$4M of Pot on Beach, $4M Of Pot Found On California Beach

$4M of Pot on Beach, $4M Of Pot Found On California Beach, A Panga boat smuggling drugs into California has been seized by narcotics investigators. Narcotics detectives recovered 500 plastic-wrapped bales of marijuana at Arroyo QUemada beach Sunday morning. $4m of pot on beach: The $4 million in marijuana found near an abandoned boat near Santa Barbara is not the first. Police say more than 20 of these pot smuggling boats have landed in the area in the past year.

The 2,000 lbs of drugs have an estimated street value of four million dollars. Detectives also found evidence of marijuana smuggling, including trash that was strewn around the beach.

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Blake Shelton Rumors, Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert Laugh Off Cheating Rumors

Blake Shelton Rumors, Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert Laugh Off Cheating Rumors, The latest "it" couple to make headlines over an alleged cheating scandal is none other than country music royalty Blake Shelton and wife Miranda Lambert. But the country crooners aren't taking the reports to heart -- or even seriously, for that matter.

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$22 minimum wage, Elizabeth Warren: Minimum Wage Would Be $22 An Hour If It Had Kept Up With Productivity

$22 minimum wage, Elizabeth Warren: Minimum Wage Would Be $22 An Hour If It Had Kept Up With Productivity, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) made a case for increasing the minimum wage last week during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing, in which she cited a study that suggested the federal minimum wage would have stood at nearly $22 an hour today if it had kept up with increased rates in worker productivity.

"If we started in 1960 and we said that as productivity goes up, that is as workers are producing more, then the minimum wage is going to go up the same. And if that were the case then the minimum wage today would be about $22 an hour," she said, speaking to Dr. Arindrajit Dube, a University of Massachusetts Amherst professor who has studied the economic impacts of minimum wage.

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Jason Molina dies, Songwriter Jason Molina Dies at 39

Jason Molina dies, Songwriter Jason Molina Dies at 39, Jason Molina, the songwriter behind Songs:Ohia and the Magnolia Electric Co., died this past Saturday at his home in Indianapolis at the age of 39. The Ohio native, who between 1997 and 2009 put out several records under those names and his own, had struggled with alcoholism for years. After more than a decade of startlingly prolific songwriting, he mostly disappeared from the public view a few years ago, as his drinking led to stints in rehab and serious health problems.

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Big Bang Theory Four Years

Big Bang Theory Four Years, Big Bang Theory’s four years of change in TV ratings was discussed by cast members this week with local news. With nearly unbeatable numbers now in 2013, the cast is shocked how the Big Bang Theory’s four years have progressed from nearly last to first in network standingss. One of the biggest and most popular shows in television history is celebrating four years on the air, and a lot of difference can happen in just less than half a decade.

"The Big Bang Theory" appeared at Paleyfest this week, and reports on Thursday, March 14, 2013, show that they have truly grown since their first time there in 2009. Back when the cast appeared at Paleyfest in 2009, "The Big Bang Theory" wasn't even in the doemstic top 40. Now, they're the second most-watched show on all of television, coming in just behind "NCIS." That's because "The Big Bang Theory" is bringing in more than 20 million viewers per episode.

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Dead Pigs in River

Dead Pigs in River - Dead pigs in main Shanghai river no threat to drinking water, officials say.  Shanghai authorities are insisting that tap water there is still safe to drink despite anywhere up to 3,000 dead pigs being fished from the city's main waterway.

The Shanghai water bureau said that workers had fished the swine from the Huangpu river, which flows past the Bund waterfront district. Reported globalpost.

The river provides drinking water for Shanghai's 23 million plus residents.

NBC cited an official statement by Shanghai Agriculture Committee, posted on Weibo, as saying that some of the pigs were infected by porcine circovirus (PCV) virus.

PCV was found in a sample taken from the Songjiang section of the Huangpu river, but the disease would not infect humans, the statement added.

The assessment accords with information provided on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website.

NBC also cited a Shanghai Water management officer named "Zhu" as saying that the results of hourly water tests were normal.

Meanwhile, Voice of America citedthe Agriculture Committee as saying there was no substance to a claim that the pigs were dumped upriver in Zheiiang province.

According to Bloomberg, the Chinese government had recently come under fire over health and environmental issues, including a cadmium spill in a tributary of the Pearl River in January 2012 that triggered panic buying of bottled water, and a 2010 waste leak into a river in southern Fujian province that killed nearly 2,000 tons of fish.

Beijing has announced a plan for a regulator "with broader authority to ensure food and drug safety."

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Canned Tuna Recall

Canned Tuna Recall, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Bumble Bee Foods expanded its voluntary recall of canned tuna.   The expansion adds some product codes to the list of five-ounce cans and cases of five-ounce cans recalled March 6, 2013.Original story March 6, 2013.

Bumble Bee Foods is voluntarily recalling some five-ounce packages of canned tuna because the cans may not be tightly sealed......wqad.

The Food and Drug Administration announced the recall Wednesday, March 6, 2013. “Loose seals or seams could result in product contamination by spoilage organisms or pathogens and lead to illness if consumed,” said the recall notice on the FDA website.

No illness had been reported in connection with the recalled canned tuna. Bumble Bee recalled five-ounce cans of chunk light tuna with “best buy code” dates of January 16, 17 and 18 of 2016.  The cans are sold in 48-can cases, 24-can cases, four-packs and eight-packs.

The recall also includes 48-can cases of some Brunswick brand tuna. The recalled cans were distributed nationwide in January and February of this year.

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