Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Sunday, April 7, 2024
BBC: Ibiza locals living in cars as party island sees rents soar
BBC: 'It's open season': Aboriginal deaths in custody haunt Australia
BBC: Hardest Geezer Russ Cook runs the entire length of Africa
The Oregonian: Oregon coastal police chief sentenced to jail over removal of meth, money from evidence locker
LA Times: L.A. tests program to send unarmed civilians instead of cops to people in crisis
LA Times: An old rail track in Northern California could become a 300-mile hiking trail
LA Times: Beverly Hills scammer pleads guilty to $18-million cannabis con
LA Times: After years on the run, GirlsDoPorn boss faces ‘beginning of the end’ in San Diego
San Diego Union Tribune: Tulum airport opens to U.S. flights, helping tourists skip Cancún crowds
KTLA: California is giving up to $150,000 to help first-time homebuyers
Sacramento Bee: Watch crane drop a second home into Sacramento backyard, highlighting soaring ADU demand
Sacramento Bee: Rescuers find ‘exhausted’ horse trapped in muddy riverbed — and fly him back to owner
Sacramento Bee: Crazy video: Thief disguised as trash bag walks up to door, steals package in Sacramento
Sacramento Bee: Opinion: Two of California’s top rated-colleges face the same problem: Partiers are running amok
KCRA: Man found dead with gunshot wound in Stockton, marking 3 fatal shooting investigations in same day
KCRA: Man killed in Stockton after being shot while driving, police investigate
KRCR: One dead and one home destroyed in Shingletown structure fire, Thursday
Action News: Chico State saw record-breaking attendance at ‘Choose Chico’
KRCR: Feral "wolf-like" dogs run rampant in Shingletown, one dog killed by the pack
KRCR: Neighborhood police shut down honey oil lab inside Redding auto body shop
Chicago Tribune: Do they still make pinball machines? They do, in a huge new factory near O’Hare — with most selling to the 1 percent
East Bay Times: Live in a single-family home? This Bay Area company wants to give you $100,000 for the yard space you’re not using
East Bay Times: Two arrested in brazen trailer theft from Orinda’s Wilder Park
East Bay Times: California bill could expose what Title IX lawsuit calls ‘shocking’ gender inequities in how college athletes are paid
KRON: Bay Area city ranks as the healthiest city in America
SFGate: International leaders condemn Ecuador after police break into the Mexican Embassy in Quito
SFGate: Hordes of pelicans take over Southern California beach
SFGate: Michelin-rated restaurants clamor for wasabi from this Bay Area farm
SFGate: Terpenes: Groundbreaking study cracks one of pot's greatest mysteries
SF Chronicle: Dog attacks are soaring in California. I just became one of the statistics
Thursday, April 4, 2024
The Guardian: Robert F Kennedy campaign calls January 6 rioters ‘activists’ in email
The Guardian: ‘Everything is still moving’: shock and grief take hold in Taiwan
NY Times : A Rising Star of Italian Violin Making Is a 32-Year-Woman Old From South Korea
Courthouse News Service: San Francisco nonprofit asks federal judge to expedite proposed listing of endangered local fish
Courthouse News Service: Biden threatens change in US-Israel policy
Smithsonian Magazine: Six New York Inmates Successfully Sue to Watch the Total Solar Eclipse
SF Chronicle: Stanford University names new president after resignation of predecessor
Washington Post: How a steel ball protected Taiwan’s tallest skyscraper in an earthquake
The Guardian: Diabetes drug may slow progression of Parkinson’s, say researchers
AP News: Ford to delay production of new electric pickup and large SUV as US EV sales growth slows
The Guardian: Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016
Politico: US states are cutting off Chinese citizens and companies from land ownership
NY Times : ‘Carefluencers’ Are Helping Older Loved Ones, and Posting About It
AP News: Video: Cleanup begins at Los Angeles ‘trash house’
Politico: JK Rowling, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk are fuming over Scotland’s hate crime law. Here’s why.
BBC: Why this amateur scientist measured snowfall for 50 years
The Guardian: ‘I will never join the army’: ultra-Orthodox Jews vow to defy Israeli court orders
The Guardian: Amazon increased US plastic packaging despite global phase-out, report says
AP News: California schools forced to compete with fast food industry for workers after minimum wage hike
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