Category: State News

Judge Temporarily Blocks Iowa’s 6-Week Abortion Ban

July 17, 2023
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An Iowa judge issued a temporary injunction on Monday, blocking the state’s new ban on abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, usually at six weeks of pregnancy. This decision came shortly after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the measure into law, following approval by the Republican-led Legislature during an all-day special session last week. In…

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Laguna Beach Man Pleads Guilty to Flying Drones Near Aircrafts, Prompting Dangerous Emergency Responses

July 17, 2023
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Laguna Beach resident Alexander Milinovic pleaded guilty July 13 to three criminal charges for recklessly operating a drone near various aircraft multiple times—including close to a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter mid-flight. The 62-year-old pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft between June 2022 and March 2023, according to a…

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Santa Monica Councilman Attacked by Homeless Man

July 17, 2023
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A Santa Monica city councilman was attacked July 16 around 2:45 p.m. while walking along the Third Street Promenade, an outdoor dining and shopping street, with his wife after asking a man he believed to be homeless to pick up his trash. “I asked him if he could pick up the trash and put it…

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One of San Diego’s Oldest Starbucks Locations Closes Due to Homelessness

July 17, 2023
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A San Diego Starbucks—which has been in business for nearly 30 years—closed June 29 due to the company’s inability to protect employees and customers from issues regarding homelessness, according to two local officials. Located in the community of Hillcrest on the 3000 Block of Fifth Avenue, the Starbucks branch was one of the oldest in…

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California Lawmakers Consider Race-Based Sentencing Bill as Part of Reparation Efforts

July 17, 2023
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A controversial bill designed to allow California judges to consider race when sentencing offenders is winding its way through the legislative process, having passed the Assembly with no Republican support and some Democrats abstaining from the vote. Assembly Bill 852, a succinct proposal comprised of two sentences and authored by Assemblyman Reginald Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles),…

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Westminster Police Join Forces With Nonprofit to Create Mental Health Mobile Response Team

July 17, 2023
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The Westminster Police Department has partnered with a local nonprofit to establish a mobile response team to provide mental health services to the community through a program that launched June 26. Be Well OC is the nonprofit which has taken over non-life-threatening mental health calls on behalf of the city’s police department. So far, the…

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San Diego Man Sentenced to 32 Years to Life in Prison for Killing Girlfriend

July 17, 2023
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SAN DIEGO—A San Diego man convicted of killing his girlfriend and dumping her body in Mexico was sentenced on July 17 to 32 years to life in state prison. Nery Roberto Garcia, 36, was found guilty by a San Diego jury on May 15 of first-degree murder in the slaying of 48-year-old Faviola Calderon. The…

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‘The Sports Lodge’ a Comfortable Radio Hangout for Fans

July 17, 2023
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Along with the voluminous other preparation necessary to make “The Sports Lodge” a go-to radio destination for fans in Orange County and beyond, there is the whole thing about high school nicknames. “I find myself during downtime searching and memorizing high schools,” Roger Lodge told The Epoch Times. Now in his 15th year as host…

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Another California Teacher Confronts the Education Mafia

July 17, 2023
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Commentary Increasingly, public school administrators and boards—controlled by unions—are pressing teachers to adopt woke and sexualized ideology. They threaten—and implement—punishments for anyone resisting, as teacher Sean Redmond is learning. Mr. Redmond, 34, teaches in California’s Garden Grove Unified School District. He and some other teachers were not keen to adopt grooming techniques being pushed by…

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[PREMIERING NOW] Aaron Siri on Missouri v. Biden, First Amendment Jurisprudence, Basic Freedoms, Separation of Powers | ATL:NOW

July 17, 2023
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“I think this might be one of the most consequential decisions in First Amendment jurisprudence in 200 years. You have a federal judge, in a case brought by two states in America—so, two attorney generals: Missouri and Louisiana—saying that the federal government has violated the First Amendment of the United States Constitution by colluding widely…

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