LOS ANGELES (AP) – Los Angeles police say an officer has been wounded and a gunman killed during a standoff near the University of Southern California. The gunman died at an Exposition Park home Tuesday afternoon. Police Chief Michel Moore says the man’s family reported he’d fired a rifle into the air. Moore says the…… MORE
ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) – Authorities say two people were killed when a fireworks stash exploded in inland Southern California, setting a house on fire, blowing out windows across the neighborhood, and sending up a huge plume of smoke. Multiple blasts were reported around midday in Ontario, east of Los Angeles. TV news footage showed at…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California would start licensing law enforcement officers, create a way to end their careers for misbehavior including racial bias, and make it easier to sue under an expanded version of state Senate legislation that died at the end of last year’s legislative session. Law enforcement groups say the proposal lacks due…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – The family of a 61-year-old California inmate who died of the coronavirus sued state corrections officials Tuesday. The family blames a botched transfer of infected inmates to San Quentin State Prison that killed 28 inmates and a correctional officer last year. His family’s attorneys said it’s the first such federal civil…… MORE
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Former Republican congressman Doug Ose says he’s entering the California recall election aimed at ousting Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. Ose becomes the third established Republican to enter the race, joining former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and businessman John Cox. Ose is a businessman from the Sacramento area who says he’s…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California’s Democratic-controlled state Legislature is considering making it more difficult for local election officials to disqualify ballots. Voters who cast ballots by mail must now sign their ballot. Election officials then compare that signature to the one in the voter’s file. Officials can reject ballots when the signatures don’t match. Temporary…… MORE
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Race and ethnicity can be tricky topics to discuss, especially in the classroom. But the California Department of Education had no idea how heated the debate would get when it set out to draft a model ethnic studies curriculum for high schools across the state. After several years and nearly 100,000…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he’ll appoint a Black woman to the U.S. Senate if Sen. Dianne Feinstein retires before her term ends in 2024. He made the commitment Monday when asked on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” and says he has multiple names in mind. Feinstein is the chamber’s oldest member at…… MORE
ROCKLIN, Calif. (AP) – Organizers behind a proposed recall of California Gov. Gavin Newsom face a Wednesday deadline to submit nearly 1.5 million petition signatures to qualify the proposal for the ballot. Supporters say they have collected over 2 million, though hundreds of thousands remain unverified by election officials. A months-long review gets underway to…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged mistakes in his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but insists the recall effort against him has more to do with politics than the public health crisis. Newsom made his most direct comments yet about the push to unseat him during an interview Friday with KQED, saying his…… MORE
