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In a setback for taxpayer advocates this week, the California Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments to remove an initiative from the November 2024 ballot. The request came from several Democratic legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom. The arguments center on the Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act (TPA). If approved
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Elk Grove Police arrested three suspects on various charges last week in what they described as organized retail theft. The suspects, Alfred Montalvo, 33, Don Clemons, 31, and Kysiah Jones, 27, reportedly entered an unnamed retailer and stole approximately $4,000 of merchandise on the evening of Tuesday, November 21.
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Oakland, California—Yet another fish in the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary is in deep trouble and an environmental advocacy organization intends to take legal action to prevent the species from becoming extinct. On October 11, San Francisco Baykeeper put the US Fish and Wildlife Service on notice that the group
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Last week a federal grand jury in Sacramento returned a five-count indictment against Dakota Jeremiah Pevino (aka Dakota Jeremiah Viggiano), 35, of Sacramento. Pevino is charged with sexual exploitation of a child and distribution and possession of visual depictions of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Evidence introduced showed
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A Rancho Cordova man, Adan Navarro, 29, pleaded guilty yesterday to multiple charges of money laundering and smuggling illegal narcotics at US District Court in Sacramento. Among the narcotics smuggled were heroin, methamphetamine, and fentanyl pills. Additionally, Navarro pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute
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Westlands Water District, the largest agricultural water district in the country, is asking the California Supreme Court to overrule four State Court decisions in its most recent effort to evade payment of at least $100 million in environmental restoration and other costs. These decisions refused to “rubber stamp a federal
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A jury at Sacramento Superior Court today convicted a repeat DUI offender in the 2022 death of a motorist and serious injury of two others. Angel Bahena was found guilty of second-degree murder, vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, DUI causing injury and DUI causing injury with a BAC more than