Homepage > Elsewhere

Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024

KOMO: 'Fake Xanax' tied to rise in overdoses and deaths across US

Seattle Times: Do redwood trees have a place in the future of WA’s forests? They’re already here

AP News: Good girl! Officer enlists Michigan man’s hero dog to help rescue him from icy lake

KPTV: ‘If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry’: Wash. Co. woman says 10 trees fell on her house

BBC: Watch: Explosives used to clear California rockslide

The Guardian: Revealed: far-right figures try to create Christian nationalist ‘haven’ in Kentucky

BBC: Jerusalem: Armenian Christians fight controversial land deal

The Guardian: ‘I’ve made friends for life’: Rising number of travellers find going solo is the ticket to happiness

AP News: Judge orders release of ‘Newburgh Four’ defendant and blasts FBI’s role in terror sting

Courthouse News Service: Federal, state environmental regulations clash in California locomotive case

The Guardian: Gravesites from former Black cemetery discovered at Florida air force base

AP News: Latest EPA assessment shows almost no improvement in river and stream nitrogen pollution

Courthouse News Service: Immigration courts clearing cases at 50% higher rate amid backlog

The Guardian: More than 100,000 protest across Germany over far-right AfD’s mass deportation meetings

The Guardian: Arctic zombie viruses in Siberia could spark terrifying new pandemic, scientists warn

Courthouse News Service: Former NRA lobbyist ‘disgusted’ by Wayne LaPierre’s spending habits

AP News: 6-legged dog adjusts to life on 4 paws after surgery

Courthouse News Service: Northern Ireland on brink amid megastrikes

LA Times: UC enrolls record number of California undergrads in fall 2023, cuts out-of-state students

LA Times: Burst pipe at oil refinery spews petroleum mixture onto street

East Bay Times: First crab hauls come ashore, but Northern California fishermen frustrated by $3 price point

East Bay Times: End of a Bay Area era? Pittsburg’s steel mill idles amid sale to Japanese company

KTLA: Burst water pipe causes landslide, closes roads in Calabasas

LA Times: California offers affordable loans again to first-time homebuyers, with a catch

KTLA: Romanian mob tied to Southern California card skimming scheme

KTLA: 13-year-old girl found in Long Beach was abducted from Texas

KRON: Reformed mobster went after ‘one last score’ when he stole Judy Garland’s ruby slippers from ‘Oz’

KRON: Non-binary runner from SF ineligible for prize money after winning NYC marathon

Press Democrat: Why there’s growing concern about human trafficking in Sonoma County

SF Chronicle: Thieves steal $20K in trees from Oakland bonsai garden at Lake Merritt

SF Chronicle: This rich Bay Area city is fighting a plan for 40 new homes. The developer’s solution: An even bigger project

SF Chronicle: ‘Hey Zach’: Church extends unique invitation to thief who stole Pride flag

SF Chronicle: Hit Netflix show ‘You Are What You Eat’ started with this groundbreaking Stanford study

SF Chronicle: These were California’s 15 most popular campgrounds in 2023

SFGate: Santa Clara swimming community left puzzled after swim center's sudden closure

SFGate: Bay Area DA admits 6-year-old's playground fentanyl overdose never happened

Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024

BBC: A 75km hike through 'the Graveyard of the Pacific" in B.C.

The Atlantic: The Culture War Tearing American Environmentalism Apart

NY Times: Spelman, a Historically Black Women’s College, Receives $100 Million Gift

NY Times: They Abducted a River in California. And It Wasn’t Even a Crime.

Washington Post: Boost your brain health by sleeping in total darkness

Washington Post: Judge in Trump Georgia case orders hearing on Fani Willis misconduct claims

Courthouse News Service: Why ‘viability’ is dividing the abortion rights movement

Courthouse News Service: Leukemia from sunscreen lawsuit will not be dismissed

Courthouse News Service: California judge rules state can’t issue bonds to finance delta tunnel project

Courthouse News Service: U exported 32 million tonnes of waste in 2022

Courthouse News Service: Feds slam law enforcement failures during response to Uvalde school shooting

The Guardian: Nova Scotia man charged with starting province’s largest-ever wildfire

The Guardian: ‘It gets your stomach churning’: the team wading through nappies to clean up Bali’s waterways

The Guardian: Richard Simmons disavows biopic: ‘I have never given my permission for this movie’