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California won’t bar parolee transfers to immigration agents
A bill that would have blocked California state prisons from transferring inmates to federal immigration custody was failing as lawmakers prepared to adjourn Wednesday. Gov.
California weighs rules giving fast food workers more power
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Since she came to California from Mexico 24 years ago, Maria Bernal has been supporting her family by often working two jobs at fast food restaurants. But she says she wound up living in a small Kia with her two youngest children, then ages 3 and 15, for six months after she lost her housing in 2019 when one of her employers began paying her minimum wage for eight hours even when she worked a 16-hour double shift.
California targets local recall election ‘hyperpartisanship’
Democratic state lawmakers moved Tuesday to limit the “hyperpartisanship” they said has increasingly corrupted California's local recall elections, over the objection of Republicans who said it could boost costs and thwart voters' will. Currently, voters generally decide whether to recall a sitting official and choose that official's replacement at the same time and on the same ballot.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of California children for an attempted $5 million ransom in 1976 in what a prosecutor called “the largest mass kidnapping in U.S. history” is being released by the state's parole board. Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the board to reconsider its decision to parole Frederick Woods, 70, on Tuesday after two commissioners recommended his release in March when previous panels had denied him parole 17 times.
California not ready to declare emergency over monkeypox
FILE - People line up at a monkeypox vaccination site on Thursday, July 28, 2022, in Encino, Calif. California's public health officer said they are pressing for more vaccine and closely monitoring the spread of the monkeypox virus.
2 California inmates killed in separate prison attacks
Two inmates at separate California prisons were killed in weekend attacks by other inmates, corrections officials said Monday. One victim was previously suspected in his cellmate's death, and two of the four attackers were also suspected in prior slayings, authorities confirmed. The first happened Friday night at High Desert State Prison in Susanville, when officials say Joseph Gama and Alvaro Saldana attacked Albert Martinez in a maximum-security housing unit.
The California Department of Justice on Wednesday acknowledged the agency wrongly made public the personal information of perhaps hundreds of thousands of gun owners in up to six state-operated databases, a broader exposure than the agency initially disclosed a day earlier. Rob Bonta, the Democrat who heads the agency and is running for reelection in November, said he was “deeply disturbed and angered” by the failure to protect the information his department is entrusted to keep.
California lawmaker scraps plan for preteen vaccine consent
California lawmakers on Thursday amended a bill that would have let preteens be vaccinated against a range of health conditions without their parents' consent, instead raising the proposed minimum age to 15, which would still be among the youngest in the U.S. Currently, minors age 12 to 17 in California cannot be vaccinated without permission from their parents or guardians, except for vaccinations to prevent sexually transmitted diseases.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Low voter turnout and some political gamesmanship may decide which of three challengers emerges Tuesday to take on California Attorney General Rob Bonta in the November election. Bonta, the only Democrat in the race, is running in his first statewide election after Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed the former state assemblyman to the post last year.
California legislative races feature intraparty struggles
FILE - Assemblywoman Nicole Parra, D-Hanford, addresses the California Assembly in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Sept. 29, 2003. Parra is battling fellow Democrat, state Sen. Melisa Hurtado for the newly redrawn 16th state Senate District seat in the June 7, 2022 primary. (AP Photo/Steve Yeater, File) AP Democrats in deep blue California have a virtual lock on overwhelming majorities in the state Legislature for the foreseeable future.
More than half of substantiated California child abuse reports in recent years were not in the state's database, which could result in child abusers being allowed to care for children, state auditors said Tuesday. The unreliability of the database “puts children at risk,” auditors said.
A California lawmaker made a play for the top leadership post in the state Assembly on Friday, announcing he had secured enough votes among the Democrat-dominated chamber to succeed the current speaker. Assemblymember Robert Rivas, a Democrat from Hollister, said in a news release he had enough votes from the Democratic Caucus to replace Anthony Rendon, who has been speaker since 2016 but does not have to leave office until he is termed out in 2024.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A California man pleaded guilty Friday to plotting to blow up the state Democratic Party's headquarters in what prosecutors said was the first in a planned series of politically-motivated attacks after the defeat of former President Donald Trump.
Angry Newsom criticizes Texas governor, US judges on guns
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday harshly criticized Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in the wake of an elementary school shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead and assailed two federal judges as “extremists" for their rulings undermining California's gun control efforts.
FILE - Weapons are displayed during a news conference in Los Angeles on Feb. 22, 2022, after state and regional law enforcement seized 114 guns from people legally prohibited from owning firearms during a five-day sweep across 51 cities in the Los Angeles area.
Republicans think they have a chance this year to unseat an appointed state attorney general they say is too progressive even for California, in part because they view him as soft on crime as that issue rises in importance for voters. But first they must avoid dividing the party and perhaps alienating key independent voters during a primary campaign featuring three main candidates seeking to defeat Rob Bonta.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Three alleged gang members were charged with murder Tuesday in the slayings of three women fatally shot in a gunbattle that rocked California’s capital city a month ago. Prosecutors say the mass shooting that ultimately killed six people and erupted before dawn on April 3 in downtown Sacramento was a result of a feud between two rival gangs, the Garden Blocc Crips and G-Mobb, and their allies. G-Mobb is affiliated with the Bloods street gang.
Bill allowing preteen vaccines without parental OK advances
A California measure that would allow children age 12 and up to be vaccinated without their parents’ consent, including against the coronavirus, cleared its first legislative hurdle Thursday. If the proposal becomes law, California would allow the youngest age group of any state to be vaccinated without parental permission.
Prosecutors charge 3 with murder in Sacramento mass shooting
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE, DON THOMPSON and STEFANIE DAZIO SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Three alleged gang members were charged with murder Tuesday in the slayings of three women fatally shot in a gunbattle that rocked California’s capital city a month ago. Prosecutors say the mass shooting that ultimately killed six people and erupted before dawn on April 3 in downtown Sacramento was a result of a feud between two rival gangs, the Garden Blocc Crips and G-Mobb, and their allies.
Prosecutors charge 3 with murder in Sacramento mass shooting
Three alleged gang members were charged with murder Tuesday in the slayings of three women fatally shot in a gunbattle that rocked California’s capital city a month ago. Prosecutors say the mass shooting that ultimately killed six people and erupted before dawn on April 3 in downtown Sacramento was a result of a feud between two rival gangs, the Garden Blocc Crips and G-Mobb, and their allies. G-Mobb is affiliated with the Bloods street gang. Officials say at least five people opened fire.
Prosecutors charge 3 with murder in Sacramento mass shooting
KATHLEEN RONAYNE, DON THOMPSON and STEFANIE DAZIO, Associated Press May 3, 2022Updated: May 3, 2022 11:10 p.m. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Three alleged gang members were charged with murder Tuesday in the slayings of three women fatally shot in a gunbattle that rocked California’s capital city a month ago.
Prosecutors charge 3 with murder in Sacramento mass shooting
Prosecutors have filed murder charges in a mass shooting that rocked California’s capital city a month ago. District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said Tuesday that Smiley Martin, Dandrae Martin and Mtula Payton have been charged with murder in the slayings. All three are eligible for death penalty but that decision has not been made yet. The gang feud erupted in gunfire before dawn April 3 as patrons of bars and nightclubs emptied out onto the streets in downtown Sacramento.
Two men have pleaded guilty for their role in an organized retail theft ring that stole about $1 million from stores across California, officials said Friday. Authorities said Anton Salaam, Marion Paul Tilley and two other suspects stole high-end jewelry from multiple JCPenney and Sam’s Clubs stores in nine counties between September 2020 and February 2021. They then sold or exchanged the items.
California Set to Keep Workplace Pandemic Rules Through 2022
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California workplace regulators are poised to extend mandatory pay for workers affected by the coronavirus through the end of 2022, more than two months after state lawmakers restored similar benefits through September. The decision expected Thursday again pits management against labor as the seven-member Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board renews revised workplace safety rules that would otherwise expire in early May.
California set to keep workplace pandemic rules through 2022
By: Don Thompson, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California workplace regulators are poised to extend mandatory pay for workers affected by the coronavirus through the end of 2022, more than two months after state lawmakers restored similar benefits through September. The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board is set to take up the issue Thursday. The debate again pits management against labor.
California set to keep workplace pandemic rules through 2022
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California workplace regulators are poised to extend mandatory pay for workers affected by the coronavirus through the end of 2022, more than two months after state lawmakers restored similar benefits through September. The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board is set to take up the issue Thursday.
California set to keep workplace pandemic rules through 2022
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California workplace regulators are poised to extend mandatory pay for workers affected by the coronavirus through the end of 2022, more than two months after state lawmakers restored similar benefits through September. The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board is set to take up the issue Thursday.
California set to keep workplace pandemic rules through 2022
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California workplace regulators are poised to extend mandatory pay for workers affected by the coronavirus through the end of 2022, more than two months after state lawmakers restored similar benefits through September. The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board is set to take up the issue Thursday.
California set to keep workplace pandemic rules through 2022
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California workplace regulators are poised to extend mandatory pay for workers affected by the coronavirus through the end of 2022, more than two months after state lawmakers restored similar benefits through September. The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board is set to take up the issue Thursday. The debate again pits management against labor.
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