Internet Mocks School Board's Apparent Attempt To Censor History
Parodying a conservative school board's attempt to focus on "patriotic" history subjects, Twitter users came up with their own spin on different events.
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Parodying a conservative school board's attempt to focus on "patriotic" history subjects, Twitter users came up with their own spin on different events.
The nation's largest marijuana policy advocacy group said it will begin raising funds for a ballot measure in 2016 to legalize recreational marijuana use in California.
More than 7,000 firefighters in better-than-expected conditions managed to extend their lines around a huge and unwieldy wildfire that has threatened thousands of homes for well over a week and fouled the air in two states.
Authorities say a California woman and her husband have been arrested in the death of a neighbor who was fatally stabbed in her driveway last week during an argument over pets.
New GPS collars are intended to help park rangers remain smarter than the average bear.
Fire crews increased containment to 35 percent after several days of more favorable weather but with drier air and increasing winds in the forecast, reinforcements were brought in pushing the number of firefighters on the scene to 7,400.
Authorities say 29-year-old Nathan Salas of Merced, California, met the girl online and flew her on a US Airways flight from New Haven to Sacramento International Airport, where he was arrested.
The U.S. Air Force has test-launched an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile from California.
The study released by the online edition of the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences does not question global warming, but argues there is evidence that in at least one place, local winds are a more important factor explaining ocean warming than greenhouse gases.
A new study released Monday found that warming temperatures in Pacific Ocean waters off the coast of North America over the past century closely followed natural changes in the wind, not increases in greenhouse gases related to global warming.
Light rain and cooler temperatures helped firefighters makes advances Sunday against a huge Northern California wildfire that has destroyed nearly three-dozen structures.
Crews are working to clear two roads on Northern California's Mt. Shasta after a glacier melted or shifted, sending mud and debris down the mountain.
A fifth man who escaped a Central California correctional facility has been captured, authorities said Sunday.
Federal forecasters say severe drought or worse will continue into next year across much of the West, including parts of western Utah, most of Nevada and practically all of California.
Nearly three-dozen structures were destroyed in a massive Northern California wildfire that continues to spread more than a week after it started, officials said Sunday.
