Love mushrooms? Then read this news carefully. An otherwise innocuous variety of mushroom has turned toxic, and spreading fast. Aptly named ‘Death Cap’, this variety is now on every continent except Antarctica. This fungus is spreading rapidly across the globe and it looks and smells a lot like a number of edible species of mushroom. A little amount of ‘Death ... Read More »
$10 minimum wage bill has been approved in California. The bill would increase the state’s minimum wage from $8 an hour to $10 an hour by 2016. Gov. Jerry Brown has confirmed that he would sign it. A bill that would boost California’s minimum wage to $10 an hour by 2016 won approval by the state Legislature on Thursday and ... Read More »
Teacher student’s baby - What has this world come to? A California teacher has been arrested and is accused of having a 16-year-old student’s baby. She was arrested two weeks after she gave birth to a baby that was allegedly fathered by a student. Laura Elizabeth Whitehurst, 28, was arrested Monday night for allegedly having unlawful sex with a 16-year-old, Redlands ... Read More »
20,000 students sue - Approximately 20,000 students in California need a better understanding of the English language. Unfortunately, the students aren’t getting the proper language education that they need and desire. This according to a lawsuit against the state and education workers filed Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Denver Post reported on April 24. Based on state ... Read More »
A race car has killed two in a California race track. The crash has killed a race car owner and the young cousin of the race car driver. The teenage driver’s car careened off the track before it struck the two. Dale Wondergem Jr., 68, and Marcus Johnson, 14, were in the pit area when they were hit about 6 ... Read More »
A man in California has been arrested for alleged Visine poisoning. His girlfriend in recovering in hospital after he allegedly put Visine eye drops in her drink. A 27-year-old mechanic, Shayne Carpenter has been arrested by the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office in Grass Valley, California and booked under the charges of poisoning and domestic violence. What the police say is ... Read More »
Jeff Dunham, the superstar ventriloquist, is now a married man. The comedian wed fitness model and trainer Audrey Murdick at the Sunstone Vineyards & Winery in Santa Ynez, California on Friday. “TA DAAAA! @audreymurdick and I are now married and I’m the luckiest guy on the planet!” tweeted Dunham, whose occasionally controversial and wildly successful ventriloquism act has made him ... Read More »
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