Lead Stories:
- Tonight is the night the Governors of California and Florida go head-to-head in a Blue State-Red State debate, and you can play along. The Los Angeles Times has put together bingo cards to use while Governors Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis debate in Georgia on the Fox News Channel. Click here to read more.
- Professors from University of California campuses are pushing back on a plan to teach a "viewpoint neutral" history of the Middle East. More than 150 professors sent a letter Tuesday to U.C. President Michael Drake objecting to his efforts to ease campus tensions brought on by the Israel-Hamas war. Click here to read more.
- Thousands of runners are gearing up for the California International Marathon. It's back for the 40th year on Sunday with a 26-mile course that starts in Folsom Lake and ends at the State Capitol building in Sacramento. Click here to read more.
- Cal Trans is closing some mountain roads in the high Sierras this week ahead of a large storm. Both lanes for Highway 108 are closed from the Tuolumne/Mono County Line to the intersection of Route 395. Along with both lanes for Highway 89 near South Lake Tahoe from the Mono Alpine County Line to Route 395. AND State Route 4 in both directions at Ebbetts Pass between loope and lake alpine is also closed. Click here to read more.