California Democratic leaders announced Thursday they had come to an agreement on a plan that would reduce the state’s staggering multibillion-dollar shortfall by $17.3 billion through a combination of spending cuts, delays and deferrals. Gov. Gavin Newsom had enjoyed unprecedented surplus budgets of more than $100 billion throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. But the past two years have saddled him with …
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Sometimes people do trashy things, but it is unusual to see someone disguised as a garbage bag stealing a package that was left at a front door. That is exactly what happened outside Omar Gabriel Munoz’s home in Sacramento County, California, on March 29. Munoz’s door camera footage shows a person crouched underneath a garbage bag approaching the front door …
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The owner of a Los Angeles home known as the “trash house” due to piles of garbage bags stacked on the property was seen outside the same day city crews began removing piles of refuse. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was in front of the home Wednesday and ordered that immediate action be taken against what the city called an …
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A California resident severely miscalculated a situation after mistaking a large domestic cat for a mountain lion. In a Mar. 26 Facebook post, the South San Francisco Police Department explained that it was called over to a residential area due to a potential cougar sighting. “That’s a BIG cat!” the post began. “This morning a South San Francisco resident reported …
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A home in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood known as the Fairfax District has drawn attention for not just being an eyesore, but what neighbors say is a public safety hazard due to trash gathering outside of it. Junk can be seen in the front and backyards of the home, with most of it being inside white trash bags. The …
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The last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor has died. Lou Conter was 102. Conter passed away at his home Monday in Grass Valley, California following congestive heart failure, his daughter, Louann Daley said. The Arizona lost 1,177 sailors and Marines in the 1941 attack that launched the …
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Hundreds of high-tech surveillance cameras are being installed in the city of Oakland and surrounding freeways to battle crime, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday. Newsom, a Democrat, said in a news release that the California Highway Patrol has contracted with Flock Safety to install 480 cameras that can identify and track vehicles by license plate, type, color and even …
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A group of frustrated parents at UC Berkley have raised $40,000 to hire unarmed security guards to monitor city streets around the California campus after continued concerns of rising crime. Parents and community members of SafeBears, a nonprofit organization started in 2022, raised $40,000 at the end of 2023 to launch a pilot program to implement security guards in the …
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A Denver truck driver has been convicted of five counts of vehicular homicide for crashing a semi tractor-trailer into a sport utility vehicle carrying a Wyoming family in June 2022, killing all five of them. A Weld County jury also convicted Jesus Puebla of five other counts on Wednesday, including reckless driving and not having a valid commercial driver’s license, …
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California’s former Controller Betty Yee announced Wednesday she will run for governor in 2026, vying to succeed outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom against other major Democratic contenders in what will be the first open race for the state’s top office since 2018. If elected, Yee would be the first woman to become California’s governor. She is a San Francisco native born …
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