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• Prison crowding: shift inmates out of state?
• SACRAMENTO - Rather than releasing felons, Governor Jerry Brown is looking at ways to move the overcrowding across state lines.
• Pressure mounts for $2 tax on cigarettes
• SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Health groups are ramping up their pressure on state lawmakers for a $2-per-pack cigarette tax in California.
• Employers concerned over Kaiser rate hikes
• SACRAMENTO - Some of Kaiser Permanente's biggest customers are complaining about an increase in premiums.
• Consumer groups monitor Affordable Act hiring
• SACRAMENTO - Consumer groups are worried about possible fraud as California ramps up hiring for the new Affordable Care Act.
• State regulators consider rules for 'fracking'
• SACRAMENTO - There are pending bills in Sacramento that would eliminate or cut back on hydraulic fracturing, or 'fracking.'
• Special-ed teachers in short supply in state
• SACRAMENTO - The need for special-education teachers is rising in California and across the country.
• Improved jobless numbers spur reduced benefits
• SACRAMENTO - New numbers show California's jobless rate improved, but new numbers mean a change in the unemployment-benefits formula.
• Calif. long-term jobless benefits threatened
• SACRAMENTO - Ten weeks of extended unemployment benefits will likely be chopped off next month, from maximum 73 weeks to 63.
• Napolitano resigns; will be next UC president
• WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is resigning to become the next president of the UC system.
• CA egg donor bill would let women sell eggs
• SACRAMENTO - California is one of only a few states that prohibits women from selling their eggs for research, but that may change.
• Power concerns in state post-San Onofre closure
• SACRAMENTO - With the San Onofre nuclear plant closed, utility companies say there are doubts about meeting power demands.
• Mom urges passage of rental-car recall bill
• SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A mother spoke out Tuesday in support of a California bill that would keep rental cars with recalls off the road.

• Lawmakers prep for same-sex marriage resumption
• Halle Berry: Protect children from paparazzi
• Protecting outdoor workers in excessive heat
• Public Records Act briefly nixed in budget
• Baby-killer's parole denial reversed by court
• Brown ordered to comply with prison order
• Video: California lawmakers, governor get pay raise
• California DMV tackles 'driverless car' issues
• Limo-safety bill passes Assembly committee
• Tuition relief for CA middle class families?
• Suit filed over alleged NV 'patient dumping'
• Santa Monica spurs gun control issue in Capitol
• California seeks to criminalize 'revenge porn'
• Video: CA senators protest enterprise zones program
• Calif. high-speed rail system spurs lawsuit
• Minimum-wage hike passes California Assembly
• Gun-control legislation passes Calif. Senate
• Committee approves dental care to Medi-Cal
• Covered California announces 13 health plans
• Video: Immigrants gather for rally in Sacramento
• CA may use mortgage money for vet services
• Proposal to crack down on 'Wal-Mart loophole'
• Should only nurses give students insulin shots?
• Limo safety regulations examined after SF fire
• Video: CA gathers resources to deal w/ fire season
• Prison overcrowding: Brown submits revised plan
• Calif bills tackle drones, personal privacy
• State extended unemployment benefits to be cut
• Dems at odds over allotment of education money
• CA sugary drink tax proposal clears hurdle