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By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Public health officials in Los Angeles County will begin requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for patrons and workers at indoor bars, wineries, breweries, lounges and nightclubs next month. The new initiative in the nation’s most populous county begins Oct. 7, with proof of at least one
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By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Public health officials in Los Angeles County will begin requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for patrons and workers at indoor bars, wineries, breweries, lounges and nightclubs next month. The new initiative in the nation’s most populous county begins Oct. 7, with proof of at least one
Continue Reading By JOSH BOAK Associated Press The U.S. Treasury Department issued a report Wednesday that detailed the high price and low wages for child care, a problem that makes it harder for parents to work and one that the Biden administration aims to fix with its budget proposal. Vice President Kamala Harris and Treasury Secretary Janet
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida businessman who admitted that his fraud-busting business was a fraud is citing the coronavirus threat as he asks a judge to release him early from his one-year prison term. David Correia made the request in court papers filed Wednesday in Manhattan federal court. Correia
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple’s new iPhone 13 and 13 Pro lineup features all of the predictable upgrades: faster performance, longer lasting battery life, better screen and new colors. But the biggest — and arguably only — surprise with the lineup this year isn’t something found inside a device: the pricing. Apple kept
Continue ReadingBy Jesse Sarles Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KOVR) — A South Metro firefighter paramedic has died. The department says Anthony Palato passed away Wednesday morning. Family and coworkers call him Tony. He became sick with cancer because of his work as a firefighting paramedic. Cancer is the leading cause of death
Continue Reading By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration said Wednesday that federal protections may need to be restored for gray wolves in the western U.S. after Republican-backed state laws made it much easier to kill the predators. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service initial determination that the region’s wolves could again
Continue Reading By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday signed into law a pledge to eliminate the state’s climate-damaging carbon emissions within a quarter-century, including money to keep clean-power nuclear plants running while shuttering coal-fired plants. The legislation invests in the development of renewable solar and wind energy.
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — More than 4,000 Sacramento State students have not met the school’s new COVID-19 vaccine certification deadline, officials say. Monday was the deadline for students and employees to provide proof they have been vaccinated. Like many colleges around California, Sac State implemented
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann and Alex Marquardt, CNN US Capitol Police have requested DC National Guard assistance ahead of planned right-wing protests scheduled for this Saturday at the Capitol, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said Wednesday. “We have received a request from Capitol Police for some assistance for this weekend’s protests, scheduled protests. I’m not going
Continue ReadingBy Devin Fehely Click here for updates on this story SANTA CRUZ, California (KPIX) — The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously in favor of a new ordinance that makes it illegal to call 911 or law enforcement on someone because of bias. The new law creates civil penalties — up to a
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By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Alex Morgan says the U.S. women’s national team needs to make sure players aren’t losing any of their existing compensation under the identical contract proposals the U.S. Soccer Federation has made to both the men’s and women’s teams. But the team is hopeful for a new collective bargaining
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business There is a winner in the race to build the first consumer ready electric pickup truck, and it isn’t Tesla, Ford or General Motors. It’s Rivian. Who? The startup truck maker’s first R1T pickup come off the line in a former Mitsubishi plant in Normal, Illinois on Tuesday, company CEO
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Police in Phoenix are investigating the discovery of two dead bodies inside a car. They say the bodies of a man and a woman were found early Wednesday and there was evidence of drug usage near the car. Officers responded to a check welfare call shortly before 4 a.m. and found the
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Will Fuller is looking forward to the calm of playing again. Watching football games and not playing, it turns out, makes the Miami Dolphins wide receiver more than a bit jittery. And now that his six-game suspension for a performance-enhancers that occurred last season
Continue Reading RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A California county has paid $11 million to a man who spent two decades in prison after being wrongly convicted of murdering his girlfriend in 1998. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reported Tuesday that the payment settles a federal lawsuit filed by Horace Roberts accusing Riverside County and its sheriff’s department of manufacturing
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Al menos cinco ministros del Gobierno de Alberto Fernández pusieron su renuncia a disposición del presidente de Argentina, confirmaron a CNN fuentes cercanas a los jerarcas. Tres días después de los adversos resultados que el oficialismo sufrió en las elecciones primarias del domingo, los ministros que pusieron sus cargos
Continue Reading BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Biden administration says wolves may need protections restored in western US after states make it easier to kill them.
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Human rights groups are calling on the Biden administration to consider the effects that climate change-fueled heat has on migrants when designing the government’s border policies. Human Rights Watch on Wednesday released the letter sent by 68 groups to the U.S. government, urging a new approach to actions on the southwestern border
Continue Reading By GRANT SCHULTE Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A new watchdog report warns that Nebraska’s prisons face a persistent staffing crisis that has created dangerous conditions, including maximum-security units that are going unstaffed for hours at a time and one incident where a tired employee fell asleep on the job. The Inspector General of
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