Category: State News

Longtime San Diego Attorney Dies After Collapsing in Court

Lawyers and friends are mourning the sudden death of San Diego criminal defense attorney Stephen Cline after he collapsed suddenly in court on June 13. Cline was 58 years old. The cause of his death is currently unknown. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, Cline was in the middle of an argument for a pretrial…


Academic Group Recommends Expanding Los Angeles City Council to 25 Members

The controversy over leaked tapes and racially disparaging remarks from city councilors that fueled outrage in Los Angeles last year has spurred a group of the city’s top academic scholars and researchers to reimagine their local government. Eight months later, the Los Angeles Governance Reform Project, a group of university scholars, researchers, and leaders, is asking…


Trump’s Defamation Trial Scheduled to Begin as GOP Primary Caucuses Kick Off

A federal judge has scheduled E. Jean Carroll’s remaining defamation trial against former President Donald Trump for a date in January 2024 that coincides roughly with the kickoff of Republican presidential primary caucuses. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said in a Thursday scheduling order that Carroll’s civil trial against Trump will begin on January 15,…


SY Aesthetics Unveils New Cosmetic Surgery Center in Middletown

SY Aesthetics, a cosmetic center aimed to bring about long-lasting beauty via the holistic treatment of patients, opened a state-of-art surgery facility in Middletown on June 16.  Sitting on the Community Campus off Mohagen Avenue, the 5,500 square-foot facility contains two new operating rooms, each equipped with anesthesia machines and flat-screen monitors.  The monitored pre-operative suite…


Empathetic Manipulation: A Class on How to ‘Support’ Parents of ‘Gender Diverse’ Children

Commentary On May 5, I attended the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT) conference in Santa Clara, California. In my third installment about this conference, I’m going to talk about the class entitled “Parents in Transition, Clinical Considerations When Treating Parents of Gender Diverse Children,” presented by Linda K. Reeves, LMFT (she/her) WPATH GEI Certified…


Gen Z Climate Change Activists Call on the Court to Force Montana to ‘Go Green’

A group of Gen Z climate change activists is calling on the court to force the Montana government to go green in a fight over the state’s climate laws and regulations. In Held v. Montana, 16 kids, ranging from ages 5 to 22, from across Montana argue that state legislators have put the interests of…


Justice Department Accuses Minneapolis Police of Violating Rights, Dangerous Tactics

Following an investigation prompted by the death of George Floyd, the Justice Department accused the Minneapolis police on Friday of a consistent pattern of violating constitutional rights, discrimination against minorities, and “excessive” and “unjustified deadly force” in policing. The sweeping civil rights investigation was conducted over a span of two years by the U.S. Department…


Shooting, Fire at Tennessee Home Leads to 6 Dead Including 3 Children

SEQUATCHIE, Tenn.—Six people including three children were found dead in a Tennessee home where police responded to a shooting and arrived to find the residence ablaze, authorities said. A seventh person who had suffered gunshot wounds was found alive at the home in Sequatchie on Thursday night after firefighters extinguished the flames and was hospitalized…


‘Rust’ Film Set Weapons Supervisor Was Likely Hungover, Prosecutors Claim

Prosecutors say Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the weapons supervisor on the set of the film “Rust,” where a gun was discharged and killed a cinematographer, was likely hungover when she loaded a live bullet into the gun Alec Baldwin used. They accuse Gutierrez-Reed, 25, of drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana in the evenings during filming. Last month,…


Every School District in OC Improved Its Fiscal Health in 2022—Except for 2

Orange County, California has 28 school districts, and they all share the fiscal year end of June 30. The timely release of their annual financial statements is usually before the end of the year. However, only 22 of them had their auditors field work completed before Dec. 31, 2022. Huntington Beach Union High School District…