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‘Everybody was devastated’: 4 people killed, 5 others wounded in string of violence across Oakland

A torrent of violence during an 18-hour stretch Monday evening and Tuesday left four people dead and five other people wounded by gunfire across Oakland, California, including three men who had just finished praying at a local mosque and a teen girl who was left gravely injured.

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Kanye West Terminates Yeezy’s Partnership To Make Fashion Affordable

Rapper and designer Kanye West, who goes by “Ye,” has terminated his Yeezy brand partnership with Gap Inc (NYSE: GPS) two years after the deal was announced.

Zenger

Tensions rise as families reckon with Hispanic church leader’s sex crimes sentencing

ATLANTA — News out of California this summer of a Mexican church leader’s guilty plea for sexually abusing minors had a deep resonance for Erica Ortiz, a metro Atlanta resident since the late 1980s.

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Family of cinematographer killed during filming sues USC, students

LOS ANGELES — The family of a cinematographer killed on a University of Southern California student film shoot in April has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the prestigious school and two of its students.

Los Angeles Times

California Legislature passes bill to protect fast-food workers

A California bill that aims to improve and standardize working conditions for fast-food workers will head to the desk of Gov. Gavin Newsom after winning passage in the state Senate and Assembly on Monday over objections from business interests, which say it unfairly targets the fast-food industry and will drive…

Los Angeles Times

Amazon workers at fulfillment center east of LA announce union drive

A coalition of workers at an Amazon warehouse in Moreno Valley, California, east of Los Angeles, announced Friday a push to join the Amazon Labor Union, which mounted the first successful unionization effort at any Amazon warehouse in the United States.

Los Angeles Times

California crash that killed 9 spurs call for new cars to detect drunken drivers

An investigation into a New Year's Day crash in Avenal, California, in 2021 that killed nine people — including seven children — has prompted the National Transportation Safety Board to call for an alcohol-impairment detection system to be installed in all new cars.

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Assault near UC Berkeley campus being investigated as anti-Asian hate crime

A possible anti-Asian hate crime is being investigated near the University of California, Berkeley campus after someone threw rocks at another person, according to authorities.

Los Angeles Times

How many people in prisons died of COVID-19?

The death rate for incarcerated people in state and federal prisons from COVID-19 was 20% higher than for the average American.

USAFacts

Prince Harry's uniform snub, lonely flight to Balmoral and invitation row

It has been reported that the Duke will soon be travelling back to California, where he now lives, with Meghan and their two children.

Daily Record

Seahawks league-wide PFF grades and rankings after 2 games

Let's take a look at Seattle's team-wide grades in each Pro Football Focus category and where they rank compared to the competition.

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Not even soaking rain can ease fire risk in a California hit by record heat, dry landscape

A summer of drought, extreme heat and deadly wildfires will end with much-needed rain this week in parts of California, but it is unlikely to douse the threat of wind-driven fires this fall in a state scarred by record-setting heat waves and bone-dry landscapes.

Los Angeles Times

EXCLUSIVE: Kiva To Give Away Over 70K Edibles To California MMJ Patients Via New Donation Program

Cannabis edibles producer Kiva Confections is launching the Kiva Cares Project, a donation program aimed to help those in need, Benzinga has learned exclusively.

Benzinga

U.S. House incumbent primary defeats reached highest point in two decades

Welcome to the Tuesday, September 20, Brew.

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Nicholas Goldberg: Should our aid-in-dying laws be expanded, or are we moving too far too fast?

To take advantage of California's narrowly drawn assisted suicide law one must be terminally ill, with only six months to live, as certified by not one but two doctors.

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Commentary: Beware: A quirk in state law could mean that California taxes federal student debt relief

Back in 2018, I was unemployed for eight months. Come April of 2019, I learned that while California doesn’t tax unemployment checks, the federal government does.

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He finds his way back from son's death by making one-of-a-kind guitars

SAN DIEGO -- Seven years ago, Shawn Weimer started Zoe Guitars, a custom luthier business in Oceanside, California, named after his infant granddaughter, Zoe.

Los Angeles Times

George Skelton: Voters are turned off by Props. 26 and 27. Racing tracks should pick a better horse next time

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — You'd never know it from the incessant TV ads, but troubled horse racing would greatly benefit from a sports betting initiative on the November ballot.

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Jean Guerrero: Imagine if white vigilantes and 'illegals' united for their common cause

The first year of Donald Trump's presidency, I interviewed a 78-year-old man who regularly patrolled his border-adjacent property in the rural California town of Boulevard, wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying an AR-10. "It is my duty to protect my country from people invading it," Bob Maupin told me.

Al Jazeera

Apple users in Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia to pay more for apps

California-based company says new prices will take effect from next month.

Los Angeles Times

These migrants were flown to California from Texas. They don't know why or who paid for their flights

Eight Venezuelan migrants were flown last week from Texas to Sacramento with little cash — some without shoes — and the men have no idea why they were sent or who paid for the flights, an advocacy group said.

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These 10 California donors gave over $56.3 million

In California politics, state-level candidates and political action committees have received $1.5 billion in total donations between Jan. 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022. The 10 largest donors gave more than $56.3 million, or 4 percent of all contributions.

Los Angeles Times

California workers won't have to worry about being fired, or not hired, for off-the-clock marijuana use

It will soon be illegal for California employers to let workers' offsite and outside-of-work marijuana use be a factor in hiring or firing decisions, according to a new state law.

The Guardian - US

Human composting: California clears the way for greener burial method

State is the fifth to legalize environmentally friendly process that allows for natural reduction of human remains to soil

Los Angeles Times

Sherri Papini invented a wild kidnapping hoax. The true story is even stranger

Sherri Papini disappeared from her Northern California neighborhood in November 2016, but she made it home in time for Thanksgiving.

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