PREP BOYS BASKETBALL: Durrell Robinson steps down as Danville coach Danville boys basketball coach Durrell Robinson is shown here talking to his team during an IHSA Class 3A Regional Championship against Lincoln during the 2020 season. Robinson announced that he is ... 04/12/2024 - 7:00 pm | View Link
Who’s playing at Sacramento-area music festivals this summer? Here’s the lineup Sacramento’s annual R&B, soul and hip hop festival returns to Discovery Park in May. Headliners for Sol Blume include Snoh Aalegra. Kaytramine and SZA. You’ll also catch performances by Omar Apollo, ... 04/12/2024 - 3:56 am | View Link
Large fire in San Joaquin County near Tracy cancels classes The fire started along Grant Line Road near Banta. About 12 homes in the area were evacuated by fire officials and sheriff's deputies. 04/11/2024 - 6:00 pm | View Link
Asparagus Festival 2024 returns to Stockton: Attractions, food and camel rides STOCKTON, Calif. — The San Joaquin Asparagus Festival is coming to Stockton for the 38th year from April 12 to 14 and discounted tickets and carnival ride wristbands are on sale now. Hosted at the San ... 04/11/2024 - 5:05 pm | View Link
Three California correctional officers injured in Stockton prison hospital attack, CDCR says Three California correctional officers were injured Thursday morning, including one who was stabbed twice, at a prison hospital in Stockton where an inmate reportedly retrieved a weapon and attacked ... 04/11/2024 - 1:02 pm | View Link
“Top House Republican leaders and aides are privately discussing using the debate over the $95 billion foreign aid package to make it harder to oust Speaker Mike Johnson. This comes as Johnson faces another uprising from his right,” Punchbowl News reports.
“Right now, any member can file a motion to vacate the chair, which triggers a potential snap referendum on the speaker.
“Members of the Kennedy family will appear en masse and in force to endorse President Biden at a campaign event in Philadelphia on Thursday,” Axios reports.
“It’s a public display of support that reveals a weakness Democrats privately acknowledge: Biden is likely more at risk from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s third-party challenge than former President Trump is.”
Bloomberg: “Biden will be introduced by Kerry Kennedy — the sister of the third-party candidate — and joined by fellow siblings including Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a former Maryland lieutenant governor; filmmaker Rory Kennedy; former Congressman Joe Kennedy II, Christopher Kennedy, and Maxwell Kennedy Sr.”
“Seven jurors down, five more to go. The complicated process of picking a jury in the first criminal trial of an American president will continue for a third day on Thursday as lawyers on both sides choose the panel that will decide Donald Trump’s fate,” the New York Times reports.
Politico: Two of Trump’s jurors are lawyers.
“With former President Trump tied up in court for much of the next six weeks or more, supporters are staging events and creating an online chorus that the trial-bound Trump later touts on social media,” Axios reports.
“The Trump loyalists, operating separately from his campaign, are amplifying Trump’s grievance-fueled messaging well beyond his online rants and indignant statements before and after court sessions in Manhattan.”
“Germany detained two dual German-Russian nationals on suspicion of spying for Moscow and seeking to disrupt Western military aid to Ukraine in the latest espionage affair to shake the country,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Washington Post: “The bill in Connecticut, pending before an education committee, is one of a raft of measures advancing nationwide that seek to do things like prohibit book bans or forbid the harassment of school and public librarians — the first such wave in the country… Legislators in 22 mostly blue states have proposed 57 such bills so far this year.”
“But the library-friendly measures are being outpaced by bills in mostly red states that aim to restrict which books libraries can offer and threaten librarians with prison or thousands in fines for handing out ‘obscene’ or ‘harmful’ titles.