http://www.allvoices.com/ en-us California could become the first state to legalize marijuana after Democrat Tom Ammiano from San Francisco introduced a bill to the state assembly that would put marijuana on the same legal footing as alcohol or tobacco. This comes at a... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4253533 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:35:31 -0700 An elementary school in northern Texas is arranging busses to allow its students to go watch former President G.W. Bush speak in Dallas along side some of the Cowboys and local business men. This same school refused to air Obama's... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4113634 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:29:26 -0700 Ex-Nazi Josef Schuengraber was recently convicted of murdering ten civilians in Italy on June 26, 1944. The trial occurred in Germany and is probably one of the last of it's kind. As the Nazi generation ages it's becoming less and... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3892764 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:21:02 -0700 Everyone has heard the story of about thirsty crow that can't reach the water at the bottom of a bucket. Instead of tipping out the water, the bird collects rocks and drops them in the bucket, slowly raising the water... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3864694 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:24:05 -0700 The second of two ships left San Francisco today to study an accumulation of plastic trash that is estimated to cover an area greater than Texas in the North Pacific Ocean. These two ships will spend the entire month studying... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3838323 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:34:13 -0700 A man in Wisconsin is facing 25 years in prison after his daughter died of undiagnosed diabetes, a treatable disease. His 11 year-old daughter died as a crowd of people stood around her and prayed. Her mother has already been... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3818496 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:14:41 -0700 An earthquake of the west coast of the south island of New Zealand has moved the west coast of the country about 12 inches (30 mil) closer to Australia, while the east coast moved less than an inch. In short,... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3742114 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:31:02 -0700 Sociologist Kian Tajbakhsh has been arrested in Iran. He is both an American and Iranian citizen, though Iran does not recognize duel citizenship. He was detained in Iran from May to September of 2007 for breaching national security and had... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3672490 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:23:54 -0700 Rules of the Fifth Wall is a new play being performed in San Francisco right now. It was written by Kathleen Cole Burke and is running through July 18th at the Brava in the Mission (24th street). The show plays... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3660187 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:39:01 -0700 On July 4th, U.S. and South Korean networks were bombarded with a series of relatively simple cyber attacks that lasted for a few days. The main result was that some people may have been unable to access some government websites,... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3638329 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:21:30 -0700 A worker in New Jersey has died after falling into a vat of melted chocolate. He appears to have died from a blow to the head he received from a mixing paddle on contact, meaning he did not have to... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3634236 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:20:47 -0700 Pablo Sandoval is a rising legend in San Francisco. He is in his second year and despite bouncing around the infield at first, he has now found a home at third base. Last night, in a one run game he... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3622580 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:27:04 -0700 When passengers on a Thomas Cook flight were told they would have to wait 8 hours for a mechanic to arrive from the UK, a passenger got up and identified himself as an airplane mechanic. After showing the proper identification... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3616288 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:51:06 -0700 Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin has announced that she will not run for reelection and because of this she didn't want to wait around for her term to end. Her term as governor was set to end in 2010. She didn't... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3596126 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:43:30 -0700 New research on a mega-colony of Argentine ants has revealed that the colony has branches in Europe, California, and Japan. The ants from these colonies refuse to fight with each other and treat each other like family despite being separated... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3582112 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:37:09 -0700 A 14-year-old girl has been pulled out of the water among the debris from the Airbus crash Monday. She was pulled from the water suffering from exhaustion and was very cold. Rescuers had to jump into the water to get... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3572713 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:53:00 -0700 Due to the approaching deadline for US troops to withdraw from Iraqi cities, the Iraqis have thrown a huge party in Baghdad. Thousands have come to Zawra Park in the nation's capital to unite in celebration of their freedom. On... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3563586 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:39:33 -0700 According to BBC News, the H1N1 virus, known as swine flu, has shown resistance to the antiviral, Tamiflu, used to treat it. The drug has been used to treat the swine flu, but a patient in Denmark has shown resistance.... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3562076 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:06:50 -0700 Out of curiosity, how big do you think Allvoices is? I know Eriks from Sweden has 18,153 fans (and I was so flattered when he added me only an hour or two after I joined), but he has the most... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3536488 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:14:52 -0700 According to the funniest article I've read on BBC in a while, Australia is having a problem with wallabies eating opium plants and hopping around in circles in the poppy fields. Australia grows about 50% of the worlds legal opium... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3533761 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:05:45 -0700