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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:01 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Herbal sexual enhancement supplement recalled</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>IRVINE, Calif. (AP) &#8212; A Southern California firm is recalling an herbal female sexual enhancement supplement because it contains a drug not listed on the label.</p><p>Irvine-based Regeneca said Saturday it will voluntarily pull RegenArouse after a Food and Drug Administration analysis confirmed the presence of Tadafil.</p><p>Tadalafil is an FDA-approved drug used as treatment for male erectile dysfunction. It is not listed among RegenArouse's ingredients.</p><p>For some users, Tadafil could interact with nitrates found in some prescription drugs and lower blood pressure to dangerous levels.</p><p>On its web site, RegenArouse is billed as an all-natural, drug-free intimacy enhancer for women.</p><p>Regeneca has distributed the supplement in the U.S. and Puerto Rico via the Internet since November 2011.</p><p>Consumers can return any unused product for an exchange or a full refund.</p><p><br/></p><p><font size="1" face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>&#169;2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</i></font></p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:39:46 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Suspect in killing played sax at SF train station</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &#8212; The man arrested on suspicion of murdering his ex-wife 25 years ago in New Mexico was a popular train station musician in San Francisco.</p><p>Ronald Brewington was taken into custody this week. He is accused of shooting his estranged wife, 37-year-old Diedre Brewington, in her Albuquerque apartment in August 1987.</p><p>The <span style="font-style: italic">San Francisco Chronicle</span> reports that Brewington was referred to as the &quot;jazz man&quot; and played saxophone at San Francisco's Embarcadero Station, where he allegedly told Bay Area Rapid Transit riders his name was Garrick Sherrod.</p><p>Commuters described him as talkative and said he gave out Christmas cards each year that said, &quot;You are my Carnegie Hall.&quot;</p><p>Police say Brewington evaded capture after his indictment in 1988 in part by using aliases such as Garrick Sherrod.</p><p>Information from: <span style="font-style: italic">San Francisco Chronicle</span>, http://www.sfgate.com</p><p><font size="1" face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>&#169;2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</i></font></p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:39:14 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Drug poisoning suspected in students' illness</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) &#8212; Police say five Santa Rosa middle school students became sick after ingesting a substance that investigators suspect was tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, a chemical derived from marijuana.</p><p>A 13-year-old girl apparently brought the substance to Santa Rosa Middle School on E Street, put it in a bottle of Gatorade and shared it on Friday with her friends at lunch.</p><p>Santa Rosa police Sgt. David Linscomb says several of the students later complained of dizziness and stomach pain. One was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where she was treated and released.</p><p>The other four, a group that included boys and girls ages 13 and 14, were released to their parents.</p><p><br/></p><p><font size="1" face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>&#169;2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</i></font></p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:38:29 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Rural residents strike back at Lucas film empire</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>NICASIO, Calif. (AP) &#8212; Marin County's planning commission will hear arguments for and against allowing filmmaker George Lucas to expand his movie-making empire in the quiet hills just north of San Francisco.</p><p>Some Marin County residents are balking at the planned 270,000-square-foot digital media production compound on historic farmland known as Grady Ranch. They worry the facility will constrain their lifestyle with additional noise, traffic and harmful environmental impacts on the pristine countryside.</p><p>But Lucasfilms officials insist the compound will be similar to the Skywalker Ranch, a sound facility hidden in hills for 32 years without complaint. They will hide the new digital filmmaking structure in the hills and work to mitigate traffic while protecting hundreds of acres from further development.</p><p>Both sides will face off at the planning commission on February 27th.</p><p><br/></p><p><font size="1" face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>&#169;2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</i></font></p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:37:58 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Girls' softball team wins gender inequality case</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>CHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) &#8212; A federal judge says a Southern California high school didn't give equal treatment to female athletes in violation of gender-equity laws.</p><p><span style="font-style: italic">U-T San Diego</span> reports U.S. District Judge M. James Lorenz ruled Thursday that Castle Park High School girls were denied the opportunity to participate in high school sports on an equal level with boys.</p><p>Sweetwater Union High School District has been ordered to remedy the situation within 45 days.</p><p>The suit was brought against the district in 2007 by girls' softball players, who said their Chula Vista facilities were inferior and they had fewer chances to play than male athletes.</p><p>In a statement Sweetwater said it is &quot;100 percent committed&quot; to gender equity and has made more than $1 million in improvements to the softball field.</p><p><br/></p><p><font size="1" face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>&#169;2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</i></font></p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:37:25 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Students grieve over boy's death at LA school</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>LA CRESCENTA, Calif. (AP) &#8212; Candles, flowers and notes lay at the spot where a 15-year-old boy fell to his death from a three-story school building in what authorities said appeared to be a suicide.</p><p>The 10th-grader got a running start before jumping off the ledge of the building at Crescenta Valley High School on Friday afternoon, said Sgt. John Corina of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. He was identified by the county coroner's office as Drew Ferraro of La Crescenta, a suburb of Los Angeles.</p><p>Ferraro was alone when he fell in a central location on the campus where two buildings are connected by elevated walkways, said Richard Sheehan, superintendent of the Glendale Unified School District.</p><p>Distraught students struggled to understand the tragedy.</p><p>Student Meghan Dorosy told a local TV station&nbsp;she saw blood and went into shock.</p><p>&quot;I started shaking and I felt sick to my stomach and walked away, and then I called my parents and just went into tears,&quot; she said.</p><p>School district officials said there was no indication that the boy had been bullied, but Dorosy said that wasn't the case.</p><p>&quot;He definitely was bullied and he didn't want to go to school, and I know how it feels because I was bullied and I didn't want to go to school,&quot; Dorosy said.</p><p>Authorities did not release a motive for the boy's actions. &quot;I'm sure when this is all said and done, we will still not have all the answers,&quot; Sheehan said.</p><p>The school district posted a statement on its website expressing condolences to the family.</p><p>&quot;Our thoughts are with the family at this very difficult time. Our first concern is for the well-being of all of our students,&quot; Sheehan said in the statement. &quot;Together with our supportive community, we will help our students get through this.&quot;</p><p>The boy jumped at the beginning of the lunch period at the school, which has 2,950 students, Sheehan said. Michael Kim, a ninth-grader, said he &quot;heard a thump&quot; as he was leaving his classroom on the third floor to go to lunch.</p><p>Jubilant about the weekend ahead, Kim said he and friends were singing a Top 40 hit as they headed to the quad. When the 14-year-old and his friends got there, they saw a big crowd and the boy's body.</p><p>&quot;I was pretty much just shocked. My jaw just &#8212; it dropped,&quot; Kim said. &quot;We never expect something like that in this kind of neighborhood at this school,&quot; he said.</p><p>A crisis center was immediately set up in the cafeteria. The school halted classes, and students were directed from the quad where the boy died to an athletic field, where parents came to pick them up. Classes were scheduled to resume Tuesday, since Monday is a school holiday.</p><p>The boy's body, his torso bare, could be seen from a walkway outside the school's fence until butcher paper was put up, blocking the view. Paramedics and teachers tried to administer first aid to the boy after the fall, but he was declared dead on campus.</p><p>La Crescenta is an unincorporated foothill community about a dozen miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.</p><p>Kim said the mood on campus changed quickly as news spread about the death. The school doesn't have a bullying problem, he said, but sometimes teens can joke callously.</p><p>&quot;It's just weird because everyone just started caring&quot; about each other, said Kim. &quot;One person changed an entire school in 20 minutes.&quot;</p><p><br/></p><p><font size="1" face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>&#169;2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</i></font></p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:36:29 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Aerospace workers brace for NASA cuts</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. (AP) &#8212; Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge are bracing for an announcement of NASA's budget in anticipation of major cuts.</p><p>The <span style="font-style: italic">Pasadena Star-News</span> reports that the space agency's 2013 budget is to be announced Monday and planetary exploration operations are expected to take a hit.</p><p>Congressman Adam Schiff of Pasadena says he had a tense meeting with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Thursday.</p><p>Schiff says planetary science and the Mars program are expected to face &quot;absolutely devastating&quot; cuts.</p><p>Schiff says if joint missions with the European Space Agency are scrapped, JPL will likely be deeply affected.</p><p>JPL spokeswoman Veronica McGregor says the company laid off about 240 employees between 2010 and 2011 because of previous budget cuts.</p><p>Schiff vows to fight cuts.</p><p>Information from: <span style="font-style: italic">Pasadena Star-News</span>, http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/</p><p><font size="1" face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>&#169;2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</i></font></p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:35:03 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Three fined $500K in Sylmar explosion </title>
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<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8212; State workplace safety officials say three Southern California employers have been fined more than $500,000 in an August 2011 explosion at a worksite in Sylmar that left two people severely injured.</p><p>In a release Friday, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health says citations were issued to Realm Catalyst, Rainbow of Hope Foundation and Strategic Sciences, Inc.</p><p>The regulator says 42-year-old Timothy Larson and 66-year-old William Stehl were preparing to demonstrate the use of an experimental fuel when a cylinder of the gas exploded because it was being handled in an unsafe work area.</p><p>Realm Catalyst faces $239,800 in penalties, Rainbow of Hope faces $329,625 and Strategic Sciences $61,465.</p><p>The citations were issued on Feb. 7. The employers have 15 days to file appeals.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="1" face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>&#169;2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</i></font></p></div>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:53:24 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>SF Fire chief: death of two firefighters accidental</title>
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<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &#8212; San Francisco fire officials say a house fire that led to the deaths of two firefighters was an accident caused by an electrical problem.</p><p>Investigators said the June 2 blaze likely was due to a failure in a ground outlet or in the appliance connected to the outlet.</p><p>Lt. Vincent Perez and firefighter-paramedic Anthony Valerio were killed after being caught in a flash fire triggered by superhot gases while battling the fire in the city's Diamond Heights neighborhood.</p><p>Perez died that night after being rushed to the hospital. Valerio died two days later.</p><p>Assistant Fire chief Jose Velo said Friday that an internal investigation determined the two firefighters performed according to duty, though he was concerned that both radio microphones appeared to have failed from heat exposure.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="1" face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>&#169;2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</i></font></p></div>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:01:58 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Police call on public to help in San Jose murder</title>
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<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) &#8212; San Jose police are investigating the city's fourth homicide of the new year.</p><p>The police were called by emergency room staff at Santa Teresa Kaiser Hospital on Thursday night to report that a stabbing victim had been dropped off. The unknown people who had dropped off the man left before the police arrived. The man later died of his injuries.</p><p>Police said Friday that the motive behind the killing remains under investigation. They are calling on anyone with information about the case to contact Detective Sgt. Merlin Newton or Detective Juan Vallejo of the San Jose Police Department's Homicide Unit.</p><p><br/></p><p><font size="1" face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>&#169;2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</i></font></p></div>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:58:02 -0800</pubDate>
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