Sat Nov 14, 2009 1:01 PM EST
The molesters drank blood, the children said, and hung them from hooks after forcing them to have sex with their parents. They murdered babies, prosecutors told jurors, and snapped photographs as the horror unfolded.
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Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:57 PM EDT
Americans are using less water per person now than they have since the mid-1950s, thanks to water-saving technologies and a nationwide push to safeguard dwindling supplies.
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Mon Oct 5, 2009 7:01 PM EDT
The head of the U.S. Senate Environment Committee said Wednesday that legislators will hold hearings to address toxic drinking water in the nation's schools following an Associated Press probe into the widespread problem.
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Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:31 PM EDT
Ending a lengthy legal battle with environmentalists, the federal government agreed Wednesday to halt all commercial development in Yosemite National Park's most popular stretch and to consider limiting access to its wilderness.
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Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:01 AM EDT
Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins.
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Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:18 PM EDT
The Obama administration's economic stimulus program to find jobs for thousands of teenagers this summer couldn't overcome one of the bleakest job markets in more than 60 years that had desperate adults competing for the same kind of work.
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Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:22 PM EDT
A section of this Sierra Nevada national park was closed to visitors Thursday while rangers helicoptered in to destroy a sizable marijuana growing operation just a half-mile away from a crystal-filled cave popular with tourists.
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Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:23 PM EDT
California's ongoing water crisis is a major national priority, akin to restoring the Chesapeake Bay or Florida's Everglades, a top Obama administration official said Wednesday.
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Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:01 AM EDT
Federal agencies have pledged to send nearly $60 million in grants to help California communities, farms and dairies suffering from ongoing water shortages.
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Sat May 30, 2009 4:42 PM EDT
Hundreds of people waived signs and rallied at Fresno City Hall on Sunday to show support for the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage in California, a day after thousands marched in the area against the ban.
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Sat May 30, 2009 1:46 PM EDT
Hundreds of same-sex couples are marching through dusty California farm towns in the state's conservative center to kick off the latest front in the battle over gay marriage.
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Wed May 27, 2009 8:19 PM EDT
National leaders of the Episcopal Church have ousted 61 clergy who aligned with a former bishop in California when he broke with the national church in a dispute over the Bible and homosexuality.
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Sat May 16, 2009 2:27 PM EDT
Jubilant graduates at a rural California university are awaiting first lady Michelle Obama's debut as a commencement speaker.
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Thu May 14, 2009 4:05 PM EDT
First lady Michelle Obama praised graduating students at California's smallest, youngest public university for their determination to succeed, urging them to give back to their communities with the same fervor they showed to bring her to campus.
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:58 PM EDT
As migrant workers from Mexico begin their journey north to take summer jobs in fields and construction sites across the U.S., public health officials and others are fanning out to intercept them at food lines and churches in hopes of stemming the spread of deadly swine flu.
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Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:44 PM EDT
Three officials at a now-defunct farm labor contractor were charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a pregnant teenager who collapsed from heat stroke after working in a sweltering vineyard last year.
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Thu Apr 23, 2009 3:35 AM EDT
Farmers in California's drought-stricken agricultural basin finally will get a meager supply of federal water to nurture their crops this summer.
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Tue Apr 14, 2009 4:09 PM EDT
As drought forces families in the West to shorten their showers and let their lawns turn brown, two Depression-era government programs have been paying some of the nation's biggest farms hundreds of millions of dollars to grow water-thirsty crops in what was once desert.
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Tue Apr 7, 2009 3:40 AM EDT
California's two longest rivers have been named the country's most endangered waterways because of outdated water management and poor flood planning, according to an environmental advocacy group.
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Mon Apr 6, 2009 9:36 PM EDT
New York officials said Friday they found no trace of salmonella in a Long Island nut processing plant whose sister company sparked a vast nationwide recall of pistachios last week.
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Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:48 AM EDT
Seniors at the University of California, Merced couldn't rely on a wealthy and established network of alumni to reel in a famous speaker for this year's commencement address.
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Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:27 AM EDT
Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles made a rare court appearance to testify that he knew nothing of sexual abuse two brothers claim they suffered years ago at the hands of a priest in rural central California.
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Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:15 PM EDT
A study by Yosemite National Park says its landmark Ahwahnee Hotel doesn't meet modern safety standards and might not hold up in a major earthquake.
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Thu Feb 26, 2009 8:44 PM EST
As more companies become conscious of their carbon footprint, a new movement is urging corporations to track their "water footprint" as well, or risk financial losses as freshwater supplies dry up around the globe.
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Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:00 PM EST
In the first weeks after her only daughter disappeared, grief hit Susan Levy so hard she could not move from a fetal position on the living room couch.
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