By ADAM BEAM SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom broadly agree on a proposed $213 billion state budget that would spend more on immigrants and the poor by expanding tax credits, health care and child care. But they’re still debating how far those program expansions should go and how best to pay for…
A ticket with all six numbers in the multi-state Mega Millions draw was sold at a liquor store in San Diego. The winner will now have to decide whether to receive the estimated $530 million jackpot in 30 installments or its $345.2 million cash value. A ticket with five winning numbers, but missing…
Just how slow is the housing market? For nine consecutive months through April, CoreLogic housing stats show countywide sales failing to top the year-ago period. That slump has led to a nine-month period with the smallest number of Orange County home purchases in seven years. Here are 10 trends you should know about the market’s…
SANTA ANA — A wrong-way driver suspected of DUI plowed head-on into another car on the 5 Freeway early Saturday, injuring four people, the California Highway Patrol said. The car that caused the crash was traveling southbound in the northbound carpool lane near First Street around 1:32 a.m., CHP Sgt. Hope Maxson said. Four…
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Saturday morning six miles from Hollister, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 3:28 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 4.3 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 18 miles from Gilroy and 24 miles from Salinas. …
The college admissions scandal has shaken the country’s trust in higher education and corroborated a “national fear” that the process can be rigged to favor the rich, prosecutors wrote in arguing why a coach mired in the scandal should go to prison. In a sentencing memorandum filed Friday, prosecutors…
All he wanted to do was plug up a wasp nest because he’s allergic to bees and worried about being stung. It was a hot day. The rancher in the Northern California hamlet of Potter Valley walked into a bed of waist-high cured grassland, driving a stake into the ground. That created a spark that…
Whewww, what a week. I could give you a hundred breakdowns of what happened and what it all means, but it comes down to this: We’re in troubled waters on a ship without a captain, and though there might be a few pretenders on the bridge, nobody trusts them. We found out on Tuesday that…
Holy guacamole, it’s peak avocado season in California. Americans are eating more avocados than ever, especially the Hass variety, which was created in California. California’s own There are more than 1,000 varieties of avocados listed in the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources database. Here are some of the most common varieties grown commercially…
Planetary scientist Laurel Wilkening, UC Irvine’s third chancellor and the third woman chancellor in UC system history, died June 4 in Arizona, where she moved after her 1998 retirement. She was 74. Born in Washington state and raised in New Mexico, Wilkening also taught and held leadership posts at the University of Arizona and the…
