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San Quentin plans psychiatric hospital for death row inmates
Under court pressure to improve psychiatric care for deeply disturbed death row inmates, state officials are moving quickly to open a 40-bed hospital at San Quentin prison to house them. The court-appointed monitor of mental health care in California's prison system reported to judges Tuesday that about three dozen men on death row are so mentally ill that they require inpatient care, with 24-hour nursing.
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The Best Iced Latte in America?
If coffee were a religion, Charles Babinski and Kyle Glanville would be two of its high priests.
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California wildfire threatens 1,000 more homes near Sequoia National Park
A California wildfire that has already destroyed three structures and blackened some three square miles of forest land near Sequoia National Park was threatening 1,000 more homes
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Golden Gate bridge board unanimously approves $76m anti-suicide net
A tearful Dan Barks, who lost his son, Donovan, to suicide on the bridge in 2008, said after the vote that he was almost speechless. "A lot of people have done so much incredible work to get this accomplished," he said.He rose from his knees and shared a tearful embrace with Sue Story of Rocklin, whose son Jacob jumped off the bridge in 2010. "We did it, Dan! We did it! It's no longer the Bridge of Death anymore," she said.
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Bay Area officials approve suicide-prevention nets for Golden Gate Bridge
Bay Area officials approved a $76-million package Friday to fund suicide-prevention nets that will extend 20 feet on either side of the Golden Gate Bridge, handing a victory to advocates who have long pushed to hem in the 1.7-mile long span against suicidal jumpers.
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CAUGHT ON TAPE: Cop Punches Woman On Side Of Highway
A California Highway Patrol officer was caught on tape punching a woman on the side of a Los Angeles highway on Tuesday. The video posted on YouTube shows the cop pursuing the woman on foot past an I-10 on-ramp. Those recording it can be heard laughing at first.
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Taking Down Armenian Power, California's Modern Mafia
The whole thing started with a scene straight out of a mobster movie. It was around 6 p.m. when more than a dozen men from two organized crime groups opened fire on each other in a North Hollywood parking lot. Witnesses say nearly everyone was armed, and the shootout quickly went mobile. The men took off in cars, exchanging fire as they weaved through the Whitsett Avenue traffic.
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Pot 'farmers market' in Boyle Heights off to a roaring start
The line stretched hundreds of people long down an industrial stretch of Esperanza Street, as throngs of Angelenos endured the baking heat Saturday to get into a Boyle Heights warehouse.
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Sonoma deputy who shot, killed unarmed 13-year-old will not be charged
A Northern California sheriff's deputy who shot and killed an unarmed 13-year-old Santa Rosa boy will not face charges. Sonoma County Dist. Atty. Jill Ravitch said Monday that Deputy Erick Gelhaus shot Andy Lopez as a response to what "he honestly and reasonably believed was an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to himself or others."
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California Oil Spill Turns Out to Be a Freakishly Massive Amount of Fish
Earlier this week in La Jolla, California, what appeared to be a massive oil spill in the water began creeping towards the beach. However, closer inspection revealed that the inky cloud was not a batch of Exxon-Mobil's finest at all, but an enormous school of fish. Specifically, anchovies.
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The tech industry made the Bay Area rich. Why do so many residents hate it?
The tech industry made the Bay Area rich. So why do so many residents hate it? What’s going on in San Francisco has been called a “culture war,” and yet the values each side espouses can sound strikingly similar.
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Billionaire's breakup plan would chop California into six states
A long-shot effort to break California into six separate states got a boost on Monday, when the billionaire venture capitalist behind the proposal said he had gathered enough signatures to place it on the ballot in two years.
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California approves fines for wasting water during drought
Cities throughout California will have to impose mandatory restrictions on outdoor watering under an emergency state rule approved Tuesday.
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California teenager kills himself after video of him masturbating goes viral
A teenage boy from Southern California has committed suicide after a clip of him masturbating in a bathroom stall went viral, leading him to being “mercilessly bullied” at school, Sky News reports.
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GoPro: Santa Cruz Aerial Surf
Kyle Buthman and Austin Smith Ford link up to capture a POV and aerial shot of a local break in Santa Cruz, CA. Shot 100% on the HD HERO3+® camera from http://GoPro.com. Get stoked and subscribe: http://goo.gl/HgVXpQ Music Thriftworks "Swamp Gods"
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A California comeback for the bald eagle?
A mating pair of bald eagles is the first to be discovered on San Clemente Island since eagle restoration efforts began. The national symbol disappeared from California's Channel Islands in the 1960s.
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Los Angeles River: From Concrete Ditch to Urban Oasis
It's mostly treated wastewater. The rapids aren't much. But a $1 billion restoration offers hope for the river's future.
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'Professional scammers' refuse to leave Airbnb host's house
If the old saw about houseguests being like fish is true - after a few days they begin to stink - imagine what it must smell like in poor Cory Tschogl's 600-square-foot condo in Palm Springs, California. Tschogl entered into an agreement through the popular Internet site Airbnb to host a man and his brother for a 44-day period from May 25 through July 8. (Airbnb connects travelers looking for low-cost accommodations with locals who in turn rent them rooms in their homes.)
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L.A.'s Skid Row Through the Eyes of Pimps, Prostitutes, Dealers and Dope Fiends
The first night Australian filmmaker Shanks Rajendran visited Skid Row, he nearly got the crap beaten out of him. As he sat in his car at 5th and Maple, shooting through the windshield, a half-dozen or so pissed-off looking black men approached. "You can't be doing that here! You know that!" one shouted.
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California hit by raging wildfires
Two fast-moving wildfires in California are threatening homes and could result in the evacuation of hundreds of people, US officials say.
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