Thom Feeney, a 29-year-old London shoe shop worker, has raised almost a million dollars in an effort to help Greece pay off its debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). As of the time of this writing, Feeney had raised nearly $970,000 through an IndieGoGo campaign.
Human remains removed from a hollow wall of an apartment in California on Thursday are believed to belong to a woman who vanished in 2009. An anonymous tip led detectives to the Harbor Hills Housing Project in Lomita where Raven Campbell, 32 at the time, once lived.
One man stabbed another after arguing over recyclables Thursday night in San Diego, police told reporters.
Relentless animal rights activists attempted to make waves at San Diego airport’s baggage claim with two orca-suited protesters on Thursday, but few passers-by seemed to notice their antics as law enforcement officers pulled them off the conveyer.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Airport reportedly lost their cool when a JetBlue passenger sent his pet cat through the x-ray machine on Wednesday, after stowing his furry feline in his checked bag.
The FBI is investigating a string of attacks on Internet cables in the San Francisco Bay Area and causing massive outages, with the most recent act of vandalism taking place on Tuesday.
Residents of Los Angeles County’s affluent Hollywood Hills are furious after witnessing renters of a $40-per-night Airbnb campsite listing, located on an empty dirt lot among million-dollar homes, engage in public displays of sex. Many local families have small children.
On Wednesday, in a scene right out of The Thrill of It All, a 40-ish man drove his car into a swimming pool in Camarillo, California. Capt. Mike Lindbery of the Ventura County Fire Department said the accident occurred at 7:52 p.m.
When Jacky Alcine looked at his Google Photos app recently, he was appalled by what he saw. The facial recognition software had tagged pictures of him and a friend, both of them African-Americans, with the word “Gorillas.”
The same day that California Governor Jerry Brown signed childhood vaccine bill SB 277 into law, two-time Golden Globe Award winning comedic actor Jim Carrey took to Twitter blasting the governor for not killing the bill that makes California among three states with the strictest vaccine laws in the country.
Glastonbury music festival is a fossil-fuel guzzling, water-course polluting, white-privilege jamboree without parallel anywhere else in the world. So why is the political left so in love with it? The irony of celebrating your green credentials by completely trashing a pleasant corner
Several U.S. Army recruits who also happen to be fans of the rap group Insane Clown Posse are suing the Federal Bureau of Investigations over the classification of the “Juggalo” fan base as a “hybrid gang.”
LOS ANGELES, California — Hundreds of cyclists took to the streets of Downtown Los Angeles bearing it all on Saturday for the “World Naked Bike Ride.
An unmanned SpaceX rocket carrying supplies and a first-of-its-kind docking port to the International Space Station broke apart Sunday shortly after liftoff. It was a severe blow to NASA, still reeling from previous failed shipments.
And the winner is Quasi Modo! The World’s ugliest dog.
“Live under the stars in the great outdoors of Silicon Valley for a mere $900 a month.” A Mountain View, California man is renting out a tent in his backyard.
A wooden relic that is thought by some to be the Holy Grail has been found by police almost a year after it was stolen.
(AFP) — A giant gorilla with brooding good looks and rippling muscles is causing a stir at a Japanese zoo, with women flocking to check out the hunky pin-up.
Chinese media reports that the government confiscated over 100,000 tons of meat, including one batch dating all the way back to the 1970s. Arrests and seizures were made in 14 provinces and regions across the country, and members of at least a dozen gangs of smugglers were involved.
Timothy Brownell, 25, who is accused of accosting three Sacramento-area musicians wearing skinny jeans and stabbing them with his knife while screaming homophobic slurs on Sunday, turned himself in to police Tuesday night.
Japan has finally lifted a 67-year-old ban on dancing in bars and clubs after midnight. The now-nullified law prohibited dancing in public spaces, unless the venue had a license. Even then, bars and clubs had to stop dancing at midnight.
A Venezuelan veterinarian has been arrested in Spain after remaining fugitive for years. The man, identified only as 33-year-old Andrés L.E., is charged with implanting packets of liquid heroin in puppies traveling from Colombia to the United States to be sold as pets, in order to smuggle the drug into America.
On Monday, a judge from Sacramento County ruled that a proposed ballot measure called the “Sodomite Suppression Act,” which called for the execution of gays and lesbians throughout the state, was unconstitutional. Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Raymond M. Cadei’s decision means that the measure cannot advance to the signature-gathering phase, thus barring it from being placed on the ballot.
While the latest media-driven culture-war frenzy leaves America doubled over in agony about the Confederate battle flag, the path of tolerance and historical memory is much easier in the Brazilian town of Santa Barbara D’Oeste, where regular events bring together descendants of some ten thousand Confederates, seven generations removed, for what the BBC describes as “a sort of family reunion.”
BUCHAREST, June 24 (Reuters) – Romania’s anti-graft prosecutors (DNA) launched a criminal inquiry on Wednesday into a close ally of leftist Prime Minister Victor Ponta on suspicion of trying to bribe voters with frying pans. Sebastian Ghita, a lawmaker from
