The United Auto Workers and Tea Party anti-tax protesters are vying for protest supremacy today at the annual Detroit auto show. Both groups are staging protests for the last full day of the show, which is today.
The tea partiers are protesting the federal government's 61% stake in General Motors, while the UAW is in favor of the government saving the American auto industry. read more
A California judge ordered the return of 60 pounds of pot to a man Friday because a state law gave him the right to transport it. During a highway stop, Saguro Doven was found with pot in individual bags that were tucked inside a larger duffel bag. He's a member of a Venice-based medical marijuana collective.
The blubbery sea lions at Pier 39, one of San Francisco's smelliest and most famous tourist attractions, are gone. During the last week of November, they left the wooden docks on which they've spent the last 20 years and no one knows if they'll be coming back. "We have no idea where they moved on to or why," said Shelbi Stoudt, who manages a team that helps stranded animals in the San Francisco Bay from the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California. read more


The cat is obviously more intelligent than the jury commissioner.