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Photo: View from Rancho Palos Verdes cliffs where Lomita restaurant owner David Liens survived jump. THAT would be news enough (rarely does anyone survive the fall here)  but the survivor then confessed to boiling his wife –see Recent News below.

BREAKING NEWS – Only in California

• SCE wants to start up repaired nuclear reactor in San Onofre. Price of electricity and who will pay for damaged reactor (shareholders or consumers) are several pending issues as an investigation continues after a nuclear radiation leak. License to re-start the reactor has not been issued yet, but Southern California Edison contends it is safe to run at least one of the repaired units that was shut down after a nuclear leak. Higher than normal concentrations of radiation were measured  in nearby Pacific Ocean kelp at Corona del Mar beaches.  “Hot rocks” that burned a woman after she picked them up at a beach near the San Onofre plant have not been directly attritbuted to either Fukushima, Japan nuclear disaster or the San Onofre reactor incident.
• A second federal lawsuit was filed asking courts to overturn California’s new law signed by Governor Brown, banning school psychotherapy aimed at making gay or lesbian teenagers straight. A Christian legal group filed a civil rights suit on Oct. 4 in Sacramento naming as plaintiffs two Southern California boys, ages 14 and 15, who have been undergoing “reparative therapy” which violates the teens’ freedom of speech and freedom of religion by denying them the chance to be cured of “unwanted same-sex attraction,” presumably funded with taxpayer dollars. The first lawsuit was filed by a “converted” student who is studying to be a therapist in that field. He says the law would prevent him from pursuing his career.
• Sex Offenders challenge ” Halloween law”: Sex offenders trick-or-treat advocacy group California Reform Sex Offender Laws, filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming that ordinances in Simi Valley that prohibit sex offenders from participating in Halloween festivities violate clients’ First Amendment rights.
• Sex Offender Parks Law: A sex offender recently filed a lawsuit over a law Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Seal Beach and Lake Forest adopted to ban registered sex offenders from entering public property. The lawsuit claims the cities’ ordinances banning him from entering city parks, roads and beaches violates the Constitution and his protected rights under the law.
• Rats fed controversial GMO (genetically modified organisms) that are common in American diets (while banned in many countries) died of cancers more often than a control group in a recently released study.  California voters decide in November whether to require labeling of  man-made, genetically altered GMO foods than contain Roundup and other insecticides absorbed readily through genetic alteration of seeds.

RECENT NEWS

• Chef found guilty of killing, then cooking his wife.  When Lomita, Calif. restaurant owner and chef David Viens survived a jump from Rancho Palos Verdes cliffs (shown in photo above), he confessed to cooking Dawn Marie Viens, 39, who completely vanished in October 2009. Her remains have never been found. David Viens was questioned by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detectives about his wife’s death in March 2011, while recovering from injuries he suffered from leaping off an 80-foot cliff in an apparent suicide attempt. The couple owned a restaurant in Lomita. Viens told detectives that during a quarrel with his spouse he bound and gagged her with duct tape and went to sleep. When he saw her lifeless body in the morning, he disposed of it by placing it in a large vat, placing weights on it, and cooking it for four days. He threw the stew down his restaurant drain, he said, and hid the skeletal remains that have never been found.