California CPS News Archive

Ripon man arrested, child removed by CPS in pot brownie seizure

by Paul Janes

RIPON, CA - One adult was arrested and a juvenile was turned over to child protective services (CPS) during a probation search at an apartment on the 1550 block of W. Main Street in Ripon on Friday.

Sgt. Steve Merchant with the Ripon Police Dept. said officers conducted the search around 4 p.m. Friday after a special investigation unit detective obtained information that marijuana was being sold from the apartment. A juvenile, was turned over to San Joaquin County CPS as they were deemed to be in danger due to their direct access to the drugs, pot brownies, knife and air rifle.

news10.net

September 29, 2012

Mandatory vaccination bill meets opposition in Sacramento

by Nannette Miranda

A new bipartisan battle over parental rights and health care for kids is heating up in California as proponents of a new bill want to ensure that children are immunized.

In a last-ditch effort to sway Governor Jerry Brown, concerned parents rallied at the Capitol Friday urging him to veto a bill that requires parents to get a medical professional's signature on a form in order to opt out of getting their children vaccinated.

abclocal.go.com

September 29, 2012

A Teen in Foster Care Who'd Like to Find a Forever

by Christine Devine

It's Emmy season in TV-ville, but this week we have our eye on a different prize ... A permanent family and home for Jeric (1995) to call his own.

Jeric is an easy-going and sweet teenager who is looking for a family with whom he can form a connection and that can provide him stability and permanence. While it's known that Jeric likes to skateboard and play basketball, in any initial "making a connection" phase there will be many more interesting things to learn about Jeric as he is game for trying new activities and experiences.

myfoxla.com

September 20, 2012

Yosemite: 1,700 may have had exposure to rodent-borne illness

Yosemite National Park is warning 1,700 people that they may have been exposed to a potentially deadly rodent-borne lung disease while staying in the famous California park, and said that two visitors had died from the illness known as hantavirus.

The tourists who died had stayed in Curry Village, a popular camping area tucked below the park's sheer granite walls, a Yosemite spokesman said on Tuesday. A third visitor was sickened by the virus but recovering. Investigators were looking into whether a fourth visitor was suffering from the illness, which is carried by wild rodents. All four stayed in the area's tent cabins on overlapping days in mid-June, spokesman Scott Gediman said.

reuters.com

August 28, 2012

Hantavirus strikes two Yosemite campers, killing one

by Rachel Dillin

Hantavirus infected two Yosemite campers. One Bay area man is dead and another Southern California woman is seriously ill, according to an August 20 report from The Union Democrat.

Health officials believe that the rare virus was transmitted via rodents in the Yosemite National Park. Hantavirus is incredibly rare. The two are believed to have contracted the disease when they camped using rented tents in Curry Village in the Yosemite Valley back in June. Even though they both got sick, they were not together in Yosemite.

examiner.com

August 20, 2012

Mountain Lion Warning at LBL

Officials at Lawrence Berkeley Lab are warning employees to avoid using isolated stairs and walkways at dusk after a mountain lion with cubs was spotted roaming between lab buildings Friday morning.

UC police warned the campus community in July about multiple sightings of a mountain lion with cubs near Gayley Road. A sighting of a female mountain lion with her cubs was confirmed between Buildings 65 and 88 early this morning. Mountain lions generally exist where deer are found, as was the case this morning.

berkeley.patch.com

August 18, 2012

Free Science, Art, Test Prep Classes Open at Valencia Library

Registration is now open for a variety of free fall classes offered through the Santa Clarita Public Library's Parent-Teacher Enrichment Resource Center.

Classes are designed to enrich homeschooled students' learning and educational experiences. In addition to these resources, the Enrichment Resource Center offers a variety of print and audiovisual materials with books on teaching, special needs education, learning theory, artwork and parenting.

scvnews.com

August 11, 2012

Report: Boy Scout documents reveal repeat child abuse by sexual predators

LOS ANGELES - Internal documents from the Boy Scouts of America reveal more than 125 cases in which men suspected of molestation allegedly continued to abuse Scouts, despite a blacklist meant to protect boys from sexual predators.

A Los Angeles Times review of more than 1,200 files from 1970 to 1991 found suspected abusers regularly remained in the organization after officials were first presented with sexual misconduct allegations. Predators moved from troop to troop because of clerical errors, computer glitches or the Scouts' failure to check the blacklist, known as the "perversion files," the newspaper said.

greenfieldreporter.com

August 9, 2012

Homeschooling in Eagle Rock

by Ajay Singh

In February 2011, when Eagle Rock Patch was a little more than three months old, we featured a "Mom's Talk" column about homeschooling that elicited a flurry of fascinating comments from readers.

We thought that everyone associated with the column as well as anyone interested in exploring the world of homeschooling, would be interested to know about a forthcoming book on the subject. Titled The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling, the book's author is Quinn Cummings, an actress and writer who lives in Atwater Village.

eaglerock.patch.com

July 31, 2012

Millions flee California because of progressive tax system

by Angelica Malik

California has lost billions of dollars in revenue in recent years as businesses and residents flee the state, in part because other states have a more favorable business climate.

Small business owners are also increasingly trying to move to other states to avoid high taxes and cut costs. "Part of [moving operations to Texas] was the cost of doing business in California," Ronald Mittelstaedt, CEO of Waste Connections, told CBS News. "Highest tax rates in the nation. Until recently very expensive real estate. Tremendous regulation and really a broken legislature."

dailycaller.com

July 30, 2012

Search stepped up for missing hiker on High Sierra peak

by Diana Marcum

A search is intensifying for a Bay Area hiker missing near one of the highest peaks in the Sierra Nevada.

Officials said Tom Heng, 31, of San Rafael, left Sunday for what was supposed to be a day hike to the summit of Mt. Langley, which rises to 14,026 feet, on the boundary between Inyo and Tulare counties. Earlier in the day, Heng had been hiking with friends on a route that passes from the Cottonwood Lakes Trailhead through New Army Pass. He struck out alone to the peak, one of California's 12 "fourteeners," mountains with more than 14,000 feet elevation.

latimesblogs.latimes.com

July 26, 2012

Apple's software brings attention to mountain lion research

by Guy Lasnier

Apple's release this week of its Mac OSX "Mountain Lion" operating system is drawing attention to the real thing prowling the wooded hills just a few miles from the company's Cupertino headquarters.

Since 2008, UC Santa Cruz researchers have captured 36 mountain lions (Puma concolor) in the Santa Cruz mountains as part of the UCSC Puma Project to better understand the big cats' physiology, behavior, and ecology. They've outfitted the lithe, tawny-colored predators with high-tech electronic collars that show where the mountain lions are and where they have been. Fourteen still have active GPS collars, said UCSC environmental studies Ph.D. student Yiwei Wang. Two others are followed manually. Of the remaining 20 lions, some collars have failed, or the lions have disappeared or died.

news.ucsc.edu

July 26, 2012