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California faces cuts to fill huge budget hole
LOS ANGELES — California governor Jerry Brown proposed spending cuts Monday, including shutting down state offices one day a week, as well as tax rises to curb an estimated $16 billion budget deficit. Brown warned that the budget hole could balloon further if California voters reject plans to increase sales…
California bill would crack down on ‘ex-gay’ therapy
A California state Senate committee on Monday approved a bill that aims to protect citizens against “reparative” therapies intended to change the sexual orientation of LGBT people. By a vote of 5-3, the state Senate Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development advanced SB 1172, which would ban children under…
California to vote on ending the death penalty
LOS ANGELES — Voters in California will have the chance to cast ballots on a referendum on ending the death penalty in November, according to state electoral officials. The “Savings, Accountability and Full Enforcement for California Act,” or SAFE California Act, garnered enough support signatures. It will be considered on…
Meteor shower causes loud boom over California
A loud boom similar to the sound of an explosion has been heard over much of northern California apparently as a result of an ongoing meteor shower, The Los Angeles Times reported. The newspaper, citing Stefanie Henry, a National Weather Servicemeteorologist in Sacramento, said the sound had been produced by a meteor apparently breaking up…
Oikos University shooter chose his victims, shot them execution style
A Korean-American former student at a California religious college lined up his victims and shot them them execution-style, police said Tuesday. Police were holding the suspect in the fatal shootings of seven people Monday at Oikos University in Oakland which stunned the tightly knit Korean American community in the area.…
Seven killed in shooting at Christian college in Oakland
OAKLAND, California — Seven people were killed and three injured Monday when a gunman opened fire at a private California religious college near San Francisco, officials said. The suspected gunman — who was later detained — stood up in class and shot one person at point blank range in the…
LIVE: Shooting at Christian university in Oakland
Police are investigating a shooting at Oikos University in Oakland, California, where at least five people have been shot as of original publication of this post. Watch this live video from KGO, broadcast April 2, 2012. …
Long Beach drug bust nets pot, peyote, shrooms, snakes, spiders and a scorpion
Authorities in Long Beach, California said Friday that a home was set ablaze by an unknown arsonist hours after a Thursday narcotics raid that uncovered a cache of hallucinogenic mushrooms and growing equipment, 22 marijuana plants, peyote and a number of exotic animals. Investigators believe the fire was set through…
911 caller arrested after cops gun down unarmed black teen
At a press conference Wednesday in Pasadena, California, police announced that they have arrested a man who called 911 earlier this week, claiming he’d been robbed a gunpoint by two black teens. Police responded to the incident with deadly force, killing 19-year-old college student Kendrec McDade after he fled from…
Texas man allegedly killed soldier for not believing in God
Can being an atheist in America get you killed? If police in the small Texas town of Petrolia are to be believed, the answer to that question is yes. Officials in Clay County, Texas revealed this week that human remains uncovered near the Oklahoma border last month were those of…
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