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Here are a few things that are effectively legal in San Francisco: drugs, public defecation and shoplifting. And here are some of the things that are banned or will be banned in the City by the Bay. Straws. Fur coats. Bottled water. Eating at work. Vaping liquids. Upholstered furniture. Plastic bags. Pet stores. Electric scooters. Coffee cups and packing peanuts. Tropical fish. The McDonald’s Happy Meal. If you can think of something, San Francisco has already banned it. Or will be banning it soon. North Korea with a tech industry and some leftover Victorian architecture (which it’s banning tour buses...

The British branch of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have called for Maureen O’Hara’s fur coasts to be withdrawn from the auction set to take place in Durrow, County Laois. The auction, hosted by Sheppard’s auctioneers, will include furniture, furs and jewelry once belonging to the late, great “Quiet Man” star, Maureen O’Hara. Ahead of Wednesday’s auction PETA has sent an urgent letter to the Irish auction house calling for the late actor’s mink and sable coats to be removed from sale and donated to its fur amnesty program instead. The collection, formerly held by Maureen O’Hara...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Got a fur coat gathering dust? The Humane Society suggests the ultimate recycling - putting it on the backs of other animals. The Coats for Cubs program by the Humane Society of the United States helps orphaned, injured or sick wildlife by gathering fur coats and using them for nests, bedding or cuddly replacements for mom and dad. In 2009, 2,687 fur items were donated. "We use the discarded furs as bedding to give the animals comfort and reduce stress," said Michael Markarian, the agency's chief operating officer in Washington, D.C. "The fur garments act as...

A former Adriana Furs employee testified yesterday in the trial of former Washington Teachers Union officials, identifying five fur coats that she said defendant Gwendolyn M. Hemphill or family members purchased. "She didn't want her husband to know she was buying a fur coat," said Aki Shabani of the first purchase in 1999 -- a full-length mink coat worth about $4,096, which had Mrs. Hemphill's name monogrammed on the inside. Mrs. Hemphill, 63, a former officer manager, and former union Treasurer James O. Baxter II, 50, are charged with conspiracy and aiding and abetting in the theft of nearly $5...

The Nutria Are Here The scourge of Louisiana has found a happy home in Dallas' man-made lakes Nutria can survive in lakes where little else can, and they reproduce and look like rats—giant ones, anyway, with sharp orange buck teeth. BY CHERYL SMITH You know it's springtime in Dallas when the crepe myrtles begin to bloom, native wildflowers start their sprouting and the nutria waddle from their drainage pipes and sewers to frolic like kittens in the warm air. With their native land of Argentina too far away for swimming or travel by webbed foot, and a bounty on their...

Former Senator Carol Moseley Braun is expected today to announce that she will be running for her old seat on Capitol Hill.Moseley Braun lost it six years ago to Republican Peter Fitzgerald.According to a Chicago Democratic operative, Moseley Braun elicted laughter from several party officials weeks ago when she told them she was mulling a run for the Presdiency of the United States.'They couldn't help themselves, said one operative..'It just came out of left field.'Actually, it's not suprising that the former Senator, who once famously told staffers that she deserved to be treated like a princess, has an inflated opinion...