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Restaurant surcharges will soon be illegal in California as a new law, aimed at banning hidden fees, takes effect in July, according to the office of State Attorney General Rob Bonta. Starting July 1, under SB478, California restaurants will no longer be able to charge service fees and must instead fold them into menu prices.   “SB 478 applies to restaurants, just like it applies to businesses across California,” a Department of Justice spokesperson told the San Francisco Chronicle. “The law is about making sure consumers know what they are going to pay and requires that the posted price include the full amount that a consumer must pay for that good or service.” California bill could change how third-party airport security vendors operate at state airports KTLA reached out to the state attorney general office but didn’t hear back in time for publication. The new law, authored by Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, and Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, prohibits businesses from charging “junk fees” or burying added costs to artificially lower prices, a practice commonly seen across various industries. The legislation was also sponsored by Bonta

The captain of a Southern California dive ship that sank in 2019, killing 34 people, has been sentenced to four years in prison. Jerry Nehl Boylan, 70, of Santa Barbara, was captain of the Conception, a 75-foot wood and fiberglass ship, according to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice. The Conception sank near Santa Cruz Island on Labor Day in 2019 after catching fire, killing 33 passengers and one crew member. It was the worst maritime disaster in California in a century and a half. Though all of the passengers and one crew member died, five other crew members — including Boylan — survived the blaze and sinking. Boylan abandoned the ship instead of helping rescue passengers once the fire began, and before the fire began, he failed to create a safe environment, prosecutors said. For instance, he did not properly train his crew and passengers on what to do if a fire broke out, and he did not have a night watch in place. U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada criticized Boylan’s “cowardice and repeated failures” as captain. “The victims’ families will be forever

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block released a letter to the campus community Thursday afternoon following the chaotic events of recent days, including overnight drama that unfolded when police cleared a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on Royce Quad. “Our community is in deep pain. We are reeling from days of violence and division. And we hope with all our hearts that we can return to a place where our students, faculty and staff feel safe and, one day, connected again,” Block said in his campus message. He said the university had planned to allow protestors and community members to voice their opinions about the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas as long as students and educators were not placed in harm’s way. But following violent conflicts between demonstrators and counter-demonstrators, the decision was made to clear Royce Quad. Workers clean up the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus after police evicted pro-Palestinian students, in Los Angeles, California, early on May 2, 2024. Hundreds of police tore down protest barricades and began arresting students early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles – the latest flashpoint in an eruption

A new deposit system aimed at combatting the lucrative online resale market for tee times is drawing mixed reactions from Los Angeles city golfers. The deposit requirement went into effect last month in response to complaints at an L.A. City Golf Advisory Committee meeting in March. Shortly before, a class action lawsuit followed. For months, these “brokers” have been snatching up the most desirable tee times and listing them on a resale market coordinated through the app, KakaoTalk. Many golfers complained that this made desirable tee times less affordable on L.A.’s 12 city-owned courses. Since the deposit system was implemented in mid-April, many golfers have told KTLA that tee times are more available. However, some think this fix is only temporary and worry it will cause brokers to simply raise their prices to pass along the cost of the deposit, making the usual $25 tee time cost even higher. Dave Fink is a golf coach and influencer with thousands of followers on his social media platforms. “I’m trying my best to keep in mind that this whole thing is about accessibility,” Fink said. Fink created

By Julie Sharp Updated on: May 2, 2024 / 5:49 PM EDT / KCAL News CBS News Live CBS News Los Angeles Live The captain of the dive boat Conception, which caught fire and killed all 33 of the boat’s passengers and one crew member in 2019, was sentenced to four years in prison at a Los Angeles federal court Thursday. Captain Jerry Boylan, now 70, faced a maximum sentencing of 10 years in federal prison. LOS ANGELES, CA – NOVEMBER 03: Defendant Jerry Boylan, right, captain of the Conception dive boat, arrives at Federal Court on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Irfan Khan Boylan was found guilty in 2023 of one count of misconduct or neglect of ship officer, also known as “seaman’s manslaughter”, for one of the deadliest maritime disasters in recent U.S. history.  The fatal fire happened in the early morning hours of Sept. 2, 2019, while the dive boat was anchored off the shoreline of Santa Cruz Island, which is about 22 miles southwest of Santa Barbara.  A total

By Meredith Gordon May 2, 2024 / 5:49 PM EDT / Essentials CBS Essentials is created independently of the CBS News editorial staff. We may receive commissions from some links to products on this page. Promotions are subject to availability and retailer terms. Patrick Beverley #21 of the Milwaukee Bucks drives around T.J. McConnell #9 of the Indiana Pacers during game five of the Eastern Conference First Round Playoffs at Fiserv Forum on April 30, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Bucks defeated the Pacers 115-92.  Stacy Revere/Getty Images The Indiana Pacers host the Milwaukee Bucks today for a must-win Game 6 of the teams’ NBA Playoffs series. Tyrese Haliburton’s Pacers team leads the series 3-2, which means Indiana could close out the series and move on to the Eastern Conference semifinals with a win today. Find everything you need to know to watch today’s Bucks vs. Pacers game today. How and when to watch the Bucks vs. Pacers NBA Playoffs game Game 6 of the Milwaukee Bucks vs. Indiana Pacers NBA Playoffs series will be played on Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. ET

“I Saw the TV Glow” is a claustrophobic mood piece that taps into the hollowness of growing up hypnotized by the screen. In 1996, a withdrawn kid named Owen (played as a seventh-grader by Ian Foreman and by Justice Smith in his barely matured adolescence and adulthood) becomes fixated on a late-night teen thriller called “The Pink Opaque” and, when the show gets canceled, fills his soul watching reruns in the fear that if he did anything else, he’d be forced to admit his existential choices are just static. Owen is a helpless, hopeless and inarticulate avatar for anyone who’s ever wondered wheter it would be healthier to do less watching and more living. (Film critics, for one.) While the horror elements of the movie left me restless, having spent some of my own life watching Owen’s, I was haunted by its residue: the sensation of being a cow watching another cow get sucked into a UFO’s tractor beam, lowing in vain at the fact that we’re all just hamburger. The writer and director Jane Schoenbrun is part of a burgeoning group of young filmmakers

The online sleuths got to work within hours of violence sparking at UCLA this week. They grabbed videos of the mostly masked rioters who attacked the pro-Palestinian student encampment near the quad and tried to zoom in on faces. They pored over each frame, waiting for the moment masks slipped and faces were exposed to take screen grabs. Then, they uploaded those faces to X (formerly Twitter), Instagram and other social media platforms and beseeched the Internet to do its thing. From across the country and around the world, people logged on and joined the collective research effort. Soon, the alleged perpetrators’ names, and in some cases identifying details such as places of employment, were posted online along with photos. License plates from cars owned by alleged pro-Israeli counterprotesters were also posted. A pro-Israeli supporter throws a bottle of water at the Pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday morning. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles) Law enforcement officials, including the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles, declined to comment on the tactic. But some who study extremism said the online effort to identify and expose the

May 2, 2024 / 5:28 PM EDT / AP Undated photo: Kelly Daughtry, GOP North Carolina congressional candidate. Kelly Daughtry’s campaign Facebook page The candidate who finished first in the Republican nomination primary race for a North Carolina congressional seat says she’s suspending her campaign, citing her rival’s endorsement by former President Donald Trump in the runoff election. Though Johnston County attorney Kelly Daughtry had the most votes among 14 candidates in the March 5 GOP primary for North Carolina 13th Congressional District, she did not reach the 30% threshold needed to win the primary outright. She and Brad Knott, who finished second and is a former federal prosecutor, had advanced to the scheduled May 14 runoff. Daughtry said in a social media post that because of Trump has formally backed Knott, “it has become clear that a pathway to victory is no longer feasible.” “I believe in the democratic process and respect the endorsement of our President,” Daughtry added. Knott also picked up the endorsement of third-place primary finisher Fred Von Canon. “The time has now come to suspend my campaign,” Daughtry added. “Brad has

Want to travel the world? Have the stomach to spend one-third of the year at sea? If the answer to both of those questions is yes, and you have $20,000 to spend, Princess Cruises has the trip of a lifetime for you. The cruise line has released details about an upcoming world cruise that will visit 52 ports in 28 countries, spanning six continents and traveling 35,000 nautical miles. The 2026 Princess World Cruise is a 114-day voyage aboard the Coral Princess, a nearly 1,000-foot cruise ship with room for about 2,000 passengers. The massive globe-trotting cruise takes ships off from two U.S. ports — Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on Jan. 5, 2026 and from Los Angeles on Jan. 21, 2026. The Coral Princess arrives at the French Mediterranean port of Marseille on July 12, 2023. (Getty Images) The 2026 cruise will visit the most destinations ever for a Princess cruise ship, but tickets don’t come cheap. Entry level reservations start at around $20,000 but go up depending on your preferred accommodations. But if booked before Oct. 31 of this year, travelers will receive a free

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police have arrested more than 2,000 people during pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the United States in recent weeks, according to an Associated Press tally Thursday. Demonstrations and arrests have occurred in almost every corner of the nation. In the last 24 hours, they’ve drawn the most attention at the University of California, Los Angeles, where chaotic scenes played out early Thursday when officers in riot gear surged against a crowd of demonstrators. Hundreds of protesters at UCLA defied orders to leave, some forming human chains as police fired flash-bangs to break up the crowds. At least 200 people were arrested, said Sgt. Alejandro Rubio of the California Highway Patrol, citing data from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Rubio said they were being booked at the county jails complex near downtown Los Angeles. Another 300 people voluntarily left throughout the hourslong standoff, some filing out of the encampment with their hands over their heads in a show of peaceful surrender, according to the university. Others ran away as baton-wielding officers pushed into the hordes that numbered more than 1,000

While the pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA was dramatically broken up in a law enforcement raid early Thursday morning, similar protests remained and in some cases grew at other universities throughout Southern California in the next several hours. Pro-Palestinian protests, which appeared to be peaceful as of 1 p.m. Thursday, were visible at UC Irvine, Cal State Long Beach and Chapman University. According to the Daily 49er, CSULB’s student-run newspaper, protesters blocked the entrances to Brotman Hall fountain courtyard while demanding that the university divest from companies that do business with Israel. The newspaper said a small number of pro-Israeli protesters arrived at the scene, but no instances of violence have been reported. Protesters gathered outside Brotman Hall at Cal State Long Beach called for the university to divest from companies that do business from Israel on Thursday, May 2, 2024. (KTLA) After the scene at UCLA early Thursday, UC Irvine’s encampment continued. There were no reports of counter-protesters as of the early afternoon as dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters camped out on campus. Last week, the University of California released a statement claiming that divestment from

By Caitlin Yilek May 2, 2024 / 5:09 PM EDT / CBS News Menendez faces superseding indictment Latest Bob Menendez indictment alleges he took gifts linked to Qatar investment 03:53 Washington — When federal investigators executed a search warrant at Sen. Bob Menendez’s New Jersey home in June 2022, they found more than $480,000 in cash stashed in envelopes and coats, as well as 13 gold bars worth more than $100,000.  They also seized nearly $80,000 from his wife’s safe deposit box at a nearby bank.  After Menendez was charged last year with corruption, he explained that for 30 years he withdrew thousands of dollars each month from his personal savings account in case of emergencies. The “old-fashioned” habit, he said, had roots in his family’s experience in Cuba. In a letter that was disclosed Wednesday, the Democratic senator’s attorneys argued the habit resulted from “two significant traumatic events” in his life.  A psychiatrist who evaluated Menendez would be expected to testify at trial that he “suffered intergenerational trauma stemming from his family’s experience as refugees, who had their funds confiscated by the Cuban government

May 2, 2024 / 4:59 PM EDT / AP Repealing Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban Repealed Arizona 1864 abortion law won’t be reversed for at least 90 days 03:15 Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has relegated a Civil War-era ban on most abortions to the past by signing a repeal bill Thursday. Hobbs says the move is just the beginning of a fight to protect reproductive health care in Arizona. But the repeal may not take effect until 90 days after the end of the legislative session, in June or July. Abortion rights advocates hope a court will step in to prevent that outcome. The effort to repeal the long-dormant law, which bans all abortions except those done to save a patient’s life, won final legislative approval Wednesday in a 16-14 vote of the Senate, as two GOP lawmakers joined with Democrats. Hobbs denounced “a ban that was passed by 27 men before Arizona was even a state, at a time when America was at war about the right to own slaves.” “This ban needs to be repealed, I said it in 2022 when Roe was

Some 401(k) plans may cut you a monthly check – CBS News Watch CBS News Some companies are offering fixed monthly checks from a portion of workers’ 401(k) retirement plans, according to a new report by the Wall Street Journal. CBS News contributor Javier E. David breaks down the process gaining momentum. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On