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State Farm will offer insurance renewals to Los Angeles residents it had planned to drop. In a major U-turn, the company said it would renew policies in the badly-hit Pacific Palisades neighborhood, alongside thousands more in Los Angeles county. However, the offer does not apply to policies that had already lapsed when the deadly fires started on January 7. In fact, California insurance commissioner Ricardo Lara urged coverage providers last week to suspend pending non renewals in the Palisades and Eaton fire zones. State Farm made the U-turn on Wednesday, a move first reported by The LA Times. Lara's office...

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DOYLESTOWN, PA (AP) A computer failure may mean that some Bucks County gun owners won’t get their renewal notices before their permits expire. Sheriff Edward Donnelly says he thinks no more than a few dozen renewal notices have gone out late. But Andrew Barniskis, the legislative chairman for the Falls Township Rifle and Pistol Association, says he thinks the problem is more widespread. Barniskis says he brought the problem of late renewal notices to Donnelly’s attention more than a year ago and was assured the problem would be fixed. Gun permits must be renewed every five years, and the sheriff’s...