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FILE - In this May 15, 2018 file photo, Judge Aaron Persky poses for photos in Los Altos Hills, Calif. Persky says he would handle the sexual assault case of former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner the same way today as he did almost exactly two years ago, even though it's the reason why he is the target of a June 5 recall election in Santa Clara County. Persky sentenced Turner to six months in jail. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

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Recall of rape judge stirs legal concern

by Paul Elias Associated PressJune 6, 2018

In this Friday, April 13, 2018, photo, the Waldos, from left, Mark Gravitch, Larry Schwartz, Dave Reddix, Jeffrey Noel and Steve Capper sit on a wall they used to frequent at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, Calif. Friday is April 20, or 4/20. That’s the numerical code for marijuana’s high holiday, a celebration and homage to pot’s enduring and universal slang for smoking.

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420’s long, strange trip to pot holiday began in California

by Paul Elias Associated PressApril 18, 2018

In this Friday, April 13, 2018, photo, the Waldos, from left, Mark Gravitch, Larry Schwartz, Dave Reddix, Steve Capper and Jeffrey Noel pose below a statue of Louis Pasteur at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, Calif. Friday is April 20, or 4/20. That’s the numerical code for marijuana’s high holiday, a celebration and homage to pot’s enduring and universal slang for smoking. And the five Northern California high school stoner buddies widely credited with creating the shorthand slang for getting high nearly 50 years ago now serve as the day’s unofficial grand masters.

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Pot holiday traces roots to California high school stoners

by Paul Elias Associated PressApril 18, 2018

This March 20, 2016 photo shows Hart family of Woodland, Wash., at a Bernie Sanders rally in Vancouver, Wash. Authorities in Northern California say they believe all six children from a family were in a vehicle that plunged off a coastal cliff. Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allmon told reporters Wednesday, March 28, 2018, that only three bodies of the children have been recovered. Their parents also died Monday. (Tristan Fortsch/KATU News via AP)

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Mystery surrounds SUV cliff plunge that killed entire family

by Paul Elias Associated Press, and Phuong Le Associated PressMarch 29, 2018

Customers line up inside the Harborside cannabis dispensary Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, in Oakland, Calif. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rescinded an Obama-era policy that paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish in states across the country, creating new confusion about enforcement and use just three days after a new legalization law went into effect in California. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)

Marijuana investors skittish after Sessions’ shot at pot

by Paul Elias Associated PressJanuary 4, 2018

Matt Gonzalez, chief attorney of the San Francisco Public Defenders Office, fields questions after a verdict was reached in the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, in San Francisco. Garcia Zarate was found not guilty in the killing of Kate Steinle on a San Francisco pier that touched off a national immigration debate two years ago, rejecting possible charges ranging from involuntary manslaughter to first-degree murder. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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Mexican man not guilty in San Francisco pier killing

by Paul Elias Associated PressDecember 1, 2017

In this Sept. 29, 2017 photo, Calaveras County Sheriff Rick DiBasilio gestures while raiding a marijuana growing operation in unincorporated Calaveras County, Calif. DiBasilio says he has his hands full cracking down on thousands of illegal farms in a county that has legalized cultivation for medicinal use. Growers illegal and legal have are increasingly open about their operations and starting to encroach on neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Rush of pot grows splits rural California before legal sales

by Paul Elias Associated PressNovember 26, 2017

Two women embrace outside Rancho Tehama Elementary School, where a gunman opened fire Tuesday, in Corning, Calif. Authorities said a gunman, choosing targets at random, opened fire in a rural Northern California town Tuesday, killing four people at several sites and wounding others at the school before police shot him dead.

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California gunman’s wife found dead; death toll at 5

by Don Thompson Associated Press, and Paul Elias Associated PressNovember 15, 2017

A California Highway patrol officer photographs a vehicle involved in a deadly shooting rampage at the Rancho Tehama Reserve, near Corning, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. A gunman driving stolen vehicles and choosing his targets at random opened fire "without provocation" in the tiny, rural Northern California town Tuesday, before police shot him dead, authorities said.

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Police find California gunman’s wife dead in their home

by Don Thompson Associated Press, and Paul Elias Associated PressNovember 15, 2017

In this photo taken Oct. 15, 2017, Marcos Morales, co-founder of pot company Legion of Bloom, walks through his farm of ready-to-harvest pot plants in Glen Ellen, Calif. A fire tore through his farm, destroying hundreds of plants and over a thousand pounds of ready-to-ship pot. (AP Photo/Paul Elias)

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Blazes light up Calif. pot farms

by Paul Elias Associated PressOctober 18, 2017