CA Transgenders Can Now Choose Sex on Death Certificate
By next month, California, ever-eager to push the envelope on social issues, will become the first state to let transgendered people list their changed identity on their death certificates.
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Obama at WH Dinner: Koran Teaches Us We Are One family
On Monday, Barack Obama, speaking at an Iftar dinner (the evening meal when Muslims end their daily Ramadan fast at sunset), he hosted at the White House, intoned to his audience, “The Koran teaches us that God’s children tread gently on the earth … We affirm that whatever our faith, we are one family.”
Charlie’s Hustle: Report Says Pete Rose Bet on Baseball While Playing
Despite Pete Rose’s protests that he never bet on baseball as a player, ESPN’s Outside the Lines acquired copies of documents suggesting that Rose did just that between March and July 1986, his last season on the field.
H.S. Coach Arrested for Child Porn after Leaving iPad in Rental Car
On Friday, a high school track-and-field coach at Trabuco Hills High School in Mission Viejo was arrested in Laguna Niguel on suspicion of possession of child pornography, according to the Contra Costa Times. Raymond William Henry, 57, who rented a car, allegedly left what appeared to be his iPad in the car when he returned it, prompting the person who discovered the pictures of naked girls ages 11-13 to contact police on Thursday.
CA Awaits SCOTUS Gay Marriage Ruling, Not Affected by Obamacare Decision
Two imminent Supreme Court decisions will be rendered in June, one that will affect some Californians significantly and another that is expected to affect at least 34 states, but not California. The Court’s decision in Obergefell vs. Hodges, which will decide if same-sex marriage must be legalized in all fifty states, will affect gay couples in California, including Placentia residents Matthew Mansell and John “Johno” Espejo, who live with their two adopted children and joined the case as two of the 30 plaintiffs.
Suspect in Slaying of New Orleans Police Officer Caught
A man who somehow allegedly got hold of a gun while handcuffed in a police car and killed the officer transporting him was arrested on Sunday in New Orleans.
Father-Son Combo: Perfect Attendance at School
One Orange County father-and-son combination owns what may be the record for a family’s perfect attendance at school over two generations. Rancho Alamitos High starting catcher Josh Rodney, who just graduated, never missed a day of school in his entire life–the same amazing accomplishment as his father, Tom, according to the Orange County Register.
Jerry Brown Endorses Pope’s Climate Change Encyclical
Governor Jerry Brown, who issued an executive order in April forcing the state to cut green house gas emissions to 40% under 1990 levels by 2030, released a statement Thursday endorsing Pope Francis’s encyclical on climate change.
Dolezal 2012 Video: Get ‘Older White Men’ off Currency
Three years before the Obama Administration cynically decided to remove Alexander Hamilton from the $10 bill and replace him with a woman, the Washington Post reported that Rachel Dolezal posted a video in which she ranted about the “older white
Three Strikes: Cardinals Admit Hacking Astros as Far Back as 2012
It looks like three strikes and you’re out for the St. Louis Cardinals. The franchise admitted that a third, earlier hack of Houston Astros proprietary information in 2012 preceded the 2013 and 2014 hacks already known to the public.
Trash Overflowing National Mall
Either the National Park Service is lazy, understaffed, or the number of people who visit the National Mall has increased exponentially, because the Mall’s trash bins are overflowing with garbage.
Pope Francis Quotes Islamic Poet to Push Climate Change
Pope Francis I’s controversial climate change encyclical, which embodies redistributionist economic philosophy in the guise of environmentalism, and wraps all of that up in an eggshell-thin Biblical reinterpretation, doesn’t merely draw from secularist philosophy and environmentalist truisms: it draws from Muslim poet Ali al-Khawas.
Dylann Storm Roof Spoke of Starting Civil War, Used Synthetic Drugs
Dylann Storm Roof, 21, who slaughtered nine people at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday night, was an alleged drug user of the synthetic drug Suboxone, as well as Xanax, cocaine, LSD, and methamphetamine, according to police records. He also admitted to friends that he wanted to start a civil war months before his violent rampage.
California AME Churches Express Grief–and Add Security
Members of black churches in California responding to the horrific attack on Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina Wednesday are expressing their grief, and noting that the attack recalled prior eras when racism was more widely accepted. Meanwhile, the LAPD upped its patrol around black churches, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Over 30 People Sickened at Northern California Water Park
So many people people visited the Antioch Water park on Thursday afternoon to escape the heat and the drought that when chemicals in the water went awry, over 30 people complained of sickness, prompting the arrival of emergency crews.
Garcetti’s Travel During Ezell Ford Commission Sparks Criticism
On Thursday, the Los Angeles Times took a swipe at Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, claiming that his exit to Washington D.C. on a trip largely revolving around a fund-raiser just as the Police Commission meeting was considering the police shooting
Marilyn Monroe House Razed Before Historic Commission Can Act
Marilyn Monroe fans mourned this week as a home in Valley Village where Monroe lived in 1944-45 was razed just before a city commission was to decide whether to make the home a historical landmark.
NBA Finals Post Highest Ratings Since Michael Jordan’s Last Championship
The television ratings of the 2015 NBA Finals skyrocketed past every other series played since the Michael Jordan-era.
Kirk Kerkorian Dies at 98
Kirk Kerkorian, an eighth-grade dropout who later became the richest person in Los Angeles, died at age 98 of age-related causes on Monday at his home in Beverly Hills, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Rachel Dolezal Claimed Christian Husband Forced Her to Make Sex Tape
According to the Daily Mail, Rachel Dolezal, the white woman and head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP who masqueraded as black until her parents outed her, claimed that her former husband, Kevin Moore, who is genuinely black, made her perform sex acts on camera.
CA Dems Use Budget to Reduce Oversight of High-Speed Rail
On Monday, Democrats in Sacramento, doing their best to aid Governor Jerry Brown’s troubled high-speed rail project, attempted to grease the way for the project’s success by relaxing oversight and reporting requirements.
California Republican Accidentally Votes for Democrats’ Budget
On Monday, California Assemblyman Scott Wilk (R-Santa Clarita) became the first member of the GOP to vote for the state budget in years–because he accidentally voted for it while he was dallying with Facebook, where he opposed it, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Report: Jealousy of Astros GM Inspired Computer Hack
The Justice Department allegedly knows not only the culprits in the hacking of Houston Astros computers, they know the motive, too.
Home Care Nurse Goes Psycho, Strips, Attacks Patient
Latulippe said police claim have no idea what precipitated the incident; the patient’s condition was not made public.
FL Couple Loses Kids to CPS Because 11-Yr-Old Played Basketball Home Alone
A Florida couple had their two boys, aged 11 and 4, removed from them because the eleven-year-old beat his parents home and was playing basketball alone in his yard.
