Sat, 14/08/2010 - 11:59 by Prince damin
New York -- California's HairTech International is suing Paris Hilton for $35 million, claiming the socialite violated her contract to wear only its hairpieces.
The New York Post said the civil lawsuit filed this week pertained to a 2006 deal Hilton made with the company to wear and endorse its brand of hair extensions exclusively.
Hilton's publicist and a lawyer for HairTech did not return messages seeking comment, the Post said.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Wed, 11/08/2010 - 23:52 by Prince damin
San Francisco -- A federal judge in California said Wells Fargo & Co. needed to repay $203 million to depositors for abusing bank overdraft fees.depositors
"The bank went to considerable effort to hide these manipulations while constructing a facade of phony disclosure," Judge William Alsup wrote in his ruling in the case.
Wells Fargo was found to have charged fees up to 10 times on one overdraft mistake, CNNMoney.com reported Wednesday.
The overdraft fee at the bank was $35 per incident during the period covered in the case, which was 2005 through 2007. During that period, Wells Fargo's revenue for overdraft fees in California was $1.8 billion.
Wells Fargo spokeswoman Richele Messick said the bank planned to appeal the ruling.
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Sun, 08/08/2010 - 22:02 by Prince damin
Hollywood -- British pop star Robbie Williams has married actress Ayda Field in a Beverley Hills, Calif., ceremony, a report says.
The pair was married at Williams' home in front of about 75 friends and family members, People magazine reported Sunday.
Williams, 36, and Field, 31, met in 2006.
"At last, Rob is happy," the singer's father, Pete Conway, said in a report. "That's what you want for your kids and this is the happiest I've seen him. Ayda is so beautiful and so delightful and so lovely and just so right for him. They are brilliant together."
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Sat, 07/08/2010 - 11:47 by Neka Sehgal
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is sending an alert about ground beef products that can cause serious illness because they may be contaminated with E. coli.
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Thu, 05/08/2010 - 09:19 by Prince damin
Los Angeles -- Numerous celebrities voiced their approval Wednesday of U.S. Judge Vaughn R. Walker's decision to declare California's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional.
Walker announced in San Francisco his decision to overturn Proposition 8, a measure that reversed a California Supreme Court ruling that laws prohibiting same-sex marriage violated the state constitution.
In a statement issued to the Advocate.com, a publication targeted to a gay audience, entertainer Liza Minnelli praised Wednesday's ruling.
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Thu, 05/08/2010 - 01:28 by Prince damin
Victorville, Calif. -- Authorities in California said charges have been filed against two women accused of sparking a melee during a kindergarten graduation ceremony.
Prosecutors said Queiona Burt, 31, of Victorville, and Marina Ruth Vargas, 29, of Hesperia, argued during the June 23 ceremony at Victorville's Puesta del Sol Elementary about a Facebook comment regarding the Los Angeles Lakers, the Victorville Daily Press reported Wednesday.
The women started physically fighting and the situation escalated when several men joined the brawl, prosecutors said.
Burt and Vargas were charged with interference with peaceful conduct on campus and unlawful acts committed at school grounds and are due in court Aug. 25.
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Wed, 04/08/2010 - 22:38 by Prince damin
Oroville, Calif. -- A California college says it is set to become the nation's only grid-positive college, producing more energy from its own on-site solar power than it uses.
Butte College in Oroville, Calif., will add 15.000 solar panels to its existing 10,000 by May 2011 to become the largest solar-producing college in the world, a college release said Wednesday.
"Once this solar project is completed, Butte College will provide enough clean renewable energy to cover all of our electricity needs and generate slightly more than we use -- which will be a source of additional revenue for the college," Dr. Diana Van Der Ploeg, Butte College President, said.
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Thu, 29/07/2010 - 01:21 by Prince damin
San Jose, Calif. -- U.S. microprocessor giant Intel says it has developed a chip that can send and receive information at incredible speeds using beams of light.
The California chip maker said the fingernail-size prototype can transfer 100 hours of digital music from one device to another in one second, the San Jose Mercury News reported Wednesday.
Eventually, such chips could transmit the contents of a laptop's hard drive in one second and the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress in two minutes, the company says.
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Tue, 27/07/2010 - 10:52 by Neka Sehgal
Whooping cough is making scary headlines in California, where six infants under three months have died from the infection this year.
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Mon, 26/07/2010 - 09:21 by Prince damin
Gilory, Calif. -- The first-place recipe at the 32nd Gilroy Garlic Festival in California was Margi Berry's "Warm Weather Watermelon Crabmeat Kissed South Seas Soup."
"I feel pretty awesome," the Trout Lake, Wash., woman said Saturday. "I tasted everyone else's dish and I didn't think I had a chance."
Berry, who beat out 800 recipe submissions and seven other finalists, explained her take on cooking with the odoriferous cloves: "For me, garlic is so essential. It's like salt and pepper."
Before all was said and done Sunday, a record 100,000-plus people were expected to show up at the fundraising event to eat garlic ice cream and other exotic culinary delights made with the onion's smelly cousin.
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Sat, 24/07/2010 - 11:42 by Sophie Anderson
That’s the great thing about being a celebrity. You are in the news even if you have a cough and you make money even if you are not doing your routine chores.
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Fri, 23/07/2010 - 09:20 by Pankaj Damin
Penryn, Calif. -- Police in Penryn, Calif., said a transient who is well known to deputies broke into a bar and served customers for a couple of days before being found out.
The Valencia Club went out of business in June but Travis Lloyd Kevie, 29, opened it back up July 16, complete with an "Open" sign in the window, the Sacramento Bee reported Thursday. Kevie served an estimated 30 customers a day during the weekend, the newspaper said.
The reopening apparently was newsworthy in the area, as the Auburn (Calif.) Journal even carried an item in which Kevie was quoted as saying it was "a dream come true" for him to operate the club.
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