The Sacramento Police Department investigated 36 homicides, 20% fewer than the 45 in 2024, a total that was revised after several victims died in 2025 from crimes committed in prior years.
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Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
1 July 2026
The initial June count was revised lower in each of the past four years.
Even transformed into an unexpected salty-sweet dessert (see chef Harold Villarosa’s Spam doughnuts).
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Nina Moskowitz,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
5 July 2026
Technological advances — word processing, speech-to-text transcription, scheduling tools and apps — each transformed the duties of administrative professionals and contributed to overall decline.
The measure could incentivize lawmakers to save more money because funds tucked away in the rainy day fund would no longer be considered expenditures counted toward the spending limit.
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Iris Kwok,
Los Angeles Times,
6 July 2026
Cheri Oteri donned her Barbara Walters drag once again as the network counted down to the United States of America's semiquincentennial.
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Rance Collins,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 July 2026
Three extraordinary new books, published this year, shed light on the brilliance and complexity of Morrison’s life and work, and place her as an American eminence, a visionary who saw fiction as a means through which to recast her country’s story.
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Leigh Haber,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
The optics around the story have gotten a little complicated because the company transitioned to a new fiscal calendar and needs to recast its financials.
Mecklenburg County’s history with emissions testing The General Assembly proposed review of the EPA law, would allow the SIP to be reworked in order to exclude Mecklenburg County from the emissions program.
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Maveah Griffith,
Charlotte Observer,
30 June 2026
Google has openly opposed the DMA, calling for the law to be reworked.
The state’s 1849 constitution has been altered a lot over the years.
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Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
Watch out for heat stroke symptoms such as confusion, altered mental state, slurred speech, loss of consciousness (coma), hot, dry skin or profuse sweating, seizures, and very high body temperature.
In that version, the film was 11 minutes longer and featured more of Krem, the main villain, pulled and heavily modified from the comics.
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Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
5 July 2026
With heat indices expected to climb into the triple digits, Freedom 250 organizers modified the schedule to reduce attendees' exposure during the hottest part of the day.
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