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Bride, 4 others die in limo fire on a California bridge AP: When one of the nine women in his limousine complained about smoke, Orville Brown pulled to the side of a San Francisco Bay bridge to check. As he got out, the back of the vehicle became engulfed in flames. A newlywed bride and eight of her friends were still inside, but passersby quickly pulled three from the burning Lincoln Town Car late Saturday night. And one woman managed to reach safety by squeezing through the partition from the passenger section to the driver’s compartment, Brown told authorities. But five others, including the bride whose marriage they were celebrating on a girls’ night out, became trapped. Photo: San Mateo County firefighters and California Highway Patrol personnel investigate the scene of a limousine fire on the westbound side of the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge in Foster City, Calif.  (Oakland Tribune-Bay Area News Group, Jane Tyska) View high resolution

Bride, 4 others die in limo fire on a California bridge

AP: When one of the nine women in his limousine complained about smoke, Orville Brown pulled to the side of a San Francisco Bay bridge to check. As he got out, the back of the vehicle became engulfed in flames.

A newlywed bride and eight of her friends were still inside, but passersby quickly pulled three from the burning Lincoln Town Car late Saturday night. And one woman managed to reach safety by squeezing through the partition from the passenger section to the driver’s compartment, Brown told authorities.

But five others, including the bride whose marriage they were celebrating on a girls’ night out, became trapped.

Photo: San Mateo County firefighters and California Highway Patrol personnel investigate the scene of a limousine fire on the westbound side of the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge in Foster City, Calif.  (Oakland Tribune-Bay Area News Group, Jane Tyska)
Chris Brown totals Porsche, says he was being chased by paparazzi CNN: Singer Chris Brown totaled his car while being “ruthlessly pursued by paparazzi,” his representative said.Beverly Hills police said Brown crashed his black Porsche into a wall Saturday afternoon. “Brown stated that he was being chased by paparazzi, causing him to lose control of his vehicle,” police said in a statement. The crash follows last month’s death of a photographer who was killed in traffic after taking pictures of Justin Bieber’s Ferrari. Photo: Chris Brown poses in the media room at the BET Awards in Los Angeles on June 26, 2011. (Jason Merritt / Getty Images)

Chris Brown totals Porsche, says he was being chased by paparazzi

CNN: Singer Chris Brown totaled his car while being “ruthlessly pursued by paparazzi,” his representative said.

Beverly Hills police said Brown crashed his black Porsche into a wall Saturday afternoon. “Brown stated that he was being chased by paparazzi, causing him to lose control of his vehicle,” police said in a statement.

The crash follows last month’s death of a photographer who was killed in traffic after taking pictures of Justin Bieber’s Ferrari.

Photo: Chris Brown poses in the media room at the BET Awards in Los Angeles on June 26, 2011. (Jason Merritt / Getty Images)

Sherrif: Student shoots 2 at California high school

NBC News: A high school teacher and a campus supervisor talked a student into surrendering after he opened fire in a classroom, wounding a classmate at a California school, police say. The shooter hit a 16-year-old student and missed firing on another student, police say. The wounded victim was airlifted to the hospital and remains in critical, but stable, condition.

The teacher, who has not been identified, received a pellet wound, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood says.

Court blocks California law that banned gay conversion therapy

A federal appeals court Friday put a hold on a new California law intended to prevent therapists from trying to change a minor’s sexual orientation, the Los Angeles Times reported.

In a brief order, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to a block the law, scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, pending a decision on its constitutionality.

More from the Times here.

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California becomes 1st state to ban ‘gay cure’ therapy for teens

NBC News: California has become the first state in the nation to ban therapy that tries turning gay teens straight. Gov. Jerry Brown says he signed Senate Bill 1172, which prohibits children under 18 from undergoing ‘sexual orientation change efforts.’ The law goes into effect Jan. 1.

The bill was sponsored by Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, who says unethical practices by mental-health providers to try changing a young person’s sexual orientation have caused psychological harm.

JUST IN: US court declines to hear California Prop 8 appeal

The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way for the Supreme Court to consider California’s gay marriage ban, declining an appeal to revisit the case, Reuters reports.

Read more about same-sex marriage in California on breakingnews.com.

UPDATE (1:45 p.m. EDT): Sponsors of California’s same-sex marriage ban plan to take case to US Supreme Court, AP reports.

California rejects bid to lower penalty for possession of small amounts of drugs

On Thursday, the California Senate defeated a bill that would downgrade from a felony to a misdemeanor charges for simple possession of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine.

(Source: blogs.sacbee.com)