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California Insider Staff
LAPD Reports 28 Percent Increase in Homicides From Last Year
This year’s 73 killings is a big jump from last year’s 57 at the same time, but the chief points out that overall violent crime is up just 3 percent.
Mar 28, 2024
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California Insider Staff
21 mins
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California
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Micaela Ricaforte
California Community Colleges Add 6 Bachelor’s Degree Programs
Fields of study include respiratory care and dental hygiene. There are now 39 bachelor’s programs available to students at the system’s 116 campuses.
Mar 28, 2024
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Micaela Ricaforte
3 hours
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California
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Micaela Ricaforte
UC Leaders Delay Vote on Proposal to Limit Faculty’s Airing of Political Views
The proposal stemmed from a UC statement condemning Hamas’s October attack on Israel. Ethnic studies faculty members objected.
Mar 28, 2024
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Micaela Ricaforte
3 hours
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Viewpoints
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Roger Canfield
California’s War on Chemistry, Science, and Liberty
Mar 28, 2024
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Roger Canfield
3 hours
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California
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Travis Gillmore
California Fast-Food Chains Brace for Minimum Wage Hike Starting April 1
Some are cutting jobs and increasing automation, while others say they will raise menu prices.
Mar 28, 2024
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Travis Gillmore
8 hours
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California
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Travis Gillmore
California Bill Allowing Warrantless Shoplifting Arrests Gaining Bipartisan Support Despite Criticism Against ‘Mass Incarceration’
Lawmakers behind the bill disputed claims that it would be detrimental to people of color.
Mar 27, 2024
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Travis Gillmore
18 hours
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Viewpoints
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Christian Milord
Why Do Many Californians Stay Here?
Mar 27, 2024
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Christian Milord
22 hours
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California
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Rudy Blalock
California’s Corrections Officers Ordered to Shave Beards Are Backed by US Justice Department
The federal agency requests a court order allowing officers with religious objections to be exempt until an investigation is complete.
Mar 27, 2024
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Rudy Blalock
24 hours
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Viewpoints
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Roger Canfield
California’s Environmental Police
Mar 27, 2024
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Roger Canfield
Mar 27
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Northern California
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Rudy Blalock
New Leader Emerges in Sacramento Mayoral Race
With a few votes still uncounted, Flo Cofer has taken the lead over Kevin McCarty and Richard Pan. Incumbent Steinberg has termed out.
Mar 27, 2024
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Rudy Blalock
Mar 27
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Southern California
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California Insider Staff
Fullerton Police Fatally Shoot Bank Robber In His 70s With Fake Bomb
The masked man produced a white box that he said was a bomb and threatened to detonate it, police said.
Mar 27, 2024
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California Insider Staff
Mar 27
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California
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Sophie Li
Millions of Californians to Get Climate Credit in April Utility Bills
The money comes from the state’s Cap-and-Trade program, which encourages companies to meet greenhouse gas emissions goals.
Mar 27, 2024
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Sophie Li
Mar 27
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California
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Travis Gillmore
California Has the Highest Unemployment Rate in the Nation
About 1 million state workers are jobless, new data show. The tech industry has shed the most jobs, losing 54,200.
Mar 27, 2024
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Travis Gillmore
Mar 27
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Southern California
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California Insider Staff
USC Awards Holocaust Survivors With Its Highest Honor
The event was attended by Steven Spielberg, director of “Schindler’s List,” and a woman who was saved from the Nazis by Oskar Schindler.
Mar 27, 2024
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California Insider Staff
Mar 27
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California
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Beige Luciano-Adams
Insiders Say California’s Integration of Death-Row Inmates May Accelerate Violence
‘I never in a million years thought California would release these types of inmates to the general population. Have they lost their minds?’
Mar 26, 2024
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Beige Luciano-Adams
Mar 26
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Northern California
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Rudy Blalock
West Sacramento Man Gets 4 Years in Prison for Dozens of Target Thefts
Nicholas Juarez Lopez said he stole Legos, electronics, and household items with the intention of reselling the goods to support his drug habit.
Mar 26, 2024
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Rudy Blalock
Mar 26
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Northern California
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Jill McLaughlin
27 ‘Sex Buyers’ Arrested in Sacramento County Human Trafficking Operation
“These are the ones enabling all this trafficking to occur,” said a sheriff’s spokesman.
Mar 26, 2024
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Jill McLaughlin
Mar 26
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California
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Sophie Li
California’s February Home Sales Show Resilience Amid Rising Interest Rates
Forty counties saw an increase in sales compared to the same time last year, the Realtors association said.
Mar 26, 2024
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Sophie Li
Mar 26
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Southern California
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California Insider Staff
San Diego Man Gets 4 Years in Prison for Trafficking Bogus iPhones and iPads
The man and his brothers imported fake devices that had valid serial numbers, then directed others to exchange them for the real thing at Apple stores.
Mar 26, 2024
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California Insider Staff
Mar 26
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California
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Rudy Blalock
California Bills Aim to Bypass Coastal Act to Spur Housing Projects
One bill would let developers apply the Density Bonus Law within the coastal zone, which would allow more units for low-income buyers.
Mar 26, 2024
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Rudy Blalock
Mar 26
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