Category: SACRAMENTO

California to Repay Huntington Beach $5.2 Million for Redevelopment Loan

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—The City of Huntington Beach will be repaid $5.2 million after a California Superior Court judge ruled against the state’s Department of Finance on a redevelopment agency loan. The city sued the State for just over $75 million in 2018 regarding a number of loans attained through the state’s development agency, which provided…


Arraignment Delayed for Smiley Martin, Suspect in Deadly Sacramento Gang Shooting

By Mackenzie Mays From Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A suspect in the April 6 deadly shooting in downtown Sacramento made his first appearance in court Friday after being hospitalized for injuries incurred in the melee. During the one-minute hearing, the arraignment for Smiley Martin, 27, was delayed until Tuesday. Martin is among at least five…


California Lawmakers Approve Bill Limiting Indoor Water Consumption

SACRAMENTO—Amid California’s ongoing drought, state lawmakers moved forward with a bill that will mandate indoor residential water conservation, despite pushback from water districts. The state Senate voted 28–9 on Senate Bill 1157 to lower the indoor water use from the current standard of 55 gallons to 47 gallons per person per day beginning 2025, and…


People’s Convoy Protests for 2nd Day in Sacramento

Over a dozen members of The People’s Convoy gathered outside California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mansion in Fair Oaks, less than 20 miles northeast of the state Capitol, at about 12:30 p.m. on April 20, to protest vaccine mandates and Assembly Bill (AB) 2223. About six California Highway Patrol officers told protesters to “ease off the…


Truckers Arrive in Sacramento to Protest Vaccine Mandates

Over a hundred demonstrators showed up on the steps of California’s state Capitol building in Sacramento on Monday, April 18, to support The People’s Convoy and its fight to end vaccine mandates. Mike Landis, a lead trucker in the convoy, and other organizers told supporters that Monday’s rally was only a prelude to a larger…


Sacramento Shootout That Killed 6 Detailed in Court Filing

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Newly filed court documents provide for the first time a detailed account of how a gunfight over an unspecified gang dispute unfolded in downtown Sacramento earlier this month, leaving six dead and a dozen wounded. The documents filed Friday by Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert’s office also named others involved in the…


Mentoring Troubled Youth Through Basketball

His early life was no crystal staircase. Mister Harriel grew up in a single-family, low-income home in a South Sacramento neighborhood. Drug dealing and gang violence were commonplace. That and his father’s absence became an on-ramp to a street life of drug dealing and property crime. Meanwhile, Harriel played high school basketball mainly to calm…


Law Reduced Prison Time for Man Tied to Sacramento Shooting

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A suspect arrested in connection with last weekend’s mass shooting outside bars in Sacramento served less than half his 10-year sentence because of voter-approved changes to state law that lessened the punishment for his felony convictions and provided a chance for earlier release. Smiley Allen Martin was freed in February after serving time for…


Gun Controllers Twist Sacramento Shooting

Commentary To make sure proper evidence was acquired, police took 18 hours to clear the bodies of all six people killed in the shooting in Sacramento Sunday morning. During that time—while the bodies still were lying on the ground—gun-control proponents were quick to the draw trotting out all their long-disproven reasons for eviscerating Americans’ Second…


Police: Sacramento Shooting Was Gunfight Among Gang Rivals, at Least 5 Shooters Involved

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—The shooting that left six people dead and 12 wounded outside bars just blocks from California’s Capitol last weekend was a gunfight involving at least five shooters from rival gangs, Sacramento police said Wednesday. Police said they identified at least five gunmen but there may have been more. Only two suspects—both brothers wounded by…