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updated: Sat Jul 19, 2008 01:44 am

California News

Local, regional, and statewide news continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

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Judge: Water delivery system harms Calif. salmon

A federal judge ruled Friday that California's water systems threaten to push native, wild salmon into extinction but stopped short of ordering any immediate water cutbacks farmers said would have cost them ...

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, California Government

Fri Jul 18, 2008

Cbs3.com

Crews Make Progress Against California Wildfires

Fire crews on Friday had extinguished all but 38 of the more than 2,000 blazes ignited over the past month, allowing most mandatory evacuations to be lifted so residents could return home for the weekend.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Natural Disasters, California Government, Wildfire, Fire

KNX-AM Los Angeles

CA Unemployment Hits 5 Year High

California's unemployment rate reached 6.9 percent in June, matching its highest level in nearly five years as job losses spread across the economy, state officials said Friday.

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The Shreveport Times

Pollock inmate killed in facility

An inmate at Pollock's U.S. Penitentiary died Monday night after he was stabbed with a homemade weapon, prison officials said Wednesday.

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San Gabriel Valley Tribune

2 health insurers to pay $13 million to regulators

Two of California's biggest health insurers agreed Thursday to collectively pay $13 million and reinstate more than 2,000 insurance policies to settle claims with the state that they illegally dropped ...

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Related Topix: California Government, Health Insurance, Health

KXTV

Poll Shows Car-Loving Californians Cutting Gas Use

A new poll shows two-thirds of Californians are cutting their gasoline use and reducing other spending because of soaring fuel prices.

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Related Topix: California Government

Thu Jul 17, 2008

WUSA9.com Washington, DC

Census Will Not Count Gay Marriages In 2010 Survey

Same-sex marriage is legal in two states, but not a single one will show up in the 2010 census.

3 comments

Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, California Government

ABC7 - KGO-TV/DT

Report says canal would fix CA water woes

California must drastically change the way it funnels drinking water to two-thirds of state residents by building a canal around the delta, according to a report released Thursday.

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Related Topix: Sacramento Metro, Sacramento (California State University System), California State University System, Sacramento, CA, San Joaquin, CA

ClipSyndicate

VIDEO: Voters to Decide Same-sex Marriage in Calif.

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to hear a challenge to a vote that could ban same-sex marriages in the state.

7 comments

Related Topix: California Government, Video

WNBC-TV New York

Bush To Survey California Wildfires

President George W. Bush will head to Northern California on Thursday, where he will get a firsthand look at the wildfires that have scorched hundreds of square miles of land since last month.

4 comments

Related Topix: George Bush, California Government, Arnold Schwarzenegger

The Florida Times-Union

6th body pulled from Calif. canal after crash

A sixth body was pulled from a rural, central California canal Wednesday after a collision between a septic truck and a sport utility vehicle carrying farm workers from a peach orchard.

1 comment

Related Topix: California Institute of Integral Studies, Lodi, CA, Stockton Metro, Westley, CA

Wed Jul 16, 2008

WSVN-TV Miami Beach

Controlled burns set to battle California blazes

Firefighters set more controlled burns Wednesday to block a wildfire that already has blackened 190 square miles and destroyed 27 homes on the central California coast.

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Related Topix: Carmel Valley, CA, Monterey County, CA, California State University System, California Institute of the Arts

The West Australian

Stallone's Bollywood ambitions

Sylvester Stallone wants to star in a Bollywood film with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Related Topix: Sylvester Stallone, Arts, Cinema, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (California State University System), California State University System, California Government

ABC7News

Calif. high court mulls marriage ban challenge

The California Supreme Court is considering whether to hear arguments on a petition by gay rights advocates to keep an initiative that would again ban same-sex marriage off the November ballot.

9 comments

Related Topix: California Government, Gay/Lesbian

Salon.com

California mountain towns clean up mud flows

Bulldozers worked Tuesday to reopen roads and clear tons of mud left by flash floods after thunderstorms unleashed downpours on mountain slopes burned bare by California wildfires.

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Related Topix: Lake Isabella, CA, Kern County, CA, University of California System, Los Angeles (California State University System), California State University System, UC Los Angeles, Weather

970 & 1140 K-News

Home Loan Bond for Calif. Veterans on Nov. Ballot

Submitted by knews on Tue, 07/15/2008 - 19:56. An initiative to extend California's low-interest home loan program to recent war veterans is the 12th measure to qualify for California's November ballot.

1 comment

Related Topix: Life, Veteran Affairs, California Government

Tue Jul 15, 2008

KEZI-TV Eugene

Calif. parole board denies compassionate release for Manson follower dying of cancer

The state parole board on Tuesday denied a request for compassionate release to Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins, who stabbed actress Sharon Tate to death nearly 40 years ago and is dying of brain cancer.

1 comment

Related Topix: California Government

CBS 2

CHP: At least 8 people plunge into Calif. canal

Divers are searching for the bodies of at least eight people who plunged into a fast-moving canal after a crash involving a vehicle transporting farmworkers in rural central California.

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Related Topix: California Government

Detroit Free Press

More S. California rain likely on heels of mudslide

More heavy rain was forecast today in Southern California, where crews were still clearing debris from weekend flooding and a mudslide that damaged more than 50 homes and blocked a highway.

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Related Topix: Southern California Institute of Architecture, Natural Disasters, Flood, University of California System, Los Angeles (California State University System), California State University System, UC Los Angeles, Santa Barbara County, CA

Philippines News.net

California fires destroy swathes of national forest

In the United States, the forest fires raging through California have so far destroyed 34,000 square kilometres of scrubland and forest.

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Related Topix: California Government

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