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  • Police say they've arrested three panhandlers in connection with the fatal stabbing of a woman on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
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  • California capitol
  • The commission that sets the pay for Calif. lawmakers and elected officials voted to restore a 5 percent pay cut made last year.
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  • Hundreds of residents have been allowed to return back home as crews make progress against a wildfire near Yosemite.
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  • An attorney found himself on the wrong side of the law when he was caught on video smacking another well-dressed motorist in a road rage incident.
  • An attorney found himself on the wrong side of the law when he was caught on video smacking another well-dressed motorist in a road rage incident.
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  • An unattended campfire near a main route into Yosemite National Park has grown into a more than 2-square-mile blaze.
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  • A wind-whipped wildfire near the main route into Yosemite forced the evacuation of about 150 houses and threatened others.
  • A wind-whipped wildfire near the main route into Yosemite forced the evacuation of about 150 houses and threatened others.
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  • A Los Angeles elementary school teacher accused of chasing down and fatally stabbing his estranged wife had threatened to kill her using piano wire, an ice pick, guns or pipe bombs, court documents allege.
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los angeles, crime, california news
  • The Night Stalker Richard Ramirez
  • Coroners say a form of cancer killed the serial killer known as the "Night Stalker" who terrorized Southern California in the mid-1980s.
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san quentin prison, tenderloin, children, murder, southern california, sex crimes, SFPD, california news
  • A boy riding in a van that delivers newspapers died in an accident on a Sacramento freeway. The CHP thinks the driver was intoxicated.
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  • Gov. Jerry Brown discusses the budget compromise reached with Democratic leaders, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento left, and Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, right, during a Capitol news conference in Sacramento, Calif.
  • The California Legislature on Saturday approved a budget bill expanding Medicaid to 1.4 million low-income residents.
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  • A bishop in Stockton says his diocese is nearly out of money after paying damages to all the people who sued over clergy sex abuse.
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  • The Legislature passed California's massive state spending plan Friday amid sharp divisions over the compromise.
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  • A Davis youth group home's license has been revoked following numerous complaints, including allegations of rape and sexual assault.
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sacramento, sex crimes, children, non-profit, california news
  • This undated photo provided on Sunday, June 9, 2013, by the Santa Monica Police Department shows John Zawahri
  • Police say the gunman who killed five in a rampage in Santa Monica last week left a note apologizing for killing his father and brother.
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  • Demonstrators fighting for the release of 12 prisoners have nearly completed a 700-mile protest march.
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  • This undated photo provided on Sunday, June 9, 2013, by the Santa Monica Police Department shows John Zawahri
  • The Los Angeles County coroner's office has released new details on the deaths of last week's Santa Monica gunman and his victims.
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  • This photo provided by the Santa Monica Police Department shows the suspect entering Santa Monica College Library carrying a weapon.
  • An acquaintance says the mother of the gunman who killed five people in Santa Monica, Calif., is in mourning.
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  • A 35-year-old woman is in critical condition an accident in downtown Los Angeles.
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  • The Legislature's Democratic leader's budget mirrors the governor's proposal for a fiscally restrained spending plan.
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  • A "telephonic bomb threat" against a flight from Los Angeles to Texas resulted in the plane being diverted.
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airline industry, southwest airlines, california news
  • Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature's Democratic leaders are close to a state budget deal that maintains fiscal balance.
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  • Kabang
  • A hero dog treated at the UC Davis vet hospital after a horrendous crash is finally back home in the Philippines.
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  • Santa Monica shooting
  • Police have identified the gunman who went on a shooting rampage in Southern California that left five people dead.
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  • Fresno baby dies
  • Fresno officials say a baby died of heat exposure after he was unintentionally left in a car as the temperature reached 101 degrees.
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fresno, children, heat wave, driving, california news
  • Santa Monica shooting
  • Santa Monica's police chief says the gunman who killed four people planned the attack and had 1,300 rounds of ammunition.
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  • A career criminal was sentenced to 105 years to life in prison after boasting to authorities that he had a master's degree in burglary.
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  • Santa Monica shooting
  • A man with a semi-automatic rifle killed at least four and wounded others as he carried out a deadly rampage in Santa Monica.
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  • The Night Stalker Richard Ramirez
  • Richard Ramirez, the notorious serial killer known as 'The Night Stalker,' died early Friday in a hospital.
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  • A gunman carrying an assault-style rifle killed at least six people in Santa Monica before police killed him at Santa Monica College.
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  • Law enforcement officials gather outside Santa Monica College after the school was placed on lockdown when a gunman opened fire on campus on Friday, June 7, 2013.
  • Multiple people were injured in a shooting at Santa Monica College Friday.
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