New Los Angeles County parcel tax for storm-water treatment to be proposed to voters

Source: Daily Bulletin

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote this week on a proposal to tax homeowners an average of $54 per parcel to raise funds to treat polluted storm water before it reaches local lakes ...
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Warnings issued after Santa Ana child contracts typhus

Source: Los Angeles Times

Orange County health officials are urging residents to take steps to keep their pets, yards and homes free of fleas after a Santa Ana child contracted typhus. The child was hospitalized late last month and has since r ...
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Video: Living In The Sewers Of Colombia

Source: Gadling

Living in the sewers isn't just for teenage mutant ninja turtles. In Colombia, there's a culture of sewer-dwellers. There's even a counterculture to this counterculture: people who are known as the "death squads" who routinely pou ...
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Humane Society marks 50th animal abuse guilty verdict

Source: MLive.com

The most recent verdict was against Ypsilanti Township resident Jeanine Richards, who abandoned two huskies and 50 cats in her house at 1240 Davis. Elise Ramsey and Matt Schaecher are part of the Animal Cruelty Investigation and Emergen ...
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Man contracts typhus in Calif.

Source: United Press International

SANTA ANA, Calif., May 26 (UPI) -- Santa Ana, Calif., residents have been warned to protect themselves against typhus after a man contracted the disease from a flea, officials said. The man, who lived near Broadway and Washington in Santa Ana, contract ...
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Bigfoot: Beyond Footprints and DNA

Source: TLC

Despite the publicity that the new project is garnering, this is far from the first time that alleged Bigfoot samples have been subjected to scientific testing. In 2008, for example, the TV show "Destination Truth" recovered what was claimed to be ...
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Animal files: What to do about doggy doo

Source: Reno Gazette-Journal

Even before all the embers have been extinguished and families allowed assess the damage done to...- 4:25 pm The combination of turbulent and long running winds blowing around dust, dirt, smoke and particles...- 7:06 pm Daniel Howell, ...
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The poop

Source: National Post

More than 7,000 academics are gathered in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., this week for the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, presenting papers on everything from scatological censorship in childr ...
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Dog waste issue generates pooh-pooh responses

Source: Vancouver Sun

The reality of urban dog waste and what to do with it got plenty of response from readers. Some dog owners took it as an unfair attack on dog culture, as though calling for a public conversation about this growing problem represents a hi ...
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