Dan Gainor CNS News November 21, 2011 Vandalism, violence, burning and shutting down the nation’s fifth busiest port weren’t enough for Occupy Oakland. On Friday, the General Assembly for the group voted unanimously for “a coordinated shutdown of ports on the entire West Coast on December 12.” According to a statement from Occupy Oakland, this [...]
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Occupy Oakland Calls For Shutdown Of ALL West Coast Ports
Posted: November 21, 2011 in Local OC/LA News, US NewsAre Aborted Fetus Cells Helping to Make Your Diet Pepsi Sweeter?
Posted: November 15, 2011 in Local OC/LA News, US NewsLaine Doss Miami New Times November 15, 2011 The Christian media is swarming with accusations that Senomyx, a San Diego-based research and development company, whose clients include food heavy-hitters Nestle, Campbell’s Soup, Kraft Foods, and PepsiCo, is conducting research with HEK293, originally derived from human embryonic kidney cells. These accusations began with an action alert [...]
Riverside, California To Charge Prisoners $142 Per Day Of Their Stay
Posted: November 11, 2011 in Local OC/LA News, US NewsJillian Berman Huff Post November 11, 2011 In one southern California county, prisoners will soon have to pay for the privilege of staying in jail. Riverside County, California will start charging prisoners $142.42 per day of their prison stay, CNN Money reports. The county’s board of supervisors approved the measure on Tuesday as a way [...]
Marine was beaten to death by fellow Marine in Camp Pendleton
Posted: November 9, 2011 in Local OC/LA News, US NewsMark Walker North County Times November 9, 2011 A Marine found dead in his barracks room at Camp Pendleton early Sunday was beaten to death, a spokesman for the investigating agency said Tuesday. Ed Buice of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service said Lance Cpl. Mario Arias Jr. died from injuries he suffered at the hands [...]
Peaceful Occupy protests degenerate into chaos
Posted: November 3, 2011 in Local OC/LA News, US NewsTERENCE CHEA, LISA LEFF and TERRY COLLINS Associated Press November 3, 2011 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – A day of demonstrations in Oakland that began as a significant step toward expanding the political and economic influence of the Occupy Wall Street movement, ended with police in riot gear arresting dozens of protesters who had marched through [...]
Calif. Governor Veto Allows Warrantless Cellphone Searches
Posted: October 10, 2011 in Local OC/LA News, US NewsDavid Kravets Wired October 10, 2011 California Gov. Jerry Brown is vetoing legislation requiring police to obtain a court warrant to search the mobile phones of suspects at the time of any arrest. The Sunday veto means that when police arrest anybody in the Golden State, they may search that person’s mobile phone — which [...]
VAUHINI VARA Wall Street Journal October 9, 2011 California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday finished signing the California Dream Act, under which California students who are undocumented immigrants will qualify for state-funded financial aid for college. The controversial bill is the highest-profile act to expand undocumented students’ access to higher education after a federal Dream [...]
Gov. Brown: Sign Bill Outlawing Warrantless Smartphone Searches
Posted: September 23, 2011 in Local OC/LA News, US NewsRyan Singel Wired September 23, 2011 ANALYSIS — There’s a bill sitting on the desk of California Governor Jerry Brown, which if signed would ban police from searching the mobile devices of people arrested for a crime. Instead, police would need to get a warrant from a judge to search a person’s smartphone or tablet, [...]
Is this a squadron of UFOs flying over California?
Posted: June 4, 2011 in Local OC/LA News, UnexplainedDavid Gardner Daily Mail June 4, 2011 The Internet is abuzz over an alleged UFO sighting in the night sky over Oakland, California. Three fast-moving dots of light can be seen travelling close together in a video posted on YouTube by a KevinMC360. The ‘UFO squadron’ shows the three lights in a triangular pattern spotted [...]
NBC LA June 4, 2011 The state of California could collect more than $1 billion a year by taxing Amazon and other online retailers if a bill approved by the Assembly becomes law. Assemblyman Charles Calderon, a Democrat from Whittier, says his legislation doesn’t impose a new sales tax, but extends one that California should [...]

