Newsom pulls emergency brake on speed-alert system for vehicles
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — California Governor Gavin Newsom on Saturday vetoed a high-profile bill that would have required a speed-alert system in vehicles sold or leased in the Golden State. Senate...
View ArticleJustice Department says Georgia ‘deliberately indifferent’ to prison abuses
ATLANTA (CN) — The Justice Department unveiled findings Tuesday that critical understaffing and enablement of gangs in Georgia prisons subjects its inmates to unconstitutional conditions including...
View ArticleHair found in truck helps police identify suspect in 1995 disappearance of...
ALMA, Ark. (AP) — Hair found in a truck once owned by an Arkansas man who died in prison more than two decades ago was the clue investigators needed to connect the dead inmate to the disappearance of...
View ArticleJustices reject disability claim, letting Texas move forward with execution
WASHINGTON (CN) — A Texas man will be executed Tuesday evening after the Supreme Court refused to consider whether his mental disability made his sentence unconstitutional. Garcia Glenn White was...
View ArticleFlorida enacts tough law to get homeless off the streets, leaving cities and...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — As the sun rose Tuesday, Robert Robinson pulled himself from the sidewalk outside Fort Lauderdale’s bus depot. It’s where he’d slept — and become a violator of Florida’s...
View ArticleCalifornia Assembly passes Newsom’s gasoline bill in special session
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — The California Assembly on Tuesday passed legislation that supporters say will help keep gasoline price spikes in check, a win for Governor Gavin Newsom in the special...
View ArticleSan Bernardino County can’t escape lawsuit over foster care system deemed...
(CN) — A class action seeking to drastically reform San Bernardino County’s beleaguered foster care system, which was deemed “too broken to fix” by a civil grand jury, cleared its first legal hurdle...
View ArticleJury begins deliberations in FLDS sex abuse case
PHOENIX (CN) — The fate of two Arizona men accused of aiding and participating in a polygamous child sex abuse ring now lies in the hands of 12 jurors. Across 12 days of trial, federal prosecutors...
View ArticleOhio man to plead guilty for transporting stolen Warhol art worth $175,000
(CN) — If you’re trying to sell something stolen, make sure the guy you’re selling it to doesn’t talk to the guy who owned it first. An Ohio man has agreed to plead guilty to a federal criminal charge...
View ArticleJD Vance and Tim Walz affable at vice-presidential debate — except about Jan. 6
MANHATTAN (CN) — When Republican U.S. Senator JD Vance and Democratic Governor Tim Walz first took the debate stage in New York City Tuesday night, polling showed that many Americans weren’t overly...
View ArticleStudy reveals long-term effects of wildfire smoke on orchard trees
(CN) — Smoke from massive wildfires is not just a health concern for people — it’s also detrimental to California’s orchard trees, according to research that adds to the growing list of wildfire...
View ArticleHome Depot accused of negligence in fatal shooting of customer by security guard
LOS ANGELES (CN) — Home Depot faces negligence claims in LA County Superior Court after the fatal shooting of a customer by a security guard. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, the parents of the victim...
View ArticleNinth Circuit backs EPA plan to tackle factory feedlot pollution
(CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel sided with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday by declining to review the agency’s denial of a petition challenging pollution rules for large-scale...
View ArticleSan Diego doctor pleads guilty to supplying ketamine for Matthew Perry
LOS ANGELES (CN) — A San Diego doctor pleaded guilty Wednesday to supplying ketamine that he knew would be used by the late actor Matthew Perry without proper medical supervision. Mark Chavez, 54,...
View ArticleMinnesota Supreme Court takes up landlord challenge to Minneapolis housing...
MINNEAPOLIS (CN) — A Minneapolis ordinance making it unlawful for landlords to use a potential tenant’s reliance on a public assistance program as a reason for refusing to rent their properties is...
View ArticleCalifornia completes largest dam removal in US history
(CN) —The largest dam removal project in U.S. history has been completed on the Klamath River near the California-Oregon border, restoring a continuous flow of water to nearly 400 miles of river...
View ArticleFederal judge stops implementation of California misinformation law
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that California’s law prohibiting altered election-related communications doesn’t pass constitutional scrutiny and the state can’t enforce it....
View ArticleDeadly Maui fire erupted from earlier blaze believed to have been...
HONOLULU (AP) — The wildfire that killed at least 102 people on Maui last year erupted from an earlier brushfire, sparked by downed power lines, that firefighters believed they had extinguished,...
View ArticleMountain town residents hope Kroger-Albertsons merger would bring stability...
CARBONDALE, Colo. (CN) — At $3.69 a gallon, milk is 30 cents cheaper at Kroger’s Denver stores than in mountainous Vail, or down valley in Carbondale. But deli meat and cheese costs $2 more per pound...
View ArticleMinor ‘Fortnite’ players can’t dodge arbitration over privacy claims
(CN) — A group of children who played Epic Games’ “Fortnite” while they were younger than 13 will have to convince an arbitrator that they aren’t by bound the arbitration agreement they accepted in...
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