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HTML

<div class="breadcrumbs">
    <a title="Go to Page." href="http://www.domain.com/dev" class="home">Home Page</a> &gt; <a title="Go to the News category archives." href="http://www.domain.com/dev/topics/news/" class="taxonomy category">News</a> &gt; <span>News</span>
</div>

JavaScript

jQuery(".breadcrumbs .category").remove();
var resultingHtml = jQuery(".breadcrumbs").html();
resultingHtml = resultingHtml.replace(/(\s*&gt;){2,}/mi, "$1");
jQuery(".breadcrumbs").html(resultingHtml);