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Source: Kings add wing depth, signing free agent KZ Okpala to two-year contract

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Kings made a move to address their lack of wing depth Friday, bringing in a young forward with size, length and athleticism.

Tribune News Service · Jul 16, 2022

Improving, but still grim, conditions in immigration detention centers, California AG says

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A new report from the state Department of Justice shows that while conditions in California’s federal immigration detention facilities have improved since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, they remain grim.

Tribune News Service · Jul 15, 2022

As California welcomes Ukrainian refugees, counties fall short on interpreters

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After the Russian invasion, Katie Nelha and her husband couldn’t safely return to their home in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, so they took their chances as refugees. Flying from Poland, where they were working, to Mexico in early April, they crossed into the U.S. at Tijuana, where they were…

Tribune News Service · Jul 15, 2022

The next US poet laureate has KY roots. What to know about the prestigious position

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The Library of Congress named Lexington writer Ada Limón the 24th U.S. poet laureate Tuesday. Limón has written six poetry books, and she’s won major awards for her works.

Tribune News Service · Jul 14, 2022

Bipartisan bill would rescue giant sequoias from wildfire

Confronting an existential threat to the world’s largest trees, U.S. Rep. Scott Peters joined House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on a rescue plan for California’s giant sequoia groves.

Tribune News Service · Jul 14, 2022

Yosemite fire: Why giant sequoia trees are surviving now when others died in recent fires

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Last year and the year before, in an unprecedented environmental disaster, wildfires in California’s Sequoia National Park and nearby national forests roared through treasured sequoia groves in the Southern Sierra Nevada, generating flames hundreds of feet high and killing nearly 20% of all the ancient…

Tribune News Service · Jul 12, 2022

California enacts sweeping gun control laws, setting up a legal showdown

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Less than a month after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against restrictions on carrying firearms in public in a substantial victory for Second Amendment advocates, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed at least three major gun control measures into law to restrict access to the weapons and…

Los Angeles Times · Jul 12, 2022

VTA bus driver allegedly threatened ‘some shooting’ over vaccine mandate, police report says

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A newly obtained sheriff’s report indicates that a South Bay bus driver promised last month that there would be “some shooting” if he was fired for not meeting the Valley Transportation Authority’s vaccine mandate.

Tribune News Service · Jul 12, 2022

A Nevada man was charged in the 1982 killing of a child in California

A 5-year-old girl disappeared while walking to her kindergarten class in Seaside, Calif., in 1982. Detectives solved the case using DNA evidence, authorities said.

WEKU · Jul 11, 2022

Stagecoach Country Music Festival announces dates and early passes for 2023

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The annual Stagecoach Country Music Festival announced its dates and early pass sales for 2023.

The Orange County Register · Jul 11, 2022