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- After missing the first time, California lawmakers will get back to closing the deficit. Doesnt help that when they turned to Washington for assistance, they were told to deal with it themselves. Yeah wake us when that happens...
- Police are on the search for a suspect in a Santa Ana shooting. A 35 year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene with a gunshot to the upper body. The shooting is not believed to be gang-related.
- State budget cuts could force a third of the agents in the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement to be lost. The state Attorney General bemoans the loss but the Senate Budget Committee says they have no other choice.
- Unemployment has affected EVERYONE... which makes it hard for kids and young adults to land that first job.
- While kids can't land jobs and teachers and cops are being fired to help fix the budget, it was suggested that state senators also take a pay cut to help out. Well two state senators said, FUCK. THAT. Say it with us... ASSSSHOOOOOLE!!! ASSSSSHOOOOLE!!!
- A man on death row for murder ended up dying of natural causes. [Insert irony joke here]
- A driver has been arrested after striking a father and his son cycling along the PCH. The man in his 40s died at the scene while his teenaged son is expected to survive.
- A Long Beach woman is proof positive that you can be the luckiest as well as the unluckiest person on the planet.
- Finally... Carson city councilman Elito Santarina wants to change the name of Moneta Avenue to Jose Rizal Avenue to honor a Filipino freedom-fighter executed in Manila in 1896. However, the residents of Carson living along Moneta Avenue are like who?
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