• Santa Barbara County kicks off fire season early

  Dry vegetation and warm weather are forcing Santa Barbara County fire officials to declare an early start of the wildfire season.

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• Man finds Ill. woman's wallet that had been stolen in 1973

  - 10:19 AM PDT

• Judge bans 4 shoplifters from Pa. malls, calls them locusts

  - 07:19 AM PDT

• Woman donates kidney to her former English teacher

  - 03:00 AM PDT

• Gorilla celebrates her 55th birthday with frozen cake

  - 06:30 PM PDT

• Omaha man uses steak knife to perform self-tracheotomy

  - 06:11 PM PDT

Health/Science

• Drugs, teens, pot are dangerous mix

  - 07:55 AM PDT

• 77 more hepatitis cases may trace to clinic, officials say

  - 07:25 AM PDT

• Medical know-how raises suicide risk for doctors

  - 08:21 PM PDT
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  Armstrong urges Congress to renew war on cancer

  - 08:10 PM PDT

• New idea in mortuary science: Dissolving bodies with lye

  - 06:01 PM PDT