Category: State News

California Could Lose Most Populous Status in 20 Years, Caltrans Predicts Population Decline Through 2050

May 20, 2023
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Estimates released by the California Department of Transportation show the exodus out of the state continuing, with the population expected to decline from about 39 million today to approximately 35.7 million by 2050. The transportation department began analyzing populations to guide road and highway planning and development in 2000. Orange County’s population is expected to…

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Man Shot Dead, Another Critically Wounded in South Los Angeles

May 20, 2023
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LOS ANGELES—One man was killed and another man was critically wounded during a shooting May 20 in South Los Angeles, authorities said. Both victims were in their 30s and a motive for the shooting was not immediately known, according to the Los Angeles Police Department’s Media Relations Division. The shooting occurred at about 4:20 a.m….

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Motorist Killed in Single-Vehicle, Fiery Crash in Irvine

May 20, 2023
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IRVINE, Calif.—A motorist was killed in a fiery single-vehicle crash in Irvine May 20. Officers dispatched at 4:05 a.m. to Harvard Avenue, at University Drive, located a vehicle on fire that had struck a tree, according to Kyle Oldoerp, a spokesman with the Irvine Police Department. Firefighters knocked down the fire. The driver, the lone…

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Minnesota Gov. Signs Bill Tightening Gun Control Measures

May 20, 2023
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Friday signed a sweeping gun control bill into law, including universal background checks and a “red flag” measure that lets law enforcement intervene if someone is deemed at high risk of injuring themselves or others with a firearm. The gun control measures were folded into a broader public safety bill,…

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Judge Not Inclined to Close Oil Pipeline, Asks Wisconsin Tribe to Work With Oil Company

May 20, 2023
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A federal judge on Thursday said that he is unlikely to shut down an oil pipeline on the Bad River reservation in northern Wisconsin, despite the tribe’s arguments that the line is at immediate risk of erosion and rupturing. However, he said a time may come when he’ll have to intervene. U.S. District Judge William…

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$200,000 Bail Set for Detroit Clerk Who Locked Door Before Customers Were Shot

May 20, 2023
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DETROIT—A Detroit gas station clerk may have panicked when he locked a door to stop a possible theft before a man shot three bystanders, but he didn’t commit a crime, his lawyer said Friday. A magistrate set bond at $200,000 for Al-Hassan Aiyash, 22, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a…

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Utah Police: Man Admits Killing Wife, Visiting In-laws, Surrenders

May 20, 2023
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LAYTON, Utah.—A Utah man killed his wife and her parents and then called police Friday to report and admit to the crime, authorities said. Jeremy Bailey, 34, surrendered without incident at the family home in Layton, just north of Salt Lake City, police said. The bodies of Bailey’s wife, Anastasia Stevens, 36; Becky Stevens, 61;…

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Justice Gorsuch Slams COVID Emergency Powers: ‘Greatest Intrusions on Civil Liberties’ in ‘Peacetime History’

May 20, 2023
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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Thursday lamented what he calls an intrusion into civil liberties by pandemic emergency decrees since the start of COVID-19 as the high court dismissed a suit on Title 42 as moot. “Since March 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of…

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2 Arrested in Death of Kansas 6-Year-Old Gunned Down While Playing Outside

May 20, 2023
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Two suspects have been arrested in the death of a 6-year-old boy nearly two weeks after he was gunned down as he played in the yard of a Kansas home with his uncle and a 7-year-old cousin, police announced Thursday. Police said 20-year-old Lakevis Sloan and a 17-year-old were taken into custody Tuesday evening as…

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Pregnant Woman, Toddler Fatally Shot in Idaho, Sheriff Says

May 20, 2023
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WALLACE, Idaho.—A 33-year-old pregnant woman and her toddler son were found shot to death in a home in northern Idaho, authorities said. Deputies responded at about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday to a report of a death at the home, Shoshone County Sheriff Holly Lindsey announced on Facebook. There they found the bodies of Elizabeth Lawley and…

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