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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez has announced that she is resigning her council seat amid a scandal over racist remarks that came to light in a leaked recording. Martinez announced her decision in a press release Wednesday following a groundswell of outrage and calls for the resignations of her and two other council members involved in the conversation recorded last year.
California 1st to make firms disclose social media policies
California will impose first-of-its-kind requirements on social media companies to publish their policies for removing disturbing content including hate speech, with details on how and when they remove that content, under a bill signed into law by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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. Ian Benjamin Rogers, 46, of Napa, pleaded guilty to conspiring to destroy a building by fire or explosives, possessing an explosive device and possessing a machine gun under a plea agreement that could bring him seven to nine years in federal prison.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California parole panel recommended the release of Patricia Krenwinkel for the first time Thursday, more than five decades after she and other followers of cult leader Charles Manson terrorized the state and she wrote “Helter Skelter” on a wall using the blood of one of their victims. Krenwinkel, 74, was previously denied parole 14 times for the slayings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four other people in 1969.
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.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Sherri Papini, the Northern California woman charged last month with faking her kidnapping in 2016, accepted a plea bargain with prosecutors Tuesday and acknowledged she made up the story that prompted a frantic search and international headlines. Defense attorney William Portanova said his client will plead guilty to charges of lying to a federal officer and mail fraud.
FILE - Cans and plastic bottles brought in for recycling fill containers at a recycling center in Sacramento, Calif., July 5, 2016. Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration proposed Friday, April 1, 2022, to temporarily double California's typical nickel refunds for bottles and cans to boost recycling and help spend down a roughly $600 million surplus built up during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) Rich Pedroncelli AP SACRAMENTO, Calif.
FILE - This undated photo released by U.S. Attorney's Office shows Omar Abdulsattar Ameen. A U.S. immigration judge in California has halted the deportation of Ameen, back to Iraq for fear that he could be tortured if he were returned to face allegations that he killed a police officer on behalf of the Islamic State Group. (U.S. Attorney's Office via AP, File) AP SACRAMENTO, Calif.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California parole commissioners on Friday recommended parole for the last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of children for $5 million ransom in 1976. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California parole commissioners on Friday recommended parole for the last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of children for $5 million ransom in 1976.
Jury: California health system did not abuse market power
FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2019, file photo, an American flag flies outside the Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento, Calif. A federal jury ruled that Sutter Health did not abuse its market powers to drive up costs for consumers and businesses. The verdict in the class action lawsuit was reached Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) Rich Pedroncelli AP SACRAMENTO, Calif.
CA Governor is in LA to Discuss Mental Health Courts for Homeless People
California Governor Gavin Newsom was in Los Angeles Thursday to discuss his new CARE Court program that would create mental health courts in every county, allowing treatment for more homeless people with severe mental health and addiction disorders but also could force some of them into care -- a move that's been criticized. Newsom traveled to meet with health care and service providers, and local and judicial officials. Gov.
FILE - This undated photo provided by the Merced County Sheriff's Office shows David Mora, who was under a restraining order and not supposed to have a gun when authorities say he fatally shot his three daughters, a chaperone and himself during a supervised visit with the girls at a Northern California church, officials said Tuesday, March 1, 2022.
California's governor unveiled a plan Thursday to offer more services to homeless people with severe mental health and addiction disorders even if that means forcing some into care, a move that many advocates of the homeless oppose as a violation of civil rights. The proposal by Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, would require all counties to set up a mental health branch in civil court and provide comprehensive and community-based treatment to those suffering from debilitating psychosis.
Scott Peterson, seated, listens as attorneys Shelley Sandusky, left, Pat Harris, second from left, and Cliff Gardner, third from right foreground, speak during a break at hearing at the San Mateo County Superior Court in Redwood City, Calif., Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, Pool) Jeff Chiu AP SACRAMENTO, Calif.
3 million plaintiffs seek $1.2B from California health firm
FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2019, file photo, an American flag flies outside the Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento, Calif. A lawsuit on behalf of more than 3 million employers and individuals is seeking as much as $1.2 billion from Sutter Health in an antitrust class-action trial that gets underway, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) Rich Pedroncelli AP SACRAMENTO, Calif.
California’s first surgeon general resigns after 3 years
FILE - California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris speaks at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, June 25, 2019. Burke Harris, who was appointed California's first surgeon general by Gov. Gavin Newsom in January 2019, said Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, that she is resigning her position because she is "prioritizing care for myself and my family." (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) Rich Pedroncelli AP SACRAMENTO, Calif.
Ventura County pandemic gun store shutdowns violated ‘right to keep and bear arms’, judge rules
SACRAMENTO — Ventura County violated the Constitution’s right to keep and bear arms when it shut down gun and ammunition stores in 2020 as nonessential businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, as did Los Angeles County, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. Officials in Los Angeles and Ventura counties had separately won lower court decisions saying gun stores were not exempt from broader shutdown orders aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus early in the pandemic.
Judge limits new California law protecting vaccination sites
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out California's new 30-foot buffer zone designed to restrict protests at coronavirus vaccination sites, though his ruling left in place other parts of a new state law despite arguments that it infringes on free speech. kAm%96 =2H E92E E@@< 67764E ~4E] g >2<6D :E :==682= E@ 4@>6 H:E9:? b_ 766E Wh]`c >6E6CDX @7 D@>6@?6 2E 2 G244:?2E:@?
Judge limits new California law protecting vaccination sites
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out California's new 30-foot buffer zone designed to restrict protests at coronavirus vaccination sites, though his ruling left in place other parts of a new state law despite arguments that it infringes on free speech. kAm%96 =2H E92E E@@< 67764E ~4E] g >2<6D :E :==682= E@ 4@>6 H:E9:? b_ 766E Wh]`c >6E6CDX @7 D@>6@?6 2E 2 G244:?2E:@?
Judge limits new California law protecting vaccination sites
FILE - A driver in his convertible cruises past a small group of anti-COVID-19 vaccine protesters at Elysian Park, outside the Dodger Stadium vaccination mass center in Los Angeles, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021. A federal judge has thrown out California's new 30-foot buffer zone designed to restrict protests at coronavirus vacation sites. But U.S. District Judge Dale Drozd's ruling Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021, left in place other parts of a new state law despite arguments that it infringes on free speech.
Judge limits new California law protecting vaccination sites
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out California’s new 30-foot buffer zone designed to restrict protests at coronavirus vaccination sites. But U.S. District Judge Dale Drozd’s ruling Saturday left in place other parts of a new state law despite arguments that it infringes on free speech. The law that took effect Oct.
Judge limits new California law protecting vaccination sites
U.S. District Judge Dale Drozd ruled Saturday that the 30-foot limit, which is contained in what he called the law's "uncommon definition of 'harassing,'" is too restrictive. So he issued a temporary restraining order barring the state from enforcing the "harassing" portion of the law, while leaving in place the ban on obstructing, injuring, intimidating or interfering.
Judge limits new California law protecting vaccination sites
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A federal judge has thrown out California’s new 30-foot buffer zone designed to restrict protests at coronavirus vaccination sites. But U. S. District Judge Dale Drozd's ruling Saturday left in place other parts of a new state law despite arguments that it infringes on free speech.
Sutter Health paying $90M in Medicare fraud settlement
Kathleen Ormsby is seen in this undated photo she provided to The Associated Press. Sacramento-based Sutter Health agreed to pay $90 million in a final settlement of claims alleging that it defrauded the federal Medicare program, an official said Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. The civil settlement resulted from a 2015 False Claims Act whistleblower complaint by Ormsby, a former employee of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, one of the Sutter affiliates in the settlement. (Clayton J.
California inks contract with new 40,000 member childcare union
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California has approved a first-time contract with 40,000 childcare providers under a new collective bargaining agreement. It acted at a time when labor unions are struggling across the United States. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a bill that ratifies the contract with Child Care Providers United and increases wage rates.
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