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State Farm Won't Renew 72K Home Policies in California

The move comes 9 months after the company announced it wouldn't offer new policies there

(Newser) - State Farm will discontinue coverage for 72,000 houses and apartments in California starting this summer, the insurance giant said this week, nine months after announcing it would not issue new home policies in the state. The Illinois-based company, California's largest insurer, cited soaring costs, the increasing risk of...

Woman Arrested 2 Years After Son's Body Found in Suitcase

Dejuane Ludie Anderson arrested after tip from 'concerned citizen'

(Newser) - The mother of 5-year-old Cairo Ammar Jordan has been arrested two years after the boy's body was found in a suitcase in rural Indiana. Police say Dejuane Ludie Anderson was arrested in California last week and could be brought to Indiana soon, the Louisville Courier Journal reports. Police said...

New Kobe Bryant Statue Has a Bit of a Problem
Apparently No One
Proofread This
Kobe Bryant Statue
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Mar 16, 2024 4:40 PM CDT

Apparently No One Proofread This Kobe Bryant Statue

LA Lakers say they'll fix the 3 typos found on the bronze structure outside Crypto.com Arena

(Newser) - A 4,000-pound bronze statue of late Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant was unveiled last month outside of LA's Crypto.com Arena, showing the NBA legend walking off the court in his No. 8 jersey after scoring 81 points in a 2006 game against the Toronto Raptors. Now,...

California Boy, 15, Wielding Garden Tool Is Killed by Deputy

Deputies were called to family disturbance in San Bernardino County

(Newser) - San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies were called to a domestic disturbance in southern California's Apple Valley just before 5pm Saturday, and the incident ended with a 15-year-old boy fatally shot by a deputy. Authorities say the teen, Ryan Gainer, was allegedly assaulting family members and damaging property at...

Disneyland Looking to Make Big Changes

Disney wants to expand California theme parks, without expanding footprint

(Newser) - Walking through the frosty, snow-covered hamlet of Arendelle from Frozen or the bustling, critter-filled metropolis of Zootopia might be possible one day for visitors to Disney's California theme parks, the AP reports. That's only if Disney wins approval from local officials to expand its Anaheim resort over the...

Brothers Donate $5M to Honor Black Couple Who Helped Family

Gus and Emma Thompson rented a house to Chinese Americans in 1938 when nobody else would

(Newser) - In the late 1930s, a man born into slavery in Kentucky rented a house in Coronado, California, to a Chinese American family excluded from other properties under racist laws. That property is now worth some serious coin, and the family is paying it back with a $5 million gift to...

Adam Schiff Will Advance in California Senate Race
Baseball's
Steve Garvey
Advances
to November
super tuesday
Mar 6, 2024 5:50 AM CST

Baseball's Steve Garvey Advances to November

Republican will face Adam Schiff in Senate race in deep-blue California

(Newser) - Republican Steve Garvey and Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff emerged from a crowded field of contenders in California to advance to a November election to fill the Senate seat held for three decades by the late Dianne Feinstein, the AP reports. The former baseball MVP who played for the Los Angeles...

Race to Fill Feinstein&#39;s Seat Is One to Watch
Baseball Star
May Defeat 2
Prominent
Progressives
super tuesday
Mar 5, 2024 11:32 AM CST

Baseball Star May Defeat 2 Prominent Progressives

GOP's Steve Garvey has decent chance of moving on to general election in California's Senate primary

(Newser) - The biggest nonpresidential contest on the Super Tuesday ballot is the race to fill the Senate seat of the late Dianne Feinstein in California. The big twist in the deep-blue state is that Republican Steve Garvey has shaken up the race and is in decent position to advance to the...

4 Killed, 7 Injured in Shooting at Outdoor Party

Police say masked men opened fire in King City, California

(Newser) - A group of men in masks opened fire at an outdoor party in central California, killing four people and wounding seven others, police said. Police responded to a reported shooting around 6pm Sunday in King City and found three men with gunshot wounds who were pronounced dead in a front...

'Clock Is Ticking' on Plan for Controversial New Eco-City

California Forever scrambles for signatures to get billionaire Sramek's initiative on November ballot

(Newser) - After two false starts, the billionaires behind a plan to build an eco-friendly city from scratch are behind schedule to put their proposal before California voters this November. Former Goldman Sachs trader Jan Sramek unveiled his closely guarded ballot initiative for the proposed community between San Francisco and Sacramento in...

She Says Car-Honking Is Free Speech. Appeals Court Says No
SCOTUS Won't Hear
Challenge to Honking Law
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Mar 2, 2024 4:20 PM CST

SCOTUS Won't Hear Challenge to Honking Law

California woman argued that hitting the horn as 'personal expression' is protected free speech

(Newser) - The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case on whether honking a car horn is protected free speech, leaving in place a lower court's ruling upholding a California law that bans excessive honking. Lawyers for Susan Porter, who was ticketed in 2017 after honking in support of anti-Donald...

Sierra Nevada Braces for 10 Feet of Snow

Powerful California storm could blanket the Lake Tahoe region

(Newser) - At least nine Lake Tahoe ski resorts closed and visitors to Yosemite National Park were told to urgently leave Friday as California's most powerful storm of the season bore down on the Sierra Nevada, where residents were urged to take shelter as they prepared for up to 10 feet...

It's a 'Massive Backyard Rabbit Hoarding Disaster'

Bunny World Foundation estimates 300 in California yard

(Newser) - When Joe Torcello first spotted a rabbit hanging around his Los Angeles home, he was smitten. "I fell in love with her," he tells NBC News of the rabbit he named Belzer. As more and more rabbits appeared, he thought he was doing them a favor by not...

State's Bong Auction, Meant to Bring In Millions, Netted $2K

California's auction went bust after trying to sell confiscated fixtures

(Newser) - When the state of California raided 10 cannabis businesses that collectively owed $14 million in back taxes, officials had high hopes for the goodies they seized, with plans to put them all up for auction to raise millions. The grand haul after a Feb. 16 sale of various glass bongs...

Man Stranded on Cliffside for 2 Days After Crash

California man told rescuers he swerved to avoid some deer

(Newser) - The California Highway Patrol says it rescued a man who had been stranded on a cliffside for two days after he swerved to avoid some deer. In a Facebook post , the CHP's Coastal Division Air Operations Unit said it received a request Tuesday to search an area of coastline...

Federal Judge Strikes Down Billy Club Law

He says California law violates redefined Second Amendment

(Newser) - A federal judge has struck down a California law banning possession of club-like weapons, reversing his previous ruling from three years ago that upheld the prohibition on billy clubs, batons, and similar blunt objects. US District Judge Roger Benitez ruled last week that the prohibition "unconstitutionally infringes the Second...

Cops Kill Man Armed With Saw at Home Depot
Cops Kill Armed Man
in Home Depot
Feb 28, 2024 9:55 AM CST

Cops Kill Armed Man in Home Depot

Suspect 'didn't listen,' grabbed a steel jab saw during encounter in Fontana, California

(Newser) - A frightening scene in the streets of California ended with a man fatally shot by police in a Home Depot. FOX 11 reports that cops with the Fontana Police Department first responded around 6pm local time to numerous 911 calls of an individual acting erratically in traffic, apparently trying to...

She Texted Her Mom From the Theater. Then She Was Dead
Forever Purge Killer
Sentenced for 2 Murders
UPDATED
Feb 26, 2024 7:05 PM CST

Forever Purge Killer Sentenced for 2 Murders

Joseph Jiminez Jr. will serve life in prison with no chance of parole

(Newser) - A California man convicted of fatally shooting two teenagers on a first date during a 2021 showing of The Forever Purge has been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. Joseph Jimenez Jr., 23, was found guilty in December of two counts of first-degree murder, as well...

Utility to Pay $80M Over 2017 California Wildfire

Under the terms, Southern California Edison does not accept blame

(Newser) - Southern California Edison has agreed to pay $80 million in connection with a huge 2017 wildfire that destroyed more than 1,000 homes and other structures. Federal prosecutors said Monday that the deal, in which the utility does not admit fault or wrongdoing, will settle claims on behalf of the...

Jury Returns Conviction in Boys' Crosswalk Deaths

Prosecutors say Rebecca Grossman had been racing former MLB player after drinks

(Newser) - A Southern California woman has been found guilty in the deaths of two young brothers who were in a crosswalk when Rebecca Grossman's car struck them in 2020. A jury convicted her of two counts of murder, two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter, and one count of hit-and-run, the...

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