Texting While Driving, Eureka Gangs, Medical Marijuana ID Cards, Nunez’s Son for Murder

California’s “no texting while driving” law goes in to effect on January 1.  Does that mean you can’t even text if you’re stopped at a red light?  LA Can’t Drive blog discusses. [LA Can't Drive]

The city of Eureka’s seems to think that their gang problem is bad enough that they need civil injunctions.  Civil injunctions prohibit alleged gang members from congregating in certain part of the city.  The city of Eureka is only 9.4 square miles, the population is 26,128 — 82% of those people are white.  So what’s really going on here? [Humboldt Herald]

Former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez’s son was arrested on suspicion of murder.  [SacBee]

Fresno County finally gets on board with medical marijuana as their health department starts to issue ID cards to patients. [CBS 47] Siskiyou County also gets on board [Siskiyou Daily News]

Napa’s Copia Robert Mondavi’s long-troubled “American Wine Center for Wine, Food, and the Arts” is closed and in bankruptcy.Napa Valley Register