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4.4 magnitude earthquake jolts Southern California

A small earthquake has struck an area southeast of Los Angeles but no damage or injuries are reported.

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 20128, file photo, JP Noda stocks cannabis at The Apothecarium shortly before the store opened for its first day of recreational marijuana sales in San Francisco. California cities on Monday, Aug. 13, 2018, objected to a proposed change in state rules that they say would allow unchecked home marijuana deliveries in places that have banned local pot sales. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Business & Real Estate

California could reshape pot rules as legal market struggles

California officials overseeing the nation's largest legal marijuana market hear a long list of complaints and concerns in Los Angeles.

California

Murrieta district pays $11M over boy’s school pool death

A Southern California school district will pay $11 million to the parents of a 13-year-old boy who drowned in a high school pool.

With a dollar bill stuck in her hat, Donna Poulos, of Los Altos, joined other open-government supporters rallying against a measure that would let legislative leaders raise and spend more money to help their preferred candidates, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif. The bill AB84 by Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D-South San Francisco, was approved by a state Senate Committee. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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California lawmakers advance bill to boost leaders’ power

California lawmakers on Tuesday advanced a bill over opposition from open-government groups that would let legislative leaders raise and spend more money to help their preferred candidates.

FILE - In this June 9, 2014, file photo, an inmate is moved after a session with a psychologist at the the mental health unit at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown wants to tighten a law he signed weeks ago that critics say could have freed rapists and murderers who completed two years of mental health treatment. The proposal obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018, specifically bans those charged with murder, rape and other sex crimes from participating and allows judges to bar a much broader range of dangerous suspects.

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APNewsBreak: California may redo law to treat, free suspects

California Gov. Jerry Brown is seeking to tighten a law he signed weeks ago that critics say could have freed rapists and murderers who completed two years of mental health treatment.

Sheriff’s Office frees Lake Tahoe bear from back of car

Dashcam footage posted by the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office shows deputies responding to reports of a bear trapped in the back of a sedan parked in a residential driveway in South Lake Tahoe. An officer used nonlethal beanbag rounds to break the rear window, freeing the bear.

A sign at a Sacramento liquor store on Dec. 27 displays the prize amounts for lottery games. The California Lottery postponed a sales conference planned in August 2018 in the wake of an anonymous employee’s complaint to Gov. Jerry Brown about senior leaders behaving inappropriately at a Southern California bar two years ago.

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Rowdy party complaint prompts California Lottery to cancel sales meeting

The California Lottery on Aug. 14, 2018, said it is postponing a sales conference while it retools some human resources and nondiscrimination training. It follows a complaint to Gov. Jerry Brown.

California

Prolific pot growers stole $200,000 in power for their 7,000 illegal plants, Calif. cops say

Murrieta, California, police arrested members of an illegal marijuana growing operation after they got caught growing 7,000 pot plants and stealing $200,000 in power to do it, police said.

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This Hanford man just won the lottery, then she hit a jackpot

A couple in love hit the jackpot on one lottery ticket sold in Hanford, the California Lottery said.

Excitement mounts as Yosemite Valley reopens to the public Tuesday

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‘It’s really nice to have everyone back.’ Smoky but scenic Yosemite Valley reopens

Yosemite National Park welcomed visitors into Yosemite Valley for the first time in nearly three weeks on Tuesday.

Fires

Two-alarm fire damages units at apartment complex near Sac State

A two-alarm fire damaged eight units at an apartment complex on Bicentennial Circle, not far from Sacramento State.

Draper Battalion Chief Matthew Burchett, far left, was killed Monday while fighting the Mendocino Complex Fire.

Fires

‘Our hearts ache’ for Utah firefighter killed in Mendocino Complex, Gov. Brown says

Draper City mayor identified the local fire chief who was killed Monday.

Fires

Two-alarm fire damages 8 apartment units near Sacramento State

Firefighters fought a blaze that damaged eight College/Glen apartment units Monday. No injuries occurred.

Get to know Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh

Capitol Alert

‘Shut down the Senate!’ Supreme Court confirmation roils Feinstein race.

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is approaching the confirmation process for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh all wrong, according to state Sen. Kevin de León, her opponent in this fall’s Senate race.

Animation shows how Mendocino Complex Fire became California’s biggest fire ever

Fires

State’s biggest blaze ever, Ranch Fire passes 300,000 acres as River Fire is contained

The bigger of the two Mendocino Complex blazes, the Ranch Fire has burned more than 300,000 acres, Cal Fire reports. The Ranch Fire became the first California wildfire to reach that milestone as of Monday evening’s update from Cal Fire. It is 305,490 acres as of 7 a.m. Tuesday.

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