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California bill would ban SeaWorld orca shows
A documentary that claims to expose the ill-treatment of orcas and problems with trainer safety at SeaWorld has spurred action from a California state lawmaker. Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, has proposed legislation banning the use of orcas for performance purposes at California aquatic theme parks as a result of details revealed in the movie Blackfish.
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Can Water Under the Mojave Desert Help Quench California?
As California's drought drags on, Scott Slater's company, Cadiz, says it can pump water 200 miles to Los Angeles from an aquifer in the Mojave Desert
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Powerful quake shakes N. California; no injuries
A very strong earthquake rattled the Northern California coast and was widely felt across the region, but authorities said early Monday that there were no reports of any injuries or damages.
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Why hydrogen-powered cars will drive Elon Musk crazy
After decades of development—and no small amount of skepticism—major automakers are set to start selling hydrogen fuel-cell cars in small numbers in the US. In the coming months, a hydrogen-powered version of Hyundai’s Tucson sport utility vehicle will appear in southern California showrooms. And Honda and Toyota next year will offer Californians futuristic sedans that can travel 300 miles (480 km) or more on a tank of hydrogen gas while emitting nothing more toxic than water vapor.
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Earthquake: 4.7 quake strikes Los Angeles, centered near Westwood
A shallow, magnitude-4.7 earthquake was reported Monday morning five miles from Westwood, according to the U.S. Geological Survey . The temblor occurred at 6:25 a.m. PDT at a depth of 5.0 miles.
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A Robot wrote and published the LA Times breaking news earthquake story
The Los Angeles Times was the first newspaper to publish a story about an earthquake on Monday - thanks to a robot writer. Journalist and programmer Ken Schwencke created an algorithm that automatically generates a short article when an earthquake occurs.
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California Preparing for Self-Driving Cars by 2015
Self-driving cars sound like fantasy to many, but regulators are laying the groundwork for the technology to hit the roads next year.
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Earthquake: 5.3 quake shakes Los Angeles, Southern California
A shallow magnitude 5.3 earthquake was reported Friday evening one mile from La Habra, California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey . The temblor occurred at 9:09 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0.6 miles.
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To Fix California's Problems, an Investor Suggests Breaking It Up
The investor Tim Draper wants to split California into six states to resolve what he sees as its chronic mismanagement.
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EVERY Car In Los Angeles Under Investigation
The Los Angeles Police Department says it cannot release information about its automatic license plate reader program because all cars in the Los Angeles metropolitan area are under investigation.
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California insurance provider mistakenly directs hearing impaired to sex hotline
Some hearing-impaired California residents got quite a surprise as they tried to sign up for health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act by the March 31 deadline. When they called the insurance provider Covered California, they were connected with a sex chat hotline, instead of an insurance company.
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Lucrative Illegal Animal Trade Thrives In Southern California
From sea cucumbers to deadly scorpions, exotic-animal trafficking is a multibillion-dollar business. Here in the United States, Southern California is a hub for distribution.
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About 100 arrested in Southern Calif. brawl
About 100 people were arrested and at least 44 people were taken to the hospital during a weekend college party in Southern California that devolved into a rock- and bottle-throwing melee. The violence broke out in the densely populated beachside community of Isla Vista around 9:30 p.m. Saturday during the annual spring break party known as Deltopia, held near the University of California, Santa Barbara and attended by 15,000 people, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office said.
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SeaWorld fights California bill that would ban killer whales from shows
A proposed California bill would force SeaWorld San Diego to stop using killer whales in its shows and to release them from their tanks, the latest blowback that the exotic animal attraction has faced after a documentary criticized the marine park's animal welfare practices.
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Poachers Attack Beloved Elders of California, Its Redwoods
It was an unlikely crime scene: a steep trail used by bears leading to a still, ancient redwood grove. There, a rare old-growth coast redwood had been brutally hacked about 15 times by poachers, a chain saw massacre that had exposed the tree’s deep red heartwood.
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Solitary Confinement Is Being Rebranded in US Prisons
It’s a common practice within the US criminal justice system: treating children as adults, in both prosecution and punishment.
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10 killed when truck crosses freeway, rams into students' bus in California
A FedEx truck crossed a freeway and slammed head-on into a bus carrying students in Northern California, killing 10 people, authorities said Friday. The collision Thursday evening killed both drivers, five students and three chaperones, said Lt. Bill Carpenter with the California Highway Patrol. At least 34 people were taken to local hospitals, authorities said.
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Can You Buy A License to Speed?
In the parking lots of Silicon Valley’s venture capital firms, expensive cars gleam in the California sun. Successful tech companies like Facebook may have set a culture of not flaunting wealth, but the Valley’s financiers don’t feel similarly restrained. The prototypical car is a Porsche 911, with its impractical two-door design that tells the world, “I have money to burn.”
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California Warns Consumers Not to Eat Anchovies, Sardines, Crab
The California Department of Public Health is warning consumers not to eat commercially or recreationally caught anchovies or sardines or the internal organs of crab from Monterey and Santa Cruz counties. Dangerous levels of domoic acid have been found in some of these species and could be found in other species.
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Swim to Sea? These Salmon Are Catching a Lift
California’s drought has left rivers too shallow for salmon, so the government is trucking and barging them to the sea in the hope they will return.
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