. The two will meet in Aspen, where the Dalai Lama plans to address a symposium on Tibetan culture and its impact on...

Russia denies reported Cuba base plans Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:06:11 PDT
The Russian Defense Ministry has denied a newspaper report that Russia was considering basing nuclear-capable bombers in Cuba, Russian news agencies reported Thursday. The newspaper Izvestia this week cited an anonymous top air force official as saying the...

France steps back from 35-hour work week Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:34:46 PDT
French lawmakers took a step toward ending the country's decade-long experiment with a 35-hour work week, passing a bill that gives companies greater latitude to extend working hours. The new law, approved late Wednesday, retains the legal limit on working...

Teen arrested for $38,000 in graffiti damage Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:26:46 PDT
A teenager arrested by sheriff's investigators is believed to be the prolific graffiti vandal whose monicker "Wonka" has been scrawled on buses and trains throughout the Los Angeles area. The 17-year-old Fairfax High School student was arrested on campus...

Web lets foreigners comment on U.S. race Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
The engorged U.S. media posse following Sen. Barack Obama around the world this month is an aberration in these days of shrinking foreign news coverage, but the 200,000 Europeans who heard the Illinois senator speak Thursday in Berlin weren't. There's a...

Satellites shed light on borealis' color romp Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
UC Berkeley scientists steering a fleet of five satellites have unraveled a mystery about what causes the northern lights to brighten suddenly from shimmering green to flaming curtains of red and yellow. "We discovered what makes the northern lights dance,"...

Immigration raids called harsh Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, blasted the Bush administration Thursday for conducting what Democrats described as harsh and punitive immigration raids, calling special attention to a raid at a kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa in May where nearly 400 illegal...

Controller says he won't cut workers' wages Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's bombshell plan to slash the pay of state workers and lay off thousands of other employees to ease a looming cash shortage brought on by the state's budget impasse faces the same obstacle that arose five years ago during a state...

Numbers show girls as good at math as boys Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Researchers say the long-running debate is settled: Girls are just as good as boys at math. After checking the test scores of 7 million students in 10 states, university researchers found no difference between the sexes in performance on math tests given in...

Prop. 8 backers take fight to kindergarten Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Backers of a November initiative to ban same-sex marriage in California plan to tell voters in the state ballot pamphlet that the constitutional amendment would protect children as young as kindergarten age from being taught in school about the virtues of gay...

Rapturous reception for Obama in Berlin / McCain draws contrast with small event half a world away Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama delivered a soaring call for international unity to a cheering, flag-waving crowd of 200,000 in Berlin on Thursday while Republican Sen. John McCain battled for attention by talking kitchen-table economics in a German sausage...

Earl Lee Nelson - soul singer Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Earl Lee Nelson, half of the soul-music singing duo Bob & Earl, who were best known for writing the R&B classic "Harlem Shuffle," has died. He was 79. Mr. Nelson, who had Alzheimer's disease, died July 12 at his Los Angeles home. In 1954, he joined an early...

Sid Craig - co-founded Jenny Craig Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
The co-founder of Jenny Craig Inc., who built the weight loss company with his wife, Jenny Craig, has died, the company said Tuesday. Sid Craig died Monday in San Diego after a long illness. He was 76. He and his wife founded Jenny Craig Inc. in 1982 in...

HAYWARD / DNA leads to arrest in 1996 rape case Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Twelve years after a man raped a woman and set her house on fire to destroy any evidence, Alameda County sheriff's investigators have arrested a suspect with the help of DNA technology. James Fitzgerald Johnston, a 41-year-old construction worker from...

CHRONICLEWATCH / Working for a Better Bay Area Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
RESULTS: DAY 11 Recycling better at Ocean Beach: Fog enveloped Ocean Beach on Thursday. Nothing new there. What wasn't expected were the new recycle-friendly receptacles that lined the walkway along the beach. They weren't supposed to be ready until October...

Sitters briefly occupy another tree at Cal Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Score one for the Berkeley tree-sitters. Hours after UC Berkeley won a court decision Tuesday allowing a long-blocked athletic training center to be built next to Memorial Stadium, supporters of illegal tree-sitters occupying the project's site commandeered a...

PG&E warns its bills could soar this winter Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Oil prices jumped to historic highs this year. Gasoline, too. Now electricity prices could be headed up. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. warned Thursday that its electricity rates could rise 4.4 percent, on average, in October and another 11 percent in January -...

Ratto: Giants' Roberts measures up on his first day back Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:07:27 PDT
It had been 108 days since Dave Roberts' last start, so a few of the important professional details that make major-leaguers major-leaguers had understandably slipped his mind. Like the one about postgame height variances. He was being interviewed after his...

Manning hopes for quick return Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Peyton Manning's voice resonated through the Colts training camp in Terre Haute, Ind., on Thursday - from 90 miles away. The NFL's two-time MVP spent reporting day at home in Indianapolis, his valuable left knee immobilized after having surgery to remove an...

Asomugha takes the high road to camp Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
As training camps begin across the league, it's time to give it up for Nnamdi Asomugha, the antithesis of what most NFL franchise players have become. The Raiders cornerback could have followed long-standing team protocol and made himself an absolute pain in...

Starting grid Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
NASCAR SPRINT CUP Allstate 400 at the Brickyard Site: Indianapolis Schedule: Saturday, qualifying (7 a.m., ESPN2); Sunday, race (11 a.m., ESPN). Track: Indianapolis Motor Speedway (rectangular oval, 2.5 miles, 9 degrees banking in turns). Race distance: 400...

Cal gets one vote in Pac-10 poll, but USC takes the rest / Media members pick Bears 4th, Stanford 9t Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
The preseason Pac-10 football poll released Thursday featured a major surprise. No, it had nothing to do with USC, which was the overwhelming choice to win a seventh straight conference championship. In fact, the Trojans got 38 of the 39 first-place votes...

Shaking your nerves and rattling your brain / Drag racers' powerful engines provide fan thrills Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Turn on the television any motor sports weekend and one can distinguish the racing leagues by engine noise alone. NASCAR: Roar. IRL: Whine. Formula One: Shriek. The NHRA? Don't bother. "The TV can't possibly do it justice," said Melanie Troxel, Lend America...

Roddick latest to get upset at Rogers Cup Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Andy Roddick followed Roger Federer out of the Rogers Cup. The sixth-seeded Roddick was upset by 44th-ranked Marin Cilic 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in Toronton on Thursday. "His aggressiveness is what won him that match," Roddick said. "He took it to me a lot more than I...

Up next for home team: another tough trio Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
For their final series before the All-Star break, the Giants got the pleasure of facing the Cubs' Jason Marquis, Rich Harden and Ryan Dempster at Wrigley Field. In their first series after the break, the Giants got the honor of dealing with the Brewers' CC...

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
TONIGHT Opponent: Rangers Time: 7:05 p.m. TV: CSNBA Pitchers: Padilla (11-5) vs. Gallagher (4-4) SATURDAY Opponent: Rangers Time: 1:05 p.m. TV: None Pitchers: Harrison (1-1) vs. Duchscherer (10-6) SUNDAY Opponent: Rangers Time: 1:05 p.m. TV: Channel: 36...

GIANTS ON DECK Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
TONIGHT Opponent: Diamondbacks Time: 7:15 p.m. TV: Channel: 11 Pitchers: Haren (9-5) vs. Sanchez (8-5) SATURDAY Opponent: Diamondbacks Time: 6:05 p.m. TV: Channel: 11 Pitchers: Webb (13-4) vs. Lincecum (11-3) SUNDAY Opponent: Diamondbacks Time: 1:05 p.m. TV:...

A's try to stay ahead of Rangers' big bats Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Oakland's most immediate competition in the AL West comes into town tonight. Usually, that's the Angels, at least the past few years. Now, it's the Rangers, and instead of battling for first, the A's are trying to stay out of third place in the division....

AMERICAN LEAGUE / Halladay completes Blue Jays' 'sweep' Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Roy Halladay scattered seven hits over seven innings, leading the Blue Jays over the Orioles 7-1 on Thursday in Baltimore after the Blue Jays won a game suspended one night earlier. In the suspended game, halted by rain in the sixth inning Wednesday, a...

NOTEBOOK / Bonds is Yankees' discussion topic Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Barry Bonds in pinstripes? If nothing else, the Yankees talked about it. High-ranking Yankees officials gathered for meetings at their spring training complex Thursday, a day off for the team before it begins an important three-game series tonight in Boston....

NATIONAL LEAGUE / Phillies' discord helping Mets Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Jerry Manuel was curious to see how his Mets would respond after a heartbreaking loss to Philadelphia. They answered with two big wins. Carlos Delgado hit a tiebreaking, two-run double in the eighth inning and Oliver Perez stifled the Phillies again, helping...

Political feud keeps Iraqi athletes home Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Just two weeks before the start of the Olympics, Iraq was told Thursday it's not welcome in Beijing because of a political feud in Baghdad that angered the games' guardians and exiled a country that arrived to a roaring ovation at the opening ceremony four...

WNBA / 10 players, Mahorn suspended for skirmish Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
The WNBA punished so many players for their roles in this week's skirmish that the league is staggering the suspensions by alphabetical order. "None of us can recall an incident like this," WNBA president Donna Orender said Thursday during a conference call....

Prison for Donaghy cohorts Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Two former high school classmates of disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy were sentenced to more than a year in prison each Thursday for their roles in a betting scandal that embarrassed the league. A federal judge in Brooklyn gave James Battista, a professional...

Tainted test had horse medication Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
If U.S. anti-doping officials confirm a reported positive drug sample from former Cal swimmer Jessica Hardy, she will be left to explain how and why a stimulant designed to alleviate respiratory distress in horses got into her system. Hardy's attorney, Howard...

New point guard will have Azubuike Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
The Golden State Warriors' front office ran the fast break Thursday as well as its team on the court. It was a frenetic day for the Warriors, as they re-signed Monta Ellis to a multiyear contract, matched the Clippers' offer sheet to Kelenna Azubuike and also...

Sastre doesn't pad lead, but still is poised for finish / German Burghardt takes 18th stage on 2-man Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Tour de France leader Carlos Sastre is tipping his strategy as the race creeps toward its finish in Paris on Sunday: No "crazy" attacks, conserve energy and hope for the best in the time trial. The Spaniard didn't see the chance he was looking for to expand...

Weir makes fans happy / Canadian shoots 65 for share of lead in homeland Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Mike Weir gave Canadian Open fans what they came to see on another rainy day at drenched Glen Abbey in Oakville, Ontario. The Canadian icon shot a bogey-free 6-under-par 65 on Thursday for a share of the lead with Anthony Kim and Eric Axley during the...

SOCCER / Blanco has goal, assist; MLS tops West Ham Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Chicago midfielder Cuauhtemoc Blanco scored one goal and helped set up another, and Houston midfielder Dwayne DeRosario snapped a tie with a penalty kick to give the MLS All-Stars a 3-2 victory over English Premier League team West Ham United 3-2 in Toronto...

SPORTS CALENDAR Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
TODAYBASEBALL 11:20 a.m.Florida at Chicago CubsWGN7 p.m.Texas at A's, McAfee ColiseumCSNBA106.9, 15507:15 p.m.Arizona at Giants, AT&T ParkChannel: 11 680, 1170BASKETBALL 5 p.m.Men's national teams: U.S. vs. CanadaESPNBOXING 6 p.m.Middleweights: Raymond Joval...

Gang of 20 fitting in with rebuilding A's Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Twenty and counting, that's the haul the A's have taken in from their six trades since the end of last season. The A's traded away some major parts, including Dan Haren, Rich Harden, Nick Swisher, Joe Blanton, Mark Kotsay and Marco Scutaro, to obtain this...

Now that Ellis is the Man, how will he handle it? Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Monta Ellis' signing by the Warriors to be Baron II is no surprise. He had no other offers, the Warriors had no alternatives, the Greeks hadn't settled on a playmate for Josh Childress - why, it was a marriage made in heaven, if heaven is defined as a fait...

49ers Sign Top Pick Balmer Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
There is crying in football. You can take it from defensive lineman Kentwan Balmer, who said he shed some tears after his agent and the 49ers agreed on a contract. The team's top draft pick called his father, Charles, a truck driver who was on the road in...

Cain goes distance and nails the sweep / First complete game for Giants' staff since last year Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
After Matt Cain's four-hitter subdued Washington 1-0 at China Basin on Thursday afternoon, Giants manager Bruce Bochy was asked if he remembered the last time one of his pitchers had thrown a complete game. No, you'd have to give me a few minutes, Bochy...

NFL TRAINING CAMP / STILL IN CHARGE / Kiffin back on the sidelines as Raiders begin workouts Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Raiders head coach Lane Kiffin came to training camp looking every bit the Raiders part. He wore a team-issued long sleeve for lunch, a white T-shirt for practice, a team-logo visor for both. All that was missing was the eye patch and swashbuckling swords. In...

Fan injured, 17 ejected in Ohio baseball brawl Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:39:43 PDT
Fifteen players and both managers were ejected _ and a fan was sent to the hospital _ following a 10-minute, benches-clearing brawl in a Class-A minor league game between affiliates of the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs on Thursday night. The ejections were...

Barry Bonds among topics at Yankees' meetings Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:25:29 PDT
Barry Bonds in pinstripes? If nothing else, the New York Yankees talked about it. High-ranking Yankees officials gathered for meetings at their spring training complex Thursday, a day off for the team before it begins an important three-game series Friday...

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