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Calif. Lawmakers Seek Liquefaction as Alternative to Cremation

It sounds like the stuff of horror movies -- placing a body in a steel tube and then covering it with a mixture of water and acid until most of the remains are liquefied. But it's actually a scientific process called alkaline hydrolysis that is on track toward becoming an alternative to cremation in California. Lawmakers...

Obama's Deficit Plans Run Into Economic Reality

LOS ANGELES -- President Barack Obama headed west to sell his big picture deficit-reduction plan. But many people are waiting for a quick fix to their own economic problems caused chiefly by persistent unemployment and the crippled housing market. Audiences in California and Nevada understood why it's important to get a...

California Family Approaches Zero Waste

You recycle your junk mail and your water bottles, you bought some new energy-efficient light bulbs and you bring your own shopping bags to the grocery store. You feel pretty good about your green self, right? Well, meet the Johnson family of Mill Valley, Calif. All of their household trash for the past six months takes...

Prison Guards Getting Payoff for Supporting Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown?

A taxpayer rights group has blasted California Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, for giving the prison guards who funded his re-election a new contract that will eventually cost millions to a state that is virtually bankrupt. The new contract, which must be ratified by the Democrat-controlled Legislature, undoes reforms that...