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CA Legislature May Un-Ban Kangaroo Products

Animal rights activists are furious that a bill in California to allow the importation of products made from kangaroos is being offered in the state legislature.

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Bail Bonds Agents Busted

Thirty-one bail bonds agents have been arrested by law enforcement officers working with the California Department of Insurance and the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.

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Curt Schilling Fires Back Off-The-Record; Website Publishes

Awfulannouncing.com decided to ignore common courtesy and publicized Red Sox legend and ESPN baseball analyst Curt Schilling’s off-the-record letter that accused the site of a lack of integrity as well as parsing Schilling’s tweet to help stir up the hornet’s nest that got Schilling suspended from the cable sports network.

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The Blind Also Harbor Racist Feelings

Two studies conducted of people who are blind suggest that seeing racial differences may not be based simply on one’s visual sense alone.

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Sacred Indian Regalia Falls off Van in Transit

A tribal dancer with the Lakota tribe has an urgent request: finding a plastic case lost on the highway that contains his headdress, bustle, dance stick and shield, all adorned with eagle feathers.

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First Same-Sex Marriage in Tijuana

Last week, same-sex marriage came to Tijuana, as Baja California’s largest city was the site of the nuptials between designer Luis Vargas, 48, and businessman Michael Bujazán, 71.

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Robert Griffin III Denies Liking Instagram Post Knocking Redskins

After Robert Griffin’s account III “liked” an Instagram post criticizing Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder and the front office while praising him, the quarterback posted a message on social media denying he had personally “liked” the post.

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Another Water Bond?

Unsatisfied with Proposition 1, the $7.5 billion water bond approved by California voters last November, a former deputy secretary of the state’s Natural Resources Agency wants to put yet another water bond on the 2016 ballot.

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San Quentin Hit with Legionnaires’ Disease

On Saturday, San Quentin State Prison was closed to visitors and its water supplies were limited to cooking and inmate toilets after an inmate was diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease.

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Claim: ‘Cheating’ in Little League World Series

Accusations of cheating are flying around social media after a little league team from Texas defeated the Sweetwater Valley team from San Diego, 9-7, to advance to the U.S. championship game.

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Flanagan Created Gay Porn Websites

Vester L. Flanagan, the gay black man who murdered a white television reporter and cameraman as they conducted a live interview on WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, created gay porn websites between 2007 and 2008.

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Democrats Slam Hillary Clinton for Her Response to Email Scandal

Democratic political leaders across the nation, unperturbed by the possible illegality of Hillary Clinton’s email practices, seem to be primarily concerned that Clinton’s response to the resultant furor might affect their own personal political fortunes or those of the Democratic Party.

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Vester Flanagan Started Career at SF TV Station

Vester Lee Flanagan II, 41, the gay black shooter who murdered WDBJ7 reporter Alison Parker, 24, and photographer Adam Ward, 27, who were white, started his mercurial journalistic career working for KPIX in San Francisco in 1993 as an intern.

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Los Angeles Slashes Water Use

In July, Los Angeles residents reduced their water use by 21%, meeting the standard that state regulators implemented and avoiding fines and penalties imposed by the state.

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Food Stamp Fraud Ring Busted in Ohio

On Wednesday, a major bust was made of a multi-million dollar food stamp fraud ring based in the Ohio counties of Butler and Hamilton.

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Dog Stops Highway Chase 

On Tuesday, a suspected auto thief in San Diego was taken down by a police dog, avoiding any lethal confrontation between the suspect and police.

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Climate Change Profs Aim to Convert Skeptics

On Monday, at the California Climate Change Symposium in Sacramento, the usual academic suspects from California’s universities argued that global warming represents an imminent threat to Man.

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Los Angeles County Employee Paid Almost 800K for Not Working

Without working a single day in 2014, the second-highest paid Los Angeles County employee collected almost $800,000 from a settlement after he was fired as chief medical officer of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in 2012.

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Tennessee School District Bans Flags on Trucks—Even the American Flag

The Dickson County School District has decided to ban all flags from pickup trucks on school property. Initial reports had incorrectly stated that the officials had banned all flags at the school, but the district corrected that impression with an email to FOX13.

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NFL Removes Video of Chris Carter Telling 2014 NFL Rookies to Use a ‘Fall Guy’

A video went viral over the weekend showing Hall of Fame wide receiver Cris Carter telling rookies at a 2014 NFL rookie symposium that they should utilize a “fall guy” when trouble arose. A Chris Borland interview with ESPN, where he referenced the speech but not the speaker, drew attention to Carter’s talk.

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UC Irvine Orientation Tells Freshman to Ask Before They Touch

Incoming freshman at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) learned at their orientation that any sexual encounters must be accompanied by a step-by-step list of requests before any action can be consummated. As hundreds of eager students watched, a video

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