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Matt Barnes Drives 95 Miles to Beat Up Derek Fisher

NBA bad boy Matt Barnes, 35, discovering that New York Knicks coach and former teammate Derek Fisher, 41, was spending time with Barnes’ estranged wife, drove from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles to fight him on Saturday.

Gloria Govan

Jerry Brown Jumps on ‘Equal Pay’ Bandwagon

On Tuesday, Governor Jerry Brown, intoning, “The inequities that have plagued our state and have burdened women forever are slowly being resolved with this kind of bill,” signed the California Fair Pay Act, which aims to ensure that business pay female employees equally who perform “substantially equivalent work” as males.

Jerry Brown (Scott Olson / Getty)

Bay Bridge Corrosion Threatens Supporting Cables

The lead designer of the Bay Bridge is warning that the cables holding up the eastern span are vulnerable because of water leaking into the twin steel boxes anchoring them.

Bay Bridge San Francisco (Frank Schulenburg / Flickr / CC / Cropped)

GoFundMe Page Created to Send Bartman to Cubs’ Playoff Game

Come back, Steve Bartman, all is forgiven. That’s the motivation of one “lifelong Cubs fan” who has created a GoFundMe page to raise money to send Bartman, the ostensible villain of the 2003 playoffs, to the upcoming wild-card game between the Cubs and the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Steve Bartman AP

Tennessee Lt. Gov. to Christians: Buy Guns

On Friday, in response to the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon in which Christians were targeted and murdered, Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey minced no words in his concise message to Christians and those who believe in the values of Western Civilization: buy guns.

The Associated Press

Naked Neighbor Attacks Elderly Woman in Irvine

On Tuesday afternoon, a naked man brutally assaulted a Peruvian grandmother visiting her daughter’s family in Irvine, according to the Irvine Police Department.

Craig Andrew Ledbetter (Irvine PD)

Transgender Teen Celebrates Name Change

The mother of Gabrielle Diana Gladu, a 16-year-old transgender Canadian, celebrated the legal changing of the teen’s name with a cake proclaiming, “Congratulations, you are now Gabrielle!”

Instagram/@gabrielladannnela

Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Traffic Fine Amnesty

Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill Wednesday allowing drivers with traffic violations that were due to be paid before January 1, 2013, to schedule a court appearance even without paying the attendant fines and traffic penalties.

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Bill Simmons Accuses ESPN of Pimping for NFL

Bill Simmons, the former ESPN commentator let go by the network on May 8 one day after he ripped the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell for concealing the contents of the Wells Report regarding Deflategate, ripped his former employers on his new podcast.

The Associated Press

Baltimore Man Arrested for Spray-Painting ‘Kill Cops’

A Baltimore-area man has been charged with six counts of malicious destruction of property after spray-painting “killing AAC cops coming soon” on three exterior walls of a shopping center and “Kill Cops” on a directional sign.

kill+cops+signs NBC News

L.A. Has Bloody Weekend as Murders Soar in 2015

19 people were shot last weekend in Los Angeles, and five were killed, as the city’s homicide rate continues to rise, despite a program instituted and championed by L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti to reduce crime in the city.

Chief Beck, LAPD (Damain Dovarganes / Associated Press)

Poachers Hunt Small Vaquita Porpoise to near-Extinction

The imminent extinction of the vaquitas, AKA the “Gulf of California porpoise” or “Cochito,” the smallest known cetacean, is due to poachers hunting another endangered fish, the totoaba, according to ABC 10 San Diego.

Vaquita (Wikimedia Commons)

Prosecutors Link ‘Shrimp Boy’ to 2006 Murder

On Monday, a federal prosecutor asserted that evidence exists revealing that Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, former leader of the Ghee Kung Tong gang, and now on trial for racketeering, solicited the murder of the gang’s previous leader, Allen Leung.

Shrimp Boy Raymond Chow (Associated Press)

Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Switches to GOP

Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, has left the Democratic Party and joined the GOP, saying that the Democratic party abandoned her.

AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley

‘Blue Lives Matter’ Pro-Police Rally in Hollywood

On Saturday, roughly 100 LAPD officers joined other citizens to march through Hollywood in a show of support for the LAPD and its members. The rally was organized by the Los Angeles Police Protective League; participants wore T-shirts emblazoned, “Blue Lives Matter” and carried signs reading “Police Lives Matter”, and “They bleed blue.”

LAPD Blue Lives Matter (Jon Van Winkle / Facebook)

Over Half Million Illegal Aliens Get CA Driver’s Licenses in 2015

Over half a million driver’s licenses have been issued to illegal aliens in California since January, according to the California DMV. The licenses were issued under AB 60, the California law that allows all California residents, no matter their immigration status, to obtain driver’s licenses.

John Boehner’s Huge Unpopularity Forces His Resignation

On Friday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) told GOP legislators he will resign in October. Boehner’s decision was likely prompted by at least 30 House Republicans who had threatened a no-confidence vote, which would leave Boehner in the uncomfortable position of needing Democratic votes to remain in his position.

AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Alleged Sexual Assault Victim of Kevin Johnson Speaks Out

The girl who may have been the first in a series of alleged sexual assaults perpetrated by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson is finally going public with her story, 19 years after Johnson allegedly molested her when she was 15 years old.

AP Photo/Cliff Owen

Bay Bridge Penalizes Contractors with $11M in Fines

On Thursday, the three-member oversight panel supervising the Bay Bridge construction project voted to punish the chief contractor, American Bridge/Fluor, by withholding $8 million in payments and fining the contractor another $3 million.

Bay Bridge (Justin Sullivan / Getty)