Tracie Cone

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Judge: Park Service ruined evidence in Calif death

Tracie Cone · March 22, 2013 1:22 am

FILE - In this April 22, 2010 image from video provided by the United States Humane Society, a Hallmark Meat Packing slaughter plant worker is shown attempting to force a "downed" cow onto its feet by ramming it with the blades of a forklift in Chino, Calif. State legislators across the country are introducing laws making it harder for animal welfare advocates to investigate cruelty and food safety cases. Bills pending in California, Nebraska and Tennessee require that anyone collecting evidence of abuse turn it over to law enforcement within 24 to 48 hours - which advocates say does not allow enough time to document illegal activity under federal humane handling and food safety laws. Critics say the bills are an effort to deny consumers the ability to know how their food is produced. (AP Photo/Humane Society of the United States, file)

Bills seek end to farm animal abuse videos

Tracie Cone · March 17, 2013 4:00 am

A car passes through the gate of Glenwood Gardens in Bakersfield, Calif., Monday March 4, 2013, where an elderly woman died after a nurse refused to perform CPR on her last week. The central California retirement home is defending one of its nurses who refused pleas by a 911 operator to perform CPR on an elderly woman, who later died. "Is there anybody that's willing to help this lady and not let her die," dispatcher Tracey Halvorson says on a 911 tape released by the Bakersfield Fire Department aired by several media outlets. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka)

Death at elder home prompts call for change

Tracie Cone · March 5, 2013 5:00 am

A car passes through the gate of Glenwood Gardens in Bakersfield, Calif., Monday March 4, 2013, where an elderly woman died after a nurse refused to perform CPR on her last week. The central California retirement home is defending one of its nurses who refused pleas by a 911 operator to perform CPR on an elderly woman, who later died. "Is there anybody that's willing to help this lady and not let her die," dispatcher Tracey Halvorson says on a 911 tape released by the Bakersfield Fire Department aired by several media outlets. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka)

Calif. woman dies after nurse refuses to do CPR

Gosia Wozniacka, Tracie Cone · March 4, 2013 5:00 am

Mayor reveals plan to keep Kings in Sacramento

Tracie Cone · March 1, 2013 5:48 am

CA exec gets 6 years in tomato price-fixing scam

Tracie Cone · February 12, 2013 7:29 pm

Calif. great white sharks get protections for now

Tracie Cone · February 7, 2013 1:35 am

California to consider listing great white sharks

Tracie Cone · February 6, 2013 8:31 am

Solar development absorbing Calif. farmland

Tracie Cone · February 2, 2013 8:01 pm

Group warns of farmland loss in San Joaquin Valley

Tracie Cone · January 17, 2013 8:26 pm

A unidentified woman cries while standing outside Taft Union High School after a shooting on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2012 in Taft, Calif. The sheriff of Kern County, Calif., says a 16-year-old student shot at a high school is in critical but stable condition. Sheriff Donny Youngblood says the shooter is a student who walked into a class at Taft Union High School Thursday morning and shot the teen with a shotgun, and then fired at another student but missed. A teacher suffered a minor pellet wound to the head. Youngblood says the teacher tried to get other students out a back door, then he and another staff member engaged the shooter in conversation to distract him, and convinced him to put down the gun. (AP Photo/The Bakersfield Californian, Alex Horvath) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES; ONLINE OUT; TV OUT

Student shot at rural California high school

Tracie Cone · January 10, 2013 5:00 am

Yosemite plan would ease traffic, shut ice rink

Tracie Cone · January 9, 2013 12:35 am