The Richmond City Council has reached the Outer Limits, or at least, the Twilight Zone. The council voted 5-2 on May 19 to endorse a resolution banning space-based weapons “to ensure that individuals will not be targets of space-based weapons.”
“My love is real,” Kenyan attorney Felix Kiprono Matagei tells Kenyan news outlet The Nairobian, in an interview in which he explains his plan to request Malia Obama’s hand in marriage from her father when the President visits Kenya in July. Kiprono is offering 50 cows, 70 sheep and 30 goats as “bride price,” and vows to woo the elder Obama daughter with traditional sour milk.
LOS ANGELES — Adult film performers in California could soon be required to wear condoms and goggles to prevent exposure to bodily fluids, and producers would have to pay for medical visits and Hepatitis B treatments, under a new set of safety procedures recently released by the state Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board (Cal/OSHA).
Sacramento commuters got an unexpected and unwelcome surprise during their Memorial Day weekend when a major commuter highway was shut down for nearly half an hour as several cars decided to put on a “sideshow.”
Thirty-one Californians have been struck with Salmonella, making it 53 total infections between nine states, most likely stemming from sushi consumption.
A Milwaukee man who was found unresponsive in his home last week was pronounced dead on site but shocked everyone by moving his arms and legs, authorities said.
A Moscow psychiatric hospital has been fined for showing child patients the 1991 horror-thriller The Silence of the Lambs.
Nudity continues at the University of California San Diego, as alumna Anni Ma announced plans to “free” her breasts and led over 100 participants, male and female, in a “Free the Nipple” protest Wednesday. (Photo: File)
Federal prosecutors have filed charges against two Manhattan-based DEA agents claiming that the pair secretly owned a strip club and that they hired illegal aliens as exotic dancers and sex workers.
A war of words has escalated between proponents and opponents of the highly contentious SB 277 bill in the California legislature, which would eliminate parental choice in vaccinations required to enroll children in public or private schools.
Sumo wrestling is an over 2,000-year old, traditionally male, Japanese sport…until now. A Mexican-American woman from Sacramento has defied that tradition and made sumo wrestling her sport, too, joining the ranks of a small but growing number of female enthusiasts
“I need your help, otherwise I don’t have a shot,” all 40 pounds of dying actress Rachel Farrokh’s 5’7″ frame pleaded as she feebly sat slumped on a couch and peered into the camera lens.
“It’s exciting. It’s related to another bat strain. It’s similar but unique, so the question is what’s the reservoir for this strain,” state public health veterinarian Paul Ettestad said.
And so, a new genre of music was born.
A light bulb flashed in Darcel Jackson’s head one night, while lying in bed in a homeless shelter in San Francisco, that the greatest thing he could do for homeless people would be to connect them to the internet.
A jury in Michigan on Monday found a 61-year-old woman guilty of killing and dismembering her adult son, rejecting her testimony that a masked armed man killed him and kept her hostage for five days.
A man who shot at George Zimmerman during a confrontation earlier this week along a busy central Florida road has been arrested.
The Amtrak train that derailed along the nation’s busiest tracks may have been struck by an object in the moments before it crashed, investigators said Friday, raising new questions about the deadly accident.
Michael Enright is one of the several hundred Westerners who have traveled to Iraq and Syria to join Kurdish combat units and fight the Islamic State. He’s an unusual volunteer in several respects: he’s 51 years old, the first time he handled a gun was at a shooting range right before he left for Syria, and he is almost certainly the only YPG fighter who has appeared in movies with Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp.
A loophole in a 1975 city of Sacramento ordinance prohibits nudity in parks, waterways, playgrounds and beaches, but allows for public nudity on the sidewalks and streets.
They may not be living the lavish life of famed Disney felines The Aristocats, but a colony of approximately 40 kitties, who were likely abandoned by their owners, have made a jetty in San Diego’s Ocean Beach their home.
Sticky, black gobs of tar goo are washing up on southern California beaches–but before climate change activists sound the alarm, experts are saying the phenomenon is completely natural.
The Pacific Justice institute warned parents of children in California schools that new legislation progressing through the California State Assembly will force schools to put a positive spin on the HIV and AIDS epidemics.
Little baby Grayson can’t leave Mexico for home after an overnight legal change in Tabasco, Mexico left him with no birth certificate and no way for his parents to bring their new child back over the border for weeks after his birth.
“I am not remorseful,” 30-year-old Thomas Miguel Guerra told a San Diego Judge as he faced conviction and a six-month sentence for knowingly infecting another man with HIV.
