April 7, 2011
A state agency abandons responsibility to fully enforce California’s landmark seismic safety law for schools.
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April 9, 2011
Regulators ignore school construction inspectors accused of corruption and poor work performance.
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March 19, 2011
As the federal trial gets under way, a jury will be asked to decide whether Barry Bonds set his home-run record while on steroids.
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March 5, 2011
Jeffrey Rodriguez is one of 44 Californians released from prison since 2000 who have been denied money after a hearing before the state’s victim compensation board, which can award $100 a day for each day spent behind bars after a wrongful conviction.
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February 5, 2011
Coroners in Northern California are farming out thousands of cases each year to a private firm whose doctors have dissected the wrong body and have given inaccurate testimony that helped send an innocent person to jail.
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August 21, 2010
The office of Attorney General Jerry Brown has dismissed an increasing number of criminal cases against defendants suspected of elder abuse, while cutting back on surprise inspections to investigate violence and neglect in nursing homes.
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June 5, 2010
Hundreds of marijuana delivery services are circumventing bans on storefront dispensaries, bringing marijuana directly to people’s homes, offices and more unconventional locations across the state.
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June 3, 2010
A flourishing and unregulated industry of pot delivery services is circumventing bans on storefront dispensaries and bringing medical marijuana directly to people’s homes, offices and more unconventional locations across the state, records and interviews show.
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February 13, 2010
Law enforcement agencies are more likely to seize cars from sober, unlicensed drivers than take drunks off the road at the state's sobriety checkpoints, investigation finds.
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September 11, 2009
Communities across California had difficulty managing millions in anti-terrorism grants handed out after Sept. 11. Paperwork went missing and rules weren't followed.
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