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California might step in to regulate groundwater use in part of the crop-rich San Joaquin Valley, which would be a first-of-its-kind move that comes a decade after lawmakers tasked local communities with carefully managing the precious but often overused resource. At issue is control over a farming-dependent area where state officials say local water agencies haven’t come up with a …

As Trevor Lawrence heads into his fourth year in the NFL, the Jacksonville Jaguars star quarterback said he’s had preliminary talks with the organization about a potential extension. However, Lawrence isn’t losing any sleep over it. “There’s definitely been some conversations,” he said Tuesday, via ESPN. “As far as where that’s at now, it’s not really my focus. I’d love …

At least eight people from one family have died after their homemade boat sank in central Mozambique, state media reported Tuesday. Monday’s sinking on a tributary of the Zambezi River in Sofala province came days after nearly 100 people, many of them children, died in one of the country’s worst shipwrecks. DEATH TOLL IN MOZAMBIQUE FERRY DISASTER CLIMBS TO 98 …