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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Seattle Times: Boeing paid out $418M in bonuses to WA employees last month

Courthouse News Service: Virginia governor puts kibosh on retail cannabis market, minimum-wage increase

Courthouse News Service: Imperial Beach residents seek solutions to Tijuana River sewage pollution

ABC News: More than half of water from Colorado River used for agriculture industry, report finds

East Bay Times: Dungeness crab season in Bay Area, Central Coast will come to an early end

SF Chronicle: Like many older people, Joe Lieberman died after a fall. It doesn’t have to be this way

SF Chronicle: A’s fans pack Coliseum parking lot for home opener, abstain from the game

The Guardian: Song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry and self-obsessed – study

The Guardian: Rural California county keeps ultra conservative official who pushed to upend voting system

Washington Post: More than one alcoholic drink a day raises heart disease risk for women

The Hill: Army Corps of Engineers to deploy 1,100 personnel to Baltimore

Smithsonian Magazine: How Baseball’s Official Historian Dug Up the Game’s Unknown Origins

Smithsonian Magazine: Bird Flu Confirmed in U.S. Dairy Cows for the First Time, but Milk Supply Is Unaffected, Officials Say

Politico: Palm Springs reparations talks could set national precedent

Politico: Why Portland failed where Portugal succeeded in decriminalizing drugs

Reuters: Chocolate prices to keep rising as West Africa’s cocoa crisis deepens

Reuters: A million solar eclipse enthusiasts expected at Niagara Falls

Washington Post: Qatari royal invested about $50 million in pro-Trump network Newsmax

Washington Post: Indoor farms are remaking the produce market — at a cost to the planet

NY Times: A Legal Pot Pioneer Was Busted in Idaho With 56 Pounds. He Has a Plan.

The Guardian: How a viral $22 burrito explains inflation in the US

The Guardian: The virus that infects almost everyone, and its link to cancer and MS – podcast

NPR: Can grief make us accident-prone? A writer learns how it destabilizes and remakes us

BBC: Why is Finland the happiest country in the world?

The Guardian: Amazon pours additional $2.75bn into AI startup Anthropic

The Oregonian: 3 wolverine sightings confirmed along the Oregon coast

NPR: Kickoffs will look radically different in the NFL next year. Here's how and why

The Oregonian: Uncertified ballistic gear sold to more than 100 police, fire, military agencies across U.S.

KCRA: South Lake Tahoe and Truckee ban common grocery store item

Sacramento Bee: Winter storm warning issued for Northern California storm system. Here’s when not to travel

The Guardian: ‘We’d like to shoot them all’: growing army of wolfdogs raises hackles across Europe

Sacramento Bee: Will killing 500,000 owls help similar species? Groups slam ‘reckless’ government plan

KPTV: 5.7 magnitude earthquake strikes 100 miles off Oregon coast, no tsunami expected

Sacramento Bee: This new Sacramento-area restaurant boasts over 100 arcade games. Here’s a sneak peek

Oregon Public Broadcasting: An Arizona lawmaker announced she was getting an abortion. Here’s what happened next

Oregon Public Broadcasting: ‘Salmon Wars’ bonus episode: LiaDonna Lopez Whitefoot

AP News: 4 people killed and 7 wounded in stabbings in northern Illinois, with a suspect in custody

LA Times: How much algebra do students need to succeed in college? UC stirs furious debate

KTLA: Police: Team of pickpockets targeted HomeGood shoppers

KTLA: iPhone flooded with notifications? Beware new hack trick

KTLA: 3 L.A. County residents sentenced for stealing over $2.5 million in Target gift cards

LA Times: tarvation has decimated gray whales off the Pacific Coast. Can the giants ever recover?

LA Times: Will killing thousands of invasive owls save threatened ones? That’s the government’s plan

LA Times: The mysterious life — and questionable claims — of Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter

LA Times: Editorial: Bring buttons and dials back to new cars. Touch screens distract drivers

KRCR: McDonald's and Krispy Kreme partner, fast food chain will sell doughnuts by end of 2026

Chicago Tribune: Setting prairies ablaze in springtime is key to restoring damaged ecosystems, conservationists say

KRCR: Van with over 5,900 marijuana plants intercepted in Weed, suspects cited

KRCR: Siskiyou County declares state of emergency due to Klamath undamming impact

KRCR: 9-year-old crashes into patrol car while trying to drive to school in Oroville