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California Today Full Broadcast (May 3)
It’s day two of the Hollywood strikes and strikers are calling the current situation “an existential crisis.” We have more on the writers’ latest labor demands. Charges have been dropped in a deadly shooting at a San Francisco Walgreens. The district attorney says the shooting was in self-defense. A group of teachers is suing its […]
Study Finds Some People Are ‘Mosquito Magnets’ Due to Body Odor
Summertime calls most of us to spend a nice evening outdoors, but that can sometimes turn into a horribly itchy ordeal, particularly for “mosquito magnets.” A new study published on Oct. 18 in the journal Cell by researchers at Rockefeller University suggests that some individuals are more attractive to the tiny blood-sucking insects than others due to having a […]
Mosquito Attack Helps Police Nab Fleeing Suspect
Police in Wisconsin said they caught a suspect after he hid in a cornfield but later gave himself up because he couldn’t stand the mosquitoes. Deputies said they responded to a call that a man had stolen alcohol from a Piggly Wiggly store in the town Campbellsport, Fond du Lac County, according to ABC. Store […]
Zika brought to Florida months before it infected locals
NEW YORK (AP)—Zika began spreading in Florida mosquitoes about three months before infections showed up in the Miami area last summer, and the virus likely was carried in by travelers from the Caribbean, new research suggests. Mosquitoes there started picking up the virus from infected travelers as early as March last year, according to scientists […]