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Undercover Investigation Reveals Little Oversight At California Horse Auctions
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – Americans don’t eat horsemeat, but we do export horses for slaughter. Most end up on dining tables in Europe and China. While California is one of the few states that bans the...
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Calif. Race Tracks, Rescue Groups Take Action Against Horsemeat Trade
BERKELEY (KPIX 5) – California horses are supposed to be protected by law from slaughter for human consumption. Yet many still end up in the slaughter pipeline, including thoroughbreds. That’s why some...
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Bay Area Bicycle Theft Victims Band Together, Find Stolen Rides
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Bicycle thefts have risen to epidemic levels in much of the Bay Area. Thieves don’t discriminate, everything from top of the line road bikes to the most basic bicycles are...
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Many Calif. Vets End Up With Huge Debts From For-Profit Colleges
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Nearly 600,000 veterans are going to back to school on the GI bill. But many veterans are recruited by for-profit schools with high tuition, high default and high drop out...
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Bay Area Church Leaders Under Investigation For Alleged Real Estate Scheme
VALLEJO (KPIX 5) – Two leaders of a Bay Area church with a controversial past are under investigation for an alleged real estate scheme, KPIX 5 has learned. Some members of the General Assembly Church,...
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Ex-Members Of Bay Area Church Recall Lives Under Total Control
VALLEJO (KPIX 5) – Former members of an East Bay church whose leaders are under investigation by the state Department of Corporations for an alleged real estate scheme said the probe brings back...
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Ex-Bay Area Church Members Describe Alleged Real Estate Scheme
VALLEJO (KPIX 5) – Earlier this month, KPIX 5 reported about leaders of a Bay Area church embroiled in an alleged illegal real estate scheme. The victims: all parishioners, who said they were...
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Judge Rules Against Bay Area Church Leaders In Real Estate Case
VALLEJO (KPIX 5) – A California state judge has ruled against two leaders of a prominent Bay Area church accused of bilking parishioners in an alleged investment scheme. The judge ruled that General...
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Golden Gate Fields Investigating How Horse Went Up For Auction
BERKELEY (KPIX 5) — A Bay Area race track is investigating why one of its thoroughbreds ended up on the auction block, where horses are at risk of being sent to slaughter. As KPIX 5 reported earlier...
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BART Crush Expected To Worsen, May Put Passengers At Risk
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — If you’ve ever been on the subway in New York or Tokyo, you’re familiar with how packed trains can be. Commuters who ride BART are increasingly experiencing crushing crowds and...
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Bo Derek Renews California Effort To Ban Horse Slaughtering Nationwide
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — The USDA said it will increase inspections of imported beef, in the midst of a horsemeat scandal in Europe. So far, none of the tainted products have made it to the United...
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Pesticides May Be To Blame For Bee Die-Off In California, Nation
VISALIA, Tulare County (KPIX 5) – Honeybees have been dying at an alarming rate for years, but a new government survey shows nearly a third of the nation’s honeybees died over the winter. Some...
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California Red Light Camera Critics Say Yellow Lights Change Too Quickly
FREMONT (KPIX 5) — Critics of California’s red light cameras say drivers are getting way too many citations and are backing a bill that would change the system by extending the length of yellow lights....
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KPIX 5 Investigates: Horses Endure Harsh Conditions At Daly City Stables
DALY CITY (KPIX 5) — KPIX 5 has learned there are questions about how horses at a coastside stable are being treated. The owner tells us everything is fine. But two Bay Area women say they have...
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Electronic Tolling On Golden Gate Bridge May Not Spot Motorcycles
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — It’s been just over three months since the Golden Gate Bridge laid off toll takers and switched to an all-electronic system. While bridge officials made the move to save money,...
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Bay Area Environmental Group Suing EPA Over Pesticide Drift
OAKLAND (KPIX 5) — On Wednesday, a Bay Area environmental group will file a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency, accusing the feds of not protecting children from pesticide drift. The...
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Loophole Allows Fumigants On California’s Organic Strawberries
SANTA CRUZ (KPIX 5) – Strawberries are a summer favorite for many. But there is something about the organic ones that consumers don’t know about: they are not actually 100 percent organic. “There’s a...
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Parking Crackdown Targets San Francisco Food Trucks
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Food trucks in San Francisco’s Financial District will soon have to follow the same parking rules as everyone else, following new regulations that became law last month. The...
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Electronics Recycler Makes Off With Cash From California Consumers
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Consumers who buy a new TV or computer pay an extra fee to dispose of old electronics. But the owner of a company that disposes of electronic waste has made off with hundreds...
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Ghost Voting: California Assembly Members Caught Breaking The Rules
SACRAMENTO (KPIX 5) — When Californians go to the polls, the rules are clear: one vote per person. But the same principle apparently doesn’t apply to state lawmakers. KPIX 5 was at the State Capitol...
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