Latest California Headlines
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1 Dead After Seniors in California Served Dishwashing Liquid At Home
Sep 2 2022 // A resident of a San Francisco Bay Area senior citizens home died after being mistakenly served dishwashing liquid as drinking juice, the home said. Three residents of Atria Park Senior Living Facility in San Mateo, about...
California Power Grid Operator Braces for Long Heat Wave
Sep 1 2022 // Operators of California’s power grid expect to issue calls for voluntary conservation of electricity during a prolonged heat wave building over the West and they warned that there could be energy shortages if...
California Wildfires Lead to Evacuations Amid Heat Wave
Sep 1 2022 // California wildfires erupted Wednesday in rural areas, racing through bone-dry brush and prompting evacuations as the state sweltered under a heat wave that could last through Labor Day. Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state...
California Electric Car Rule Includes Equity Goals
Sep 1 2022 // Discounted prices, car-share programs and at least one million more public charging stations are among the ways California will try to make electric cars easier to buy and drive as it phases out the sale of gas-powered...
California Oks Bill Protecting Workers Who Use Marijuana at Home
Aug 31 2022 // California could soon become the seventh state to make sure people won’t lose their jobs if they smoke marijuana when they’re off the clock. State lawmakers this week passed a bill that would stop companies...
California Lawmakers Pass Landmark Fast Food Workers Bill
Aug 31 2022 // California lawmakers this week approved a nation-leading measure that would give more than a half-million fast food workers more power and protections, over the objections of restaurant owners who warn it would drive up...
California Faces Late-Summer Heat Wave
Aug 30 2022 // California is facing a prolonged late-summer heat wave this week, with widespread triple-digit temperatures starting in the south and spreading northward, the National Weather Service said Monday. Excessive heat watches...
$480K Settlement for California Inmate Who Miscarried After Stop for Coffee
Aug 30 2022 // Southern California’s Orange County has agreed to pay $480,000 to an inmate who was pregnant but suffered a miscarriage after sheriff’s deputies stopped at a Starbucks while driving her to a hospital. Sandra...
California Social Worker Charged with Abusing Mental Hospital Patients
Aug 29 2022 // A licensed clinical social worker has been charged with sexually assaulting patients while working at a Southern California psychiatric hospital, prosecutors said. The alleged abuse occurred between 2014 and 2018 at Patton...
Oil Spill Settlement Reached with California Businesses
Aug 29 2022 // A pipeline operator it has reached a settlement with Southern California tourism companies, fishermen and other businesses that sued after a crude oil spill off the coast last year near Huntington Beach. Amplify Energy...
California Desert Flooding Damaged L.A. to Phoenix Highway
Aug 26 2022 // The main highway from Los Angeles to Phoenix was damaged by a flash flood that washed out part of the road through the Southern California desert in the latest bout of punishing monsoonal thunderstorms that have hit the...
Girl Awarded $26M over California School Sex Assault
Aug 26 2022 // A jury awarded $26 million to a Pasadena special-needs student who was sexually assaulted by three classmates, her lawyers said Wednesday. A Los Angeles County jury in Long Beach ruled this week in a negligence lawsuit...
California to Phase out Gas Vehicles to Fight Climate Change
Aug 26 2022 // California set itself on a path Thursday to end the era of gas-powered cars, with air regulators adopting the world’s most stringent rules for transitioning to zero-emission vehicles. The move by the California Air...
Cosmetics Maker Sephora Settles Customer Data Privacy Suit in California
Aug 26 2022 // Sephora Inc., one of the world’s largest cosmetics retailers, has settled a lawsuit claiming that the company sold customer information without proper notice in violation of the California’s landmark consumer...
Brink’s Driver Was Asleep During California Jewelry Heist, Lawsuit Says
Aug 25 2022 // One of the drivers of a Brink’s tractor-trailer was asleep inside the big rig, parked near a remote Southern California rest stop earlier this summer, when thieves broke a lock and stole millions of dollars worth of...
Lawsuit Says Electrical Equipment Sparked Deadly California Wildfire
Aug 25 2022 // The daughter of a 76-year-old man killed last month when California’s deadliest wildfire so far this year swept through a remote town has sued a public utility, alleging its electrical equipment sparked the...
California Lawmakers Allow Lawsuits Against ‘Cyber Flashers’
Aug 24 2022 // Victims who receive unsolicited sexually graphic material by text, email, app or other electronic means could sue the sender under a bill that California lawmakers sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom this week. The bill targets...
Data on California Prisons’ Visitors, Staff, Inmates Exposed
Aug 24 2022 // California corrections officials said that there has been a potential exposure of medical information for employees and visitors who were tested for the coronavirus, although they have not found any improper use despite...
Western Fires Outpace California’s Effort to Fill Inmate Crews
Aug 23 2022 // As wildfires rage across California each year, exhausted firefighters call for reinforcements from wherever they can get them – even as far as Australia. Yet one homegrown resource is rarely used: thousands of...
Berkshire Unit Sued Over California’s Largest Wildfire of Season
Aug 22 2022 // A Berkshire Hathaway Inc. unit was sued for allegedly causing California’s largest wildfire of the year, which killed four people and destroyed almost 200 structures near the Oregon border. The complaint against...
