State News
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Tip leads deputies to body, bloody home
CASTRO VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — An anonymous tip has led Northern California investigators to a body in a garage and bloody party house. Alameda County sheriff's Sgt. J.D. Nelson says the dead man, believed to be in his 20s, was found in the garage of the home in the unincorporated Castro Valley area. The San Francisco Chronicle says deputies who
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UC regents weigh tuition hike to close budget gap
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Another tuition increase is on the table as University of California officials develop plans to deal with a major budget shortfall. The UC Board of Regents is scheduled to discuss a proposal to raise tuition by 6 percent this fall when it meets Wednesday in Sacramento. The board would not vote on a tuition increase until
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Sac student gets 18 years in roommate's death
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A former California State University, Sacramento student has been sentenced to more than 18 years in prison for charges tied to the deadly beating of his college roommate. Authorities charged 22-year-old Quran Jones with beating 23-year-old Scott Hawkins with a baseball bat during a rampage on Oct. 21, 2009. Prosecutors said Jones then stabbed himself and
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Police report reveals details of Seau suicide
OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Oceanside police say Junior Seau fired one shot from a .357-caliber Magnum to kill himself at his home May 2 in a report that reveals details of the NFL great's suicide. In the report released Tuesday, U-T San Diego says Seau's girlfriend told police she last saw him alive that day at 7:45 a.m. At about
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Presbyterian churches ignore SF minister's censure
SAN ANSELMO, Calif. (AP) — Representatives of dozens of West Coast Presbyterian churches are defying their denomination's highest court by refusing to censure a retired minister who married same-sex couples in 2008. The Presbyterian Church's highest court found the Rev. Jane Spahr of San Francisco guilty of misconduct in 2010 for officiating at same-sex weddings when they were legal in
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Judge OKs video of wife in SF sheriff's hearing
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An emotional video of the Venezuelan actress married to San Francisco's embattled sheriff can be seen in a misconduct hearing before the city's ethics commission. San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi pleaded guilty in March to one count of misdemeanor false imprisonment after being accused of bruising his wife Eliana Lopez's arm during a New Years' Eve
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LA passes plan to assess banks' reinvestment in LA
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council has approved an ordinance to track how much banks reinvest in LA. City News Service says the ordinance drafted by City Councilman Richard Alarcon was approved unanimously Tuesday. Under the new ordinance, banks that contract with Los Angeles will have to provide information on foreclosures they do, how many people they
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Third person charged in Marine wife's death
VISTA, Calif. (AP) — A third person has pleaded not guilty to murder in the death of a Camp Pendleton Marine's wife. Dorothy Maraglino denied the charge Tuesday in the death last month of 22-year-old Brittany Killgore. A judge in Vista set her bail at $3 million. Prosecutor Patrick Espinoza identified the 36-year-old Maraglino as a girlfriend of another person
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12 arrested in bust of Calif. drug smuggling ring
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — California Attorney General Kamala Harris says state and federal officials have arrested 12 people tied to a drug trafficking ring that was smuggling heroin from Mexico into the San Francisco Bay area. Harris says the arrests were made in East Palo Alto, Hayward and Oakland on Tuesday. Undercover agents had been tracking the targets for
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Second OC landfill searched for missing boys
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Police say they're searching a second Southern California landfill for the bodies of two boys believed to have been murdered by their father. Orange Police Department Sgt. Dan Adams says three cadaver dogs sniffed through trash Tuesday at an Irvine landfill in search of the infant and toddler sons of 31-year-old Shazer Fernando Limas. Limas is