| December 26, 2008 | - A man dressed as Santa Claus opened fire at his in-laws' Christmas Eve party in Covina, California, killing at least eight people before setting fire to the house and killing himself.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| December 1, 2008 | - A statistician in California said that humans would soon reach their maximum running speed. “Men are still on the upward trend,” said Mark Denny of Stanford University, but “they are getting near that plateau.” Horses and dogs are already running as fast as they can.
| Source:
Mercury News
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| November 5, 2008 | -
California,
Florida, and Arizona passed propositions banning same-sex marriage.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 15, 2008 | - The Republican Party in Sacramento, California, removed the words “Waterboard Barack Obama” from their official website. “Some people find it offensive,” said county chairman Craig MacGlashan. “Others do not. I cannot comment on how people interpret things.”
| Source:
Sacramento Bee
|
| October 3, 2008 | -
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger emailed Paulson to say that he may need a $7 billion loan for the state.
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
|
| September 14, 2008 | - At least 25 people were killed and another 140 injured when a Metrolink commuter train crashed head-on into a freight train in the San Fernando Valley.
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
|
| September 9, 2008 | - Police in Fresno apprehended a man for breaking into a house, rubbing cooking spices on the body of one sleeping resident, and assaulting another resident with a sausage.
| Source:
The Fresno Bee
|
| August 31, 2008 | - A man concerned that he had injected air into his veins while shooting cocaine tried to amputate his own arm with a butter knife, and then a butcher knife, at a Denny's Restaurant in California,.
| Source:
CBS
|
| August 11, 2008 | -
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, developed a material for use in invisibility cloaks.
| Source:
BBC
|
| July 26, 2008 | -
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill requiring that students in the state's public schools be taught about global warming.
| Source:
San Jose Mercury News
|
| July 18, 2008 | - The U.S. Census Bureau announced that the 2010 census will not count the estimated 780,000 same-sex marriages that will have by then taken place in California and Massachusetts.
| Source:
LA Times
|
| July 13, 2008 | - The U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision seized the IndyMac Bank of California, worth an estimated 32 billion dollars, after the bank's closure in the wake of mortgage industry collapse.
| Source:
AFP
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| June 15, 2008 | - Responding to a Father's Day 911 call in Stanislaus County, California, about a man who was kicking and beating his toddler by the side of the road, police descended in a helicopter, shot and killed the man, and found that his son, beaten beyond recognition, was dead.
| Source:
Mercury News
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| May 23, 2008 | -
Clinton insisted that her candidacy was still viable. “My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right?” she offered. “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.”
| Source:
The New York Post
|
| May 16, 2008 | - The California Supreme Court struck down a state ban on same-sex marriage, surprising legal experts because six of the seven judges are Republican,.
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| May 2, 2008 | - Three northern elephant seals were found shot in the head, lying in pools of blood, in San Simeon, California, near the Hearst castle.
| Source:
The Los Angeles Times
|
| February 29, 2008 | - Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer, speaking before Congress following the recall of 143 million pounds of beef packed at the Westland/Hallmark plant in Chino, California, refused to support an outright ban on processing “downer” cows for food, even though such cows are by definition too weak or sick to stand.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| February 23, 2008 | -
Texas surpassed California to become the top producer of wind power, and oil men were cashing in on the boom. “We're number one in wind in the United States,” said Texas land commissioner Jerry Patterson, “and that will never change.”
| Source:
NY Times
|
| February 18, 2008 | - The whistle-blower website Wikileaks.org was removed from the Internet after a Swiss bank obtained an injunction against California Web hosting company Dynadot.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| February 7, 2008 | - In the G.O.P. primaries on Super Tuesday, John McCain emerged as the likely Republican presidential nominee after winning California,
New York, New Jersey, and other “blue states”; Mike Huckabee won states in the South, and Mitt Romney won states in which he has owned a home. Romney later announced the end of his presidential campaign to an audience that moaned and cried “No, no!” “Size,” explained Romney, referring to the number of delegates pledged to McCain, “does matter.”
| Source 1:
Talking Points Memo
Source 2:
National Post
Source 3:
Breitbart
|
| February 3, 2008 | -
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Republican candidate John McCain, while Schwarzenegger's wife, Maria Shriver, the niece of John F. Kennedy, endorsed Barack Obama.
| Source 1:
McCain Wins Schwarzenegger Nod
Source 2:
Maria Shriver endorses Obama
|
| December 2, 2007 | - President George W. Bush put forth a plan developed by mortgage lenders to freeze interest rates for some homeowners, and watched Hootie and the Blowfish perform “California Girls” for ex‒Beach Boy Brian Wilson.
| Source 1:
NYT
Source 2:
The Washington Post
|
| December 2, 2007 | - Khaled Hosseini, the author of the novel on which the film is based and a resident of California, implored the United States not to abandon Afghanistan. Without U.S. support, he wrote, “Afghanistan is doomed.”
| Source:
'Kite Runner' author urges US to hang on in Afghanistan
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| November 25, 2007 | - Fourteen thousand refugees fled wildfires in Malibu, California,.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 9, 2007 | -
California was suing the federal government for preventing it from reducing car pollution.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
|
| October 26, 2007 | - Wildfires spread from north of Los Angeles to south of San Diego, killing at least seven people, consuming more than 1,800 homes, burning a half-million acres, setting Camp Pendleton afire, forcing about 300,000 San Diego residents to evacuate, and prompting California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare seven counties disaster areas and to mobilize the National Guard. At the Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, typically home to the Chargers but a place of refuge for 20,000 evacuees during the fires, an air-conditioned medical tent was erected, a cell-phone provider offered free calls to anywhere in the United States, volunteers distributed coloring books and crayons to children, coolers brimmed with cold sodas, residents piled sandwich meat onto bread, and a massage therapist and acupuncturist set up shop. FEMA apologized for holding a fake press conference on the wildfires, with FEMA staffers posing as reporters. “Are you happy with FEMA's response so far?” asked one fake reporter. “I'm very happy,” said Deputy Administrator Harvey Johnson, “with FEMA's response so far.”
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
Washington Post
Source 3:
MSNBC
|
| October 24, 2007 | - A couple in southern California was facing criminal charges for attempting to sell 375 pounds of bathtub cheese.
| Source:
Central Valley Business Times
|
| October 23, 2007 | - Former FEMA director Michael D. Brown, who now works for a disaster recovery company, was made available for comment regarding the wildfires raging in California,.
| Source:
PR Newswire
|
| September 25, 2007 | - A Rudy Giuliani supporter in Palo Alto, California, charged guests $9.11 per person to attend a fundraiser.
| Source:
CNN
|
| September 22, 2007 | - A University of Florida student was Tasered after his question for Senator John Kerry went on too long. An Ocala, Florida, man accused police of Tasering him after he refused to drop his Koran; police in Tustin, California, Tasered a 15-year-old autistic boy; and a Taser dart fired at a Vancouver, Washington, man ignited the cigarette lighter in his pocket, setting his pants on fire. Sales at Taser International were expected to reach $90 million this year.
| Source 1:
The Boston Globe
Source 2:
WRAL.com
Source 3:
OC Register
Source 4:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Source 5:
Times Online
|
| September 14, 2007 | - Evening traffic slowed in Santa Barbara, California, as commuters watched the carcass of a 70-foot blue whale drift south along the highway.
| Source 1:
FOX
Source 2:
LAT
|
| September 7, 2007 | - A San Diego woman was reportedly considering a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines after she was asked to leave one of their flights because attendants deemed her skirt and sweater too revealing.
| Source:
ABCnews.com
|
| September 4, 2007 | - A convicted California voyeur sued police to get back his porn collection.
| Source:
Breitbart.com
|
| September 1, 2007 | - A vegetable grower in Fresno, California, recalled 8,000 cartons of salmonella-tainted spinach.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| August 30, 2007 | - Polling revealed that Democrats despise President Bush more than any other executive in history. “No one,” said Gary C. Jacobson, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, “comes close.”
| Source:
NY Times
|
| August 16, 2007 | - Baptist pastor Wiley S. Drake instructed his Buena Park, California, congregation to pray for the deaths of two members of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. “Let his days be few,” read the prayer, “and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.”
| Source:
The Los Angeles Times
|
| July 18, 2007 | - Recently filed court documents described how Henry T. Nicholas III, the billionaire founder of Broadcom, built a $30 million underground sex bunker in Laguna Hills, California, and stocked it with prostitutes flown in by private jet.
| Source:
The Los Angeles Times
|
| July 17, 2007 | - A newborn was found in a trashcan at a Denny's in Anaheim, California; a 17-year-old girl with blood dripping down her legs was discovered nearby, having just shared a meal with her family.
| Source:
O.C. Register
|
| July 15, 2007 | -
Garbage was overflowing in parts of Oakland, California, after two weeks of dispute between Waste Management, Inc., and Teamsters Local 70. “It stinks,” said Oakland resident Jarod Smith.
| Source:
SF Chron
|
| May 18, 2007 | - Off the coast of Monterey, California, a new kind of sea anemone--small, white, and cube-shaped--was found inside a whale's corpse.
| Source:
LiveScience
|
| May 12, 2007 | - The editor of a California news website, explaining that editors and interns “are extremely demanding and produce inferior work,” hired two new reporters who will cover Pasadena from India.
| Source:
The Guardian
|
| May 3, 2007 | - The Republican candidates for the presidency debated at the Ronald Reagan Library in California. Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas said that the day Roe v. Wade was repealed would be “a glorious day of human liberty and freedom” and that the current tax system “ought to be taken behind a barn and killed with a dull ax”; Senator John McCain of Arizona claimed that he would “follow [Osama bin Laden] to the gates of hell”; Texas
Congressman Ron Paul said that not going to war in Iraq would have been “conservative,“ because ”it’s a Republican, it’s a pro-American, it follows the Founding Fathers. And besides, it follows the Constitution.” California
Congressman Duncan Hunter took responsibility for the border fence in San Diego. “It’s a double fence,” he said. “It’s not that little straggly fence you see on CNN with everybody getting over it.” “No one on this stage,” said former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, ”probably knows Hillary Clinton better than I do,” to which former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani replied: ”Oh my!” Collectively, the candidates invoked Reagan's name nearly 20 times.
| Source:
NY Times
|
| March 29, 2007 | - A California man was released from prison after serving five months for shooting an ostrich named Gaylord who had embarrassed him in front of women.
| Source:
San Francisco Chronicle
|
| March 23, 2007 | - And in the Mojave Desert, a wandering photographer in search of a striptease museum stumbled across an estimated acre of rotting food discarded by a food bank, including cases of eggnog and tooth whitener. “Creepy, spooky, gross, disgusting,” he said. “Filled with animals and bugs.”
| Source:
MSNBC
|
| February 8, 2007 | - An Irvine, California, police officer was found not guilty of charges that he ejaculated on a female motorist during an early-morning traffic stop. “She got what she wanted,“ explained the officer's lawyer. ”She’s an overtly sexual person.”
| Source:
OC Weekly
|
| January 17, 2007 | - A freeze destroyed as much as 75 percent of California's
citrus crop. “We may have to do without guacamole for a while,” said a Pasadena resident. “And we may be drinking our Coronas without limes.”
| Source:
AP via Cnn.com
|
| January 14, 2007 | - A California woman died from water intoxication after a water-drinking contest.
| Source:
L.A. Times
|
| January 4, 2007 | - The 110th Congress convened on Capitol Hill, and Representative Nancy Pelosi of California kicked off her tenure as America's first female speaker of the House with four days of parties dubbed “Pelosi-Palooza.” The festivities included a performance by singer Tony Bennett and an honorary street-naming in Pelosi's hometown of Baltimore. Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia disrupted the Congress's opening prayer with shouts of “Yes, Lord!” and “Mmmhmmm!” and Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts mimed tipping a bottle to his mouth. Congress's first Muslim member took his oath on a Koran once owned by Thomas Jefferson, and a Buddhist representative swore in on no book at all.
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
Washington Post
Source 3:
CBS News
Source 4:
AZ Central
|
| December 5, 2006 | -
Los Angeles gave the Owens River back to Inyo County, California, after diverting it for more than 93 years.
| Source:
Christian Science Monitor
|
| November 30, 2006 | - In California, former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis successfully led a fight against parking scofflaws.
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
|
| November 30, 2006 | - Conservative rabbis in Beverly Hills called for an end to the religious edict forbidding oral sex between men; anal congress, however, would still be forbidden.
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
|
| November 28, 2006 | - A “yearlong rash of nut robberies” ended when police recovered 136,000 pounds of stolen nuts with a street value of $400,000 from a warehouse in Sacramento.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 9, 2006 | - Midterm elections were held in the United States; the Republican Party lost its majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Six incumbent Republican senators, including Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, were defeated, and Santorum's daughter cried. Nancy Pelosi of California, who is expected to become the first female Speaker of the House, had lunch with President George W. Bush.
| Source 1:
Reuters via Yahoo!
Source 2:
MSNBC
Source 3:
Boston.com
|
| October 27, 2006 | -
Los Angeles admitted that it has 1.3 million outstanding parking tickets.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 24, 2006 | - Actress Mary Carey, star of such films as Pussyman's Decadent Divas 29 and Tit Happens, dropped out of the California gubernatorial race to care for her mother, a schizophrenic, who was injured while jumping from a four-story building.
| Source:
Yahoo News and IMDB.com
|
| October 24, 2006 | - Charlie Brown was running for Congress as a Democrat in Roseville, California.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| October 10, 2006 | -
California researchers found that women dress more fashionably when they are ovulating.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| October 3, 2006 | - President George W. Bush visited George W. Bush elementary school in Stockton, California, and promised to improve school safety.
| Source 1:
CNN
Source 2:
CNN
Source 3:
NBC12
Source 4:
MSNBC
Source 5:
Whitehouse.gov
|
| September 20, 2006 | - In California, accused pedophile John Karr was described by his lawyer as a “southern gentleman with a sense of humor.”
| Source:
New York times
|
| September 8, 2006 | -
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger apologized for saying that Cubans and Puerto Ricans were “very hot,” due to their mixed “black blood” and “Latino blood.”
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 5, 2006 | - Researchers at the University of Southern California determined that celebrities exhibit higher rates of narcissism than the general population.
| Source:
Breitbart.com via the Drudge Report
|
| August 1, 2006 | - In California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tony Blair should be named United Nations secretary-general when he steps down as prime minister. “It's a big job that he has right now,” Schwarzenegger said, “and I think whatever job he wants he will get, because he has such a great success rate at home and he has done such a remarkable job, I think.”
| Source:
CNN
|
| July 31, 2006 | - Hot weather killed 141 people (as well as 25,000 cattle and 700,000 fowl) in California, at least 170 people in France, Italy, and Spain, and dozens of racing dogs in Oregon, and shut down MySpace.
| Source:
CBS
|
| July 20, 2006 | - The United States agreed to buy a 29-foot-tall cross located on a hilltop in San Diego.
| Source:
NY Times
|
| July 19, 2006 | - Prosecuting attorneys in California and New York were trying to limit “gay panic” defenses in criminal trials.
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| June 22, 2006 | -
Daryl Hannah was forcibly removed from a walnut tree in South Los Angeles.
| Source:
Philadelphia Inquirer
|
| June 21, 2006 | - The Scripps Institution of Oceanography predicted that a massive earthquake will strike southern California some time in the next ten years.
| Source:
Discovery Reports via Google News
|
| June 2, 2006 | -
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered 1,000 National Guard soldiers to the Mexican border.
| Source:
The Los Angeles Times
|
| May 25, 2006 | - In San Diego a man named Lawrence Christopher Smith was sentenced to 84 years to life in prison for shooting and killing a man named Dom Perignon Champagne.
| Source:
Sign on San Diego
|
| May 17, 2006 | - In Santa Ana, California, a homeless man was arrested after he told five boys he would cast them in a television commercial, then licked their feet.
| Source:
CBS News
|
| May 11, 2006 | - In California a 1,500-pound sea lion was biting people.
| Source:
SFGate.com
|
| May 11, 2006 | - Authorities in gas masks entered a residence in California to remove 98 guinea pigs, 84 cats, 27 dogs, 14 rabbits, three potbellied pigs, and one bird.
| Source:
AP via Breitbart.com
|
| April 26, 2006 | - After 15,000 tries a California scientist was able to teach starlings some grammar.
| Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
|
| April 23, 2006 | - An Oakland, California, carpenter named Percy Honnibal was in trouble for carpentering naked.
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| April 4, 2006 | -
California legislators were considering a law that would make it a significant crime for a murderer to rape a victim's corpse; corpse rapists currently receive only 16 months of prison time for that portion of their crimes.
| Source:
RecordNet.com
|
| March 24, 2006 | -
German
scientists announced that cells from mice testes can act like embryonic stem cells; a private company in California said that it had achieved similar results with cells from human testes, and that it had grown new brain, heart, and bone cells from the human testes cells.
| Source 1:
CBS News
Source 2:
Reuters
|
| March 16, 2006 | - In California authorities were fitting gang members with GPS anklets.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| March 13, 2006 | - A 38-year-old California
clown kidnapped the 14-year-old girl who is carrying his child.
| Source:
NBC San Diego
|
| March 8, 2006 | - The House passed legislation that, if approved in the Senate, will make it far more difficult for states to put warning labels on food; under the new rules all warnings will be approved by the Food and Drug Administration. "What's wrong," asked Representative Henry Waxman (D., Calif.), "with our system of federalism?"
| Source:
Canada.com
|
| February 23, 2006 | - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals criticized a teacher in Rosamond, California, for castrating a live pig in front of a high school group; a school superintendent countered that animal castration is an important skill for students to learn.
| Source:
LA Daily News
|
| February 1, 2006 | - A former postal worker shot and killed six people at a mail-processing center in Goleta, California.
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| January 18, 2006 | - In San Jose, California, Anna Ayala, who planted a severed finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili, was sentenced to nine years in prison. Her husband, Jaime Plascencia, who obtained the finger from a co-worker, was given more than twelve years.
| Source:
Wendy's chili-finger couple sentenced to prison
|
| January 17, 2006 | -
California
executed 76-year-old, blind, wheelchair-bound, mostly deaf, diabetic Clarence Ray Allen. "It's a good day to die," said Allen via a statement.
| Source:
AP
|
| January 13, 2006 | - Scientists announced that the Donner family had not actually been cannibals; it was in fact other pioneers, six miles away, who cooked and ate each other.
| Source:
SFGate.com
|
| January 4, 2006 | - An artist in California went to an abandoned mine shaft in a desert and bound his feet together with a long chain and a lock in order to sketch a self-portrait. He lost the key, however, and was forced to hop for 12 hours to get help.
| Source:
Boston.com
|
| January 2, 2006 | - It was flooding in California, and parts of Oklahoma and Texas were on fire.
| Source 1:
CBS News
Source 2:
Forbes.com
|
| December 31, 2005 | - A police officer in Fremont, California, was attacked by a pack of chihuahuas and was later treated for ankle bites.
| Source:
AP
|
| December 19, 2005 | - Tookie Williams was executed in California.
| Source:
CourtTV.com
|
| December 4, 2005 | - Two women told a reporter that Randy “Duke” Cunningham, the California
Congressman who resigned after he was found to have accepted bribes from defense contractors, once changed into pajama bottoms and a turtleneck sweater and offered the women champagne by the light of a lava lamp.
| Source 1:
Newsweek
Source 2:
KTLA
|
| December 4, 2005 | - In Fremont, California, Iron Crotch Grandmaster Tu Jin-Sheng pulled a rental truck several yards with his penis. “He's very special,” said student Shawnee Wang.
| Source:
Tri-Valley Herald
|
| November 28, 2005 | -
Representative Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R., Calif.) confessed to taking $2.4 million in bribes and resigned from office.
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| November 25, 2005 | - It was revealed that the investigation into illegal payoffs made by lobbyist Jack Abramoff involves not only Representative
Tom DeLay (R., Texas), but Representative Bob Ney (R., Ohio), Representative John Doolittle (R., Calif.), Senator Conrad Burns (R., Mont.), 17 current and former Congressional aides, and two former Bush Administration officials.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| November 19, 2005 | - Representative John Murtha (D., Pa.), called for the halt of U.S. troop deployments to Iraq. Duncan Hunter (R., Calif.), seeking to cut off debate over Murtha's statements, countered by proposing a measure that required that U.S. troops be brought home immediately. Jean Schmidt (R., Ohio) addressed Murtha, a decorated veteran and former Marine colonel who previously supported the invasion of Iraq, by quoting a Marine Corps reserve officer who told her that “cowards cut and run.” She was booed by Democrats. “You guys,” yelled Marty Meehan (D., Mass.), “are pathetic!” Harold Ford (D., Tenn.) ran across the House chamber's center aisle to the Republican side. “Say Murtha's name!” he shouted. Schmidt asked that her comments be struck from the record, and Hunter's resolution was rejected 403 to 3, with Murtha among those voting against it.
| Source:
The Washington Post
|
| November 10, 2005 | -
California
voters rejected four initiatives proposed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. “If I was to make another Terminator movie,” said Schwarzenegger, “I would tell Terminator to travel back in time to tell Arnold not to have another special election.” Schwarzenegger then visited China, where he was greeted by hundreds of flag-waving children.
| Source 1:
ABC News
Source 2:
BBC News
|
| October 30, 2005 | - Four fraternity members at California State University, Chico, were sentenced to jail time after one of their pledges died from "water intoxication"; during hazing the pledge was forced to drink several gallons of water.
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| October 27, 2005 | - Strange, vibrating lights were seen in the skies above California and Nevada.
| Source:
SF Gate
|
| October 25, 2005 | - In Los Angeles a man dressed as Sesame Street's Elmo was arrested for panhandling.
| Source:
ABC News
|
| October 10, 2005 | - Americans celebrated Columbus Day, except in Berkeley, California, where they celebrated Indigenous People's Day.
| Source:
LA Times
|
| October 1, 2005 | - A Fresno, California, man who stabbed a cross-dressing man to death with a pair of scissors was sentenced to only four years in prison after his attorneys argued that the murder was the result of "gay panic."
| Source:
Fox News
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| September 14, 2005 | - A federal judge in California ruled that requiring students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is unconstitutional. "Undoubtedly," read the court's decision, "the pledge contains a religious phrase."
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| August 22, 2005 | - A California
Army veteran and resident of the United States for 51 years was upset with J.P. Morgan Chase for repeatedly getting his name wrong in their credit-card database, misspelling "Sami Habbas" as "Palestinian Bomber."
| Source:
ABC News
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| August 9, 2005 | - The Space Shuttle Discovery landed safely in California.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| August 4, 2005 | - A company in California was planning to sell human breast milk.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| July 16, 2005 | -
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger decided to quit his job editing muscle magazines, which paid at least $1 million a year. “I pledged to put the people of California front and center,” he said after receiving a great deal of press criticism.
| Source:
SF Gate
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| July 14, 2005 | - The bones of a mammoth were found in Silicon Valley.
| Source:
SF Gate
|
| July 11, 2005 | - It cost $75 to bleach
your
anus in Los Angeles.
| Source:
The Village Voice
|
| July 6, 2005 | - It was announced that up to 4,700 birds, including burrowing owls, red-tailed hawks, and golden raptors, were being killed each year by a wind farm in Altamont, California.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| June 3, 2005 | -
Scientists in California sequenced the genes of an extinct cave bear using material extracted from its teeth, and now plan to sequence the genes of Neanderthals. "I think it will work," said a scientist. "It is just a matter of time."
| Source:
BBC News
|
| May 31, 2005 | - In California, the owners of a chicken were fined for letting it cross the road; the fine was later dismissed.
| Source:
Herald Sun
|
| May 27, 2005 | - A road crew in San Jose, California, dug a fresh 10-by-15-foot pothole so that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger could be photographed filling it.
| Source:
San Francisco Chronicle
|
| May 24, 2005 | - A San Diego doctor was training a dog named Ginger to detect cancer by sniffing human urine.
| Source:
Sign On San Diego
|
| May 24, 2005 | - Two teenagers in Marysville, California, hacked into their school's computer system to change their grades. They accidentally altered the grades of all 18,697 students in the school district, and were arrested.
| Source:
Monterey Herald
|
| May 22, 2005 | - Warren Beatty was wondering whether he should run for governor of California.
| Source:
ABC News
|
| May 19, 2005 | - A California man was arrested because he lived in a tent for two weeks in order to buy tickets to the new Star Wars movie; his doing so violated a requirement that, as a sex offender, he let police know if he changed lodgings.
| Source:
NCTimes
|
| May 13, 2005 | - Charlotte Spadaro, the former mayor of Beverly Hills, California, was in trouble for keeping 135 dogs and 30 cats in her home, and for filling a rental van with a ton of dead animals and leaving it out on the street.
| Source:
SFGate.com
|
| April 22, 2005 | - A Fresno, California, man was standing trial for killing nine of his children, seven of whom he fathered with his own daughters and nieces. “Jesus was a womanizer,” he explained.
| Source:
CourtTV.com
|
| April 18, 2005 | - Marla Ruzicka, an activist from California who made it her mission to count the number of civilian casualties in Iraq, was killed in Baghdad by a suicide bomber.
| Source:
Guardian
|
| April 15, 2005 | - Fewer than half of all Californians approved of the job Arnold Schwarzenegger was doing as governor.
| Source:
Guardian
|
| April 9, 2005 | - Millions—possibly billions—of butterflies were fluttering towards California.
| Source:
Biology News Net
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| March 30, 2005 | -
Scientists in California developed a scale that can measure the mass of a cluster of xenon atoms. It turns out that they weigh a few zeptograms.
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