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BPD personnel complaints remain flat, monitor says, but troubling patterns emerge
While the number of complaints against Bakersfield Police Department officers remained essentially flat in 2024 from 2023, a monitoring team said the high number of complaints associated with a small number of officers was a concerning pattern that merited further…
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Who’s running for California governor? Here’s a look at the current field of candidates
The game of musical chairs in the race to be California’s next governor lost another player last week.
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‘Ready to put on the best show out there’: Highland High band ready to perform at Pearl Harbor Memorial Parade
The Highland High School Black Watch Brigade will trade the bitter cold of marching around the campus track for the warm vibes of Oahu, Hawaii this week.
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Tractor-trailer accident closes part of Mohawk Street
A portion of Mohawk Street was closed early Tuesday after a vehicle crash caused two large power poles to collapse onto the roadway.
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Court appears sympathetic to faith-based pregnancy centers’ argument
The Supreme Court on Tuesday was sympathetic to a group of faith-based pregnancy centers in their quest to challenge New Jersey’s demand for information about the group’s fundraising practices in federal court. The state contends that the group, First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, must litigate its claims in state court, but after Tuesday morning’s oral…
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Court seems dubious of billion-dollar judgment for copyright infringement
The arguments yesterday, Dec. 1, in Cox Communications v. Sony Entertainment confronted one of the central features of internet behavior as it has developed this century: the seemingly ineradicable interest of users in consuming copyrighted media – movies, music, and the like – without permission of the content providers. In this case, the lower courts held that…
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Court debates asylum determinations
In Urias-Orellana v. Bondi, the Supreme Court on Monday considered whether federal courts of appeals should make their own determination on whether an asylum seeker experienced persecution, or leave it to the Board of Immigration Appeals, in a case that will clarify the circuit courts’ roles in the immigration system. The dispute began soon after Douglas Humberto Urias-Orellana,…
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Mandela Barnes jumps into crowded race for Wisconsin governor
Former Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes launched his bid to replace retiring Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday, joining an already crowded and competitive Democratic primary. Barnes, who lost a 2022 Senate race against Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), focused on affordability and attacked Republicans in his launch video, arguing that it “seems like the harder you…
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The lines Bill Ferguson won’t cross
When Wes Moore and Bill Ferguson stood together in a Baltimore bar on a sweltering Saturday afternoon in the summer of 2022, the two political figures projected a promising vision of power for Democrats in a blue-leaning state where they stood on the cusp of fully controlling government. Moore was a former Rhodes Scholar and…
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World AIDS Day commemorated with candlelight vigil Monday, quilt exhibit Tuesday
They remembered those who died, but they also celebrated the legacy they left behind.