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CalMatters
A CalMatters investigation found that courts didn’t report hundreds of vehicular manslaughter convictions to the state, prompting officials to belatedly take many drivers’ licenses.
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A 47-year-old woman was shot and killed by three San Diego County Sheriff's Department deputies and one San Diego Police Department officer Thursday after she allegedly stabbed an SDPD canine handler. -
Sherri Papini told authorities at the time that she had been kidnapped at gunpoint by two Hispanic women. In reality, authorities said, she was staying with a former boyfriend. -
The shooting forced closures of traffic lanes in the immediate area into the late afternoon.
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County officials cited national studies finding that as many as half of commercially sexually exploited children in the United States are boys, and that the sexual exploitation of boys is underreported. -
A wildfire in Southern California’s Cleveland National Forest is 15% contained. -
The fire, reported at about 11:20 a.m. Wednesday in the Holy Jim Trail area, quickly consumed 400 acres of brush along steep slopes. -
In the suit, the victim's mother said the federal government failed to place the alleged killer on the list banned from owning guns after he was found mentally incompetent by a military court for desertion. -
The crisis response team is an alternative to calling the police for mental health crises. -
It is another step to implement the Commission on Police Practices, which city voters overwhelmingly approved in 2020. -
State law prohibits a person convicted of a felony from possessing a firearm. Maienschein's Assembly Bill 2239 would expand the list of convictions that prompt a 10-year ban to include crimes such as child endangerment and elder abuse.
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