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Convicted murderer dies while on hunger strike in California

California
 

Police use smoke grenades on Occupy Oakland protesters

OAKLAND (Reuters) - Police fired what appeared to be smoke grenades on Saturday at a group of hundreds of Occupy Oakland protesters who tore down a chain-link fence as they tried to gain entrance to the city's shuttered convention center.
 

Police fire tear gas at Oakland protesters, arrest 19

OAKLAND (Reuters) - Police fired tear gas at hundreds of Occupy Oakland protesters on Saturday who tried to take over a shuttered convention center, arresting 19 people in the latest clash between anti-Wall Street activists and authorities in the Bay Area city.
 

Occupy Baltimore evicted, western ports normal

BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Police in Baltimore evicted anti-Wall Street protesters on Tuesday and operations returned to normal at West Coast ports a day after a series of marches that disrupted operations at several terminals.
 

Port operations back to normal after protest disruptions

OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) - Operations were back to normal on Tuesday at West Coast ports, a day after a series of anti-Wall Street protests disrupted arrival of trucks and dockworkers at several terminals.
 

Occupy movement inspires rise in U.S. campus activism

DAVIS, Calif (Reuters) - Violent confrontations between police and protesters at two University of California campuses have drawn a new cadre of students into the Occupy Wall Street movement and unleashed what some historians call the biggest surge in campus activism since the 1960s.
 

Exclusive: Rambus jury shifted views as deliberations wore on

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When he walked into the jury room to start deliberating in Rambus Inc's $4 billion antitrust lawsuit against two rivals, one juror felt confident that the small microchip designer should prevail.
 

Authorities foil NY protest bid to shut Wall Street

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police prevented protesters from shutting down Wall Street on Thursday, arresting more than 200 people in repeated clashes with an unexpectedly small but spirited Occupy Wall Street rally.
 

Authorities foil NY protest bid to shut Wall Street

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police prevented protesters from shutting down Wall Street on Thursday, arresting more than 200 people in repeated clashes with an unexpectedly small but spirited Occupy Wall Street rally.
 

Authorities foil NY protest bid to shut Wall Street

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police prevented protesters from shutting down Wall Street on Thursday, arresting more than 200 people in repeated clashes with an unexpectedly small but spirited Occupy Wall Street rally.
 

Authorities foil NY protest bid to shut Wall Street

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police prevented protesters from shutting down Wall Street on Thursday, arresting at least 177 people in repeated clashes with an Occupy Wall Street rally that grew to several thousand strong.
 

Authorities foil NY protest bid to shut Wall Street

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police prevented protesters from shutting down Wall Street on Thursday, arresting at least 177 people in repeated clashes with an Occupy Wall Street rally that grew to several thousand strong.
 

Authorities foil NY protest bid to shut Wall Street

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police prevented protesters from shutting down Wall Street on Thursday, arresting at least 177 people in repeated clashes with an Occupy Wall Street rally that drew fewer demonstrators than expected.
 

Authorities foil NY protest bid to shut Wall Street

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police on Thursday prevented protesters from shutting down Wall Street with an Occupy Wall Street rally that led to over 100 arrests but drew fewer than expected demonstrators.
 

Authorities foil NY protest bid to shut Wall Street

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police on Thursday prevented protesters from shutting down Wall Street with an Occupy Wall Street rally that led to over 100 arrests but drew fewer than expected demonstrators.
 

Armed man shot by police at UC Berkeley: officials

BERKELEY, Calif (Reuters) - An armed man on the University of California, Berkeley campus was shot by police on Tuesday near the Haas School of Business during a day of protests there, police said.
 

Rambus jury deliberates, reviews more testimony

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The jury in Rambus Inc's $4 billion antitrust lawsuit against Micron Technology Inc and Hynix Semiconductor Inc is reviewing more testimony from the trial in its fifth week of deliberations.
 

Amtrak train, truck collide in northern California

OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) - An Amtrak passenger train and a farm truck collided Friday evening at a northern California rail crossing, and nearly 40 passengers were taken to hospitals for treatment of minor injuries, an Amtrak spokeswoman said on Saturday.
 

Rambus faithful set up verdict vigil

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Pat Hughes left the bar he owns in New York City, flew across the country and showed up at 4:45 a.m. Wednesday morning to stand in line.
 

Rambus: Hynix, Micron conspired to block chips

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microchip heavyweights Micron Technology Inc and Hynix Semiconductor Inc conspired to squelch Rambus Inc's superior chip technology and keep it from becoming an industry standard, a Rambus lawyer argued in court on Monday.