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• LADN: Homeless man suspected of stabbing one woman in the head with scissors, striking another with pickle jar in North Hollywood
• AP: In Sacramento, election officials register homeless to vote
• VOSD: Homeless Residents Often Can’t Get the Shelter They Seek
• LAT $: How L.A. City Hall became so corrupt: A guide to recent scandals
• LAT $: Two L.A. City Council meetings to be held virtually next week
• LAT $: Miranda: City Hall scandal strikes at the heart of Latino identity
• LADN: LA City Council heads into weekend under cloud of scandal-fueled uncertainty
• AP: Los Angeles mystery: Who taped meeting with racist rants?
• LAT $: Biden, campaigning with Rep. Katie Porter, promotes actions to lower prescription drug costs
• OCReg: Biden blasts prescription costs, supports Iranian demonstrators in OC visit
• OCReg: Newer, bluer Orange County welcomes Biden – Orange County Register
• AP: Biden pushing lower prescription drug costs in midterm press
• LAT $: Doctors uneasy about California law aimed at COVID misinformation
• CalM: This is how much money you’ll get from the California gas rebate
• SFC: Group sues S.F. for denying religious exemptions to COVID vaccines
• Cal Fire rehires former employee who pled guilty to defrauding FEMA, awaiting sentencing
• Mark Wahlberg left Hollywood for Nevada to give his kids a 'better life': 'This made a lot more sense for us'
• A California measure would tax the rich to fund electric vehicles. Why is the governor against it?
• Elk Grove’s rejection of affordable housing project violated California law, officials say
• SDUT: Can San Diego deliver 10K affordable homes on public land by 2030?
• SFC: Exclusive: Alleged serial S.F. harasser arrested after numerous women come forward
• CG: Common Sense Public Safety: Tulare County DA Warns of Fallout with Reduced Sentences and CDCR Resentencing
• AP: Officials: 3 inmates die in 11 days at 3 California prisons
• SDUT: Quiet state assembly campaign pits rare GOP incumbents against each other
• CalCoast: California offers tax credits for marijuana business expenses
• AP: California governor blocks Charles Manson follower’s parole
• AP: California to vote on constitutional right to abortion
• SBSun: Amazon employees strike in San Bernardino, demand $5 hourly pay raise
• SJMN: ‘Autopilot’ drove Tesla into barrier causing ‘catastrophic injuries,’ lawsuit claims, echoing fatal Mountain View crash
• CG: State Begins Construction On $6.5 Billion, 10,000 Mile Broadband Internet Network Across California
• LAT $: 1 dead, 12 injured in Pomona after vehicle crashes into food vendor
• NR: Democrats Don’t Like to Admit That They’re in Charge
• CG: Proposition 1: California’s Abortion Measure is Illogical and Intentionally Vague
• OCReg: All of Orange County should be rooting for John Moorlach to be mayor of Costa Mesa
• OCReg: LA Council’s race-obsessed remarks were a feature, not a bug, of woke ideology
• Exposing the Logical Fallacies of Critical Race Theory
• OCReg: Los Angeles scandal highlights outsized influence of unions
• SacBee: Steinberg to mediate Kaiser talks with mental health clinicians
• SFC: Encampment fire spreads to police vehicles, causing $100K in damage
• SFC: S.F. State gets $116 million to build hundreds of student dorms
• SFC: D.A. Jenkins, police nearing agreement on use-of-force investigations
• SFC: Trendy neighborhood protests Home Depot plan: ‘Put housing here’
• SJMN: Elizabeth Holmes’ judge nixes her bid to force emails from troubled prosecution witness
• SJMN: Hundreds of Stanford students march to demand administrators expel rapists from campus
• Science labs, stadiums, plumbing, pools — lots of wants, needs on Measure L to-do lists
• FresBee: Fresno officials move to head off evictions. Tenants say they have nowhere to go
• Oakdale council hopefuls discuss housing, police and the right to peaceably assemble
• LADN: Nikki Haley appears at Reagan Library with the presidency on her radar
• VCStar $: Conejo Valley school board hopefuls to face off in forum
• VCStar $: After Newbury Park goalie Katie Meyer's suicide, parents' project aims to help students
• LAT $: Jury awards $1.5 million to woman injured by LAPD projectile during Lakers celebration
• Politico: Los Angeles just got new political maps. A scandal could tear them up.
• LAT $: Decade-old racist Facebook posts roil Antelope Valley school board election
• OCReg: CalOptima board extends CEO’s contract, raises salary to $841,500
• Gun safety concerns cancel Temecula’s Western Days
• SBSun: Hunger grows as inflation spikes in Riverside, San Bernardino counties
• SBSun: San Bernardino loses Carousel Mall developer, city calls it ‘just a setback’
• SDUT: County warns of severe and early flu season, as schools report surges of students out sick
• SDUT: Arts, rent help and an AirBnB crackdown: What San Diego council wants money for, despite iffy budget outlook
• SDUT: San Diego trash measure supporters, opponents clash over impacts to competition, low-income people

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