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California Bill Would Require
Gay History in Schools

Apr 15, 2011 9:25 AM CDT

California Bill Would Require Gay History in Schools

Would be first state to launch mandate

(Newser) - California could be the first state to require that schools teach gay history. Lessons on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people would be added to social studies classes under a landmark bill passed yesterday by the state Senate, the AP reports. The state Assembly and Gov. Jerry Brown must approve...

California Lawmakers
Lose State Cars

Apr 14, 2011 5:32 PM CDT

California Lawmakers Lose State Cars

But they'll still get a $300 monthly allowance

(Newser) - State lawmakers in California are losing a sweet perk: They'll no longer get to drive cars provided almost entirely at taxpayer expense, with gas and maintenance costs covered. A state panel today stripped lawmakers of the privilege, reports the Los Angeles Times . Instead, they'll drive their own cars...

California Man Creates Fake Army, Fleeces Enlistees

Apr 13, 2011 12:16 PM CDT

California Man Creates Fake Army, Fleeces Enlistees

He tricks other Chinese nationals into paying to join as path to citizenship

(Newser) - He gets points for imagination: A Chinese national living in California created a fake Army Reserve unit of his very own, then tricked about 100 Chinese nationals into paying for the privilege of enlisting, reports KTLA-TV . Yupeng Dang turned his office into a fake recruitment center in 2008 and doled...

Good Luck Finding
the World's Tallest Tree

Apr 10, 2011 1:48 PM CDT

Good Luck Finding the World's Tallest Tree

It's somewhere in California, but no one will say where

(Newser) - Nine years ago, the world’s tallest known tree was 369 feet high—roughly twice the size of the Statue of Liberty. But after holding that title for four years, a 379-foot tree was discovered in California’s Redwood National Park. That tree, nicknamed “Hyperion,” and the old...

California Democrats Warn
Campuses Could Close

Apr 8, 2011 3:34 PM CDT

California Democrats Warn Campuses Could Close

They lay out dire scenario if states fixes deficit without tax hikes

(Newser) - California Democrats have floated the idea of closing some University of California campuses, shortening the school year, and laying off law enforcement officers as desperate means of dealing with the state’s mammoth budget deficit, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The proposals were voiced at a hearing examining ways to...

Proposition 8 Judge Vaughn Walker Confirms He's Gay, Says It Doesn't Matter

Prop 8 Judge Says He's Gay
—and It's Irrelevant

Apr 8, 2011 2:45 PM CDT

Prop 8 Judge Says He's Gay —and It's Irrelevant

Vaughn Walker confirms homosexuality

(Newser) - The judge who overturned California's ban on gay marriage acknowledged in an interview for the first time that he's homosexual and that he never considered recusing himself from the case. "If you thought a judge's sexuality, ethnicity, national origin (or) gender would prevent the judge from handling a case,...

TV Priest Bares Affair With Cuz

Apr 8, 2011 3:45 AM CDT

TV Priest Bares Affair With Cuz

'Word in the World's' Michael Manning 'fesses up

(Newser) - A popular priest who leads a worldwide TV ministry is taking a leave from his California diocesan duties after revealing an affair with a second cousin. Michael Manning 'fessed up after a local newspaper received a series of intimate notes between Manning and his former lover, a schools superintendent from...

Two Killed in
California Navy Jet Crash

Apr 7, 2011 4:18 AM CDT

Two Killed in California Navy Jet Crash

$50M Hornet disintegrates into smoldering debris in Fresno field

(Newser) - Two service members were killed yesterday when a fighter jet crashed into a field in central California during a training exercise. The F/A-18F Super Hornet went down a half mile from the Naval Air Station outside of Fresno. Witnesses said the $50 million aircraft disintegrated into "smoldering debris,"...

Gov. Jerry Brown Packs Heat

Apr 7, 2011 2:02 AM CDT

Gov. Jerry Brown Packs Heat

He's got three guns and a dog, he boasts to law enforcement

(Newser) - California Gov. Jerry Brown might have a reputation as a slightly whacked-out lefty, but he apparently packs heat occasionally—just like his more conservative countrymen. Brown revealed before a slightly stunned press corps that he owns not one, but three, guns. He divulged no other facts, and his spokeswoman declined...

Another
11-Year-Old
Gang Raped

Apr 1, 2011 1:50 PM CDT

Another 11-Year-Old Gang Raped

Seven teens, one 19-year-old arrested for bathroom assault in California

(Newser) - Police in Moreno Valley, Calif., have arrested seven teens and one 19-year-old for allegedly gang-raping an 11-year-old girl in a park bathroom. The victim says she was about to get on a bus when a 15-year-old girl asked if she wanted to hang out at a nearby shopping center. The...

10 Hurt When Jet Explodes
on Aircraft Carrier

Mar 31, 2011 2:19 AM CDT

10 Hurt When Jet Explodes on Aircraft Carrier

Engine blows up during training exercise off San Diego

(Newser) - Ten sailors were injured yesterday when a jet engine burst into flames on an aircraft carrier off San Diego. Four men were airlifted to a Navy medical center and the rest were treated on the USS John C. Stennis. None of the injuries was life threatening. Officials are investigating the...

Cross Burned Next to Black Family's California Home

Mar 23, 2011 3:01 AM CDT

Cross Burned Next to Black Family's California Home

FBI joins in on hate crime probe

(Newser) - Neighbors are reeling after a large cross was burned in a lot next to the home of a black family in a mostly white California community. The 11-foot cross was stolen from a church in Arroyo Grande near San Luis Obispo. "I was horrified," said a local minister....

Lindsay's
'Crime Wave'
Costs California
Millions

Mar 21, 2011 2:22 PM CDT

Lindsay's 'Crime Wave' Costs California Millions

Experts estimate that taxpayers are footing a giant bill

(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan's "one-woman crime wave," as some in LA's legal community have called it, seems like little more than the stuff of tabloids. But there is a dark side, Fox News points out: Experts estimate that the former actress' legal foibles are costing cash-strapped California millions of dollars....

Earthquake Prediction:
California Is Next

Earthquake Prediction: California Is Next

And hit to San Andreas or Cascadia faults could be even 'scarier'

(Newser) - Is what happened in Japan set to repeat itself in California? Author Simon Winchester thinks so. In an article for Newsweek that’s turning some heads , Winchester notes that though scientists aren’t sure why, major earthquakes have a tendency to happen in clusters, with a quake on one side...

Part of Highway 1
Collapses Toward Sea

Mar 18, 2011 11:31 AM CDT

Part of Highway 1 Collapses Toward Sea

Pacific Coast Highway closed for at least a month during busy tourist season

(Newser) - Huge quantities of rock and dirt tumbled from a Big Sur cliff on Wednesday, collapsing a 40-foot stretch of California's Highway 1 toward the ocean. A 2-mile section of the Pacific Coast Highway will likely be impassable for at least a month, the Monterey Herald reports. “We don't want...

Legendary Big-Wave Surfer
Drowns in California

Mar 17, 2011 5:29 PM CDT

Legendary Big-Wave Surfer Drowns in California

Sion Milosky went under at famed surf break Mavericks

(Newser) - The man credited in surfing lore with paddling into the biggest wave of all time (a 60-footer in Hawaii) has been killed in a surfing accident near San Francisco, reports the San Jose Mercury News . Sion Milosky, a 35-year-old Hawaii native, was surfing 20-foot waves at the renowned Mavericks surf...

California
Nuclear Plants
Are Safe: Officials

Mar 15, 2011 9:30 AM CDT

California Nuclear Plants Are Safe: Officials

Chances of 9.0 earthquake, large tsunami are very low

(Newser) - As Californians worry that their state might be next , officials are reassuring them that the specific combination of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis that hit Japan is very unlikely there. Though one of the state’s two nuclear power plants was only built to withstand a 7.0 quake and...

California Lawmakers Want Right to Pack Heat Now

Mar 14, 2011 3:03 AM CDT

California Lawmakers Want Right to Pack Heat Now

Measure would let elected officials carry concealed weapons

(Newser) - California state legislators are demanding that laws be eased to allow them to carry concealed weapons because they say their lives are in danger. Under state law, anyone who wants to carry a concealed handgun must apply for a permit and make an argument that they need it for protection....

Health Insurance Rate Hikes May Reach 80% in California

Mar 12, 2011 4:12 PM CST

Health Insurance Rate Hikes May Reach 80% in California

That's a cumulative increase of three hikes since October

(Newser) - Ouch. Blue Shield of California is requesting another rate hike to go into effect in May. Coming on the heels of two others in October and January, it would bring the cumulative increase in premiums to 50% for more for 45,500 customers and 80% or more for about 900,...

Coast Guard Searches
for Man Swept Out to Sea

Tsunami victim in US

Mar 11, 2011 5:46 PM CST

Coast Guard Searches for Man Swept Out to Sea

He was taking photos of tsunami waves along California coast

(Newser) - The tsunami that roiled the US West Coast today may have claimed at least one victim. The Coast Guard is searching for a man swept out to sea while taking photos in northern California, reports the Eureka Standard-Times . The man and two friends were near the mouth of the Klamath...