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The California State Assembly has approved SB 206, a bill that will allow college athletes to be paid for the use of their names, images, and likenesses. According to the Los Angeles Times, lawmakers unanimously passed the legislation—also known as the Fair Pay to Play Act—on Wednesday, despite opposition from the NCAA. The organization’s Board […]
Conflicting information was released early Monday regarding a burning dive boat incident near Santa Cruz Island in Southern California. The Ventura County Fire Department, per regional outlet KTLA, reportedly said that 34 people had died due to the blaze. The U.S. Coast Guard, meanwhile, has not echoed that statement and—at the time of this writing—had […]
Rodolfo Montoya, 37, was arrested Tuesday at his Huntington Beach home after one of his co-workers at the Long Beach Marriott tipped off authorities about what Police Chief Robert Luna said during a news conference was his plan to “shoot up fellow employees and people coming into the hotel,” NPR reports. Montoya, who worked as a cook, allegedly concocted this violent plan in […]
Kanye West has decided to bring his Sunday Service to the people. For this week’s performance, Yeezy teamed up with the California Worship Center to share his talents with their congregation. According to TMZ, Kanye’s Sunday Service occupied the local middle school where members of the California Worship Center meet from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. During this time, Kanye brought […]
A would-be shipment of jalapeños and savory weed, underwhelmingly described by authorities as a “significant marijuana load,” was seized last week at the Otay Mesa border in California. That’s one of the takeaways from what U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency officials decided to speak on via press release earlier this month, with the interception […]
Actor Danny Trejo saved a special-needs child who got trapped in a vehicle after a car accident occurred, ABC7 reports. The accident happened on Wednesday afternoon in the Sylmar neighborhood of Los Angeles after a car ran a red light. The boy was trapped after the vehicle he was in flipped over and landed on its roof. Trejo, and […]
A Seaside, California rapper, unhappy with local media coverage of a number of evictions for persons who appeared in his music video, wrote a post on Medium specifically calling out the writer of the evictions story for what he perceives as focusing on the wrong thing (i.e. not enough focus on the punishment that was […]
Three people were killed after a cliff collapsed close to San Diego, CNN reports. On Friday, authorities in Encinitas, California responded to reports of the catastrophe near Grandview Beach. According to Encinitas Fire Chief Mike Stein, the collapse left 20 yards of debris on the beach and visitors were “recreating right underneath the bluffs” when the event […]
A NYC man gained national attention this week after he shared a photo of a perfectly wrapped In-N-Out burger on a street in Jamaica, Queens. The image left many people scratching their heads, as the nearest In-N-Out location was more than 1,000 miles away from the borough. How did the burger end up on a NYC street? How did […]
A family at the center of a brawl that occurred in Disneyland are facing some serious charges after video of the fight went viral. TMZ reports that three adults who threw hands all over Mickey’s Toontown in Anaheim are looking at charges that include domestic battery, assault with a deadly weapon, and child endangerment. TMZ […]
