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Civil rights leader resigns, caught in scandal over NBA team owner’s racist rant

August 25, 2021 at 4:31 a.m.

(Reuters) - The president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP resigned Thursday in ongoing fallout over racist comments made by the owner of the Clippers basketball team, who...

California lawmakers break for Twain-inspired jumping-frog contest

May 14, 2019 at 5:58 a.m.

By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) - California lawmakers set aside the business of running the most populous U.S. state on Wednesday to gather on the state capitol lawn to...

New California law gives tax break to for-profit space explorers

August 25, 2021 at 4:28 a.m.

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - For-profit space explorers who make California their headquarters will not have to pay property taxes on their rockets and space stations under a bill signed Tuesday...

SeaWorld says San Diego killer whale is pregnant

May 14, 2019 at 5:58 a.m.

A killer whale at SeaWorld is pregnant, the San Diego theme park said Tuesday, a development welcomed by the company but decried by animal rights activists trying to outlaw the...

California superintendent race shows Democrats split on school reform

August 25, 2021 at 4:12 a.m.

(This version of the story corrects April 25 story to political consultant Hefner is Torlakson's campaign manager instead of Tuck's, paragraph 17) SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - The race to be...

California superintendent race shows Democrats split on school reform

May 23, 2019 at 9:35 p.m.

(This version of the story corrects April 25 story to political consultant Hefner is Torlakson's campaign manager instead of Tuck's, paragraph 17) SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - The race to be...

California lawmakers aim to tighten handgun restrictions

August 25, 2021 at 4:18 a.m.

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - A bill banning the sale of single-shot handguns that can be modified into semi-automatic weapons advanced in the California legislature on Thursday as lawmakers sought to...

California county tries to ban pot farms as medical weed business thrives

August 25, 2021 at 4:12 a.m.

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - Citing marijuana fields springing up next to high schools and in abandoned barns, Sacramento County supervisors are set to declare pot gardens a public nuisance in...

Neighbors rushed in vain to help in California bus crash that killed 10

August 25, 2021 at 4:05 a.m.

ORLAND, California (Reuters) - Newly released recordings of 911 emergency calls revealed the helplessness of stunned residents in the California town of Orland who witnessed the aftermath of last week's...

California Governor Brown wants rainy-day fund in constitution

August 25, 2021 at 4:04 a.m.

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown on Wednesday stepped up his efforts to enshrine a rainy day fund in the state's constitution, stealing some thunder from Republicans backing...

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