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Byline: AMY TAXIN Associated Press

16 Mar

Floods fill some of California’s summer strawberry fields

published on March 16, 2023 - 2:36 PM

As river water gushed through a broken levee, thousands of people in a California farming town were forced to evacuate

28 Feb

Elephants in US zoos? Without breeding, future is uncertain

published on February 28, 2023 - 1:13 PM

(AP) — Mabu saunters across a grassy field and raises his long, gray trunk to wrangle food from a hole

21 Feb

California beach city weighs balloon ban to protect coast

published on February 21, 2023 - 12:39 PM

Environmental advocates are celebrating in Laguna Beach — but it won’t be with balloons. The hilly seaside city known for

03 Feb

California weighs making flag football a girls’ school sport

published on February 3, 2023 - 12:47 PM

California officials are considering a plan to make flag football a girls’ high school sport amid soaring popularity of the

03 Feb

Elon Musk surprise appearance as Tesla tweet trial wraps up

published on - 12:44 PM

(AP) — A high-profile trial focused on a 2018 tweet about the financing for a Tesla buyout that never happened

05 Dec

Avenatti sentenced to 14 years in California fraud case

published on December 5, 2022 - 1:03 PM

(AP) — Incarcerated lawyer Michael Avenatti was sentenced in Southern California on Monday to 14 years in prison and ordered

28 Sep

California eyes making girls flag football a school sport

published on September 28, 2022 - 2:16 PM

(AP) — Elsa Morin gripped the football and launched a perfect spiral. Then the 17-year-old dodged in and out of

06 Jul

Immigration detention facility near empty in California

published on July 6, 2022 - 12:59 PM

(AP) — A sprawling, privately run detention center in the wind-swept California desert town of Adelanto could house nearly 2,000

25 Apr

Surge of desert surf parks stirs questions in dry California

published on April 25, 2022 - 2:31 PM

Hours from the California coast, surfers are hoping one of the next spots where they can catch a wave is

18 Mar

US father desperate to get 2-year-old son home from Ukraine

published on March 18, 2022 - 1:06 PM

Russia was massing troops on the border with Ukraine when an increasingly desperate Cesar Quintana went to the U.S. embassy

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