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Aircraft to Attempt Historic Solar-powered cross-USA Flight
A new group of aviation pioneers wants to attempt a flight across the United States with a decidedly more difficult twist thrown in –...
Hilton Hotels Sharing Excess Food With Hungry Egyptians and Americans
Hilton Hotels has launched a program to collect safe, surplus food from conferences and daily restaurant operations that would otherwise be thrown away, and...
Free Online Courses From Stanford, Princeton, Duke, Transform Learning Worldwide
A new online education platform founded by Stanford Computer Science Professors is on a mission to change the world by educating millions of people...
New Procedure Saves Dog Poisoned By Mushrooms
Veterinarians in Berkeley and a Santa Cruz doctor teamed up to save a dog who was poisoned by mushrooms -- trying a procedure that...
Struggling Oakland Families Lift Themselves Out Of Poverty
Maurice Miller remembered how his mother was a poor Mexican immigrant, and somehow figured out — on her own — how to get out...
City Tries to Curb Panhandling With Puppies and Stipends
When it comes to tackling San Francisco's entrenched panhandling problem, City Hall has tried just about everything: laws banning sitting on sidewalks, teams of...
Kansas Farmer Who Built 150-foot Replica Finally Sees Real Golden Gate Bridge
Four decades after "a scared 19-year-old kid" rolled over the Golden Gate Bridge on his way to combat in Vietnam, and after promising his...
Prostate Cancer Drug So Effective at Prolonging Life, Trial is Stopped
A new drug for advanced prostate cancer patients has proved so effective that researchers stopped the clinical trial early to give all patients a...
Elusive Tangled Whale Freed Of Fishnets Off Sonoma Coast
A gray whale that had been tangled in a fishing net for more than three weeks as it swam up the California coast was...
Road Trip Filmed Across America Shows Solar is Working
Following the sun across the nation, a crew of young filmmakers got a first-hand look at how solar is working for Americans -- in...
U.S. Health Care: The Good News – A New PBS Documentary
You don't often find the words "health care" and "good news" in the same sentence, but in a new Public Television documentary, we learn...
Elderly Woman Leaves her $400,000 Condo to the Homeless
Before she died last September, Lelia Boroughs, 84, told her attorney she had no family to whom to leave her estate. So she crafted...
Kohl’s Department Stores Honored as Green Power Partner of the Year
Kohl’s Department Stores has won its third Green Power Partner of the Year Award by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of...
AAA Trucks Now Carry Electric Vehicle Chargers in 6 Cities
AAA is about to roll out the nation’s first fleet of mobile electric-vehicle quick chargers.
The company, which serves more than 52 million motorists, has...
Artists Raise $104,000 With Sketchbook That Traveled Round the World
A blank sketchbook was sent to 71 exceptional artists around the world who each illustrated a page. After four and a half years of...
New App “LocalHero” Gives Opportunities to Help Friends With Specific Needs
A new iPhone app launched this week, called LocalHero, lets friends help each other by identifying the people in a person's social network who...
Artist Turns Old Concert Tee Shirts into Valuable Quilts
Do you have a collection of concert tee shirts in the back of your closet from your old rocker days?
A San Francisco artist named...
Ex-Terrorist Bomber is Now Comic Book Hero and Friend to Police
Hoping to persuade children not to make the same mistake he made, a reformed al-Qaida-linked terrorist has become a comic book sensation in a...
Hero Who Predicted 9/11 and Saved 2,700 Lives, Now Subject of New Opera
A new Opera called “Heart of a Soldier” brings to life the drama of Rick Rescorla's heroic rescue of his co-workers at the World...
98-Year-old Becomes First Woman Ever to Win 10th Degree Black Belt in Judo
After dedicating her life to the martial arts, 98-year-old, Keiko Fukuda of San Francisco, became the first woman to be promoted to judo's highest...