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The estate tax applies to property all property transferred from a deceased person to his or her heirs. The tax applies to estates worth more than about $5.4 million ($10.9 million for married couples.) The top estate tax rate is 40 percent, though experts find that the average tax paid is less than 17 percent. President Obama�s threatens to veto the bill.

January 1, 2015 signaled the beginning of hundreds of new laws in California. One of these laws found its genesis in the Isla Vista shooting while others from broader environmental issues.

A Santa Barbara County jury returns guilty verdicts in the first human-trafficking jury trial in county history.