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Models aren't 'coat hangers,' new rights group...
Models launched a rights group on Monday ahead of New York Fashion Week to seek workplace standards including backstage privacy to stop unauthorized nude photos.
Earmarks fund projects near lawmakers' properties
Members of Congress have pushed more than $300 million in earmarks and other provisions to projects near their own properties, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
Amanda Knox appeals slander conviction
Amanda Knox's Italian lawyer has filed an appeal of her slander conviction in Italy, a family spokesman said Monday. In October, an Italian appeals court overturned the young Seattle woman's murder conviction in the 2007 death of her British roommate in Perugia.
Entire staff to be replaced at school where 2...
The Los Angeles Unified School District is replacing the entire staff of Miramonte Elementary School following the arrest of two teachers on lewd conduct charges last week, Superintendent John Deasy told parents at a meeting Monday night.
Sex-ed less effective in red states, study says
By Christopher WanjekLiveScience Sex education is failing to reduce adolescent birthrates in conservative states, according to a new study. Perhaps paradoxically, states with a majority conservative population and higher degree of religiosity tend to have higher teen birthrates.
At Yale, True Love Week hopes to challenge Sex...
As Sex Week 2012 unfolds on the Yale University campus boasting about 50 workshops on topics ranging from contraception and sexual harassment to pornography and online dating, a smaller series of events is branding itself as the alternative.
Officials: Powell children had head and neck...
The two boys of a Utah man suspected in his wife's disappearance, and then of killing himself and his sons in an intentional fire, suffered from head and neck injuries, officials say.
Tucson shooting suspect to remain at Mo. facility
A judge ruled Monday that the suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage that wounded former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will spend four more months at a facility where officials are forcibly medicating him.
Serious potty talk gets boy a dream toilet
Some kids ask for Legos, others a train. But Dustin Kruse, 4, of New Berlin, Wis., wanted something extra special this Christmas -- a toilet.
Dog-poop DNA testing raises stench with renters
It's a smelly job, but someone has to do it -- DNA-testing dog waste, that is. Pet owners who fail to use the pooper-scooper at five apartment complexes in Sioux Falls, S.D., will no longer be able to make a clean getaway.
Granddad: Boys played happily before fatal visit
The two boys of a Utah man suspected in his wife's disappearance and then of killing himself and his sons in an intentional fire were starting to talk about what happened the night their mother vanished, an attorney said.
Retirement home bands together to bring WWII...
A Pakistani-born Chicago taxi driver who prosecutors say could be heard on FBI wiretaps discussing a plan to bomb a stadium pleaded guilty Monday to attempting to send money to a Pakistani-based terrorist with alleged ties to al-Qaida.
Are SeaWorld's killer whales slaves? Judge weighs...
The stars of SeaWorld were the main attraction in federal court as a judge weighed PETA's claim that they are being treated like slaves.
Mo. teen describes killing as amazing, enjoyable
A teenager who admitted stabbing, strangling and slitting the throat of a young neighbor girl wrote in her journal on the night of the killing that it was an "ahmazing" and "pretty enjoyable" experience.
Junior 'high': Student sells pot brownies to...
Students at a New York City middle school are facing discipline after an eighth grader allegedly sold marijuana-laced brownies to about 20 fellow pupils.       The incident happened at Intermediate School 208 in Bellerose, a suburban section of Queens.

Westlake High wins Academic Decathlon
Westlake High School won the Ventura County Academic Decathlon and will go to the state championship in Sacramento next month. Oxnard High School took second, and Thousand Oaks High School placed third. Wyatt Green, a senior at Westlake High, got the highest individual score.
Hawaii Marine sergeant court-martialed for hazing
A Hawaii-based Marine sergeant is being court-martialed on accusations that he hazed a member of his squad by ordering him to dig a foxhole as punishment for falling asleep on watch duty in Afghanistan. Read comments
Ill. firm buying Calif. company for $340 million
Illinois-based cable-TV, phone and Internet provider Consolidated Communications Inc. is buying a California-based company for $341 million. Read comments
Shocking pictures open LA detective's murder trial
Shocking death pictures of a murdered woman were shown to jurors in the trial of former police detective Stephanie Lazarus - huge close-up portraits of the battered face of Sherri Rasmussen, who died 26 years ago. Read comments
Staff removed at LA school during abuse probe
The entire staff at a Los Angeles elementary school is being removed while authorities investigate horrific allegations of sexual abuse by two of the school's teachers, one of whom is accused of blindfolding children, taping their mouths and photographing them in a classroom.
AP Enterprise: Brown bank regulator an insider
Gov. Jerry Brown's appointee to head the department that oversees banking, financial and consumer regulations in California led a trade association that fought against tighter lending restrictions before the subprime mortgage crisis exploded and was an executive with Washington Mutual when the now-failed bank was among the most aggressive marketers of loans to high-risk borrowers.
Calif man seeks to extend restraining order
A court appearance is scheduled for a Jurupa Valley man who got a restraining order last month against a fourth-grade boy he says threatened his son with a knife. Read comments
Court to rule on California gay marriage ban
SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. appeals court is set to rule on Tuesday whether California's ban on gay marriage is constitutional in a case that is likely to lead to a showdown on the issue in the U.S. Supreme Court. California joined the vast majority of U.S. states in outlawing same-sex marriage in 2008, when voters passed the ban known as Proposition 8. ...
Proposal to establish rights for domestic workers...
Proponents say it would extend basic protections to more employees, but opponents say it would drive up costs.Reporting from Sacramento -- Maria Moctezuma's workday began at 6 a.m. and often ran until midnight when she was nanny, housekeeper and cook for a family of four in Rancho Cucamonga.
Fullerton may hold vote to recall 3 councilmen
Citizens outraged by the beating death of a homeless man in Fullerton have gathered enough signatures to place a recall of three council members on the ballot. Read comments
Competing California tax measures move ahead...
Organizers say it's not true that having multiple revenue initiatives dooms all
Murder trial of LA police detective begins
LOS ANGELES -- Former police detective Stephanie Lazarus was either a heartbroken, jilted lover driven to kill her romantic rival, or she was an innocent woman snared in a web of mishandled scientific evidence.
California, N.Y. Are Among Fewer Than 10 Mortgage...
California and New York's attorneys general haven't signed on to a proposed settlement with five banks over foreclosure practices that has won the support of more than 40 states.
PETA's bid to free SeaWorld orcas may not get far
SAN DIEGO -- A federal judge appeared dubious Monday about a lawsuit filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that seeks the release of orcas from SeaWorld on antislavery grounds.
California may re-enter talks on mortgage relief...
California is inching closer to rejoining the nationwide settlement talks with major U.S. lenders over mortgage abuse.
Looking for work? There may be an app for that
Looking for a promising career in a lousy economy? A new study suggests you're apt to find it in apps - the services and tools built to run on smartphones, computer tablets and Facebook's online social network. Read comments
California not among states that OK bank...
More than 40 states signed onto a proposed $25-billion deal with major mortgage servicers over faulty foreclosure practices. New York, Nevada and Delaware joined California in holding out for better terms. More than 40 states signed onto a proposed $25-billion settlement with major mortgage servicers over faulty foreclosure procedures, but California, New York and other key states were still not ...
Judge nixes Dr. Phil appearance for indicted CNET...
Disgraced narcotics cop Norman Wielsch will not share his cautionary tale with TV therapist Dr. Phil McGraw, a federal judge decided Monday.U.S. Magistrate Saundra Armstrong overturned a ruling last week by another judge allowing Wielsch to leave the Northern District of California for filming of
Medi-Cal copay plan rejected by feds
Action pleases California consumer advocates but leaves an additional $575 million hole in next year's state budget.
California Pension Makes $500 Million...
The California State Teachers' Retirement System, the second-largest U.S. public pension, said it will invest $500 million in infrastructure projects such as water lines and mobile-phone towers.
Tammerlin Drummond: Komen reverses decision but...
Many people who are still smarting over Komen's decision to defund Planned Parenthood say they will never give the organization another penny. There are also those upset over Komen's about-face who feel the same way.
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