Yosemite National Park, California - At approximately 5:00 a.m. this morning, a limb from an oak tree fell in Upper Pines Campground in Yosemite Valley, striking a tent in which two minors were sleeping. Park Rangers responded to the campground to provide medical assistance, yet both minors were deceased.

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he has signed a tribal-state gaming compact between the State of California and the United Auburn Indian Community.

Live Oak, California - CDFA Undersecretary Jim Houston this week at the Lomo Station peach orchard in Live Oak, in Sutter County. California is the largest peach producing state in the country, and Sutter County alone, with production of more than 184,000 tons at a value of nearly $70 million, out-produces the second and third ranking states, South Carolina and Georgia.

Midpines, California - Wildlife officials are investigating a bear attack that resulted in serious injuries early this morning in Mariposa County:

Sacramento, California - State Climatologist Michael Anderson issued the following statement on potential El Niño conditions:

Sequoia National Forest - Law enforcement’s multi-week search for Benjamin Peter Ashley continues in Eastern Kern County, California, which will affect a small number of deer hunters in zone D-9. Ashley became a person of interest in an ongoing investigation into a kidnapping which occurred on July 28, a murder which occurred on July 30 and an attempted murder of a peace officer which occurred August 1.