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Jerry Brown. Historic California groundwater regulations head to Gov. Jerry Brown Lawmakers send gun restraining order bill to Brown The Associated Press - Published: 7:20 pm Judges would be able to temporarily take firearms from people who show signs that they could harm themselves or others under a bill headed to Gov. Jerry Brown. N. California officer accused of beating woman The Associated Press - Published: 6:50 pm Police in Northern California are investigating allegations that an off-duty officer beat a woman with a baseball bat. California lifts part of quarantine on grape pest The Associated Press - Published: 5:35 pm State and federal agricultural officials are partially lifting a quarantine imposed for a moth that's eating grapes in Northern California's wine country. Injunction blocks Los Angeles marijuana market The Associated Press - Published: 5:35 pm A judge has blocked a marijuana farmers market in Los Angeles and ordered organizers to shut down their business. Calif. motorcyclist dies in crash near Flagstaff The Associated Press - Published: 5:30 pm A California man is dead after a motorcycle accident in northern Arizona. Legislature seeks some influence over initiatives The Associated Press - Published: 5:25 pm A bill headed to the governor seeks to exert some legislative influence over citizen initiatives. Porn actor Bruno Knight pleads to drug charge The Associated Press - Published: 5:20 pm A porn actor who had a half-pound of crystal meth concealed in a body cavity when he was stopped at Los Angeles International Airport has pleaded guilty to a federal drug charge. Political ethics bills to end legislative session By FENIT NIRAPPIL - Updated: 6:11 pm A legislative session marked by the arrest of two state senators on federal corruption charges is expected to end shortly after midnight with votes on a pair of ethics bills that would update campaign finance rules. Slice of Princess Diana's wedding cake auctioned The Associated Press - Updated: 5:16 pm A 33-year-old slice of cake from Prince Charles and Princess Diana's 1981 wedding has sold at auction for $1,375. Botulism outbreak killing ducks at refuge By JEFF BARNARD - Updated: 6:16 pm An outbreak of botulism has killed thousands of ducks at Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Northern California. California teacher reprimanded for sending tweets The Associated Press - Updated: 4:21 pm A teacher in Northern California has been disciplined for making threatening and explicit remarks about students on her Twitter account. Chris Brown due back in DC court for plea hearing By BRETT ZONGKER - Updated: 9:18 pm Singer Chris Brown is scheduled to appear in a District of Columbia court for what would be a third attempt at a plea deal to resolve an assault case that dates to October 2013. California to appeal teacher tenure ruling The Associated Press - Updated: 10:18 pm California Gov. Jerry Brown late Friday appealed a court ruling that struck down tenure and other job protections for the state's teachers. Giant millipedes caught at San Francisco airport The Associated Press - Published: 3:06 pm Authorities say they captured nearly two-dozen live giant millipedes inside a fake toy box at San Francisco International Airport. San Jose police getting rid of armored vehicle The Associated Press - Updated: 2:53 pm A San Francisco Bay Area police department is getting rid of an armored vehicle it received from a federal military surplus program, saying the vehicle could endanger trust with the community. No place like home: Senate foes raise questions By BILL BARROW and CHARLES BABINGTON - Updated: 10:17 pm Two candidates officially live with their parents. One rents a room from a contributor. Another won and lost elections in one state, then moved to another in a bid to get back into the U.S. Senate. Man who killed son now charged in 1st wife's death The Associated Press - Updated: 3:41 pm A man imprisoned in New York for killing his son to collect on his life insurance is now charged with murdering his first wife in 1991 for the same reason. California marijuana grow stole reservation water The Associated Press - Updated: 2:49 pm Authorities have torn out an illegal marijuana operation in Central California that they say was siphoning water from streams that supply an American Indian tribe, a California Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesman said Friday. Experimental Ebola drug heals all monkeys in study By MARILYNN MARCHIONE - Updated: 10:18 pm An experimental Ebola drug healed all 18 monkeys infected with the deadly virus in a study, boosting hopes that the treatment might help fight the outbreak raging through West Africa — once more of it can be made. Southern California surf diminishing The Associated Press - Updated: 2:09 pm Advisories for high surf along the Southern California coast have been canceled for all but Orange County as remnants of a former hurricane diminish in the eastern Pacific. California mentally ill inmates get special units By DON THOMPSON - Updated: 5:31 pm State corrections officials on Friday agreed to shift mentally ill inmates into separate specialized housing that will offer them more treatment instead of placing them in the same isolation units as other inmates, a decision that marks a major shift in how the system deals with such prisoners. Woman held in fatal shooting of 96-year-old mother The Associated Press - Published: 1:06 pm Authorities say a 71-year-old Orange County woman has been arrested in the shooting death of her 96-year-old mother. Bills to deter wrongful convictions go to governor By DON THOMPSON - Updated: 10:06 pm California lawmakers sent Gov. Jerry Brown a pair of bills Friday designed to thwart or reverse wrongful criminal convictions. Ex-Nevada lawmaker due for release from Vegas jail The Associated Press - Published: 11:46 am A former Nevada state lawmaker is due for release from jail, after pleading guilty to felony charges in separate Las Vegas criminal cases dating to the days before his expulsion from the Legislature. Feds critical of California twin tunnel project By SCOTT SMITH - Updated: 12:38 pm A pair of giant water diversion tunnels proposed for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta could violate the federal Clean Water Act and increase harm to endangered fish species, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which released its formal comment on the project Thursday. Sterling says Clippers deal started with 2 numbers By LINDA DEUTSCH - Updated: 10:39 pm When asked how much money she wanted to sell the Los Angeles Clippers, the wife of disgraced team owner Donald Sterling handed a piece of paper to her lawyer with two numbers: $1.5 to $2. Cee Lo Green enters no contest plea in drug case By ANTHONY McCARTNEY - Updated: 9:18 pm Cee Lo Green pleaded no contest Friday to one felony count of furnishing ecstasy to a woman during a 2012 dinner in Los Angeles and was sentenced to serve probation and community service. California man sentenced in sex with 'houseboy' The Associated Press - Updated: 10:29 am A judge has sentenced a San Francisco Bay Area man to 15 years in prison following his conviction on charges he molested a 16-year-old who answered his ad for a "houseboy." Federal officer accused of brandishing gun drunk The Associated Press - Updated: 10:29 am Burbank police say a U.S. Marshals Service agent has been arrested for allegedly brandishing a handgun at a man while intoxicated. 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