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Brown administration officials met with the state employee union leaders last week, according to sources familiar with the meetings, to warn them that the next version of the governor's budget will include an unspecified cut in employee costs up to 10 percent.

The administration in January estimated that California is confronting a $9.2 billion deficit through 2012-13, but a recent state analysis concluded the actual gap is considerably more.

The sources, who declined to talk on the record because the administration asked all involved to keep the discussions secret, said Brown told the unions he was seeking $750 million in state employee cost savings for fiscal 2012-13..

LINK - SacBee.com

On 5/8/12 at 12:07 am, Walnut Creek Police Officers contacted four suspicious persons in a parking lot near Vice Ultra Lounge. Upon contact one subject (later identified as Pittsburg resident Terrance Hornbeck) ran from the officers and discarded a loaded firearm. Officers caught Hornbeck who began to fight with them. Officers used a taser to stop Hornbeck and he was taken into custody. The firearm, with an illegal high capacity magazine, was recovered.

Another subject (later identified as Hercules resident David Gideon) was arrested for an outstanding warrant for a weapons violation...

LINK - SFGate.com

Responding to a tip, Kings County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a wanted parolee Friday after he was found to be in possession of salable amounts of methamphetamine.

Brandon Kaiserman, 32, was arrested Friday at a home in the 10000 block of Jensen Street in Armona after deputies searched a home and discovered him sleeping on the living room floor and took him into custody without incident. Kaiserman was booked into Kings County Jail on the parole hold and charged with selling illegal narcotics...

LINK - HanfordSentinel.com

Police recovered a stolen 9mm Glock handgun from the roof of a carport in east-central Fresno Monday night after catching up with a parolee who tossed the weapon while running from officers, authorities said.

The chase began about 8 p.m. when officers saw two men loitering in a parking lot and turned around to check on them, police Sgt. James Fowler said. Both men began to run and one of them threw something as he took flight. A witness directed officers to the carport, where the weapon was recovered...

LINK - FresnoBee.com

Sheriff's deputies arrested a man Friday they say broke into a home in April and tried to sexually assault a teenage girl.

Deputies responded about 3:55 a.m. on April 28 to a report of the alleged attempted attack at a home in the 1800 block of Estero Court in San Jacinto. The 16-year-old victim told deputies that a man broke into the home and tried to sexually assault her, according to a news release issued by the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.

The girl resisted the man and he fled. She told deputies she recognized him as a handyman named "Juan" who had worked at her home in the past...

LINK - KTLA.com

Pismo Beach police arrested a Fresno parolee after he led them on a high-speed chase on U.S. Highway 101 on Monday morning.

The pursuit began when police responding to a report of a stolen vehicle spotted Shane Calhoun, 23, driving the car northbound on Price Street. When officers attempted to pull Calhoun over, he sped onto northbound U.S. Highway 101, at times reaching speeds of more than 120 mph...

LINK - CalCoastNews.com

Thirty years ago, the state spent three percent of its general fund dollars on corrections and prisons. Today it spends more than 11 percent – that’s $10 billion running the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

In 2011, when Governor Brown took office, he inherited a massive corrections problem. The state's 33 prisons were at nearly 200 percent capacity, and the recidivism rate was running at 70 percent. The federal courts stepped in and ordered California to reduce its overcrowded prisons by more than 30,000 people...

LINK - KALW.org

California officials want a federal judge to end oversight of prison medical care in 30 days. That’s the thrust of documents filed late Monday in the court of a federal judge who seized control of state prison healthcare nearly a decade ago because one inmate a week was dying of shoddy care.

In a 43-page plan to end federal oversight, Corrections attorneys argued that healthcare is “wholly transformed,” that inmates get good care, from good doctors, in good clinics and that California’s got the “will, capacity, and leadership” to keep it up. They’ve asked U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson to relinquish control in 30 days...

LINK - SCPR.org

Police searched a northern Escondido neighborhood Saturday night looking for a parolee but did not find him, a police spokesman said.

Police stopped Michael Acosta about 9:40 p.m. in the area of Valley Parkway and Beven Drive, Lt. Mike Loarie said. Acosta was wanted on a parole violation and took off running...

LINK - NCTimes.com