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Reporting from Just the News
Police said the 40-year-old executive was pronounced dead on the scene on Saturday night and was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the parking lot of the Dublin Sports Grounds in Dublin, California.
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Reporting from Just the News
Nearly 1 million California students designated as English learners will no longer have to pass a set of tests and benchmarks to exit the program,
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) — Uber has been ordered to pay $40 million to the parents of a 23-year-old Laguna Beach woman who was struck and killed on a freeway by a vehicle after a rideshare driver abandoned her and a friend along State Route 73.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – As more states ban phones in K-12 classrooms to reduce distractions and improve student engagement, an analyst says these policies do not address the deeper academic problems facing students.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Approximately $15 million of California’s taxpayer money is shoring up the federally-run Local Food Purchase Assistance Program after the federal government made cuts.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - There were 647 assaults against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during the first 21 months of the second Trump administration, compared to 37 assaults during the Biden administration's first 21 months, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) — A new California law that aims to clamp down on unethical legal advertising may increase the volume of private lawsuits filed against attorneys, “cappers,” law firms and client-referral services, legal observers say.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Gov. Gavin Newsom this week signed seven data center bills into law , bolstering California's effort to add protections for ratepayers and the environment as the state grapples with a growing number of centers.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) — A California sheriff cannot investigate claims of illegal vote counting in his county, unless the state Attorney General gives him permission to do so, the state high court has ruled.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - In less than one week, a U.S. Coast Guard crew seized more than 25,000 pounds of cocaine across three interdictions in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
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