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Arizona County Sheriff Expecting Surge in Human Smuggling, Drug Trafficking With End of Title 42

May 10, 2023
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FLORENCE, Ariz.—A southern Arizona county sheriff said he expects illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossings, drug, and human smuggling to increase “exponentially” following the end of Title 42. “While there is certainly an influx of people, this has been a disaster for a while,” Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb said in an interview with The Epoch Times…

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Newport Beach Asks Residents to Not Give to Homeless

May 10, 2023
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Newport Beach officials are asking residents and visitors to refrain from giving money or goods to the homeless and to donate to the city’s own services instead. City Manager Grace Leung wrote in a May 7 column in the Newport Beach Independent newspaper that good-intentioned donations such as cash, food, or camping equipment may “inadvertently…

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Man Dies After Being Struck by Metrolink Train in Irvine

May 10, 2023
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A 64-year-old man was killed May 8 after being struck by a train in Irvine, according to authorities. Irvine Police and the Orange County Fire Authority responded to the area of 170 Technology Dr. at 7:36 a.m. Monday after a report of a pedestrian being struck by a northbound Metrolink train, according to a statement…

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Drug Poisoning Victims’ Families Demand Legislative Action on National Fentanyl Awareness Day

May 10, 2023
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Protesters gathered in front of California Sen. Toni Atkins’s (D-San Diego) office in San Diego on May 9—National Fentanyl Awareness Day—requesting the majority leader take a bipartisan fentanyl bill to the floor for a vote. Family members wearing t-shirts and carrying pictures of their deceased loved ones joined with advocacy groups in a unified call…

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Los Angeles to Expand Anti-Camping Law in Woodland Hills Area

May 10, 2023
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LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles City Council in a 9–5 vote approved a resolution May 10 seeking to expand the city’s anti-camping law to include two locations in Woodland Hills. Councilman Bob Blumenfield introduced the resolution to expand the city’s anti-camping law, known as section 41.18, to incorporate 5400 Alhama Drive and 5416 Comercio Way. The…

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Dead Body Found on Los Angeles Metro Red Line

May 10, 2023
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LOS ANGELES—A body was found on a Metro B (Red) Line train in Hollywood, authorities said May 10. Metro authorities stopped traffic on the light rail line at approximately 10:30 p.m. Tuesday at Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street when the dead person was discovered, KABC 7 reported. The gender and age of the victim were…

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12-Year-Old Boy Killed in Long Beach Shooting

May 10, 2023
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LONG BEACH, Calif.—A shooting in Long Beach left two people wounded, one of them reportedly a 12-year-old boy who died at a hospital, and an investigation was underway May 10. The shooting occurred near Lewis Avenue and Hill Street late Tuesday night, according to Fox 11 and reports from the scene. The victims, reportedly juveniles,…

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Orange Unified Board Cleared of Brown Act Violation Allegations, Except for One Trustee

May 10, 2023
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The Orange County District Attorney’s office determined the Orange Unified Board of Education did not violate California’s open meeting laws when it voted to fire its superintendent in January—though one trustee was found in violation of the rules for disclosing closed session information to the media. The DA launched a two-month investigation into multiple complaints—filed…

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Man Gets 6 Years in Attack on Former ‘RHOC’ Cast Member

May 10, 2023
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—An ex-boyfriend of Elizabeth Lyn Vargas pleaded guilty May 9 to attacking the former “The Real Housewives of Orange County” cast member and was immediately sentenced to six years in prison. Ryan Matthew Geraghty, 34, was arrested in February 2022 following a roughly two-hour standoff with Newport Beach police at Vargas’s home in…

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California Reparations Report Should Disappoint Black Residents and Everybody Else

May 10, 2023
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Commentary What a missed opportunity. On Saturday, the California Reparations Task Force issued its final recommendations (pdf) for “any form of compensation to African Americans, with a special consideration for African Americans who are descendants of persons enslaved in the United States.” Those are the words from Assembly Bill 3121, the 2020 law establishing the…

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