California city often a Miami stand-in
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LOS ANGELES  - Is Long Beach, Calif., the new South Beach?
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MIAMI - An already broiling Miami had even more sizzle on Sunday as MTV brought the annual party known as the Video Music Awards to the city for the first time in the awards' 21-year history. The change of scenery for the awards, typically held in New York or Los Angeles, helped raise the decadence level at the already raucous, celebrity-soaked affair...
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LANDOVER, Md. -- It was a test of character not many people expected top-ranked Southern California would face so early in the season.
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By Erika Slife, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 19--DELRAY BEACH -- For drivers motoring down South Congress Avenue, the view is mostly a mishmash of strip malls, industrial complexes and overgrown brush.   For city officials, it's a picture of possibilities.
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By Constance Loizos, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep.
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By Serdar Tumgoren, The Dispatch, Gilroy, Calif.  Dec.
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By Jordan Robertson  Associated Press  SAN JOSE, Calif.
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By Tamara Chuang, The Orange County Register, Calif.  Dec. 19--NEWPORT BEACH -- As a child growing up in Slovenia, Bostjan  Cadez would doodle during class.
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As if the heavy rain weren&#39;t unusual enough, something else occurred yesterday that&#39;s even more rare in San Diego. In fact, more than one current Charger wasn&#39;t born the last time it happened
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While Southern California took the top spot in the debut of the reworked BCS standings Monday, Miami was second. The Hurricanes edged Oklahoma, which is a strong No.
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By Mary Anne Ostrom, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 13--Presidential holidays are taking on a whole new meaning in the Bay Area this month.
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Since just before the start of the NFL&#39;s regular season two months ago, television viewers in the Bay Area have been seeing commercials for a product that for years has sold itself.
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Wall-to-wall college football from Thursday to Saturday as the season starts with a bang. And several ranked teams face tough challenges in their openers. The most interesting matchups between ranked teams take place in Knoxville, Tenn., where the Volunteers host California, and in south Florida, where Miami and Florida State renew their rivalry.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Founded in the 1920s as a fantasyland of Mediterranean architecture, this affluent Miami suburb, one of the nation's first planned communities, has a long-standing reputation for zealous aesthetic policing, ruling over everything from hedge heights to what colors residents may...
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By Mark Schwanhausser, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep.
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By Glenn Garvin, The Miami Herald  Sep.