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Civil rights leaders, elected officials call for reform of child welfare system

SAN JOSE -- Dolores Huerta joined local and state leaders in San Jose this morning to call for a reform of California's child welfare system.

Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers labor union with Cesar Chavez, and other community and elected leaders gathered to testify at a legislative hearing this morning convened by Assemblyman Jim Beall, chairman of the Assembly Select Committee on Foster Care.

abclocal.go.com

January 7, 2012

Fresno planning more homeless camp cleanups

Fresno city crews will once again cleanup homeless camps in the downtown area Monday morning.

More than 40 people were cleared out near Santa Fe, south of Ventura under the Highway 41 overpass. On Monday, crews will begin cleaning up Golden State from Monterey Street bridge to E Street.

abclocal.go.com

November 7, 2011

Fresno Police call 2-year-old's death "suspicious"

by Sontaya Rose

A toddler is dead, and Fresno Police have a lot of questions about what happened to the child in the moments leading up to his death.

Investigators from both the homicide and child abuse unit are investigating this suspicious death. But, they will rely on information from an autopsy to find out what happened to the young boy. After hours of collecting evidence inside a West Central Fresno apartment, the crime scene tape is down, but no one answered the door at the unit where a two year old lived. Neighbors say they were very upset to hear about the little boy's death.

abclocal.go.com

November 7, 2011

Couple's organic food revolution still growing

by Karina Rusk

Meet a couple who took a Monterey County produce stand and launched an organic revolution.

If you have ever eaten one of those ready-made salads in a bag, you owe that easy meal in part to the vision of a couple in Carmel Valley. It was 25 years ago that they came up with the idea for Earthbound Farm. It all stemmed from an unlikely duo who dared to dream on a plot of land in Monterey County.

abclocal.go.com

September 24, 2011

California Becomes First State to Ban Plastic Bags

by Fenit Nirappil

Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed the nation's first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery and convenience stores, driven to action by pollution in streets and waterways.

Under SB270, plastic bags will be phased out of checkout counters at large grocery stores and supermarkets such as Wal-Mart and Target starting next summer, and convenience stores and pharmacies in 2016. The law does not apply to bags used for fruits, vegetables or meats, or to shopping bags used at other retailers. It allows grocers to charge a fee of at least 10 cents for using paper bags.

abcnews.go.com

October 2, 2014

Iowa Students to Wear Heart Rate Monitors

by Geetika Rudra

Students going back to school in Dubuque, Iowa, are going to find it a little harder to slack off in gym. Public middle and high school students will have to wear heart rate monitors in gym class to make sure they are actually being physically active.

"It will be a large portion of their grade, because we want to grade them on what they're actually doing in our class," Dubuque Schools Athletic and Wellness Director Amy Hawkins told ABC News. Teachers will use the information collected from the heart rate monitors to write report cards.

abcnews.go.com

August 19, 2014

Here's Why There Are More Latinos in Foster Care Than Ever Before

by Emily DeRuy

Hispanic youth used to represent a disproportionately small number of all the children in foster care. Unfortunately, they're catching up.

The Chronicle of Social Change, a site that covers juvenile justice and child welfare, points out that the longer Latino families are in the United States, the closer they get to everything from incarceration to alcoholism and divorce. This, in part, leads to more Latino kids in the foster care system.

abcnews.go.com

April 25, 2013

Fewer Bees in US a Threat to World's Almond Supply

by Gosia Wozniacka

In an almond orchard in California's Central Valley, bee inspector Neil Trent pried open a buzzing hive and pulled out a frame to see if it was at least two-thirds covered with bees.

The number of bees needed is expected to increase as almond demand grows and orchards continue to expand. Already, more than half of the country's honeybees are brought to California at the end of February for almond pollination, which requires about 1.5 million hives from out of state, and another 500,000 from elsewhere in the state. Honeybees are preferred for commercial-scale pollination, because they are social, build larger colonies than other bees, and their hives can easily be moved.

abcnews.go.com

February 16, 2013

Tenn. Child Agency Head Quits as Deaths Questioned

by Travis Loller

The head of Tennessee's child welfare agency resigned Tuesday under scrutiny of how her agency handled the cases of children who were investigated as possible victims of abuse and neglect, then later died.

Gov. Bill Haslam announced Kate O'Day's resignation as Department of Children's Services commissioner in a news release, saying "She was concerned that she had become more of a focus than the children the department serves." Last week the Republican governor was defending O'Day's leadership, even after the agency told a federal judge it couldn't say with total certainty how many children died while in its custody.

abcnews.go.com

February 8, 2013

Missing Boy Found as Grown, Married Man | Video

Now, to the unraveling of a long, winding and weird custody battle. It's the story of a 24-year-old thought to be missing for decades. Now found, a grown, married man.

How did police track him down after all these years? And what happened here? Abc's john muller is on the story. Reporter: Dan, this case was so cold, indiana state police had to reopen it when the stepfather turned over his son's social security card a few months ago. It was that simple piece of information, a social security number, that led investigators to a 24-year-old whose name changed but whose license picture looked a lot like the 5-year-old boy who went missing. This is a lot for me to take in.

abcnews.go.com

February 1, 2013

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