Underworld Turns

California Republican lawmaker announces he’s leaving the party

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Kevin Kiley of California said Monday that he’s dropping his Republican Party affiliation and will serve as an independent, a change he said will take place immediately. The two-term congressman faces a tough reelection battle following the redrawing of the state’s congressional boundaries. On Friday, he announced he would be running […]
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How Taxpayers Are Still Getting Screwed on Kristi Noem’s Big Beautiful Jet

Kristi Noem is out as Homeland Security Secretary, but a luxury 737 she has traveled on remains in government hands. That plane, reportedly dubbed the “Big, Beautiful Jet” by DHS staffers, has been quietly leased to the department by a company linked to William Walters, a former State Department official who donated thousands of dollars […]
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Violent California inmate accused of stabbing corrections officer

A California inmate already serving life in prison for repeated attacks on corrections officers, including the murder of a corrections officer in San Bernardino County in 2005, allegedly attempted to stab another officer to death Monday at a Sacramento prison, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said. The inmate, 56-year-old Jon Christopher Blaylock, allegedly […]
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O.C. Sheriff’s deputy fatally shot fiancée in head at close range, prosecutors say

A 28-year-old Orange County Sheriff’s deputy assigned to the county’s jail has been charged with voluntary manslaughter in connection to the fatal shooting death of her fiancée last year. Deputy Aimee Alexis Hidalgo, a resident of Tustin, turned herself in to Tustin police on Monday, according to a news release from the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. […]
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