When a meteor shower streaked across the north California skies 10 days ago, treasure-seekers rushed to California’s Gold Country looking for space rocks.

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VIDEO: On the hunt with US ‘meteor zombies’

When a meteor shower streaked across the north California skies 10 days ago, treasure-seekers rushed to California’s Gold Country looking for space rocks.

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VIDEO: On the hunt with US ‘meteor zombies’

The Obama administration has told government agencies that a court decision allowing health benefits for the same-sex spouse of a federal employee applies to no one else. The directive from the Office of Personnel Management is not surprising. After a federal district court ruling in February, OPM told Blue Cross Blue Shield to provide benefits to the wife of Karen Golinski, a court employee in California. But the OPM letter also said the decision “has no effect on enrollments requested by other same-sex spouses.” Read full article > >

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Two farms have been quarantined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as the agency continues to investigate last month's discovery of mad cow disease at a California dairy farm.

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Daniel Chong, a University of California student, was swept up in a Drug Enforcement Administration raid and placed in a holding cell, where he said he was forgotten for four days, without food or water.

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Junior Seau, a linebacker who played in the NFL for 20 seasons and was among the most widely respected players of his generation, was found dead in his California home Wednesday. Authorities in Oceanside, Calif., said Seau, who was 43, suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and his girlfriend reported finding him unconscious. According to the Associated Press, police officials said a gun was found near Seau and his death appeared to be a suicide. Read full article > >

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Click to watch video This weekend on “Sanjay Gupta MD,” Dr. Gupta takes a critical look at sugar and the impact it has on our bodies. Don't miss the in-depth investigation Saturday at 4:30 p.m. ET, and Sunday at 7:30 a.m. ET on CNN. Pushing her meal cart into the hospital room, a research assistant hands out tall glasses of reddish-pink liquid, along with a gentle warning: “Remember, you guys have to finish all your Kool-Aid.” One by one, young volunteers chug down their drinks, each carefully calibrated to contain a mix of water, flavoring and a precisely calibrated solution of high fructose corn syrup: 55% fructose, 45% glucose. The participants are part of an ongoing study run by Kimber Stanhope, a nutritional biologist at the University of California, Davis. Volunteers agree to spend several weeks as lab rats: their food carefully measured, their bodies subjected to a steady dose of scans and blood tests. At first, each volunteer receives meals with no added sugars. But then, the sweetened drinks start showing up. Read – Soft drinks: Public enemy No.1 in obesity fight? and How I kicked my Coke habit

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Click to watch video The first U.S. case of mad cow disease in six years sparked fears of illness that prompted at least one major South Korean retailer to suspend the sale of American beef. However, public health officials said the risk for disease for Americans is extremely low given that the affected dairy cow in central California was not part of the human food chain and was not exposed to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) through animal feed. “It was never presented for slaughter for human consumption, so at no time presented a risk to the food supply or human health,” said John Clifford, the Agriculture Department's chief veterinarian. Read the full story: “S. Korea curbs U.S. beef sales after confirmation of mad cow disease”

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Click to watch video After Tuesday's announcement confirming a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), sometimes referred to as “mad cow disease,” in a dairy cow in California, you may want a refresher course in mad cow basics. It's important to keep in mind that U.S. health officials said the public risk posed by BSE is extremely low, and that residents don't need to take any specific precautions. Here are the facts: – BSE is a transmissible, degenerative and fatal disease affecting the central nervous system of adult cattle. The disease is of concern to public health officials because it can cause variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or vCJD, a fatal brain disorder in humans. CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen has met a victim of vCJD and she talks about that here . – The infected tissue in animals with BSE is concentrated in the brain, spinal cord and some parts of the central nervous system. It can be spread to humans who eat these parts of the cow. The bacteria can also spread through meat that has come in contact with infected tissue or that has been processed in contaminated machinery. Read – Mad cow disease: What you need to know

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The first American case of mad cow disease since 2006 was found this week in a dairy cow in California, but the animal had not been slaughtered for food, government officials said. Known formally as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, the infection decimated English cattle herds in the 1980s and 1990s. It was also linked to about 225 cases worldwide of a fatal human brain aliment known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Read full article > >

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Mad cow disease discovered in California animal, but food supply declared safe

The US Department of Agriculture confirms it has detected a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or ‘mad cow’ disease, in a California dairy cow.

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Voters in California will be asked if they want to abolish the death penalty this November, after a proposal gathered more than 500,000 signatures.

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A 25-year-old woman has been charged with first-degree murder in the California death of a deployed Marine's wife, San Diego County authorities said Friday.

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A group of high school students in California have launched a rubber chicken to the edge of space, all in the name of science.

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A body found Tuesday in California is that of Brittany Killgore, the missing wife of a deployed Marine, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday.

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