Assemblymember Robert Garcia (D-Rancho Cucamonga) is choosing to vote no, instead of abstaining from bills he dislikes. “I did feel that if you’re … going there to Sacramento, it’s to know the bills and to take a position and, you know, and not be on the sidelines.”

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A former sheriff’s deputy was sentenced Sept. 13 to one year in jail and 10 years of probation after being convicted of voluntary manslaughter. If he violates probation, Rodriguez will spend 10 years in state prison.

Ortiz’s lawsuit said that no witnesses identified him as a shooter, and that no evidence presented him as a shooter. He further says that the Sheriff’s Department had video evidence of the shooters on Feb. 9, and that he did not match their physical description.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. When Sen. Alex Padilla attended an immigration hearing at the federal courthouse in San Diego Wednesday, there were no confrontations with federal officials and no public arrests of people attending immigration check-ins.  Instead, the visit revealed the confusion

The prosecutions culminated on Sept. 11, 2025, when the country’s highest court found Bolsonaro and his co-conspirators guilty of crimes against the country’s democratic institutions and rule of law.

Attorneys gave opening arguments Sept. 23 in an assault case brought by a patient of Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC). Jesse Simpson alleges he was assaulted and battered by two LLUMC security guards on Oct. 24, 2018, while attempting to get pain pills from the pharmacy. The alleged assault

The “government-initiated onslaught against Harvard was much more about promoting a governmental orthodoxy in violation of the First Amendment than about anything else,” U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs wrote.