Newsom budget plan fully funds Pre-K, maintains money to clear homeless encampments
The budget plan maintains $100 million to clear homeless encampments and get people into shelter but includes no new funding ...
Fitness coach from Virginia exploited underage clients to send sexual photos, feds say
For years, the man manipulated teens by mailing them cameras, alcohol, knives and sex-related items as gifts, prosecutors ...
Health care, homelessness and housing in California: Have Gavin Newsom’s promises panned out?
Newsom survived a recall, weathered a pandemic, and coasted to reelection amid speculation about his ambitions for higher ...
Husband’s green thumb leads woman to huge NC lottery win. ‘I was spinning in circles’
“I was spinning in circles,” Heather Jones told lottery officials after her big win. The Bear Creek woman won $150,000 after ...
Why is Border Patrol so far inland for Central California arrests? Here’s its jurisdiction
“Our area of responsibility stretches from the U.S./Mexico Border, north, as mission and threat dictate, all the way to the ...
Lottery player’s win leaves her ‘screaming at work,’ officials say. ‘Unbelievable’
Shari Hunt-Caldwell, 61, earned her big win by playing the Holiday scratch-off game and entering her non-winning tickets into ...
Lottery player wins big on ticket she bought as ‘pick-me-up’ after relative’s death
Though she doesn’t often buy lottery tickets, she told lottery officials she “thought that a scratch-off might be a nice pick ...
Kindergartner finds ‘one of one’ Paul Skenes baseball card — and the MLB star responds
Skenes was the overall first pick by Pittsburgh in the 2023 MLB Draft and made his debut in May 2024. The Louisiana State ...
Mom of 7’s killing was mystery for years, until cigarette offered a clue, WA cops say
A 69-year-old man, who was convicted in a separate 2005 killing and is currently serving a life sentence in Arizona, was ...
Macy’s in downtown Sacramento, once an anchor store, officially set to close after 62 years
Macy’s announced Thursday the long-rumored closures of its locations in Citrus Heights and downtown Sacramento. The latter ...
Lottery player wins $25,000 a year prize in North Carolina. Where was the ticket sold?
Congrats to 4 Lucky for Life players who scored big wins yesterday! Two Online Play tickets and a ticket from 7-Eleven on ...
It isn’t lack of water or DEI making LA’s wildfires worse. Experts say it’s climate change
Looking more broadly, May said that it will take pollution reduction efforts, such as phasing out fossil fuel production and gas-powered vehicles, to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, ...