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“She didn’t deserve to die like this”: Mom who lost her daughter in trailer tragedy visits site in San Antonio

Adela Betulia Ramírez Quezada was trying to reunite with her mother and two sisters in California. The morning that she climbed in to a trailer with dozens of others, she called her mother to say they would see each other soon.

The Texas Tribune

Former Liverpool CEO Peter Moore becomes club owner

Peter Moore has become a founding investor in a USL expansion team in California

Liverpool Echo

Dumbarton ultra-runner completes 100 mile 'holy grail' of sport in California

John Connolly, 45, completed the gruelling Western States 100 mile run in 21 hours 53 minutes, despite being faced with hugely challenging terrain and soaring temperatures.

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Court documents in Polanski criminal case ordered released

A California appeals court has ordered the unsealing of some documents in the criminal case against renowned director Roman Polanski, who's been a fugitive since pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl decades ago

The Independent UK

Bipartisan bill would rescue giant sequoias from wildfire

Confronting an existential threat to the world’s largest trees, U.S. Rep. Scott Peters joined House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on a rescue plan for California’s giant sequoia groves.

Tribune News Service

California’s ‘insurer of last resort’ accused of wrongly denying wildfire claims

After the CZU Lightning Complex Fires ripped through the Santa Cruz Mountains in 2020, Sarah Mapel’s home was one of the few in her Boulder Creek, California, neighborhood left standing. But after returning to the three-bedroom house built out of old-growth redwood, Mapel found wildfire smoke had inundated the interior…

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Britney Spears’ car ran out of gas on California freeway at night, cops say

The car that Britney Spears was driving ran out of gas Tuesday on a busy California highway — and the cops were called.

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Trespass Claim Stemming from Activists' Blocking Horse Race Track Not Covered by California Anti-SLAPP Law

From Golden Gate Land Holdings LLC v. Direct Action Everywhere, decided today (correctly, I think) by the California Court of Appeal (Presiding Justice Jim Humes, joined by Justice Sandra Margulies and S.F. Superior Court Judge Mary Wiss): Golden Gate, which operates a horse racing track in Berkeley, filed this suit…

Reason

Scientific Games’ lottery playbook succeeded, then spread

State lotteries now exist in 45 states and the District of Columbia

The Independent UK

NWSL Announces Plans for Expansion Teams, Use of VAR

Both Angel City FC and San Diego Wave FC debuted this season in California, the latter leading the league’s standing with a 6-3-3 record.

Sports Illustrated

Yosemite wildfire moving east into Sierra National Forest

A wildfire that threatened a grove of California’s giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park is burning eastward into the Sierra National Forest

The Independent UK

Digital mental health companies draw scrutiny and growing concerns

When Pat Paulson’s son told her he was feeling anxious and depressed at college, Paulson went through her Blue Cross Blue Shield provider directory and started calling mental health therapists. No providers in the Wisconsin city where her son’s university is located had openings. So she bought a monthly subscription…

Tribune News Service

California governor passes law that allows gun violence victims to sue firearm manufacturers

‘They can no longer hide from the mass destruction that they have caused,’ Gov Gavin Newsom says

The Independent UK

CA Cultivation Tax Elimination, Meaningfully Eases Pricing Pressures And Likely Drives Consolidation

July 6, 2022: Last week, California’s onerous cultivation tax ($161/lb.) was officially eliminated. While far from solving all the issues for California operators, the tax change meaningfully reduces the break-even threshold for growers and particularly those with the biggest scale in capacity.

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Los Angeles Times

California opens the door to suing gun makers. Here's what the new law does

LOS ANGELES — Three weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down tough state controls on concealed weapon licenses, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law an effort to limit the availability of "abnormally dangerous" guns in the state.

Los Angeles Times

Coronavirus deaths in LA County rising as ultra-contagious subvariants spread infections

LOS ANGELES — The number of weekly COVID-19 deaths reported in Los Angeles County has doubled over the last month — the first significant increase in fatalities since the winter surge.

Reason

Renegade District Attorneys Who Defy State Mandates Are Often Freedom's Last Line of Defense

Perhaps, as we relearn the virtues of local decision-making, we'll also reacquire a taste for individualism.

Tribune News Service

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Many alternatives to Trump, Biden

Donald Trump is reportedly preparing an early announcement of his 2024 candidacy. The White House insists President Joe Biden will seek re-election.

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Editorial: Climate change is killing California’s iconic trees

Firefighters and forest ecologists are again scrambling to save ancient giant sequoia trees from the threat posed by increasingly fast, powerful and destructive wildfires that have raged through California in recent years.

Asharq Al-Awsat

3 Charged in Scheme to Sell Stolen ‘Hotel California’ Lyrics

A rock memorabilia dealer and two other men were charged Tuesday with scheming to sell allegedly ill-gotten, handwritten lyrics to the classic rock juggernaut "Hotel California" and other hits by the Eagles. Prosecutors said the trio lied to auction houses and buyers about the manuscripts' fuzzy chain of origin, coaching…

Los Angeles Times

ICE banned from using contractors to arrest immigrants at California jails, prisons

A California lawsuit has ended with a settlement that bans U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from leaning on private contractors to arrest immigrants at state prisons and jails and send them to deportation proceedings.

The Independent UK

Ex-House member who resigned files for bankruptcy

Former California congresswoman Katie Hill has filed for bankruptcy protection

The Times of India

Sikh man from Jalandhar joins US national guard, to wear 5 ‘kakaars’

AMBALA: Kanwarpreet Singh of Punjab’s Jalandhar has graduated with the rank of a Specialist in the finance department of the United States (US) army national guard from California state on Thursday. US national guard is a state-based military force, which is part of the reserve component, which can be activated…

Benzinga

'Weed Like Change': A Sustainable Campaign To Regenerate Cannabis Industry By Maintaining Living Soil

Weed Like Change, a campaign designed to offer a more sustainable vision seeks to raise cannabis consumer awareness around sun-grown regenerative cannabis.

Los Angeles Times

Former Rep. Katie Hill, who lost revenge porn lawsuit, files for bankruptcy

LOS ANGELES — Democrat Katie Hill, a former California congresswoman who owes hundreds of thousands of dollars to media parties she unsuccessfully sued over the publication of salacious pictures while she was in office, has filed for bankruptcy protection.

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