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Close to 200 people participated in the Suisun City Fire Department Easter egg hunt, Sunday

Suisun Fire Department hosts festive annual Easter egg hunt

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SUISUN CITY — The kids had one goal for the Suisun City Fire Department’s annual Easter egg hunt and that was to have fun. About 200 people came out for the fastest egg hunt around; all of about 60 seconds of mad dashing for as many eggs as possible. Richard Anderson, reserve engineer, and Michelle Zunino organized the event this year. Anderson emphasized that Sunday’s event was put on by the Suisun Fire Department and not the Fire Fighters Association as in the years past. “We had 5,000 eggs out there,” he said. “With four

Kids enjoyed the rush of gathering eggs at the annual Suisun City Fire Department Easter egg hunt. different age groups.” He has been doing the egg hunt for about 12 years. “As far as we can figure this egg hunt has been going on since the ′1980s,” he said. He says the goal is to bring kids out and let

them enjoy the weather. “It is something for every kid,” he said. “We hope they leave happy.” This year they didn’t have any prizes as they did in years past. “We didn’t have anything left over from the Toys for Kids event this

year,” he said. “Hopefully next year.” Deborah Caston of Suisun City was enjoying the day with her granddaughter Mayrah, 4, who came down from Sacramento. “She is here for the weekend and will get to meet some of her cousins for the first time,” Caston said. Her favorite part of the day is spending time with family. Berna Kenery of Suisun City came with her daughter Kamryn, 5, for the first time. “I am really glad they are doing this,” Kenery said. “It is nice for the kids.”

State touts gun seizures from prohibited persons, but will it slow rate of violence? Rick Hurd

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SAN JOSE — California officials announced in a news release that they had seized guns from people who had become legally prohibited from owning weapons they had once purchased legally. The seizures came from people convicted of crimes, those who may have been hospitalized because of mental illness or threatened suicide, or those who were the subject of restraining

orders. Officials identified 23,869 people on its list, they said, and seized 1,437 firearms. In a state of nearly 40 million people, with approximately 3.35 million registered gun owners and 20 million legally owned guns, how significant is that number? You could be forgiven for scoffing at it, violence prevention advocate Julia Weber said; she has a unique view. Currently the director of the National Center on

Gun Violence in Relationships, she served for nearly 18 years as the supervising attorney for the Judicial Council of California. That council helped created the Armed and Prohibited Persons System, the California program that tracks people who are ineligible to own guns and orchestrates seizures. Weber said the number is meaningful, but the seizures are “lowhanging fruit.” “A significant number of the folks among the

24,000 are prohibited because of felonies,” she said “Some are folks with criminal histories. We need to do more to make sure (the number of people on) that list gets lower.” Among some of the law-enforcement personnel who regularly investigate gun crime – and who sometimes face guns in the hands of criminal suspects – the overall number of firearms on the street dwarfs the seizures. See Guns, Page A8

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Feds say drones used to make prison deliveries Matthew Ormseth LOS ANGELES TIMES

LOS ANGELES — Walls and rules have never stopped prisoners from getting what they need. Drugs, phones and other contraband have been smuggled in by guards and visitors, flung over fences and even stashed inside hollowed-out pastries in care packages. Now, two men are accused of using an increasingly common technology to bypass prison walls: drones. Federal prosecutors in Fresno have charged Jose Enrique Oropeza and David Ramirez Jr. with using drones to drop loads of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, tobacco and cellphones into the yards of seven prisons across California. Oropeza was arrested March 29; Ramirez was arrested on April 4. Along with drug trafficking offenses, the men face airspace violations

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of operating unregistered aircraft and flying without a certificate, a redacted indictment shows. Several others whose names are obscured have been charged in the case but have not been arrested. Ramirez and Oropeza have pleaded not guilty. Ramirez’s attorney, Serita Rios, said she had just been appointed to represent him and could not comment. Oropeza’s attorney didn’t return a request for comment. In the persistent ploys to get contraband into prisons, the skies are playing a growing role. “There’s a large problem right now with drone activity,” Sgt. Craig Parkhill, a gang investigator at Centinela State Prison, testified at a recent trial in Los Angeles. The issue isn’t confined to California. Two men have been charged in separate cases in Texas with dropping See Prison, Page A8

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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is weighing every option to strike down a “reckless” ruling by a federal judge in Texas that suspended U.S. approval of a key drug used in medication abortions, Xavier Becerra, the secretary of Health and Human Services, said on Sunday. The administration has already filed an appeal, Becerra said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” He said that ignoring the Trump-appointed judge’s ruling, as some Democratic lawmakers have suggested, is another possibility. “Every option is on the table,” he said. “It’s incumbent upon us as a country to make sure women have safe and effective medication available.” Becerra said the U.S. District Court judge’s decision to suspend the

decades-old federal approval of mifepristone, used often as part of a two-pill regimen to terminate a pregnancy within the first 10 weeks, was judicial overreach and endangers the entire drug approval process by the Food and Drug Administration. “When you turn upside down the entire FDA approval process, you’re not talking about just mifepristone. You’re talking about every kind of drug. You’re talking about our vaccines. You’re talking about insulin. You’re talking about the new Alzheimer’s drugs that may come on,” he said. The decision out of Texas from Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk will not go into effect for seven days from the time of the ruling, giving the Biden administration time to appeal to

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