CA--California News Digest 1:30 pm
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TOP STORIES:
CALIFORNIA HOUSING
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom began a week-long statewide tour Monday promoting his $1 billion effort to address one of California's most pressing and politically fraught problems — its growing homeless crisis. By Don Thompson. SENT: 500 words, photos. UPCOMING: New approach, 750 words by 4 p.m., photos.
OSCAR NOMINATIONS
UNDATED — Todd Phillips’ much-debated supervillain origin story and R-rated box-office smash “Joker” topped all films with 11 Academy Awards nominations, while Martin Scorsese’s elegiac crime epic “The Irishman,” Quentin Tarantino’s 1960s Los Angeles fairy tale “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood” and Sam Mendes’ World War I tale “1917” all trailed close behind with 10 nods apiece. By Jake Coyle. SENT: 1,500 words, photos.
With:
—OSCAR NOMINATIONS-MUSIC
— OSCAR NOMINATIONS-FACTS & FIGURES
—OSCAR NOMINATIONS-LIST
GUN PROSECUTION LOOPHOLE
DALLAS — A subtle design feature of the AR-15 rifle has raised a technical legal question that is derailing criminal cases against people who buy and sell the gun's parts or build the weapon. By Jake Bleiberg and Stefanie Dazio. SENT: 1,150 words, photo, graphic.
FATAL BOAT FIRE
LOS ANGELES — The family of the lone crew member to die in a fiery scuba boat disaster that killed all 33 passengers off the Southern California coast last year sued the vessel's owner Monday in federal court. By Brian Melley. SENT: 400 words, photos.
STATE GOVERNMENT / POLITICS:
CALIFORNIA-INTERSEX SURGERIES
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers are considering a first-of-its-kind ban on medically unnecessary surgeries for children born with ambiguous or conflicting genitalia until they are at least 6. By Adam Beam. SENT: 300 words. UPCOMING: 450 words, photos following hearing.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA:
CALIFORNIA JUDGE-SEXUAL HARASSMENT
SAN FRANCISCO — A state judicial panel found extensive testimony that a California Appeal Court judge sexually harassed numerous women at the courthouse, including a fellow judge whom he repeatedly groped and propositioned over nine years. SENT: 325 words.
ABDUCTION HOAX
SAN FRANCISCO — A plea for help from a girl who held up a sign while in a car traveling on a Northern California highway turned out to be a hoax, authorities said. SENT: 200 words.
Also:
— BODY IN TREE — The California Highway Patrol is investigating the death of man whose body was found hanging from a tree near a highway in Northern California as suspicious.
— SIERRA STORM — The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a series of winter weather advisories and watches up and down the Sierra's eastern front as a series of storms make their way into the region.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:
OFF-DUTY DETECTIVE KILLED
LOS ANGELES — An off-duty sheriff's detective was struck and killed by a car after she helped an elderly woman cross a street in Los Angeles, authorities said. SENT: 200 words, photo.
INDONESIA-DRUG TRIAL
DENPASAR, Indonesia — An Indonesian court sentenced an American man to 9 1/3 years in prison on Monday after finding him guilty of selling cocaine and marijuana on the resort island of Bali. By Firdia Lsnawati. SENT: 325 words, photos.
JFK AUCTION
BOSTON — One of the most comprehensive private collections of John F. Kennedy memorabilia, one that chronicles his life from childhood to the White House, is for sale. By Mark Pratt. SENT: 525 words, photos.
Also:
— PURSUIT CRASH-SEVERED LEG — A passenger in a stolen car had his leg severed when he jumped out of the vehicle during a police pursuit that ended with a crash in Los Angeles early Monday, authorities said.
— UBER DRIVER-RAPE ARREST — An Uber driver was arrested on suspicion of raping a woman who said she fell asleep in his car after a night of drinking and woke up to him assaulting her, authorities said.
— DOG SHOT-ARREST — A Southern California man was arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty after authorities said he shot a 15-year-old dog and left it dead in a gutter.
— GUN REPORT-SOCCER — Authorities are investigating reports that a spectator pulled a gun during a brawl among players and spectators and caused a panic at a youth soccer tournament in California.
— FAKE COSMETICS SEIZED — The Los Angles Police Department seized more than $300,000 in counterfeit makeup and beauty products including items purported to be from Kylie Jenner, authorities said.
— CONGRESSMAN-MAINE RESIDENT — Dana Rohrabacher, a former congressman and one-time speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan who later became a leading defender of Russia on Capitol Hill, is now a Maine resident.
— BALD EAGLES — A bald eagle in Southern California has laid a second egg in a nest watched by nature lovers via an online live feed. AP Photos.
BUSINESS:
HEMP REGULATIONS-WORRIED GROWERS
PORTLAND, Ore. — Hemp growers and entrepreneurs who were joyous a year ago after U.S. lawmakers reclassified the plant as a legal agricultural crop now are worried their businesses could be crippled if federal policymakers move ahead with draft regulations. By Gillian Flaccus. SENT: 1,100 words, photos.
ENTERTAINMENT:
SEXUAL MISCONDUCT-WEINSTEIN
NEW YORK — Supermodel Gigi Hadid is in the running to be a juror in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial after telling a judge Monday that she thinks she would be able to “keep an open mind on the facts.” By Tom Hays. SENT: 450 words, photos.
SPORTS:
ON FOOTBALL-TITLE GAMES
UNDATED — After a wild weekend of historic offensive performances by Derrick Henry and nearly every Kansas City Chiefs player, spiced by some timely defense from all the winners, we have the answers to the makeup of the NFL's Final Four. Which brings along a whole lot of questions. By Barry Wilner. SENT: 875 words, photos.
NFC CHAMPIONSHIP
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The NFL's most common playoff matchup of the last quarter century will have its eighth edition when San Francisco hosts Green Bay in the NFC championship game. The 49ers beat the Packers 37-8 in November. By Pro Football Writer Josh Dubow. UPCOMING: 750 words, photos by 4 p.m.
OJ SIMPSON-DEFAMATION LAWSUIT
LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino denied that O.J. Simpson was defamed when employees banned him from the property in 2017 and a celebrity news site reported the paroled former football hero had been drunk, disruptive and unruly. By Ken Ritter. SENT: 400 words, photos.
CAVALIERS-LAKERS
LOS ANGELES — LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers go for their ninth consecutive victory when they host the last-place Cleveland Cavaliers, who are coming off an impressive win at Denver. By Greg Beacham. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos. Starts 7:30 p.m.
DUCKS-BLUES
ST. LOUIS — The Anaheim Ducks visit the St. Louis Blues. By Warren Mayes. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos. Starts 5 p.m.
WILDER-FURY REMATCH
LOS ANGELES — Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury are ready to do it again. The charismatic heavyweights have agreed to meet Feb. 22 in a rematch of their thrilling bout in December 2018. By Greg Beacham. UPCOMING: 500 words, photos by 6 p.m.
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