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  • Originally published July 3, 2009 at 3:01 p.m., updated February 20, 2010 at 5:35 a.m.

The supervisor in Los Angeles is Chris Weber.If you have a news tip or questions about the report, call 213-626-1200. The supervisor in Sacramento is Don Thompson. He can be reached at 916-448-9555.

Blair Godbout, Los Angeles Photos, can be reached at 213-626-2500. Tom Gallagher, San Francisco Photos, can be reached at 415-495-1192.

AP stories, along with the photos that accompany them, can also be obtained from http://www.apexchange.com. Reruns are also available from the Service Desk at 877-836-9477 or your local AP bureau.

DEVELOPING:

—CALIFORNIA STORM— Will be led as developments warrant.

CALIFORNIA-EARLY RELEASE

SACRAMENTO — A state lawmaker is seeking to exempt county jails from a new law designed to ease prison crowding, hours after a county judge ruled the law requires sheriffs to free inmates before they serve their full sentences. More than 1,500 inmates have been released from county jails statewide since the new law took effect Jan. 25. It lets inmates reduce their sentences by up to half through good-behavior credits. By Don Thompson.

CALIFORNIA STORM

LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE — Two weeks after a wall of mud and debris damaged dozens of homes on hillsides stripped bare by wildfire, residents of La Canada Flintridge braced for another round of rains and county officials took no chances in ordering the early evacuation of nearly 200 homes. Rain arrived in the Los Angeles area late Friday and was expected to pass through quickly and weakly, but residents of 188 homes were advised to get out as a precaution. By Andrew Dalton.

LOS ANGELES BUDGET

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has forecast a long season of painful budget cuts that will shutter city departments, force layoffs and potentially slash salaries for police, firefighters and other city workers. Over the next 16 months, the nation's second-largest city needs to close spending gaps of about $700 million as the economy struggles with double-digit unemployment and a housing crisis. By Political Writer Michael R. Blood.

UNIVERSITY INVESTIGATED

SANTA ROSA — Sonoma State University is under investigation over allegations that a now-defunct department misappropriated federal grant money.

AP Photo.

AMERICA'S CUP-US RETURN

SAN FRANCISCO — The yacht club billionaire Larry Ellison belongs to along the shores of the San Francisco Bay is more blue collar than blue blood, yet it harbors big ambitions to host the next America's Cup competition. By Paul Elias.

AP Photos.

Also:

—BLACK HISTORY MOCK PARTY — A segment on a student television station at the University of California, San Diego defending a ghetto-themed party that mocked Black History Month is further stoking racial tensions.

—RURAL AIRPORT-PLANE CRASH— Emergency crews are on the scene of a small plane crash near a rural Northern California airport.

—MISSING FAMILY— Police are searching for a Southern California family who have not been seen or heard from in two weeks.

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