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Murder charge refiled in death of severely disabled girl in Riverside County
The agony that must have accompanied the final hours of Diane “Princess” Ramirez’s short life clearly haunted the prosecutors. Diane Ramírez, courtesy Ángel Cadena Ramirez. After a judge tossed out the...
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Why does it cost some $3 million to fix up one Crystal Cove cottage?
Crystal Cove cottage #11, shown in Newport Beach on Tuesday, October 16, 2018, is one of the north beach cottages that will be part of the second phase of restoration. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange...
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‘Sober living homes were little more than drug dens,’ lawsuit says
Dear Gov. Newsom: Thanks for the new laws. Thanks for the new inspectors. Thanks, I guess, for trying, even a little. But — and isn’t there always a but? — it’s not working. And it’s maddening that the...
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What’s behind California’s skyrocketing spending and $68 billion deficit?
Is California on a bender? The state’s per-capita spending has more than tripled over the past 50 years, even when adjusted for inflation, according to state data (crunched by yours truly). Its...
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Top paid California nonprofit CEO made $35.5 million; many others also get...
Before everyone gets their hackles up over how much money California’s top-compensated nonprofit executives earn, some context is in order. The highest-paid chief executive in the for-profit world was...
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Overdrawn checking account? Some banks still haul in millions in overdraft fees
The good news: Those annoying (and expensive) overdraft and “non-sufficient funds” fees from your bank — of some $35 per pop! — have plummeted over the past couple of years, saving consumers some $5.5...
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Former Chapman law dean John Eastman pushes for big money to help defense
Booking photo of John Eastman in Atlanta in August (Fulton County Sheriff’s Office via AP) John Eastman bemoaned the “surreal, exhausting battle to defend my integrity” in a recent fundraising email,...
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Electric bill based on income? Forget it, lawmakers of both parties agree
The push to maker higher-income Californians pay higher fixed charges for electricity has sparked class warfare — and a confounding round of ducking, glancing, blaming and finger-pointing. “Today we...
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Nuclear waste canisters must last an entire century, bill proposes
This Google Earth image shows how close the expanded dry storage area for spent nuclear waste is to the shoreline at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. (Image courtesy of Google Earth) Will my...
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Addiction treatment violations finally would be public under Assembly bill
Back when we started writing about fraud and abuse and death in California’s private-pay addiction treatment centers in 2017, we had to wait months for copies of inspection reports and violations from...
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King tides, groundwater rise: Threats to nuclear waste at San Onofre?
Todd Moore of Costa Mesa checks out the rain-eroded road leading to San Onofre State Beach on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024.(Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Gary Headrick walked the soggy...
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Judge: Former Chapman Law dean John Eastman, ex-Trump lawyer, should be...
John Eastman (left) and former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani on Jan. 6, 2021 (JACQUELYN MARTIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS) When he spread wild untruths about the 2020 election and tried to stretch the law like...
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Concerns about San Onofre are real, but experts debate level of risk
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in 2019. (File Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG) Let’s all agree that storing 3.6 million pounds of highly radioactive nuclear waste on a bluff...
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Why do so few in Southern California get updated COVID vaccinations?
The buds are blooming, the grass is green, the orange and palm trees sway — and those spring COVID vaccines are rolling out yet again. This spring, the COVID booster is aimed at folks 65 and older and...
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Before a graduating high school senior can even consider going to a four-year school in either the California State or University of California systems, he or she must take some specific classes....
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Gov. Newsom, the drug that kills most Americans is on grocery store shelves
Hey, Gov. Newsom. I’ve been in Dallas with some of the best addiction doctors and researchers in America these last few days. There’s so very much going on here – which we’ll expand on in coming weeks...
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Cities would share power to probe addiction treatment complaints under Umberg...
Used meth pipes in the trash can, drug stashes beneath the stairs, prone bodies in the middle of the street. “My kids are growing up with people overdosing and doing drugs right in front of their...
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Move over, fentanyl? Stimulant overdose deaths are rising fast
Methamphetamine seized by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department (File photo The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Deadly, addictive fentanyl has certainly earned the spotlight when it comes to overdose deaths...
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Ratepayers spend millions to save billions on utilities, but why do we have to?
SOURCE: TURN Electric rates, gas rates, water rates — they go up. And up. And up. Policing these regularly scheduled consumer agonies — or rubber-stamping them, as critics often charge — is the job of...
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Bill allowing kids to pull animals from fair auctions (and slaughter) faces...
Phry was raised by a Fullerton Union High student in her school’s FFA program who asked Farm Sanctuary in Acton to take him as a rescue. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) What are...
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