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(Meredith) -- A woman who recently purchased a storage unit from "Storage Wars" Dan Dotson found $7.5 million in cash inside the unit. According to the Desert Sun, the A&E reality "Storage Wars" star sold a unit to a woman for $500 in Southern California. A month later, a friend of the woman told Dotson at a charity event that her friend found the load of cash inside a safe in the unit. Dotson said the attorney for the original owners of the unit found out their storage was sold and contacted the woman to negotiate a deal.

In a piece published Wednesday, journalist Vera Papisova said she was groped 22 times over a 10-hour period while attending Coachella, saying that she was “repeatedly violated by strangers.” Papisova described being followed, grabbed, insulted, spoken to inappropriately and groped on multiple occasions. Teen Vogue said all 54 women who spoke to the magazine during Coachella had a story about being sexually assaulted or harassed over that weekend. Meanwhile, Indio police would not confirm to CBS2 how many complaints of sexual misconduct were made during the first weekend. ... “I would’ve expected to see something on their website, in terms...

INDIO (CBSLA.com) - Students displaying anti-LGBT stickers at a high school in Indio have touched off a debate: is that free speech or hate speech?The stickers show a rainbow - the symbol of the gay community - with a line crossing through it. Officials said the stickers have increasingly shown up over the past two weeks on some students’ school ID badges at Shadow Hills High School, as well as on social media websites.The increasing number of the stickers caused an outcry at the school among students and faculty. Many called it hate speech. Shadow Hills senior and vice president...

More than 1,500 staff and students at a Southern California high school were tested for tuberculosis after one student was diagnosed with the bacterial infection last month, health officials said Friday. Nearly 1,400 students and faculty at Indio High School were tested on Friday and around 130 students had the TB tests on Monday. Forty-five students tested positive for possible exposure but more tests, including X-rays will be needed to determine whether they have active TB, health officials said. …