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SoCal "Family Values" Senator Gets DUI Leaving Gay Bar
KTLA-TV - Fri Mar 5, 2010
SACRAMENTO, California - The county district attorney says Republican state Senator Roy Ashburn's blood-alcohol level was .14 percent when he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after leaving Faces, a gay bar and nightclub. More»

Gov't stands by as mercury taints water
Associated Press - Thu Sep 17, 2009
NEW IDRIA, California - Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people. More»

Atlantis, crew land in California after Hubble mission
Associated Press - Sat May 23, 2009
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California - Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned safely to Earth on Sunday, detouring from stormy Florida to sunsplashed California to end a 13-day mission that repaired and enhanced the Hubble Space Telescope. More»

Folding dealers shock car buyers with unpaid liens
Associated Press - Sun Feb 1, 2009
SACRAMENTO, California - The national wave of auto dealership closures has come crashing down on thousands of people who are on the hook for used-car loans that dealers were supposed to absolve. More»

Tangerine growers tell beekeepers to buzz off
Associated Press - Thu Jan 8, 2009
FRESNO, California - Is it trespassing when bees do what bees do in California's tangerine groves? That is the question being weighed by state agriculture officials caught between beekeepers who prize orange blossom honey and citrus growers who blame the bees for causing otherwise seedless mandarin oranges to develop pips. More»

Shooting by Oakland, Calif., officer sparks violent protests
Associated Press - Wed Jan 7, 2009
OAKLAND, California - Heavy police presence greeted Bay Area Rapid Transit commuters Thursday, a day after more than 100 people were arrested in violent protests over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a transit police officer. More»

Flag-waving gunman closes California highway for hours
Associated Press - Mon Nov 3, 2008
SANTA BARBARA, California - A man in a ski mask waved an American flag and a handgun on a freeway overpass for about three hours Monday morning, forcing a massive traffic shutdown before he surrendered. More»

Are You in the "Constitution Free" Zone?
Wired - Mon Oct 20, 2008
Government agents should not have the right to stop and question Americans anywhere without suspicion within 100 miles of the border, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday, pointing attention to the little known power of the federal government to set up immigration checkpoints far from the nation's border lines. More»

Federal judge had beastiality images on his web site
Associated Press - Tue Jun 10, 2008
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge overseeing an obscenity trial exploring the extreme fringe of pornography posted explicit photos and videos on his personal Web site, a newspaper reported Wednesday. More»

Northern Calif. man dies after police use Tasers
Associated Press - Wed May 28, 2008
WOODLAND, California - A Woodland man has died after police officers fired on him with a Taser stun gun. More»

Ex-Head Of UCLA Cadaver Program Indicted
Associated Press - Fri May 16, 2008
LOS ANGELES, California - The former head of UCLA's cadaver program and a businessman were indicted Friday on eight felony counts involving black market sales of human body parts. More»

French police come to California to look into mysterious death
Associated Press - Sat Apr 26, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO - The last time anyone saw Hugues de la Plaza alive, he was out celebrating a promotion with a few friends at a nightclub. More»

Film legend Charlton Heston dead at 84
Associated Press - Sat Apr 5, 2008
LOS ANGELES - Charlton Heston, the Oscar winner who portrayed Moses and other heroic figures on film in the '50s and '60s and later championed conservative values as head of the National Rifle Association, has died. More»

Lawsuit targets USDA loophole on 'downer' cows
Associated Press - Wed Mar 5, 2008
Los Angeles - The Humane Society sued the federal government Wednesday over what it said is a legal loophole that allows sick or crippled cattle, called "downers," into the food supply. More»

A sickening spectacle
USA Today - Mon Feb 18, 2008
Where's the beef? That catch phrase this week is giving way to a more troubling question: What's in the beef? A mind-boggling 143 million pounds of frozen meat was recalled by the government Sunday from a California slaughterhouse, the largest recall in US history. More»

Mad Cow: Schools stop use of beef from slaughterhouse under investigation
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Mon Feb 11, 2008
Georgia schools have put on hold 178,000 pounds of beef that came from a California slaughterhouse under federal investigation for allegations that it processed cattle at higher risk of mad cow disease. More»

Video captures jailhouse struggle
Associated Press - Wed Jan 23, 2008
Santa Ana, California - A man who was arrested by Orange County deputies was stripped of his pants, strapped to a chair, Tasered repeatedly while in handcuffs and slammed to the floor with a knee to his head, a newly released videotape shows. More»

Ex-Worker: Air Firm Aided CIA Renditions
Associated Press - Fri Dec 14, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO - A Boeing subsidiary accused of helping the CIA secretly fly terrorism suspects to be tortured in overseas prisons openly acknowledged its role in the "extraordinary rendition" program, a former employee of the smaller company said in court papers Friday. More»

L.A. police plan to map Muslim areas criticized
Associated Press - Fri Nov 9, 2007
LOS ANGELES - Civil rights advocates criticized plans by the Los Angeles Police Department to map the city's Muslim communities, calling it racial profiling. More»

Police allegedly hang quadriplegic man
Associated Press - Wed Oct 17, 2007
LOS ANGELES - Jurors ruled the city of Pasadena must pay $80,000 to a quadriplegic man who sued because police officers allegedly jerked him out of his wheelchair and hung him upside down to search him. More»

Judge Orders Bush Administration to Issue Global Warming Study
Bloomberg - Mon Aug 20, 2007
The Bush administration violated US law by failing to produce a study on the impact of global warming and must issue a summary by March, a federal judge ruled. More»

CA: Suspect Dies After Deputies Use Taser
KCRA-TV - Tue Aug 14, 2007
WATERFORD, California - A man died Wednesday after a Taser gun was used by authorities in Stanislaus County to subdue a robbery suspect. More»

The Real X Files
People of the Web - Wed Aug 8, 2007
John Greenewald Jr has been digging for the truth about extraterrestrials since he was a kid. More»

Flying Saucers Go Into Production
Sky News - Thu Aug 2, 2007
A "flying saucer" that glides three metres above the ground and carries two people has gone into commerical production. More»

California e-voting machines have more holes than Swiss cheese
The Register - Sun Jul 29, 2007
Hackers hired to evaluate the security of e-voting machines used in California found serious flaws that could allow for vote tampering in all three systems studied. More»

How a hospital death became a cause celebre
Los Angeles Times - Thu Jun 14, 2007
It might have gone down as the death of a "quasi-transient" woman with a history of abusing drugs. More»

Vets on the Street
Newsweek - Fri Feb 23, 2007
Kevin Felty came back from Iraq in 2003 with nowhere to stay, and not enough money to rent an apartment. More»

Girl, 14, Quizzed by Secret Service About MySpace Anti-Bush page
Ananova - Mon Oct 16, 2006
A US girl of 14 was dragged out of class by Secret Service agents for calling President Bush an idiot on her MySpace page. More»

Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room
Wired News - Tue Apr 11, 2006
AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers' phone calls, and shunted its customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center, according to a former AT&T worker cooperating in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against the company. More»

Fire-Starting Hotspot in California
GEOTIMES - Fri Jan 13, 2006
In August 2004, a mysterious patch of hot soil triggered a forest fire in Southern California's Los Padres National Forest. More»

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