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• AP: Reparations for Black Californians could top $800 billion
• FoxLA: El Monte guaranteed income program: How to apply for $500 a month
• AP: New California gas price law another defeat for oil industry
• CalM: Newsom signs watered-down oil profit penalty into law
• OCReg: Here’s why OC Democrat didn’t vote for bill creating fines for big oil companies
• AP: Driver jumps out of stolen CHP cruiser during pursuit
• FoxLA: Driver with baby in car leads police on chase that ends in crash in Long Beach; 1 dead, 8 others hurt
• OCReg: Seal Beach police pursuit ends in multi-vehicle crash in Long Beach, 1 killed and several more injured
• OCReg: Robbery suspect shot by Fullerton police wanted suicide by cop, his father says
• Modesto teen’s custom wheelchair stolen, community quick to raise funds toward replacement
• OCReg: Fentanyl admonition blocked again in what father calls California Senate’s ‘disgusting display’
• SFC: Two Oakland residents charged with selling drugs in S.F. Tenderloin
• AP: Another powerful Pacific storm hits soggy, snowy California
• LAT $: California’s ‘phantom lake’ returns with a vengeance, unearthing a bitter history of water
• AP: Push in states for $20 minimum wage as inflation persists
• SJMN: Contra Costa County issues new health order requiring masks for staff in skilled nursing facilities
• OCReg: Some Southern California ‘sweatshop’ garment workers paid as little as $1.58 an hour, says report
• LAT $: UC proposes first-time systemwide admission guarantee to all qualified transfer students
• CG: Bill To Allow Accent Marks On Birth, Marriage Certificates Gains Traction In Assembly
• SFC: California bill could unleash more lawsuits to force new housing
• FresBee: Gavin’s Law, named after Clovis principal killed in hit-run, returns to California Assembly
• OCReg: Judge upholds Boy Scouts’ $2.4 billion bankruptcy plan
• SJMN: San Jose’s Bellarmine hit with two lawsuits alleging long-ago abuse by disgraced Jesuit
• LADN: Pasadena’s rent control measure survives legal scrutiny
• SFC: Google destroyed messages that may have been evidence in suit, judge says
• SJMN: Tesla lawyer asks San Francisco jury to cut $137 million award in race discrimination case
• SFC: Newsom seeks federal disaster aid for ravaged California communities
• FresBee: Flood relief for farmworkers just a trickle of the need, say advocates
• LAT $: Disney’s planned community in California takes shape with nod to ‘The Incredibles’
• SacBee: For California state workers, stagnant wages erode stability of civil service jobs
• OCReg: Doug McIntyre: How can anyone really trust the Trumps or the Bidens?
• OCReg: Occupational licensing needs real reform
• Sacramento firefighters vandalized the inside of a water tower. It cost taxpayers $65,000
• SacBee: Downtown Sacramento’s homeless population is down 40% in recent months, report says
• SFC: Higher taxes for Giants? Court says error means ballpark must be reassessed
• SFC: These people have the power to fix S.F.'s biggest problems. Here's what holds them back
• SJMN: 49ers seek funds to spruce up Levi’s Stadium for World Cup, Super Bowl bid
• SJMN: Plan for largest Buddhist temple in the Bay Area approved by San Jose councilmembers
• Modesto Police Department’s breach by ransomware group may have been days before city caught it
• FresBee: ‘A basic human need.’ Fresno Unified to provide laundry machines at all middle schools
• CalCoast: Grover Beach City Council to appoint new member
• CalCoast: Repeat offender tracked by Sam Blakeslee headed to jail
• VCStar $: Former Ventura city manager headed to San Bruno
• VCStar $: Two more resignations handed in at Ojai Unified
• VCStar $: Fairgrounds board rejects stadium proposal again
• VCStar $: Oxnard housing project to include space for homeless
• CG: The Failings of LA Mayor Bass’ Inside Safe Homeless Initiative
• LADN: LAPD detectives solved more homicides in 2022 — except in the San Fernando Valley, commanders say
• LAT $: LAPD police union sues Chief Moore, wants images of undercover officers taken offline
• FoxLA: LAPD data shows homicides decreased during 2022 in Los Angeles
• VOC: OC’s Top Public Health Leader Dr. Clayton Chau Announces Resignation
• OCReg: Dr. Clayton Chau, who helped steer OC health care during pandemic, to leave
• OCReg: County leaders help with $225,000 to better protect park, fountain in Orange traffic circle
• Slow ambulance response times cause concern in Riverside County
• $5.1 million trail planned for 2-mile stretch atop Riverside’s Gage Canal
• SBSun: Redlands eyes regulations for sidewalk vendors
• Inland Empire homebuying takes 40% tumble in February
• SDUT: San Diego has 3rd biggest decline in home prices in key 20-city housing report
• SDUT: FPPC reviewing complaint against Chula Vista council member over public disclosure laws
• SDUT: San Diego wants electric vehicle chargers installed soon at 400 city parking lots

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