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California has long been known as an automated teller machine for national politicians with Hollywood usually leading the charge with its opulent fundraisers featuring today's leading men and women.

As primary voters in Texas on Tuesday pushed him past the 1,144-delegate threshold he needed to win the nod, Romney was raising money in Las Vegas with Donald Trump, the real estate mogul who has stoked doubts about whether President Barack Obama was born in America.

Included in the itinerary is a $50,000 per plate founder's dinner at a 65,000-square-foot chateau in Hillsborough, a San Francisco suburb and one of the wealthiest communities in the country.

While the Democrats have been busy mining Hollywood for campaign contributions, the Republicans' presumptive nominee -- La Jolla's own Mitt Romney -- will drop into both Northern and Southern California on Wednesday and Thursday for fundraisers thrown by some of the state's GOP high rollers.

When the taxpayer-funded Peninsula Health Care District established a loan program to attract new physicians in 2003, officials promoted it as a way to address doctor shortages in parts of San Mateo County.

What's on tap for this week? Keep an eye out for these events and stories this week.

Deep in the Vietnam jungle one night in 1968, a young soldier wrote his older sister a letter.

To date, Californians have contributed $43 million in the presidential campaign, far more than any other state.

San Mateo has the distinction of being the first local town to adopt a unit of the 101st Airborne--the Screaming Eagles--but B'game adopted another company in 2004.

Facebook's messy IPO and the fallout over the following week have left many looking for someone to blame, and apparently inside Morgan Stanley it's falling on one of their star investment bankers, Michael Grimes.

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A private school's desire to build a new middle school in Belmont has some residents who live in the neighboring hills already cringing at the thought of more whistles, airhorns and the sounds of screaming children being amplified through the nearby canyons.

National politicians are delighted to come to California to raise campaign money.

Fifty years after a California Highway Patrol officer was gunned down in a Burlingame restaurant, a rest stop off of Interstate Highway 280 in San Mateo County is being renamed in his honor.

By its lofty standards, Republican super PAC American Crossroads' April fundraising performance proved mediocre at best, but its frugal spending help it roar into the general election season with a massive cash reserve.

Some architects win public acclaim by designing buildings that capture the eye. Others earn the respect of their peers by making sure those buildings move from the drawing board to reality.

An Oakland couple accused of trying to pry their way into a Hillsborough home after dropping their child off at day care pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges of burglary and theft.

A Though scheduled, he couldn't make it for the last council meeting. So tonight, at the city council meeting, Fire Chief Dennis Haag - who will retire at the end of the month - will be honored for the long service he provided to Millbrae, a service that began in 1979.

Monday, April 30 A state appeals court last week tossed out a lawsuit against the city of Foster City by a man who was prosecuted for holding a group of teenagers at gunpoint after they'd shot a BB gun at his home in 2006, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.