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Calif. mayor charged for drunken fit over milkshake, report says (CBS) ATWATER, Calif. - Craig Mooneyham, who was filling in as mayor of Atwater, Calif., is accused of throwing a drunken fit over a $7 milkshake, CBS Sacramento reports. According to the station, witnesses say the mayor was so mad about having to pay $7 for a banana milkshake, he started cursing and nearly got into a fight. "He was just throwing the f-bombs and pretty much everything else," Liliana Gracian, an employee of Fosters Freeze, a fast-food chain, told the station. Mooneyham reportedly swore he was overcharged for extra...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Mayor of Castro Street, Harvey Milk, will finally have a permanent place at San Francisco's City Hall once a commissioned sculpture of the former supervisor is completed and displayed. Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated in their City Hall offices on Nov. 27, 1978. The killer, Dan White, was only sentenced to seven years in prison, leading to rioting among the city's gay community. Both Milk and Moscone were leaders in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual rights movement. Earlier this week, the San Francisco Art Commission approved a sculpture to be created by...