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.
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John Magsam,
Arkansas Online,
2 July 2026
Among its competitors, Swiss challenger On and fellow performance specialist Hoka have rewritten the rules of the premium running market, winning over consumers through a ruthless pursuit of innovation rather than celebrity endorsements alone.
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 proposal unveiled Friday calls for the five-year-old agreement to be amended to ensure that those contingency funds can be used to cover the city’s costs in the event that other revenue is not enough to pay for certain city services provided during the Games.
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David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2026
After Young amended the curriculum to remove one definition of slavery for third-graders for redundancy, Clark accused some board members of whitewashing history.
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Rachel Royster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 June 2026
After his own vision was corrected as a child, an encounter with a child his age in Cairo — living a starkly different life — sparked a lifelong mission to help others see.
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Ashoka,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
By the time the boundary issues were partially corrected in the 1960s, both the cemetery and the surrounding Black community had been largely erased from public memory.
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Kamal Morgan. Produced with AI assistance,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 June 2026
On Monday, Philadelphia's Salute to Independence Semiquincentennial Parade producer Todd Marcocci said the parade's route was shortened to about 1 mile because of the heat wave.
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Tom Dougherty,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
As Bolis explained, Malvasia’s story reaches back to Monemvasia, the fortified Greek coastal town whose name the Venetians shortened to Malvasia.
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