The California Air Resources Board on Thursday agreed to ban the future sale of new products run by small gas-powered engines, including lawn mowers and leaf blowers by 2024. And forget speeding tickets — California truck drivers will soon have to watch out for pollution tickets, as well. And, further...
California Law Requires Separating Out Food Waste Starting in January
Banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won't have a place in California trashcans under the nation's largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program that's set to take effect in January. The effort is designed to keep landfills in the most populous U.S. state clear of food waste that damages...
Los Angeles School Board Fires 500 Unvaccinated Employees
Nearly 500 Los Angeles Unified School District employees were fired this week for refusing to comply with a mandate that they get vaccinated against COVID-19, while some 34,000 students have not yet been vaccinated as required. The school board voted 7-0 in separate motions on Tuesday to terminate 496 employees,...
Scott Peterson Gets New Sentence in 2002 Murder of Wife Laci, Unborn Son
Nearly 17 years after being sentenced to die, Scott Peterson was resentenced Wednesday to life in prison in the 2002 slayings of his pregnant wife and unborn son that gripped the world then and since. The California Supreme Court ruled a year ago that his jury was improperly screened for...
Giant Christmas Tree Outside Fox News Headquarters Set Afire
A man was charged with arson and other crimes Wednesday for setting fire to a 50-foot Christmas tree in front of Fox News headquarters in midtown Manhattan, police said. The artificial tree outside of the News Corp. building that houses Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and the New York...
Another California Guard Charged With Sexual Abuse at Women’s Lockup
A correctional officer at a women’s prison in California was charged Friday with sexually abusing an inmate, just months after the facility's warden was arrested for similar conduct. The officer, John Russell Bellhouse, is the latest employee of the federal Bureau of Prisons charged with criminal wrongdoing in a prison...
Suspect in Supermarket Mass Shooting Incompetent for Trial
Experts have found a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket earlier this year is mentally incompetent to stand trial for now, attorneys said during a court hearing Friday. Ahwad Al Aliwi Alissa, 22, is accused of opening fire at a busy King Soopers in the college...
School Shooting Suspect’s Parents Charged: ‘Far Beyond Negligence’
A prosecutor in Michigan filed involuntary manslaughter charges Friday against the parents of a boy who is accused of killing four students at Oxford High School, after saying earlier that their actions went “far beyond negligence." Jennifer and James Crumbley were charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter. Under Michigan...
Biggest Lie on Social Media This Week Involves Kyle Rittenhouse, LeBron James
A look at what didn't happen this week despite claims popularly circulated on social media, as fact-checked by the Associated Press. CLAIM: Federal magistrate approved Kyle Rittenhouse’s $110 Million defamation suit against LeBron James. THE FACTS: No such ruling was made. Rittenhouse has not filed a defamation suit against the...
Newsom to Police, Prosecutors, Judges: Hold Smash and Grab Thieves Accountable
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday in no uncertain terms that he thinks shoplifters should be prosecuted under existing California laws, as he called out local officials whom he said have been reluctant to do so. He was responding to a recent run of large-scale thefts in California and across the...