Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Deccan Herald: Power shut off to 55,000 in Colorado to prevent wind-fueled wildfires
The Guardian: Pat Sajak to take final spin as host of Wheel of Fortune on 7 June
The Guardian: No more monkey business: Thai city’s macaques to be put in enclosures
Oregon Public Broadcasting: Northwest nonprofit reduces veteran suicides, PTSD with trained service dogs
The Hill: The US is experiencing a boom in microschools. What are they?
AP News: A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It’s finally changing
The Hill: Democratic tensions over Israel threaten to boil over at Chicago convention
Courthouse News Service: In lawsuit, family of Half Moon Bay shooting victims accuses farm owner of negligence
The Guardian: World Bank’s funding of ‘hog hotel’ factory farms under fire over climate effect
The Guardian: Swiss farmers dump dead sheep in protest against rising wolf numbers
AP News: Even in the age of Google Earth, people still buy globes. Here’s why they remain so alluring
The Guardian: US braces for cicadas by the trillion as two broods of periodic insects coincide
The Guardian: US victim wrongly locked up for years vindicated as identity thief pleads guilty
AP News: Victims of Montana asbestos pollution that killed hundreds take Warren Buffet’s railroad to court
AP News: Oregon Powerball player wins a $1.3 billion jackpot, ending more than 3 months without a grand prize
KOMO : Whatcom County reports 1st 'tranq' overdose
the Atlantic: Drones Could Unite Ranchers and Conservationists
Smithsonian Magazine: Watch the Total Solar Eclipse From Your Home With These Live Streams Online
NPR: Some Walmart shoppers could get up to $500 in cash from a class-action settlement
NPR: Iowa-UConn women's Final Four game is the most-watched hoops game in ESPN history
LA Times: Opinion: I’ve covered California’s homeless since before the word was used. This is what I learned
The Oregonian: This Oregon beach is named second best in the country to visit this spring
BBC: The golf courses disappearing into the sea
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
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