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The mobile testing unit will give more time to patrol officers to answer calls for service
Orange County decision affects devices used by over 18,000 employees, except as necessary for law enforcement purposes
“First responders were sent to the wrong location, or were misinformed about the emergent situation, or were not dispatched,” Helena Moreno said
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Backers like the system because it forces candidates to broaden their appeal beyond a narrow base in hopes of being chosen second or third by other voters.
Worthington schools are dangerously overcrowded, but residents have not been able to pass a referendum to fund expansion. Many fear this opposition is related to the city’s large immigrant population.
Voters are deciding whether to designate Tucson as Arizona’s only sanctuary city, a direct challenge to Trump and to an anti-illegal immigration law that put a global spotlight on the state nearly a decade ago.
Last year Trump made a similar threat as wildfires devastated Malibu and Paradise, California — accusing the state of “gross mismanagement” of forests.
To avoid a state takeover, PG&E will need to emerge from bankruptcy next year with a safety plan in place to deal with outdated, hazardous infrastructure.
Supporters of the bill, which would require gun sellers to alert police if a potential purchaser failed the criminal background check, say 30% of criminals who try to purchase guns but fail to do so because of background checks are arrested within five years.
The South Bend, Indiana, mayor has amassed a network of roughly 60 “Mayors for Pete,” a collection of local leaders pushing for his underdog bid.
The state is investing millions of dollars to beef up elections security, including providing $15.5 million in grants to local jurisdictions and $1.9 million to install network monitoring systems.
More than 900,000 people were without power Wednesday, some of them since Saturday, due to the PG&E power shut-offs. This included residents at an affordable housing complex north of San Francisco, a third of whom are too old, sick or cognitively impaired to care for themselves during an extended outage.
Broad outlines include a 16% raise for teachers during the five-year contract, a new committee to investigate and enforce classroom sizes that surpass limits in the agreement and funding to add social workers and nurses to the city’s schools.