Tag: Regional News

California Restaurant Coalition Says It Submitted Enough Signatures for Ballot Measure to Possibly Overturn Fast Food Law

December 15, 2022
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A group of restaurateurs and franchisors said last week they have gathered enough voter signatures for a ballot measure to overturn a law that would set up a “Fast Food Council” to regulate wages and benefits for fast food workers in the state. The Save Local Restaurants Coalition—led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the…

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3,400 USC Academic Workers File Petition to Unionize

December 15, 2022
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About 3,400 graduate student workers at the University of Southern California (USC) filed a petition to form a union with the National Labor Relations Board. The Graduate Student Workers Organizing Committee said in a Dec. 14 statement they are unionizing because they hope to negotiate higher pay and improve working conditions in the future. “Graduate…

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San Clemente Permits South OC Cars and Coffee to Run Weekly

December 15, 2022
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San Clemente’s Planning Commission, in California, voted 5–0 on Dec. 7 to permit South Orange County Cars and Coffee to run weekly at the Outlets shopping mall. Though the beloved car show has already been running Saturday mornings on the upper level of the Outlet’s parking garage since 2017, the city had classified it as…

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15-Year-Old’s Family Sues LA Unified Over Drug Death at School

December 15, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—The mother of a 15-year-old girl who died of an overdose in a bathroom at Bernstein High School in Hollywood announced a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Dec. 14, alleging school officials knew there was a problem with drug use at the campus but took no action. LAUSD knew that…

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California Lawmakers May Shut Down More Prisons as State Faces Deficit

December 15, 2022
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After the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced Dec. 6 the closure of two prisons and suspension of six other facilities, Democrat lawmaker Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) said more closures could be on the way. Ting, the chair of the Assembly Budget Committee, released a budget outline Dec. 7 that indicated three more prisons…

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Local Heroes Boost Morale For Cancer Patients in San Diego

December 15, 2022
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Thanks to one small group of volunteers, sick patients at Moore’s Cancer Center at the University of California–San Diego have been emotionally uplifted by the joy of reading donated books over 15 years. After reading an article on how cancer patients can boost their health and morale when reading to their children, San Diego-based social…

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California Braces for Unprecedented Wave of Migrants at the Border

December 15, 2022
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom warned this week a long-expected flood of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border into the United States could “break” the state. He visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Dec. 12, nine days before the anticipated end of Title 42, which is set to expire on Dec. 21. The policy, created as part…

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California Man Faces Life in Prison for Killing Girlfriend and 2 Sons

December 15, 2022
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SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 42-year-old man was convicted Dec. 14 of stabbing his girlfriend to death and killing their two young sons in the city of Orange about a decade ago. Shazer Fernando Limas, who was scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 3, was convicted of three counts of murder with special circumstances allegations of committing more…

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Transient Pleads Guilty to Skateboard Beating Death in Anaheim

December 15, 2022
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FULLERTON, Calif.—A 30-year-old transient pleaded guilty Dec. 14 and was immediately sentenced to four years in prison for beating another homeless man to death with a skateboard in Anaheim. Daniel Ramos Salazar pleaded guilty to a felony count of voluntary manslaughter. As part of the plea deal, a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of…

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Legislation to Watch in the Next Session of the Pennsylvania House

December 15, 2022
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Pennsylvania lawmakers have been busy preparing memos pitching new legislation for the 2023–2024 session. Before laws are made and before a bill is written, legislative ideas start as a memo offering a rationale for the proposed legislation. A bill based on the memo is presented at the committee level and rewritten if committee discussion calls…

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