California news http://www.mydesert.com en-us Copyright 2013, mydesert SaxoTech Online Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700 Tue, 21 May 2013 18:46:06 -0700 15 http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20130520/NEWS10/305200003 Federal regulators have pushed back indefinitely a decision on the proposed restart of the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant in California. Mon, 20 May 2013 11:53:00 -0700 http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20130520/NEWS10/305200003 http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20130518/NEWS10/305180008 Of course, the chances of winning the $600 million prize remain astronomically low: 1 in 175.2 million. And lottery officials said Saturday that 80 percent of the possible combinations have been purchased. Sat, 18 May 2013 20:24:00 -0700 http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20130518/NEWS10/305180008 http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20130518/NEWS10/305180001 Sunbathers flocking to Southern California beaches are used to feeding the meter or paying a parking attendant. Not so along the less developed north coast where it's customary to ditch cars on the shoulder of Highway 1 to surf, swim or picnic. Sat, 18 May 2013 10:22:00 -0700 http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20130518/NEWS10/305180001 http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20130517/NEWS10/305170012 California Attorney General Kamala Harris met with a new statewide taskforce of district attorneys Friday to study ways to reduce gun violence and enforce existing law. Fri, 17 May 2013 19:51:00 -0700 http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20130517/NEWS10/305170012 http://www.mydesert.com/article/20130516/NEWS10/305160007 'Sexual psychopath.' That was the diagnosis a court-ordered psychiatrist gave Donald Robert Hoffman after he was convicted of molesting a 13-year-old boy in 1965. Hoffman, the psychiatrist determined, was a danger to others. Thu, 16 May 2013 12:38:00 -0700 http://www.mydesert.com/article/20130516/NEWS10/305160007