The U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, in San Francisco, exposed at least 1,073 workers, military personnel, and others to radiation early in the Cold War.

A coalition of California judges argue the state has been stiffing them for years by mishandling the formula it uses to calculate their wage increases. In a new lawsuit, one such judge is demanding that the state redo the math going back almost a decade to include information that likely would have resulted in bigger raises.

Until the end of the year, QPH is airing Gays Against Briggs, a seven-part series about the 1978 proposition known as the Briggs Initiative, which would ban gays and lesbians from working in California public schools.

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