Category: Regional News

Retired California Teachers Asked to Pay Back Miscalculated Benefits

Thousands of retired teachers in California are getting hit with significant bills from the state’s teacher retirement agency due to a miscalculation of benefits. Now, those teachers are left to repay large sums to the California State Teacher Retirement System, the second-largest pension fund in the nation, according to the system’s website. While some mistakes…


San Diego Police Department Asks Former Officers to Rejoin, Offers Incentives

The San Diego Police Department is enticing former officers to rejoin the department, according to a letter sent by its recruiting division. The issue was discovered earlier this month after the letter outlining incentives to return, reportedly sent to former officers, was posted on social media. According to the letter, the department is offering a…


Bullet Train Connecting California to Las Vegas Receives Bipartisan Support

A bipartisan group of lawmakers from California and Nevada has requested funds from the Biden administration to help speed up the construction of a high-speed rail line between the two states on Monday. All six of Nevada’s elected federal lawmakers and four House members from California sent the letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. They said…


California Bill That Would Impose Harsher Penalties on Fentanyl Dealers to Be Reconsidered

Along with several other bipartisan fentanyl bills previously shelved by California lawmakers, Senate Bill 44, which would impose harsher punishments on fentanyl dealers, will also get a second chance at life with a hearing for reconsideration by the state Senate’s Public Safety Committee scheduled for April 25. Authored by Sens. Tom Umberg (D-Santa Ana) and…


2 Teenagers Shot While Riding Bicycle in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES—A 16-year-old boy and an 18-year-old woman were hospitalized in critical condition following a drive-by shooting in the Florence area of Los Angeles, authorities said April 24. The shooting was reported about 10 p.m. April 23 at Central Avenue and 84th Street, according to a desk officer at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Operations…


California Lawmakers Seek to Divest Public Pension Funds From Fossil Fuel

A bill requiring California’s two largest public pension funds to divest from fossil fuel companies is quickly making its way through the state Legislature despite opposition from the state funds. Senate Bill 252, introduced by state Sens. Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach), Henry Stern (D-Calabasas), and Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), would prohibit the boards of California…


‘Ebony Alert’ Bill Passes California Public Safety Committee

A bill that would create a public emergency alert system for missing black youth and women in California was passed unanimously by the state’s Senate Public Safety Committee April 18. Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Gardena)—who introduced the bill—said it’s creating the “Ebony Alert” system, sponsored by the regional NAACP, would provide more resources and attention. “Today’s…


California ‘Ebony Alert’ Bill Advances to Help Find Missing Black Youth, Women

A bill that would create a public emergency alert system for missing black youth and women in California was passed unanimously by the state’s Senate Public Safety Committee April 18. Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Gardena)—who introduced the bill—said it’s creating the “Ebony Alert” system, sponsored by the regional NAACP, would provide more resources and attention. “Today’s…


Arrest Made in Hit-and-Run Crash That Killed Woman in Anaheim

ANAHEIM, Calif.—A man was arrested about eight hours after abandoning a speeding, stolen SUV that struck and killed a woman in Anaheim early April 22. Officers were dispatched about 1:20 a.m. to the 700 block of North East Street, after the Anaheim Police Department was notified by the Placentia Police Department that a traffic collision…


‘Leaving California: The Untold Story’ Explores Reasons Behind the State’s Mass Exodus

“People are leaving [California] to go to places that once were known as ‘hell hot Texas’ or ‘desert Nevada’ that have become paradises in their mind—and we took paradise and turned it into hell,” said one researcher in EpochTV’s new documentary “Leaving California: The Untold Story,” which premiered on April 21. More than 700,000 people…