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27 min ago | Anchorage Daily News

California water plan aims to save Puget Sound orcas

A plan to restore salmon runs on California's Sacramento River also could help revive killer whale populations 700 miles to the north in Puget Sound, as federal scientists struggle to protect endangered species in a complex ecosystem that stretches along the Pacific coast from California to Alaska.

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Related Topix: California, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Agriculture, Science, Canada

4 hrs ago | AndhraNews

Californian smashes hot dog eating world record by having 68 in 10 mins

A man from California wolfed down 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes to smash the previous world record of 66 and to win Americas Coney Island annual hot dog eating contest.

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Related Topix: California, World Records

9 hrs ago | Kansas City Star

Budget battles keep states from tackling reforms

As lawmakers in cash-strapped states wrestled this year with revenues that kept on falling, both campaign promises and long-standing reform efforts got pushed to the side.

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Related Topix: California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ted Strickland, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Missouri, Minnesota Government, Minnesota

Sat Jul 04, 2009

Fort Mill Times

Backroom talks continue on Calif budget crisis

California lawmakers have little to celebrate this Fourth of July as talks continue on the state's ballooning deficit.

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Related Topix: California, US Governors, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sacramento Metro, Sacramento, CA

The Record Enterprise

Judge eyes quick action on Calif. gay marriage ban

It's a trial judge's job to settle any factual disputes surrounding the voter-approved ban and its effect on the civil rights of gays and lesbians before the case goes to a higher court, he said.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, California

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Schwarzenegger legacy entwined with fiscal crisis

This July 1, 2009 shows Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger listening to a question concerning his declaration of a fiscal emergency at a Capitol news conference in Sacramento, Calif.

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Related Topix: California, US Governors, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sacramento Metro, Sacramento, CA

WSBT - News - Regional

Calif. man dies after arrest at Indiana casino

Dilbag Singh had been arrested for public intoxication about 12:30 a.m. Thursday.

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Related Topix: California

Rocky Mount Telegram

Calif. regulators warn of pot's cancer capability

It might take Californians a puff or two to get their heads around an apparent contradiction recently enshrined in state law.

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Related Topix: Drugs, California, Medicine, Health, Pain, University of Southern California, Smoking

KMIR

Governor sets date for Congressional election

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has set Nov. 3 as the date of a special election for the Congressional seat vacated by former U.S. Rep.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Ellen Tauscher, Democrat

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Times Leader

Air Force pilots relish tricky firefighting runs

Michael Jackson: Josh dickey and Frank Baker are off, but monitoring and on cell.

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Related Topix: Dave, Comedy Movies, Westminster, CA, California, Menlo Park, CA, San Francisco Metro

Topeka Capital-Journal

IOUs spell uncertainty for Calif. small businesses

Business consultant Katrina Kennedy has taken her young son out of preschool and put a family vacation on hold.

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Related Topix: Small Business, Personal Finance, California, Sacramento Metro, Sacramento, CA

CBS 5

Calif. DMV Offices To Close 3 Fridays In July

Furlough Fridays are back at California's DMV offices. The California Department of Motor Vehicles announced Thursday that all its offices will be closed for three Fridays in July as part of Gov.

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Related Topix: California

Town Hall

SoCal-to-Vegas route wins federal designation

The clogged tourist travel route between Southern California and Las Vegas has been designated a federal high-speed rail corridor, in a move that officials hope would signal increased cooperation between the regions on building speedier train travel.

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Related Topix: California, US Politics, US News, Harry Reid, US Senate, Democrat

SignOnSanDiego.com

States set to ring in Independence Day sans budget

"This downturn, even more so than previous downturns, really is affecting every state right now," said Brian Sigritz, a staff associate with the National Association of State Budget Officers.

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Related Topix: California, Education Etc., Ohio

Thu Jul 02, 2009

WBIR-TV

Calif. attorney general joins Jackson probe

California Attorney General Jerry Brown says his office is helping Los Angeles police investigate the possible involvement of prescription drugs in Michael Jackson's death.

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Related Topix: California

St. Petersburg Times

California fails to end budget impasse

With budget deadlines missed and coffers running empty on Wednesday, officials in California extended state employee furloughs, prepared IOUs and swapped blame as a gloomy new fiscal year dawned.

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Related Topix: California, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Gainesville.com The Gainesville Sun G...

Facing Deficits, Some States Cut Summer School

A year ago, the Brevard County Schools ran a robust summer program here, with dozens of schools bustling with teachers and some 14,000 children practicing multiplication, reading Harry Potter and studying Spanish verbs, all at no cost to parents.

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Related Topix: Harry Potter, Books, California, Family, Adolescents and Pre-Teens, Education Etc.

RecordNET

Voter 'animus' to be issue in state marriage case

When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned an amendment to the Colorado Constitution that outlawed discrimination protections for gay people, same-sex couples could not enter into civil unions or domestic partnerships anywhere in the nation, much less get married.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, US Supreme Court, California

CBS 5

How Large Is Calif.'s Deficit? Depends Who You Ask

The precise size of California's budget deficit has been a moving target since Tuesday, when lawmakers failed to pass stopgap measures to avoid IOUs.

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Related Topix: California

MyFoxLA

California Prepares to Issue IOU's

California's controller will start paying many of the state's bills with IOUs as soon as Thursday after lawmakers failed to close the state's worsening budget deficit, adding a new measure of indignity to a state sinking deeper into dysfunction.

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Related Topix: California, Temecula, CA

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