DOJ charges 15 in $2 billion California healthcare fraud takedown
Federal prosecutors charged 15 individuals, including six medical professionals, in sweeping medical healthcare fraud schemes totaling $2 billion in fraudulent claims. The allegations span a $1.6 billion sham addiction treatment setup, $138 million in bogus hospice claims, and $134 million for unnecessary, invasive artery surgeries that harmed patients. Police have...
Sacramento’s 86-Year-Old Gearhead Sets Bonneville Records, Chases 400 MPH
Gary Matranga is 86 years old, closing in on his 87th birthday, and this summer he drove a highly modified 1966 Barracuda across Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats fast enough to set two speed records. Now the Sacramento driver and his crew say they want more: a run at 400 mph in a rocket-shaped streamliner, a car built with its wheels lying on its side rather than standing upright.
Colton police recover $54,000 in Hot Wheels cars after train burglary
A man was arrested early Thursday after Colton police recovered approximately $54,000 worth of Hot Wheels toy cars believed to have been stolen from a train, authorities said. Officers responded to reports of a train burglary near Mason Street around 3 a.m., according to a video posted on the Colton Police Department's social media page.
Fresno residents face multi-day blackout, over $100,000 in spoiled food
Over 1,000 residents in Fresno's Tower District and southeast area are facing a multi-day power outage following storms, with PG&E scheduling restoration for Saturday, Oct. 14 at 12 p.m.
As many as 47,000 people could be kicked off CalFresh
(The Center Square) – As federally-imposed work requirements take effect for food benefits recipients, roughly 47,000 people stand to lose access to CalFresh starting this month. This, as well as other federal limitations on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as CalFresh in California, will save taxpayers $66.2 million, according to California’s 2026-27 budget. The new work requirements were stipulated as part of the federal government’s 2025-26 budget, passed in July 2025. Tha
LA doctor and chiropractor indicted in $135M unnecessary surgery fraud scheme
Federal agents executed early morning SWAT raids in Tarzana to arrest chiropractor Dr. Hany Malek and cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Harold Tabaie in an alleged $135 million Medicare fraud scheme. The duo co-owned two Los Angeles-based clinics where they lured patients with illegal kickbacks to perform medically unnecessary, invasive atherectomy leg...
Medi-Cal cuts could push seniors and people with disabilities off of coverage
Julia Feinberg feels like she’s living in a sinister version of Groundhog Day. For the second year in a row California lawmakers have made it tougher for seniors and people with disabilities to qualify for state-funded health benefits. Feinberg, 37, who has a degenerative neuromuscular disorder, said without Medi-Cal she would be confined to a […]
91-year-old California-based grocery chain to close several locations
Grocery shoppers in California and Nevada are preparing to lose several familiar supermarket locations as one longtime regional chain rethinks where it can afford to operate. The closures come as…
California’s oceans have become shockingly warm. And strange things are happening
Ocean temperatures up and down the California coast have become disturbingly high, with wide-ranging impacts.
Here’s the upside of a potentially historic El Niño in California
If the climate phenomenon continues to build at this pace, it could become the strongest El Niño we’ve seen in more than 75 years.
