July 15, 2011
After the devastating tsunami damage to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, seismologists in the United States are focusing on a potentially dangerous fault system near the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California.
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June 24, 2011
Public records show that the state High-Speed Rail Authority, the agency spearheading the bullet train, is plunging forward despite repeated warnings that it may be tens of billions of dollars short of the money needed to build and operate the system.
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June 16, 2011
The power company isn’t telling its customers one crucial fact: Three Mendocino County forests were purchased years ago by a Virginia-based conservation group that used nearly $50 million in loans and grants from taxpayers.
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June 2, 2011
State lawmakers have struggled for decades to bring equality to how school districts are funded, yet some districts receive thousands more per student than others, a California Watch analysis has found. And the data shows spending more provides no assurance of academic success.
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May 7, 2011
A California hospital chain under investigation for allegations of overbilling the Medicare system has inaccurately diagnosed patients with a blood infection known as septicemia – a complex and deadly condition that hospitals are paid a premium to treat, a state investigation has found.
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April 23, 2011
Trespassing marijuana growers are setting booby traps, resorting to violence and vandalism, and polluting private land as property owners and law enforcement try to fight back.
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April 10, 2011
Restrictive rules keep schools from California's seismic repair fund.
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April 7, 2011
A state agency abandons responsibility to fully enforce California’s landmark seismic safety law for schools.
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April 9, 2011
Regulators ignore school construction inspectors accused of corruption and poor work performance.
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March 19, 2011
As the federal trial gets under way, a jury will be asked to decide whether Barry Bonds set his home-run record while on steroids.
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March 5, 2011
Jeffrey Rodriguez is one of 44 Californians released from prison since 2000 who have been denied money after a hearing before the state’s victim compensation board, which can award $100 a day for each day spent behind bars after a wrongful conviction.
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February 19, 2011
Diagnosing patients with certain types of malnutrition and a rare form called kwashiorkor can help earn bonus payments for hospitals billing for Medicare.
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February 5, 2011
Coroners in Northern California are farming out thousands of cases each year to a private firm whose doctors have dissected the wrong body and have given inaccurate testimony that helped send an innocent person to jail.
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January 15, 2011
Two of the state’s largest districts are undergoing a major expansion of health centers on school campuses after promised help from Sacramento never came.
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December 26, 2010
The number of women giving birth early – often for no medical reason – has increased dramatically over the past two decades, altering the way we bear children and posing new health risks to both mothers and newborns, experts say.
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