Julie Watts
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She was a California comeback story, serving juvenile probation in a UC Davis dorm for killing a teen, when arrested again (opens the original)
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She was 15 when she was placed on juvenile probation for killing 15-year-old Omari Lowery in Sacramento County. Nearly five years later, she was arrested again — accused of dealing drugs from the UC Davis dorm room where she was serving out the remainder of her sentence, arrest records show. Officers reported allegedly finding live ammunition hidden in a sock in her dresser, a digital scale, more than 100 plastic baggies, text messages appearing to show drug sales, and $4,121 in cash. CBS Califo
Will Gov. Newsom veto the high-speed rail oversight bill that his own watchdog calls essential? (opens the original)
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California is attempting to build the nation's first bullet train, a project that's ballooned in cost and has blown through deadline after deadline for more than a decade. Now Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration is threatening to veto a bill containing what the project's independent watchdog calls "absolutely essential" tools for holding the High-Speed Rail Authority accountable, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions between the administration and the legislature. UPDATE 09-
California high-speed rail could run out of money by December 2027, inspector general warns — as authority cuts train order in half (opens the original)
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California's high-speed rail project could run out of money as soon as December 2027, the project's inspector general warned in a recent review — unless the state borrows billions to keep construction on schedule. The High-Speed Rail Authority "will exhaust its current funding resources as soon as December 2027 if it does not secure financing," Inspector General Ben Belnap's office found, warning the authority faces a $9.5 billion funding gap over five years. The borrowing needed to fill it coul
What's behind the $4B cut in federal funding for California's high-speed rail? (opens the original)
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California's High-Speed Rail Authority repeatedly missed key deadlines to buy its trains, a failure federal officials cited when they pulled $4 billion in funding a year ago. More than a year and a half after the original deadline, the authority still cannot say when it expects to award the contract. The state says that the date remains "TBD." Approved by voters in 2008, the project was originally designed to link San Francisco and Los Angeles in under three hours with electric trains capable of
What records reveal about Newsom's taxpayer-funded, California-branded free diaper program (opens the original)
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California waited 66 days to release the records behind Gov. Gavin Newsom's taxpayer-funded diaper program, including a $6.2 million contract awarded to the nonprofit Baby2Baby without a formal competitive bid. The 356 pages the state released include the executed contract, internal analyses, vendor proposals and email threads between the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) and the organizations that responded to the state's request for information. CBS California
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