Daniel Macht

5 days ago | kcra.com | Daniel Macht

WAS FIRST ELECTED AS THE 267TH LEADER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, POPE LEO THE 14TH HELD HIS FIRST MASS AT THE VATICAN TODAY. DURING HIS SERMON, POPE LEO CALLED FOR THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TO EXTEND ITS MISSIONARY EFFORTS. ALSO SPEAKING IN ITALIAN, WARNED THAT THERE IS A LACK OF FAITH WORLDWIDE AS PEOPLE FIND COMFORT IN TECHNOLOGY, MONEY, SUCCESS AND POWER. NOW HIS ASCENSION OF POPE LEO IS WIDELY BEING CELEBRATED BY CATHOLICS.

5 days ago | kcra.com | Daniel Macht

Two men have been arrested and accused of child sexual abuse crimes in Ceres, police said on Thursday.One of the men is accused of sexual exploitation of a minor. The other faces charges related to the possession of child sexual abuse material. Christopher Rios, a 27-year-old resident of Pittsburg, was arrested following a six-month investigation that started when the mother of a 16-year-old found suspicious messages on her daughter’s social media accounts.

6 days ago | kcra.com | Daniel Macht

A person incarcerated at Folsom State Prison was stabbed in the yard on Thursday, officials said.The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said staff observed the person’s injuries around 8:30 a.m., called 911 and attempted first aid. The person was taken to the prison’s triage area and then to an outside medical facility. CDCR said they believed the attack was an attempted homicide.

1 week ago | kcra.com | Daniel Macht

KCRA 3 Capitol Correspondent Ashley Zavala has covered a two-year-long legislative debate on how to combat sex trafficking in California. A key issue has been whether people who buy trafficked teens for sex should face harsher consequences.State law requires the traffickers, also known as the sellers, to face the tougher consequences. It is an automatic, serious felony to sell a child under the age of 18 in California.

1 week ago | kcra.com | Daniel Macht

President Donald Trump’s secretary of transportation on Friday said he’d terminated $12 million in grant funding for UC Davis’ National Center for Sustainable Transportation aimed at “accelerating equitable decarbonization” research. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the grant was one of seven “woke university grants” across the country that he was terminating, which totaled $54 million in all. .