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  • Forecast sees $2-billion state deficit, warns of changes under Trump

    Forecast sees $2-billion state deficit, warns of changes under Trump

    The California Legislative Analyst’s Office reported Wednesday that Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers could face a relatively small $2-billion budget deficit next year, but warned that the outlook looks worse in the future and does not account for changes under the incoming Trump administration. The Newsom administration agreed with the main tenets of the preliminary…

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  • Muslim students have been harassed at California colleges, survey says

    Muslim students have been harassed at California colleges, survey says

    Nearly half of Muslim students surveyed at California colleges and universities say they have been targets of anti-Islamic harassment or discrimination in the last school year as pro-Palestinian protests erupted on campuses, a sharp increase from four years ago, the Council on American Islamic Relations said in a new report. The study, which surveyed hundreds…

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  • See the bomb cyclone approaching California from space

    See the bomb cyclone approaching California from space

    The season of atmospheric rivers is again upon us. The 2024-2025 water year’s first major storm is arriving, and from space it looks like a behemoth. The storm currently off the northwest coast of the U.S. — described by meteorologists as a “bomb cyclone” — brings with it an atmospheric river. High winds and intense…

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  • SoCal school counselor charged with molesting 8 elementary students

    SoCal school counselor charged with molesting 8 elementary students

    A Los Angeles assistant principal was arrested Friday on suspicion of molesting eight young children while working at a Santa Paula elementary school several years ago, authorities said. David Lane Braff Jr., 42, of Thousand Oaks is accused of molesting eight students ages 6 to 10 in a school office at McKevett Elementary School, where…

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  • O.C. Sheriff's Department employee stole thousands from her grandma

    O.C. Sheriff’s Department employee stole thousands from her grandma

    For years, an Orange County Sheriff’s Department employee was living large, spending lavishly on Santa Ana dinners, West Hollywood bars and a nightclub in Las Vegas. But it wasn’t the department’s payroll footing the bill — it was her unsuspecting grandmother, authorities said. Roxana C. Laub, 33, of Santa Ana, recently pleaded guilty to two…

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  • Graphic details revealed in Monterey sex assault claim against Hegseth

    Graphic details revealed in Monterey sex assault claim against Hegseth

    A woman told Monterey police that Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Defense secretary, took her phone, blocked her from leaving his hotel room and sexually assaulted her, according to a newly released police report. The Monterey Police Department on Wednesday night released a 22-page report revealing graphic details in the October 2017 assault…

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  • The Mountain fire was the third most destructive wildfire in a decade. These maps show why

    The Mountain fire was the third most destructive wildfire in a decade. These maps show why

    The Mountain fire, driven by powerful winds, razed 243 buildings and damaged dozens more in Camarillo and nearby communities in western Ventura County, according to data released by state fire officials. The tally places the blaze as the third most destructive wildfire in Southern California since at least 2013. Ventura County was also the epicenter…

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  • Nearly half of L.A.'s homeless budget went unspent, controller finds

    Nearly half of L.A.’s homeless budget went unspent, controller finds

    Nearly half of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ record $1.3-billion homelessness budget for fiscal 2023-24 went unspent, an analysis by the city controller found. Controller Kenneth Mejia found that only $599 million had actually been spent. An additional $195 million was encumbered, leaving at least $513 million unspent. Mejia blamed “a sluggish, inefficient approach” for…

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  • California water agency set to vote on $141 million for Delta tunnel

    California water agency set to vote on $141 million for Delta tunnel

    The powerful board of Southern California’s largest urban water supplier will soon vote on whether to continue funding a large share of preliminary planning work for the state’s proposed water tunnel in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The 38-member board of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is set to consider approving $141.6 million…

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  • Can mayor-elect Daniel Lurie be San Francisco's change agent?

    Can mayor-elect Daniel Lurie be San Francisco’s change agent?

    SAN FRANCISCO —  In his victory speech three days after winning election, surrounded by hundreds of supporters in Chinatown, mayor-elect Daniel Lurie declared a new day in San Francisco. “Your call for accountable leadership, service and change has been heard,” Lurie, 47, said to great cheers and applause. That same enthusiasm vaulted Lurie, a centrist Democrat…

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