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Photos: Remembering Katie Poirier

Donald Blom, the subject of one of the largest police investigations in state history after teenaged convenience store worker Katie Poirier disappeared in 1999, died Tuesday while serving a life sentence without parole for her murder.

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January 11, 2023 at 9:24PM
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Patrick Reusse Turkey of the Year past winners, from 1978 to today

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The "winners" have all been Turkeys, no matter the honor's name.

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In this photo taken Monday, March 6, 2017, in San Francisco, released confidential files by The University of California of a sexual misconduct case, like this one against UC Santa Cruz Latin Studies professor Hector Perla is shown. Perla was accused of raping a student during a wine-tasting outing in June 2015. Some of the files are so heavily redacted that on many pages no words are visible. Perla is one of 113 UC employees found to have violated the system's sexual misconduct policies in rece