Changes to Adult Day Health Care Coming This Weekend
On April 1, adult day health care will be eliminated as a Medi-Cal benefit. A scaled-down version of the program called Community Based Adult Services will take its place. But days ahead of the transition, advocates for the disabled have filed a contempt motion against the state.
Lawmakers Look at English Learner Education
For the first time in state Senate history, a committee gathered in Sacramento this week to talk about a problem that they say has been ignored for far too long: How to help the one in four California students who are non-native English speakers.
Murder of Iraqi Woman in San Diego Shocks Community
At a mosque in Lakeside yesterday, east of San Diego, friends and family of a 32-year-old Iraqi immigrant honored her memory as they prepare to send her body back to her home country. Shaima Alawadi was beaten to death and a threatening note left beside her. Although police are still investigating, many locals in this -- one of the nation's largest Iraqi communities -- are in a state of shock.