Cori Schumacher, a Carlsbad City Council member from District 1, is facing a recall movement funded and organized largely by Reform California, a non-profit.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered an independent investigation into the case of
Kevin Cooper, who has consistently maintained his innocence in the 1983 quadruple-murder for which he was sentenced to death. Newsom’s May 28, 2021 executive order appoints the law firm Morrison and Foerster, LLP as Special Counsel to the California Board of Parole Hearings and directs the firm to “conduct a full review of the trial and appellate records in [Cooper’s] case and of the facts underlying the conviction.”
Newsom’s order issued in conjunction with 14 pardons, 13 commutations, and 8 medical reprieves granted in other cases directs Morrison and Foerster “to investigate, report, and make a recommendation” concerning Cooper’s application for clemency and claims of innocence. It also specifies that the firm’s investigation include an “evaluation” of “recently conducted DNA tests.”
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed Tuesday between the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development and Impact Hub Armenian Social Innovation Development Foundation to establish a Trade and Services Desk in Armenia.
The owners of dozens of boats moored on the body of water in California were asked to put the vessels in dry dock, or risk seeing them run aground and be damaged.
UCLA gynecologist appears in LA court as he faces 21 counts of sexual abuse of his patients over the course of nine years
Dr. James Heaps, a former gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles appeared in court on Tuesday
Heaps was arraigned on 21 counts of sexually assaulting his former patients
Heaps, 64, is accused of sexually assaulting seven women during his time at UCLA, including one who was unconscious at the time
He faces multiple counts of sexual battery by fraud, sexual exploitation of a patient and sexual penetration of an unconscious person
The charges stem from alleged incidents between 2009 and 2018