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The San Joaquin Valley air district committed to ending open agricultural burning by 2025, but nearly two decades of postponing the ban have left clean air advocates dubious that local air regulators will follow through.

In their new plan to ban agricultural burning, air regulators are using outreach and financial incentives to convince growers to adopt an alternative known as whole orchard recycling.

Long-term exposure to the particulate matter released by ag open agricultural burning has been associated with a suite of health problems, and the communities most affected are majority-Latino.

Members of the Australian Jewish community have received Queen's Birthday awards in the fields of philanthropy, medicine, communal involvement and arts. One awardee has been recognised for aiding refugees and joins another one for helping the reduction of smokers. J-Wire wishes them all Mazeltov.

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The prosecution and the defense rested their cases Thursday in the trial of 37-year-old Michael Adam Davis, a leader at the Church of Latter Day Saints in Kasson accused of sexually abusing a minor. 

Closing arguments are expected to be given tomorrow and then the case is given to the jury to issue the verdict of Michael Davis, 37, who is accused of sexually assaulting a juvenile under his care.

Michael Adam Davis, 37, is facing multiple felony charges for allegedly sexually assaulting a juvenile as a church leader in Dodge County.

A reader bemoans the Bahia Mar decision by Fort Lauderdale to build private condos on public land.