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Tragic Find Made in Search for Missing Teens

SUV fell hundreds of feet off cliff

(Newser) - The search for a teenage California couple missing for almost a week came to a tragic end Tuesday when two bodies were found in an SUV that had plunged hundreds of feet off a winding mountain road. The mangled vehicle was spotted by a volunteer with a search and rescue...

Hot Days Ahead a &#39;Dangerous Time&#39; for California
California, Get Ready to Sweat
Jul 8, 2021 8:23 AM CDT

California, Get Ready to Sweat

Death Valley could hit 130 degrees over the weekend amid new heatwave

(Newser) - California, already facing drought, wildfires, and high temperatures, is now in for a new, potentially record-setting heatwave. Temperatures in inland regions will climb into the triple digits into the weekend, with possible highs of 120 degrees Fahrenheit in some areas, per the Guardian and Los Angeles Times . The National Weather...

Condo Collapse Puts Spotlight on SF's Leaning Tower

Engineer says building is safe amid repairs

(Newser) - The deadly collapse of the condo building in Surfside, Fla., has some fearing a similar disaster in San Francisco, where the tilting 58-story Millennium Tower is still without a fix. The city's tallest residential building has sunk 18 inches and leaned several inches, prompting cracks in the foundation and...

Couple Fined $18K for Removing 36 Plants From Their Property
Couple Fined $18K for Pulling
36 Plants From Their Property
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Jul 4, 2021 11:30 AM CDT

Couple Fined $18K for Pulling 36 Plants From Their Property

Joshua trees are illegal to uproot in California

(Newser) - A California couple looking to build a home on a plot of land they own uprooted 36 Joshua trees to make room for it—and ended up fined $18,000 as a result. Joshua trees, which are not actually trees but succulents technically named Yucca brevifolia, are imperiled, their numbers...

Things Get Worse for Team After Tortilla-Throwing Incident

Calif. high school basketball players lose regional title over incident

(Newser) - A California high school basketball team embroiled in controversy after an incident involving a rival team has had its regional title yanked away. Coronado High School's head basketball coach, JD Laaperi, had already been fired after Coronado supporters at a June 19 championship game threw tortillas at the team...

California to Vote on Newsom Recall
California
Schedules
Recall Vote
Jul 1, 2021 5:45 PM CDT

California Schedules Recall Vote

Sept. 14 election will decide whether governor finishes his term

(Newser) - More than a year after a campaign to oust Gov. Gavin Newsom began, California on Thursday announced that the recall vote will be held Sept. 14. The rules gave Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, who set the date, only limited options, Politico reports. The announcement came just after state elections boss...

Video Captures Los Angeles Fireworks Explosion

At least 16 people injured, 3 seriously

(Newser) - A cache of illegal fireworks seized at a South Los Angeles home exploded Wednesday evening, damaging nearby homes and cars and injuring at least 16 people, three of them seriously, authorities said. Police had called in a bomb squad after a tip led them to seize some 5,000 pounds...

California Bans State Travel to 5 More States

Restrictions do not apply to personal travel

(Newser) - California has added five more states to its state-funded travel ban list, for a total of 17 since the state started the practice in 2017 . Arkansas, Florida, Montana, North Dakota, and West Virginia are now on the list thanks to what California Attorney General Rob Bonta referred to Monday as...

3 Young Siblings Found Dead, Mother Detained

California case is gut-wrenching

(Newser) - Authorities are investigating three young children's deaths in Southern California as suspicious and their mother was detained for questioning on Monday, the AP reports. The children, two boys and a girl who are all under 3 years old, were found inside a bedroom in their East Los Angeles home...

Cops: Man Shot Bear Who Broke Into Home

California man won't face charges

(Newser) - A California man will not face criminal charges for shooting a hairy intruder who allegedly attacked him inside his home, police say. The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office says a man in Meyers told them Thursday night that he had shot a bear who broke into his home and...

'Eyesore' Flintstones Home Gets a Reprieve

Owner Florence Fang gets to keep her Stone Age-style decor, plus $125K to cover legal costs

(Newser) - Florence Fang calls her house "the past and the future combined together in harmony." The town of Hillsborough, Calif., calls it a "highly visible eyesore." But it's an eyesore that's going to stay, per a settlement the two parties have reached over the residence...

Cops: Marilyn Manson to Turn Himself In on Assault Charges

Rocker is accused of spitting on, hurling snot at videographer filming 2019 concert in NH

(Newser) - For more than a year and a half, an arrest warrant has been out for Marilyn Manson on the East Coast. Now, the rocker says he's going to turn himself in. Anthony Bean Burpee, the police chief of Gilford, NH, said in a Friday statement that Manson (real name...

Escaped Cows Stampede Through California Town

Local ranchers grabbed their lassos and headed to the scene

(Newser) - Forty cows made a break for freedom and stampeded through a California neighborhood after a slaughterhouse gate was left open. Video shows the cows running through streets in Pico Rivera, around 11 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Police say they shot and killed one of the animals after it charged...

After 'Reprehensible' Act at High School Game, a Firing

Head basketball coach at Calif. school is out of a job over tortilla incident

(Newser) - A San Diego-area school district voted Tuesday night to fire the head basketball coach after tortillas were hurled at a team from a mostly Latino high school, per the AP . The school board for the Coronado Unified School District voted 5-0 in a closed session to release JD Laaperi of...

Drought Brings 'Earthy' Taste to California Water

Sacramento suggests adding lemon

(Newser) - Some people like their wines to have earthy notes. Their drinking water, not so much. With much of California in extreme drought, Sacramento residents have been complaining that their water smells strange and tastes like dirt, CBS Sacramento reports. Authorities say it is the result of harmless organic compounds found...

Ruling That Compared AR-15s to Knives Is Blocked

Appeals court issues stay temporarily blocking judge's ruling in California

(Newser) - A controversial ruling overturning California's assault weapons ban has now been blocked. The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday issued a stay of the order that was issued earlier this month, CNN reports. In issuing his order overturning the three-decades-old ban, US District Judge Roger Benitez had...

Cops Solve Mystery of 21 Tons of Missing Nuts

Trucker allegedly pilfered 42K pounds of pistachios in California

(Newser) - The Touchstone Pistachio company of California reached out to police with an unusual plea: Somebody stole our nuts. Like, a lot of nuts. An audit turned up 42,000 pounds of missing pistachios, reports the Sacramento Bee . Detectives with the Tulare County Sheriff's Office have since arrested a California...

Wildlife Officials Seek Info on 'Atrocious Act' Against Pelicans

Authorities say dozens of seabirds are being intentionally injured in Southern California

(Newser) - "WHO'S MUTILATING PELICANS?" That was the all-caps question posed last week by Orange County's Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center after dozens of brown pelicans turned up along the Southern California coastline with serious injuries that appear to have been intentionally caused by a human. In a Facebook...

FBI Hunting 2 Who Apparently Vanished After Cloud of &#39;Mist&#39;
FBI Hunting 2 Who Apparently
Vanished After Cloud of 'Mist'
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Jun 20, 2021 5:44 PM CDT

FBI Hunting 2 Who Apparently Vanished After Cloud of 'Mist'

Amber Aiaz, daughter Melissa Fu may have been kidnapped in 2019 in Irvine, California

(Newser) - When Cheng Zhang finally went to police a week after he said his wife and stepdaughter had been kidnapped, he told a bizarre story about being knocked out with a type of mist at his apartment door, then waking up to find blood on his carpet. The 42-year-old Uber driver...

Mystery Plane Wreckage Is Actually From Another Decades-Old Crash

Folsom Lake wreckage is from 1986 crash, not 1965

(Newser) - The plane that crashed into California's Folsom Lake in 1965 is still missing. Workers testing sonar technology recently discovered a plane at the bottom of the lake, which is near Sacramento, and thought the 56-year-old wreck had finally been located . But it turns out it's actually a 35-year-old...

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