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Google building secret structure in the San Francisco Bay
 

San Francisco’s mayor says he doesn’t know what it is. Police say it’s not their jurisdiction. And government inspectors are sworn to secrecy about Google’s four-story structure in the heart of the San Francisco Bay being built on docked barges.

 
N.J. mall shooting suspect dead from self-inflicted gunshot wound

A 20-year-old gunman intent on dying fired multiple shots inside New Jersey’s largest shopping mall, trapping hundreds of customers and employees for hours as police scoured stores for the shooter, who was found dead early Tuesday of a self-inflicted wound, authorities said. There were no other injuries.

 
Migrant coffins lined up in Italian airport hangar

The coffins of African migrants killed in a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa were lined up in long rows inside an airport hangar where survivors of the tragedy paid their respects Saturday. All of the caskets had a single white rose on top except for the four of the youngest victims, which had stuffed animals.

 
Online poker thriller ‘Runner’ quickly politicized

The thriller “Runner Runner” starring Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck hasn’t even opened yet, but it’s already in the center of the fight over online gambling regulation.”

 
Legendary Vietnam Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap dies at 102

Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, the brilliant and ruthless commander who led a ragtag army of guerrillas to victory in Vietnam over first the French and then the Americans, died Friday. The last of the country’s old-guard revolutionaries was 102.

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Yahoo unveils new logo

Yahoo has refreshed its logo for the first time since shortly after the Internet company’s founding 18 years ago.

 
A-Rod gets 211-game ban, 12 others get 50 games

Alex Rodriguez was suspended through 2014 and All-Stars Nelson Cruz, Jhonny Peralta and Everth Cabrera were banned 50 games apiece Monday when Major League Baseball disciplined 13 players in a drug case – the most sweeping punishment since the Black Sox scandal nearly a century ago.

 
Las Vegas sports books adjusting odds because of Manziel investigation

The LVH Super Book stopped taking bets on Texas A&M University football games after ESPN reported the National Collegiate Athletic Association is investigating potential rules violations by Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Johnny Manziel.

 
Teen pleads guilty in Utah soccer ref death

A teenager charged with killing a Utah soccer referee because he didn’t like the man’s call during a game pleaded guilty Monday to a charge of homicide by assault in a case that brought new attention to the issue of violence and sportsmanship in athletics.

 
Will fast-food protests help super-size the minimum wage?

Thousands of fast-food workers in seven major cities are protesting for better pay, the right to unionize and a more than doubling of the federal minimum hourly wage from $7.25 to $15.

 
Taste test: Lab-grown burger needs years of work, and some cheese

The food of the future could do with a pinch of seasoning — and maybe some cheese. Two volunteers who took the first public bites of hamburger grown in a laboratory gave it good marks for texture but agreed there was something missing.

 
30 dead in clashes as islamists push back in Egypt

Egyptian military armored vehicles have raced onto a main bridge over the Nile River in Cairo in the first major move to break up clashes raging between Islamist backers of ousted President Mohammed Morsi and their opponents.

 
California fireworks platform tips, 28 hurt in blast

As many as 10,000 Fourth of July revelers were just settling into their seats for the fireworks show at a Simi Valley park when a bright plume of red and white bursts spread across the ground, injuring 28 people and sending others fleeing for safety.

 
Police to interview Oklahoma dad who ran over son, 8

Police in a central Oklahoma City say they plan to interview the father who accidentally ran over and killed his 8-year-old son during a Fourth of July parade.