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Border Arrest 7 Alleged Smugglers, 257 lbs. of Drugs

U.S. Border Patrol agents tracked five suspected illegal alien smugglers seen carrying large packages on their backs while crossing the International Boundary from Mexico into the United States near Calexico, California on Tuesday night.

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Global Warming Agenda Chills Steyer on Senate Run

Billionaire climate change activist Tom Steyer will not seek to replace U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer in 2016, a decision that came after Boxer announced in early January that she will not seek re-election.

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King Tides Flood SF Coast, Spark Global Warming Debate

On Tuesday, the Pacific Ocean breached a seawall at San Francisco’s Embarcadero, causing minor flooding and inconveniencing those traveling along the shoreline. Rising along with the tide was discussion over the provocative global warming-climate change debate.

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Michelle Obama Hosts LAPD Captain, Sergeant at SOTU

First Lady Michelle Obama will host Captain Phil Tingirides and Sergeant Emada Tingirides of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in a box seat at Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address in Washington, D.C. The First Lady’s invitation comes as “#BlackLivesMatter” demonstrations have targeted the LAPD, among other departments, for alleged brutality against unarmed black suspects.

Ezell Ford and Black Lives Matter protest at Rose Bowl Parade. (@Garrick Ruiz / Twitter)

High School Sends Unvaccinated Students Home

Two dozen unvaccinated Huntington Beach High School students have been sent home over three weeks under threat of a measles outbreak. One had actually contracted the disease.

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Romney, ‘I Have No Intention of Running…’

Added to the RNC Winter Meeting Schedule just hours before the three day rally entitled “Building on Success” got started, former Presidential nominee Mitt Romney teased Republican National Committee leadership, leaving questions of his intentions for 2016 a mystery as

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RNC Releases 2016 Debate Schedule

 SAN DIEGO, California Friday morning at the beachside RNC Winter Meeting in San Diego, California, the Republican National Committee laid out a schedule for a limited nine sanctioned Presidential debates ranging from August 2015 through March 2016. Fox news –

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Ahead of Romney, Walker Builds Case for 2016 at RNC Meeting

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker called for a fresh, new presidential candidate in 2016 in a speech to the Republican National Committee (RNC) Winter Meeting in Coronado, California–just 24 hours before Mitt Romney was set to address the group.

Scott Walker at RNC in Coronado (Michelle Moons / Breitbart News)

School Shootings Prompt Bullet-Resistant Doors and Locks in Huntington Beach

A Huntington Beach alternative high school is reportedly the first in the nation to install a high security, bullet-resistant door-and-lock system in an effort to protect students from the threat of a school shooting such as those that have victimized students around the country in recent years.

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Moderate Latino Republican Considers Run to Replace Boxer

Controversial Republican California Assemblymember Rocky Chavez has joined the ranks of those considering a run for United States Senate, filling the seat that liberal Democrat Barbara Boxer now holds, and from which she will be retiring in 2017. In a short

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Death Threats Over Foie Gras

Hermosa beach restaurant owner Sean Chaney is rejoicing despite death threats since returning to serving foie gras. His ability to again sell the dish comes as the result of a judge overturning a ban on serving the French fatty duck liver delicacy.

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Hebdo Massacre Linked to Former San Diego Student Al-Awlaki

A deceased Al-Qaeda terrorist leader who once studied at San Diego State University, and was considered a “moderate Muslim” before leaving the U.S. for Yemen, has been linked to two terrorists who killed 12 in last week’s Charlie Hebdo attack

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Two Men Accused of Attempting to Purchase Toddler for $100

Two men allegedly approached a woman and her two year old son at a Covina, California market multiple times Wednesday night, persistent in their attempts to purchase the woman’s child, ultimately throwing $100 at the woman as she escaped the men in the market’s parking lot.

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Pro-ISIS Hackers Target U.S. Non-Profit for Syria Refugees

ISIS hackers–or hackers supporting the terror group–struck again this week, shutting down the website of the foreign aid and disaster relief California nonprofit Giving Children Hope, replacing the homepage with a black screen and the words “i love isis.”

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San Diego Muslims Condemn Hebdo Attack–and Question Free Speech

Leaders in San Diego’s Muslim community have issued strong words of condemnation against Wednesday’s attack on the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris that left 12 dead, but have also questioned the unrestrained exercise of free speech concerning religious figures, suggesting it may cross into “hate speech.”

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Teen’s Playboy Birthday Bash Ends in Dad’s Arrest

Teens brandishing lingerie and silk robes boozed it up for a Playboy Mansion-themed birthday bash under what appears to be the not-so-watchful eye of 18-year-old birthday girl Olivia Lake’s father Jeff Lake and other adults in Poway, California Friday night. Mr. Lake was reportedly arrested when neighbors’ complaints led San Diego County sheriff’s deputies to put an end to the party.

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Dead 3-Week Old in San Diego Dumpster Tied to Long Beach Shooting

The parents and uncle of a baby girl kidnapped Saturday evening from the family’s home in Long Beach, California were shot as the abductor took off with the infant. Hours later, a baby girl was found dead in a dumpster over a hundred miles south in Imperial Beach, California.

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Activists Petition BART to Drop ‘Black Friday 14’ Fines, Charges

Last November, protesters now known as the “Black Friday 14” were charged with criminal offenses and assessed fines totaling $70,000 for actions including chaining themselves to BART trains in West Oakland–offenses for which other “Black Lives Matter” activist groups are

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Firefighters Free Naked Woman From Fireplace

Riverside County firefighters freed a naked woman from a fireplace Saturday, posting photos of the rescue to Twitter that show the woman’s soot-laden legs dangling through a hole they had opened to free her.

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Occupy Veterans Pursue Establishment in New Super-Collective

Occupy veterans in Oakland, California, craving greater establishment and a place to breed the ideologies of their movement, are considering the purchase of a Mediterranean-inspired commercial building in a highly coveted section of their city.

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Rose Parade Faces Small ‘#BlackLivesMatter’ Protest

About ten protesters showed up for a planned protest of Pasadena’s annual Tournament of Roses Parade with signs and a banner heralding the name and image of Ezell Ford and others who have died in confrontations with police, along with the declaration “#BlackLivesMatter.”

Ezell Ford and Black Lives Matter protest at Rose Bowl Parade. (@Garrick Ruiz / Twitter)

More Protests for New Year’s Eve in California

Protesters plan to ring in the New Year in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Pasadena, California as #BlackLivesMatter and Occupy movement activists have laid out a busy night, as well as demonstrations on New Years’ Day at Pasadena’s annual Tournament of Roses parade.

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Firefighter Sex Tape Search Leads to Suspension of 16

Sixteen California firefighters are on paid administrative leave after the estranged wife of alleged murderer and battalion chief Orville Fleming made accusations that she viewed a sex tape involving Fleming, his mistress turned fiancé, and other firefighters having sex on a fire truck.

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Govt Pays $2.5M, Congresswoman Capps Claims No Fault in Death of CA Woman

Parents Matt and Raeona Dies cannot bring their young daughter back to life, but have pushed to hold accountable those responsible in the DUI crash that killed her. A quiet early November settlement granted the couple $2.5 million from the United States Government, a co-defendant in the lawsuit seeking damages and asserting the Congressional aide behind the wheel that night became intoxicated on government time. Reports have indicated a possible cover-up from Congresswoman Capps’ office.

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Great White Sinks Teeth Into Southern California Surfer

“It’s pretty radical, I mean there was no warning at all, I was about ten feet from him and it was absolute quiet, silent, nothin,” Andrew Walsh told a reporter from the shores of Montaña De Oro State Beach

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Muslim Groups Hold #BlackLivesMatter Protest As NYPD Buries Slain Officer

Three Muslim groups joined forces to organize a Saturday protest in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania invoking Koran scripture and the words of Malcolm X in announcing the “Muslims Mobilized Against Police Brutality” protest. Muslim groups who coalesced to lead the protest charge

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Silent Ferguson Protesters Block Downtown St Louis Street

Only the sound of footsteps were audible as protesters marched down the streets of St. Louis past City Hall with duct tape on their mouths in silent protest over the police-involved shooting deaths of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York . Activists got loud, however, as they ended up down at the landmark St Louis Arch, flooding the entrance to the Visitor’s Center chanting, “FTP, F**k the Police” and “Hands Up Don’t Shoot.”

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Listeria Outbreak Linked to Caramel Apples in CA

Five deaths have been reported out of 29 Listeria-related illnesses in the United States in a recent outbreak that has been linked to Happy Apple Brand Caramel Apples produced out of Orosi, California and Union, Missouri. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states, “Listeria can cause a serious, life-threatening illness.”

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Man Dies After Assaulting Officer at Border on Christmas Eve

Investigators are looking in to a fatal Christmas Eve series of events that led to the death of a dangerous and combative male U.S. citizen attempting to enter the United States from Mexico near San Diego, California. The man first attempted

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