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Very interesting.  The accuracy and reproducibility of signatures is unimportant - except when it comes to absentee ballots.

The state Legislature is moving forward with plans to have California permanently on daylight saving time.

The collection agency will send a letter to parents who owe at least $20 and who haven't paid their balance within 60 days.

A dog named Madison that was left behind in the Camp Fire was found alive and waiting for his owners to return to their charred home.

Notes of Hope aims to help those contemplating suicide

This one recently sold for ¥1,800,000 (about $15,000 USD).

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ordered that the names of 11 priests accused of sexual abuse in a grand jury report remain permanently redacted.

Instead of saying "kill two birds with one stone," the group suggests saying, "Feed two birds with one scone."

You'll probably want to take a page from these first-graders' book and change the way you say goodbye.

I’m having a bad mental health day.

Well, I’ve been having a string of bad mental health days.

Ten weeks or so, it seems, and every day is a battle just to get up and face it.

I’m paralyzed by a fear of failure, and that fear is stopping me from creating anything that matters.

Hell, it’s preventing me from creating anything at all.

So I gave myself an exercise today, to see if I can help move this ship that’s been trapped in ice.

I had a simple idea, and I gave myself permission to just spit it out without thinking too much. I decided to write in a style that I don’t normally use, just to crack the ice a little bit.

And because I’m so afraid of failure, I gave myself permission to share this unvarnished, unpolished, trapped-in-ice bunch of words that spilled out of my head.

The monster lives under the bed. It sleeps among the dust bunnies, wraps itself around the box of sweaters, stretches its legs between toys.

It keeps the lost socks. Lost things are desired to be found and that need sustains the monster when the children are not in their beds.

The children know the monster is there, as all children do, having felt its presence in the dark of night. Their parents don’t believe in monsters, as no parents do, having forgotten the truths they knew when they were children.

What the children and the parents don’t know is that the monster under the bed does not threaten on the children.

It protects them. From the other monsters.

The monster in the closet.

The monster who taps at the window when the wind blows.

The monster who lurks in the hallway, just outside the bedroom door.

The monster who stands in the room when the children hide beneath the covers.

The monster who lives under the bed waits for them to come calling. The monster who lives under the bed waits for them to tap on the window or scratch on the walls or creak the closet door open. The monster who lives under the bed waits and when the children are in danger, it reaches out with an impossibly long arm, covered with fur and scales and blisters and oozing pustules. It reaches out and opens a claw, snaps it closed on the neck of the monster who lives in the closet, crushes the life out of the monster who taps on the window, flays the skin off the monster who lurks in the hallway. When the children hide beneath the covers, it breaks the neck of the monster who stands in the dark bedroom.

It protects the children, as it protected their parents, as it will protect the children’s children long after they have grown into parents and forgotten it or any of the other monsters existed.

It protects them

and it waits.

It waits for all the other monsters to be driven out, so that it may uncoil itself, stretch itself out, creep into the bedroom

and feed.

Fifteen or so minutes, 352 words, a few images, an unexpected ending. Something where there wasn’t something before. Something unpolished and raw and imperfect. Something published for the sake a making a thing that isn’t perfect. Okay.

Maybe this will crack the ice, or at least sweep away a few snowdrifts.

No kumbaya moment at the National Cathedral as current and surviving POTUS’s and spouses shared the Awkward Pew during the state funeral of President George H.W. Bush. President Barack Obama was seen smiling slightly, presumably at the uncomfortable-ness of getting elected to sit immediately next to the current First Family, who previously headed the birther conspiracy movement that declared Obama’s presidency to be illegal. It was Obama’s first encounter with President Do…

"My daughter was getting older — and besides, I was out of ideas."

Previous births have used a transplanted womb but from a living donor.

The school's principal sent a letter to parents following the incident noting that as a parent himself, he understands the "sensitive nature" of what was discussed.

As a preteen Gabrielle Moss devoured books in "The Baby-Sitters Club" and "Sweet Valley High" series. She recently reread them for "nostalgic stress relief" and ended up writing a book on the genre.

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Caveats and technicalities discussed at CNN, the Washington Post and The Guardian.

Butte County sheriff's deputy Aaron Parmley shared video from his body-worn camera as he attempted to rescue four nurses fleeing the Camp Fire.

A 19-year-old student in France had a bad reaction to hair dye that made her face swell up to almost double its normal size.

She opted for a red color palette this year.

Fido's just not that exceptional.

It is unclear why they were rolling around on the ground like worms.

Including Cash the Australian shepherd.

It'll be called "The Testaments"

The Washington Redskins claimed Reuben Foster off waivers Tuesday after the San Francisco 49ers released the linebacker following a domestic violence arrest.

As California's catastrophic wildfires recede and people rebuild after two hurricanes, a massive new federal report warns that these types of disasters are worsening in the United States because of global warming. The White House report quietly issued Friday also frequently contradicts President Donald Trump.

Former Vice President Joe Biden has a new four-legged family member.

Through a new voucher program, a grandmother is donating her kidney now to help her granddaughter in the future.

There were quite a bit of reactions on the internet about the kiss.

"Filmmaker Sam Green was just about to fly out of Columbus, Ohio when his friend offered to make a quick detour. “She asked if I wanted to see a little pet cemetery that's across the street from the airport,” Green told The Atlantic. Armed with his camera, Green captured the tombstones of a menagerie of dearly departed animals...

Green said that he finds graveyards for pets especially moving because the headstones tend to be much more emotive than those found in human cemeteries. “You can say, ‘Buster was the best parakeet who ever lived,’” said Green. “With human graves, everything is so much more constrained.

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