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Sherri Papini Sentenced to 18 Months for Kidnapping Hoax
A Northern California woman has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for faking her own kidnapping so she could go back to a former boyfriend, which led to a three-week, multi-state search.
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Gov. Newsom Declares State of Emergency Over Monkeypox Outbreak
California’s governor on Monday declared a state of emergency to speed efforts to combat the monkeypox outbreak, becoming the second state in three days to take the step.
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California Declares State of Emergency Over Monkeypox Outbreak
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday declared a state of emergency over the monkeypox outbreak.
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Parole for Mexican Mafia Leader Who's Been Cooperating With Law Enforcement for 20 Years
California parole officials have approved the release of a notorious former Mexican Mafia prison gang leader who has been cooperating with law enforcement for nearly 20 years.
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California Lacked Safeguards for Gun Owner Info: Experts
Cybersecurity experts say the California Department of Justice apparently failed to follow basic security procedures on its website, exposing the personal information of potentially hundreds of thousands of gun owners.
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California Eyes Banning Loitering for Prostitution Arrests
California lawmakers on Monday finally sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a hot potato of a bill that would bar police from making arrests on a charge of loitering for prostitution, nine months after the measure passed the Legislature.
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California Moves to Embrace Cryptocurrency and Regulate It
California became the first state to formally begin examining how to broadly adapt to cryptocurrency and related innovations.
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California Inmate Overdoses Plummet Under Drug Program
The spiraling number of overdose deaths and hospitalizations among California prison inmates fell dramatically during the first two years of a program that uses prescribed drugs to treat more incarcerated addicts than any such program in the country, officials said Tuesday.
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California COVID Cases Up, But No Plans to Add Restrictions
California has no plans to impose new statewide pandemic restrictions despite a rise in coronavirus cases primarily due to the new highly transmissible omicron variant BA.2, the state’s top health official says.
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Gunman Who Killed 3 Daughters in Church Was in US Illegally
The gunman who killed his three daughters, a chaperone who was supervising his visit with the children and himself in a Northern California church this week was in the United States illegally, immigration officials said Friday.
