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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law on Monday a bill that requires schools to limit or ban the use of smartphones, amid a growing consensus that excess usage can increase the risk of mental illness and impair learning. Thirteen other states this year have banned or restricted cellphones in school or recommended local educators do so, after Florida led the way by banning phones in class in 2023, according […]
By Steve Gorman and Jorge Garcia LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – One of two doctors who are among the five people charged in the ketamine overdose death of “Friends” star Matthew Perry was barred by a federal judge on Friday from practicing medicine and through his lawyer afterward expressed remorse. Dr. Mark Chavez appeared in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles for a brief arraignment on a single felony count of conspiracy to illegally distribute ketamine […]
(Reuters) Thousands of firefighters were battling a rapidly growing wildfire in northern California on Saturday (July 27) after the blaze more than doubled in size in a 24-hour span. The Park Fire had burned more than 350,000 acres (141,640 hectares) about 90 miles (144 km) north of the state capital city of Sacramento as of Saturday afternoon, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire. Cooler temperatures and more humid […]
LOS ANGELES, United States, July 25, 2024 (AFP) – Firefighters were battling a fast-moving wildfire in the US state of California on Thursday, authorities said, with more than 3,500 people forced to flee their homes. The Park Fire broke out Wednesday evening, on the last day of a heat wave affecting the region. More than 1,150 personnel were deployed to fight the blaze, which was only three percent contained, according to the California Department of […]
LOS ANGELES, March 1, 2024 (AFP) – A manhunt was launched by police in the California city of El Cajon on Thursday after a shooting at a dentist’s office left one dead and two injured, local media reported. Police in the town, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) outside of San Diego, said on social media they were searching for an “armed and dangerous” 29-year-old suspect who fled the scene after the attack, which they described […]
LOS ANGELES, Feb 6, 2024 (AFP) – A powerful storm lashing California on Monday has left at least three people dead and caused devastating mudslides and flooding, after dumping months’ worth of rain in a single day. More than ten inches (25 centimeters) of rain was recorded in one part of Los Angeles County in 24 hours of downpour, with no letup forecast in the coming days. Mountainsides collapsed in the tony Hollywood Hills area, […]
LOS ANGELES, Feb 1, 2024 (AFP) – The US West Coast was getting drenched Thursday as the first of two powerful storms moved in, part of a “Pineapple Express” weather pattern that was washing out roads and sparking flood warnings. An atmospheric river was dumping heavy rain and snow over a wide swath of the region, ferrying tropical moisture from the ocean near Hawaii — a weather phenomenon named after the tropical fruit that grows […]
By Huw GRIFFITH LOS ANGELES, Dec 29, 2023 (AFP) – Huge surf was battering the US West Coast on Friday, with forecasters warning of more danger ahead after a rogue wave swept pedestrians off their feet and swamped a hotel. Rollers as high as 30 feet (nine meters) were expected to lash parts of California and Oregon as a powerful storm capped a year of wild — and often wet — weather for the region. […]
By Christopher Monterrosa, with Frankie Taggart in Washington ATLANTA, Nov 30, 2023 (AFP) – They are ambitious and relatively young leaders whose passionate views about running their large, powerful states offer contrasting ideals on how the deeply-polarized United States should be run. But Republican Florida governor Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom, his counterpart in Democratic California, will swap social media antagonism for an in-person televised debate Thursday that could be preview the White House race […]
LOS ANGELES, Sept 16, 2023 (AFP) – The US state of California sued five of the world’s largest oil companies on Friday, alleging the firms caused billions of dollars in damages and misled the public by minimizing the risks from fossil fuels, The New York Times reported. It follows numerous other cases brought by US cities, counties and states against fossil fuel interests over the impact of climate change as well as alleged disinformation campaigns […]
LOS ANGELES, Aug 25, 2023 (AFP) – A retired cop upset over his failed marriage opened fire at his wife and others at a southern California bar popular with bikers, killing three people and wounding six, authorities said Thursday. Responding officers killed the shooter, who was identified later as 59-year-old John Snowling by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. His wife was wounded but survived the Wednesday night attack, another chapter in America’s gun violence crisis, […]
LOS ANGELES, Aug 24, 2023 (AFP) – A gunman shot three people dead and wounded at least six others at a bar in the US state of California on Wednesday, police said. The shooter also died in the incident, with police saying there was an “officer-involved shooting” at the location but that no officers had been hurt. “Confirmed 4 deceased at scene, inc. the shooter,” the Orange County Sheriff said on social media. “6 transported […]
