Border wall, bullet train: California vs. Trump escalates

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Disputes over President Donald Trump’s border wall and California’s bullet train are intensifying the feud between the White House and the nation’s most populous state. The Trump administration on Tuesday said it plans to cancel or claw back $3.5 billion in federal dollars allocated to California’s high-speed rail project, a move... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

California, Donald Trump

January 29, 2019

Judge upholds protection for gray wolves in California

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California judge on Monday upheld protection for gray wolves under the state’s Endangered Species Act, rejecting a legal challenge from ranchers and farmers who fear the predators will threaten their livestock. The judge in San Diego ruled that California was right to list the wolves as endangered in 2014. A... Read More

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California, Wolves

January 28, 2019

California sues wealthy coastal city over low-income housing

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom used a new law for the first time Friday to try to force a wealthy Southern California coastal city to end its years of opposition to meeting low-income housing goals. Newsom’s administration sued the Orange County city of Huntington Beach under the law that took effect Jan. 1... Read More

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California

November 1, 2018

Whistleblower says California prison officials misled judge

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Top California corrections officials are misleading a federal judge and attorneys representing inmates about the quality of mental health care behind bars, according to a report released Wednesday that cites a case where a woman received care so poor she plucked out her eye and ate it. The whistleblower report by... Read More

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California, Prison

September 12, 2018

US judge strikes down California ban on handgun ads

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. judge on Tuesday struck down a nearly century-old California law that banned handgun ads at gun shops, saying the state failed to show it would prevent suicides or crime. The 1923 law banned any handgun ads at gun shops that were visible from outside the store. State officials argued... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, News

California, Guns, Handguns

August 10, 2018

Man charged in California wildfire refuses to go to court

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A man charged with starting a Southern California wildfire that has burned 12 cabins and forced at least 20,000 people from their homes refused to go to court Thursday, delaying his initial court appearance. The arraignment for Forrest Clark was supposed to be Thursday, but the judge in the case... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

California, Forrest Clark, Wildfire

July 19, 2018

Voters won’t decide in November whether to split California

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A measure that would divide California into three parts won’t appear on the November ballot, the state Supreme Court decided Wednesday, marking the latest defeat for a long-shot push to reimagine the nation’s most populous state. The justices ordered the secretary of state not to put the ballot initiative before voters,... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Politics

California

April 19, 2018

California city sued over vote to opt out of ‘sanctuary’

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Residents sued the tiny Southern California city of Los Alamitos on Wednesday to challenge a vote by elected officials to exempt the community from a state law that limits police collaboration with U.S. immigration authorities. The American Civil Liberties Union and other immigrant rights advocates said the lawsuit was filed... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

California, Sanctuary City

April 12, 2018

News media sue over California’s new execution rules

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Times and other news media organizations sued over California’s new execution rules Wednesday, saying they would bar journalists from fully reporting on the lethal injection procedure. The lawsuit is the latest challenge as the state seeks to resume executions for the first time since 2006. The execution chamber... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Execution, News

California, Execution

April 3, 2018

Trump administration sues California over sales of US land

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday sued California over a law that aims to give the state power to override the sale of federal lands, the latest battle between President Donald Trump and the nation’s most populous state. California vowed to fight for the state’s first right to purchase federal... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Politics

California, Donald Trump

March 30, 2018

California judge rules that coffee requires cancer warning

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists haven’t rendered a verdict on whether coffee is good or bad for you but a California judge has. He says coffee sellers in the state should have to post cancer warnings. The culprit is a chemical produced in the bean roasting process that is a known carcinogen and has been... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

California

March 28, 2018

Orange County to join fight against California sanctuary law

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — California and its Democratic-controlled Legislature have courted a reputation for leading resistance against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. But at the local level, there’s a brewing backlash. On Tuesday, the Orange County Board of Supervisors voted to condemn the state’s sanctuary law and to join a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, National Security, News

California, Sanctuary City

March 27, 2018

GOP-led states back Trump in California ‘sanctuary’ lawsuit

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Texas and more than a dozen other states led by Republican governors got behind the Trump administration on Monday in its lawsuit over California’s so-called sanctuary laws that protect people in the U.S. illegally. California’s laws are designed to interfere with or block federal immigration enforcement but the state does not... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, National Security, News

California, Immigration, Sanctuary City

March 20, 2018

Supreme Court takes up challenge by crisis pregnancy centers

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a free speech fight over California’s attempt to regulate anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers. The case being argued Tuesday involves a state law that requires the centers to provide clients information about the availability of contraception, abortion and pre-natal care, at little or no cost. Centers... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Abortion, California

Border wall, bullet train: California vs. Trump escalates

Judge upholds protection for gray wolves in California

California sues wealthy coastal city over low-income housing

Whistleblower says California prison officials misled judge

US judge strikes down California ban on handgun ads

Man charged in California wildfire refuses to go to court

Voters won’t decide in November whether to split California

California city sued over vote to opt out of ‘sanctuary’

News media sue over California’s new execution rules

Trump administration sues California over sales of US land

California judge rules that coffee requires cancer warning

Orange County to join fight against California sanctuary law

GOP-led states back Trump in California ‘sanctuary’ lawsuit

Supreme Court takes up challenge by crisis pregnancy centers

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