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Study: State ‘red flag’ law may have stopped 58 gun massacres Tribune Content Agency With Congress poised to expand red flag laws nationally in response to outrage over deadly mass shootings, a new study reveals how California’s six-year-old law is making an impact: It disarmed 58 people who were threatening a gun massacre. The study by the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California-Davis is the first detailed description of California’s gun violence restraining order cases in the state since the law was enacted in 2016. “The gun violence restraining order law is working to prevent cases of firearm suicide and mass shootings,” said lead author Veronica A. Pear, an assistant professor at the Violence Prevention Research Program. Many of the patterns revealed in the 202 cases reviewed were unmistakable: Nearly all of the people whose weapons were seized were men. More than half threatened to harm others, often intimate partners. And in nearly 30% See Flag, Page A8
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Construction crew members work at the future site of a 32-bed residential mental health care facility, which
will consist of three buildings, at the Health and Human Services campus on Courage Drive in Fairfield, Tuesday.
Supervisors approve homeless, mental health strategy plan Todd R. Hansen
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Maksym Katerin stands in the yard of his damaged house after his mother and stepfather were killed during shelling in the city of Lysychansk in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, amid Russian invasion of Ukraine, Monday.
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Key eastern city teeters in a battle of ‘simply terrifying’ cost Tribune Content Agency KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Russian forces appeared Tuesday to tighten their chokehold on a strategic eastern city that has become the scene of one of the Ukraine war’s bloodiest battles, as fears mounted over the fate of hundreds of civilians trapped in an artillery-pounded industrial zone. Ukraine insisted that its troops had not ceded control of Severodonetsk, a small industrial city seen as pivotal to the fight for the country’s Donbas region, but acknowledged that the situation was increasingly dire with Russia having severed the last bridge linking it to a sister See Cost, Page A8
A homeless encampment is set up along Cordelia Street in Suisun City, Tuesday.
FAIRFIELD — A plan to qualify for $1.6 million in Homeless, Housing, Assistance and Prevention funds was approved Tuesday. However, the Solano County supervisors could not avoid staring at the missing pieces – namely available housing and a verifiable homeless count – with board Chairman John Vasquez
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Supervisors recognize Juneteenth; local celebrations set for Saturday Todd R. Hansen
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FAIRFIELD — Sunday marks the 147th anniversary of the when thousands of slaves in Texas were finally informed that they were free. “Juneteenth serves as a significant day of remembrance and acknowledgment of the history, freedom, culture, strength, perseverance and achievement of the past, present and future generations of the AfricanAmerican community,” the staff report to the Solano County Board of Supervisors states.
The news arrived more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln, on Jan.1, 1863, issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Congress recognized June 19 as “Juneteenth Independence Day” in 1997, and in 2021, President Joe Biden recognized June 19 as a federal holiday. The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday adopted a resolution recognizing Juneteenth. “Juneteenth, sometimes referred to as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of
the ending of slavery in the United States, honoring African American freedom, emphasizing education and achieve-
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