Category: Crime

  • Newsom pardons 19 people, including co-founder of San Quentin podcast 'Ear Hustle'

    Newsom pardons 19 people, including co-founder of San Quentin podcast ‘Ear Hustle’

    The day before Thanksgiving, Gov. Gavin Newsom granted pardons for 19 people, including award-winning San Quentin podcaster Earlonne Woods. “Ear Hustle,” the popular and critically acclaimed podcast that Woods co-founded from inside San Quentin State Prison in 2017, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2020. It takes its title from a prison slang…

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  • Longtime Camarillo Mayor Michael Morgan dies in car crash

    Longtime Camarillo Mayor Michael Morgan dies in car crash

    Six-time mayor of Camarillo and devoted community member Michael Morgan died in a car accident Tuesday, the city announced. His wife, Donna, survived the crash with severe injuries. The couple was driving to visit their children in Reno when the accident took place on a Nevada highway, according to the Ventura County Star. No more…

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  • Questions follow bird flu recall of California raw milk

    Questions follow bird flu recall of California raw milk

    Less than a week after California health officers confirmed a finding of bird flu virus in store-bought raw milk, state agriculture officials descended on Mark McAfee’s Raw Milk dairy “like never before” Wednesday and began collecting samples from the farm’s two herds, creamery, bulk milk tanks and trucks, according to the owner. The visit follows…

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  • Man who tried to set fire in Ventura charged in violent attack spree weeks later

    Man who tried to set fire in Ventura charged in violent attack spree weeks later

    A homeless man who was arrested after setting a fire in Ventura earlier this month has been charged for a string of violent attacks, including several stabbings and robberies, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office. Efrain Troncoso, 22, is facing 10 felony counts, including three counts of attempted murder, one count of assault…

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  • Democrat Derek Tran ousts Republican Michelle Steel in Orange County congressional race

    Democrat Derek Tran ousts Republican Michelle Steel in Orange County congressional race

    In a major victory for Democrats, first-time candidate Derek Tran defeated Republican Rep. Michelle Steel in a hotly contested Orange County congressional race that became one of the most expensive in the country. Tran will be the first Vietnamese American to represent a district that is home to Little Saigon and the largest population of…

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  • Three killed in fiery Tesla Cybertruck crash in California, officials say

    Three killed in fiery Tesla Cybertruck crash in California, officials say

    Three people were killed and another was hospitalized after a Tesla Cybertruck crashed in Piedmont on Wednesday, according to authorities. Piedmont Police Chief Jeremy Bowers said that dispatchers got an iPhone alert from a passenger in the Cybertruck around 3:08 a.m. The vehicle had gotten into a collision at King Avenue and Hampton Road. The…

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    Vikings sign former Giants QB Daniel Jones

    Cole Premo and Anthony Bettin at WCCO News are reporting the Minnesota Vikings are signing recently released New York Giants quarterback and former first-round pick Daniel Jones. Sarah Nassauer at the Wall Street Journal reports shoppers are falling out of love with Target. Nassuer writes about how items missing on shelves, long checkout lines, and…

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  • Man was missing for 25 years until someone saw his picture in the paper

    Man was missing for 25 years until someone saw his picture in the paper

    After 25 years, a family will be reunited with their missing relative thanks to a USA Today article and gumshoe police work. On Friday, a woman called the Lassen County Sheriff’s Office to say she was sent an article about an unidentified patient in Los Angeles. She believed the man pictured in the article was…

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  • Here's Southern California's weather forecast for Thanksgiving Day

    Here’s Southern California’s weather forecast for Thanksgiving Day

    After a few days of lingering rain this week, Thanksgiving will kick off a stretch of clear and warm weather — though also breezy — across Southern California. “We’re looking at temperatures warming each day by a few degrees; by the weekend we’re looking at highs in the lower to mid-70s,” said Ryan Kittell, a…

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    Why federal broadband dollars could go to waste in Minnesota

    While Minnesota will be receiving $652 million from the federal Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program to help fund broadband access projects across the state, many internet service providers might not opt-in over frustrations with the program.  “My members are telling me they’re not going to participate,” said Brent Christensen, president and CEO of…

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