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• Author: Oliver, Charles
• Position: California law mandates grocery stores and restaurants to donate to food banks, Florida Department of Corrections employees charged with second-degree murder

A California law mandating that grocery stores and restaurants donate unused food to food banks took effect in January, and the state has already received more than 500 requests for waivers from rural towns and counties. Food bank representatives in rural areas have said they don't have the resources to collect all of the items that would be donated.

The police department of Palo Alto, California, said it is investigating the vandalism of a "Black Lives Matter" sign as a hate crime. Someone replaced the word black with the word Asian on a sign in the yard of a woman's home. The woman said the sign was valued at $10.

day to find a pack of police officers had forced their way into his home and were searching his belongings. They were looking for a souvenir he'd brought with him when he moved to Ireland 25 years ago--a revolver he'd decommissioned by having the firing pin removed. McGovern allowed a neighbor to photograph him with the gun four years ago, and the man had posted the photo to Facebook, which appears to be how the Irish police found out about it.

Florida Department of Corrections employees Ronald Connor, Christopher Rolon, and Kirk Walton have been charged with second-degree murder, aggravated abuse of an elderly or disabled adult, and battery/cruel treatment of a detainee in the beating death of 60-year-old inmate Ronald Gene Ingram. Ingram was being transferred between institutions. During the process, he threw urine on one of the officers. Prosecutors said the officers subsequently handcuffed Ingram, removed him from his cell, and beat him. He was carried to the van and later found dead mid-transport. The cause of death was ruled to be internal bleeding from a punctured lung.

Following outcry by students and parents, the San Diego Unified School District...