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California About to Have
More Latinos Than Whites

Feb 1, 2013 7:00 AM CST

California About to Have More Latinos Than Whites

They should reach parity by the middle of this year

(Newser) - By this time next year, white people will be a minority in California. According to new demographic information released yesterday by the state's Department of Finance, Latinos will catch up to whites by the middle of this year, with each representing roughly 39% of the population. By next year,...

Calif. Too Broke to Disarm Felons, Mentally Ill

California Too Broke to
Disarm Felons, Mentally Ill

Jan 30, 2013 3:45 AM CST

California Too Broke to Disarm Felons, Mentally Ill

State has backlog of 19K gun owners to disarm

(Newser) - People afraid the government will take their guns away might want to consider a move to California, where the state is too broke to take guns away from felons and other people it is supposed to disarm. Law enforcement officials say budget cuts have left authorities with a backlog of...

LA Diocese
Covered Up
Sex Abuse
for Decades

30K-PAGE SETTLEMENT

Jan 22, 2013 7:42 AM CST

LA Diocese Covered Up Sex Abuse for Decades

Court documents reveal decades of secrecy

(Newser) - The Archdiocese of Los Angeles went to great lengths to cover up decades of child abuse among its priests, and details are emerging in extensive confidential records. Despite Cardinal Roger Mahony's private concerns about the problem, he avoided making it public and sometimes took years to defrock priests involved....

Epic Cold Snap Hits So-Cal

Jan 11, 2013 3:45 PM CST

Epic Cold Snap Hits So-Cal

Orange County, San Diego freezing, and flooding could be next

(Newser) - California was going from cold to colder today, as a chill expected to bring the biggest mercury dips in years descended on much of the state. The Grapevine section of Interstate 5, the key artery linking southern and northern California, was shut down last night, thanks to a heavy snowfall...

RIP Mr. Teeth:
Pot-Guarding
Reptile Meets
His End

Jan 11, 2013 10:43 AM CST

RIP Mr. Teeth: Pot-Guarding Reptile Meets His End

He was a caiman, and a tribute to Tupac

(Newser) - Authorities in Northern California made an unusual discovery during a routine probation check: An alligator-like reptile named "Mr. Teeth," who was apparently protecting a stash of marijuana. When Alameda County Sheriff's deputies entered the Castro Valley home on Tuesday, they not only found 34 pounds of marijuana...

Student Shot at High School in California

Student Shot Inside
California High School

UPDATED

Jan 10, 2013 2:56 PM CST

Student Shot Inside California High School

Teacher, supervisor talked student into dropping shotgun

(Newser) - A 16-year-old student armed with a shotgun walked into class in a rural California high school this morning and shot one student, fired at another but missed, and then was talked into surrendering by a teacher and another staff member, officials said. The teen victim was in critical but stable...

California Rape Law Only
for Married Women: Court

California Rape Law Only for Married Women: Court

If attacker impersonates boyfriend, it's not rape: ruling

(Newser) - If an attacker has sex with a California woman by pretending to be her husband, that's rape. But if she's not married and he's impersonating her boyfriend, it's a different story, according to a state appeals court. Judges unanimously overturned the conviction of Julio Morales, who...

2 Killed at
Sacramento
NYE Celebration

Jan 1, 2013 5:22 AM CST

2 Killed at Sacramento NYE Celebration

Fireworks canceled after gunman also wounds 3

(Newser) - Sacramento pulled the plug on a New Year's Eve midnight fireworks show after five people were shot, at least two of them fatally. Tens of thousands of people had gathered in the Old Sacramento district for an earlier fireworks display when shots rang out near a bar, CBS reports....

Homeless Woman
Set on Fire in LA

Dec 28, 2012 9:38 AM CST

Homeless Woman Set on Fire in LA

Police say no motive for the brutal attack

(Newser) - Flo Parker, aka Violet, had long been a regular presence on Los Angeles' Van Nuys Boulevard. The small, 67-year-old homeless woman used exact change to buy her regular pack of smokes at a gas station in the morning. She recycled cans rather than beg. She went to Central Lutheran Church...

Court Lets
'Gay Conversion'
Therapy Continue,
for Now

Dec 22, 2012 12:07 PM CST

Court Lets 'Gay Conversion' Therapy Continue, for Now

California law prohibiting it for minors won't take effect next month

(Newser) - Advocates of a practice to "cure" gay teens of their homosexuality through therapy won a court fight in California yesterday. A federal appeals court ruled that such "gay conversion" therapies can continue until the constitutionality of a state law blocking the practice is decided, reports the San Francisco ...

Marijuana Basically
Already Legal
in California

Dec 21, 2012 11:30 AM CST

Marijuana Basically Already Legal in California

Shift in attitudes 'shocking,' says lieutenant governor

(Newser) - Pot may not technically be legal in California, but the stigma against it is already long gone in the state, reports the New York Times . With medical marijuana legal since 1996 and even former a Republican governor—Arnold Schwarzenegger, of course—having decriminalized possession of small amounts of the drug,...

LA Man Threatens
Copycat Shooting

say police

Dec 17, 2012 1:29 PM CST

LA Man Threatens Copycat Shooting

Kyle Bangayan, 24, has since been arrested

(Newser) - A Los Angeles-area 24-year-old was arrested yesterday after allegedly making a Facebook threat to kill young school children. Kyle Bangayan was arrested at his parents' home, a search of which turned up nine guns, all seized by police, the Los Angeles Times reports. Police found "no related evidence" at...

6.3 Quake Strikes
Off California Coast

Dec 14, 2012 8:05 AM CST

6.3 Quake Strikes Off California Coast

No tsunami warning issued

(Newser) - A large earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California and Mexico this morning, according to the US Geological Survey . The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3, was recorded at 2:36am local time, 163 miles south southwest of the California city of Avalon....

Judge: Victims'
Bodies Can
Prevent Rape

Dec 14, 2012 5:00 AM CST

Judge: Victims' Bodies Can Prevent Rape

Todd Akin all over again?

(Newser) - A Southern California judge is being publicly admonished for saying a rape victim "didn't put up a fight" during her assault and that if someone doesn't want sexual intercourse, the body "will not permit that to happen." Superior Court Judge Derek Johnson, a former prosecutor...

Jerry Brown
Has Prostate
Cancer

Dec 12, 2012 7:12 PM CST

Jerry Brown Has Prostate Cancer

California governor being treated after early-stage diagnosis

(Newser) - California Gov. Jerry Brown is being treated with radiation for early-stage prostate cancer, his office announced today. The 74-year-old Brown is receiving a short course of conventional radiotherapy for "localized prostate cancer," the statement said. Brown's "prognosis is excellent, and there are not expected to be...

5 Dead in California Indian Reservation Shooting

Dec 10, 2012 1:58 AM CST

5 Dead in California Indian Reservation Shooting

Suspect Hector Celaya shot after killing 4 relatives

(Newser) - The church bell that rings to announce the deaths of tribal members at California's Tule River Indian Reservation tolled repeatedly yesterday after a man killed his daughter, his mother, and her two brothers. Authorities said the suspect, 31-year-old Hector Celaya, died in a shootout with police when he was...

Kidnapped Handyman Is
Forced to Fix House: Cops

Kidnapped Handyman Is Forced to Fix House: Cops

He escapes, and couple is charged

(Newser) - And the crime-blotter gem of the day goes to San Jose, where police have charged a couple with kidnapping a handyman to fix stuff around their house, reports KGO via Gawker . Police say the couple beat up the man when he arrived and threatened him with more if he didn'...

Supreme Court
Will Rule on
Gay Marriage

Dec 7, 2012 2:31 PM CST

Supreme Court Will Rule on Gay Marriage

Justices to hear cases on California's Prop 8 and DOMA

(Newser) - The Supreme Court will take up California's ban on same-sex marriage, a case that could give the justices the chance to rule on whether gay Americans have the same constitutional right to marry as heterosexuals. The justices said today they will review a federal appeals court ruling that struck...

20-Ton Whale
Carcass Rotting
on Malibu Beach

Dec 7, 2012 9:25 AM CST

20-Ton Whale Carcass Rotting on Malibu Beach

Officials not sure what to do, as whale carcass too weak to move

(Newser) - There's something rotten on one of the most exclusive beaches in Malibu—and it looks a lot like a 40,000-pound, 40-foot-long fin whale carcass. The remains are decaying close to homes owned by Barbra Streisand and Bob Dylan, and officials are at a loss about what to do,...

Judges Disagree on
Calif. 'Gay Cure' Ban

Dec 5, 2012 1:20 PM CST

Judges Disagree on Calif. 'Gay Cure' Ban

Higher court will likely have to get involved: expert

(Newser) - Less than 24 hours after a federal judge blocked California's new ban on "gay cures," a second federal judge in a separate case declined to interfere with the law. Both cases involve therapists who want the law banning gay-to-straight "conversion therapy" overturned. The second judge's...