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The Cranston, Rhode Island, director of senior services, desiring to impress residents with the city’s snow shoveling program, hired a middle-aged man to don a wig, earrings, lipstick, and a dress in order to look like an elderly female supporter.

Neighbors of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg have publicly vented their ire at Zuckerberg because his security detail has been taking choice parking spots.

On Thursday, The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO), the Fresno Police Department, and the Clovis Police Department, using search warrants, discovered an underground gun range at a private home in Southwest Fresno.

One turkey recently escaped its natural fate on Thanksgiving, emerging on a Delta flight–reportedly as a “support animal” for a nervous passenger.

Now that 2016 has arrived, seventh grade students in California will be required to take sex ed–and to learn that gender identity is fluid.

On Wednesday, Uber announced it would enable nonviolent felons whose sentences have been reduced to misdemeanors to apply as drivers, according to CBS San Francisco.

Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman, never reticent about offering his opinion, weighed in on criticism leveled at Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton for dancing on the field after big plays.

The tension between two tectonic plates near the Aleutian Islands in southwestern Alaska could cause a quake big enough to send a giant tsunami directly at California, experts say.

The world’s most wanted man may have been captured, but that may not stop his shirt from becoming the world’s most wanted shirt.

As the NFL deals with players whose highly successful careers are marked by vicious plays or spitting on one another, one less-successful but no-less-famous player shows the world the true meaning of success.

A wild California sea otter has captured the imagination of millions on the Internet as it was filmed floating in the water while hugging its one-day-old pup.

Hitting someone helmet-to-helmet will elicit a 15-yard penalty and a fine in the NFL, but spitting on someone should warrant the same kind of severe punishment, according to Pittsburgh Steeler lineman Ramon Foster.

Incoming freshman at Oral Roberts University will be required to don Fitbit wearable watches which will record their physical activity.

On Sunday, U.S. Senate candidate and California Attorney General Kamala Harris blasted her opponent, Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), for statements concerning Muslims and terrorism. Sanchez, appearing on PoliticKING with Larry King in early December, said: We know that there is

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard a landmark case from California that could weaken teachers’ unions political clout nationwide, leaving them far less capable of supporting their Democratic Party clients.

On Sunday, Donald Trump, slamming NFL officiating to accentuate portraying himself as the candidate who will restore America’s strength, informed a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada: “Football has become soft like our country has become soft. We’re going soft, just like the NFL, we’re going soft.”

On Thursday, a 41-year-old black man who had 32 arrests dating back to 2000 was charged with his second alleged slashing of a young white woman in a week, hit with a third charge for allegedly striking a 43-year-old woman on November 4, and accused of hitting another women in the head with a bottle on September 29 while calling her a “white bitch.”

In the latest incarnation of the international goof fest No Pants Subway Ride, San Franciscans are invited to ride public transit on Sunday–without wearing anything to cover their lower torsos except underwear.

According to TMZ, you, too, will be able to buy the Playboy mansion if you agree to two important demands: cough up $200 million, and allow Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and his wife to remain at the mansion and live with you for the rest of Hefner’s life.

Now that Bill Cosby, 78, has admitted drugging women, allegedly before he committed sexual assault. the White House allowed that it would consider a bill proposing stripping Bill Cosby of his Presidential Medal of Freedom, but still protested that the Administration would not want to set a precedent by “trying to undo medals.”

On Friday, Chee Kung Tong leader Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, 56, was convicted of racketeering, murder, and other charges.

On Friday, Chris Correa, the former scouting director of the St. Louis Cardinals, entered a guilty plea to five counts of unauthorized access into the Houston Astros’ private database of player information. Correa had served as the Cardinals’ manager of baseball development before he took the job as scouting director.

According to a new Field poll taken roughly one month after the December terrorist attack in San Bernardino in which 14 people were massacred and another 20 wounded, 33% of California voters believe it very likely that a terrorist attack will occur in the state in the near future, a 50% increase from 2002, when only 21% felt that way.

On Thursday, California Governor Jerry Brown proposed a tax in his new budget that would tax all health plans, replacing California’s current tax that only taxes health plans that participate in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid plan.

On Wednesday, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that a monkey who took selfies cannot be the copyright owner of the photos.

A New Harris poll determining who Americans view as the greatest athlete of all time maintained the status quo from the last time Harris conducted the survey in 2009: Michael Jordan still tops the list.

An outraged father posted a video of a pat-down of his 10-year-old daughter at a North Carolina airport that could be interpreted as sexual assault.

According to a new study by Bankrate.com, over half of Americans cannot financially handle a bill of $500 or more. 63 percent said they would be unable to handle an unexpected expense.

The Baseball Writers’ Association of America elected Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza to the Hall of Fame.

On Tuesday, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Joseph H. Huber refused to block the city of Santa Clara from letting the NFL use the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League’s 11-acre soccer park for a “media village” during Super Bowl 50.

California State Assemblywomen Democrat Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) and Republican Ling Ling Chang (R-Diamond Bar) have offered a bill to exempt feminine hygiene products from taxes.

A report from an ESPN affiliate in Las Vegas claims that Johnny Manziel showed up in Sin City on Saturday night wearing a blonde wig, a fake mustache, glasses, and a hoodie.

On Monday, the California Supreme Court decided to allow Proposition 49, which would advise Congress to overturn the 2010 Citizens United ruling, back on the June 2016 ballot.

On Monday, a group calling itself the Universal Muslim Association of America (UMAA) launched an unusual protest against the Saudi Arabian government’s execution of Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, asking people to inundate the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington D.C. with potatoes.

Although 2.5 million new customers bought insurance through HealthCare.Gov after open enrollment began November 1, 10.5 million people eligible to buy coverage remained uninsured, according to the Obama Administration. One salient reason for the underenrollment may be that people opt to pay the fine for remaining uninsured rather that ante up the huge sums for insurance.

California Democrats eager to restore the slim supermajority they lost in 2014 are concerned for their prospects for 2016.