SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California workers would get up to two weeks of paid time off if they get sick from the coronavirus while businesses would get up to $6 billion in tax cuts and other assistance under a proposal endorsed Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state’s top legislative leaders. California had a
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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a convicted rapist who died in prison has been identified as the suspect in the 1985 killing of a Southern California woman. Helen Brooks was found dead at her apartment in the Mojave Desert town of Apple Valley after friends said they hadn’t heard from her in days.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — California legislation proposed Monday would eliminate a personal belief exemption in school-based COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Sen. Richard Pan introduced the Keep Schools Open and Safe Act during a news conference at a Los Angeles school. Pan, a pediatrician, said the law is needed to ensure that children are educated. “Families across
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By DON THOMPSON SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would allow children age 12 and up to be vaccinated without their parents’ consent, the youngest age of any state, under a proposal late Thursday by a state senator. Alabama allows such decisions at age 14, Oregon at 15, Rhode Island and South Carolina at 16, according
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By DON THOMPSON SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Two California counties violated the Constitution’s right to keep and bear arms when they shut down gun and ammunition stores in 2020 as nonessential businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. Officials in Los Angeles and Ventura counties had separately won lower court decisions saying gun
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By JOCELYN GECKER Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that 45 colleges and universities in California, including some of the most prestigious campuses in the state, will be part of a new public service program that will subsidize tuition for students who do community service alongside their studies. The program called “Californians For All College Corps”
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Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Tuesday to provide staffing flexibility to allow schools to support safe, in-person learning for students. “Schools nationwide returning from winter break are experiencing short-term staffing shortages that are putting a strain on operations,” Newsom said. “We’re working closely with local education officials to cut red tape to allow
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By ADAM BEAM SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Backed by soaring revenues amid the pandemic, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday proposed a budget that would pay for the health care of all the state’s low-income residents living in the country illegally, while cutting taxes for businesses and halting a scheduled increase in the gas tax
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By BRIAN MELLEY LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California surge in coronavirus cases has shut down schools and sidelined thousands of police, firefighters, teachers, and health care workers but officials are hoping it will be short-lived. “My hope is that, you know, by the time we get to February, we’re on the downside of seeing
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By KATHLEEN RONAYNE SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Californians will face mandatory restrictions governing how they can water their lawns and wash their cars for the second time in less than a decade as the state withers under another drought. The rules adopted Tuesday by the State Water Resources Control Board are fairly mild — no
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Orange County Deputy District Attorney Kelly Ernby, who ran for state Assembly as a Republican and had recently been vocal about her opposition to California’s vaccine mandates, has died a week after telling friends she was sick with COVID-19. Ernby’s death was reported Monday by the Orange County Register, which didn’t
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Temperatures generally stayed above normal while precipitation stayed below in 2021, according to the National Weather Service office in San Diego. It released annual climate statistics for Palm Springs and surrounding areas Saturday afternoon, suggesting that overall, the region has remained warmer and drier than what is considered normal. The average daytime high for Palm
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The parents of a 14-year-old girl who was fatally struck by a stray bullet fired by Los Angeles police at an assault suspect inside a North Hollywood clothing store publicly called today for full transparency during the various investigations into the shooting. In a tearful, emotional news conference outside LAPD headquarters, Valentina Orellana-Peralta’s parents
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Governor Gavin Newsom announced new state actions, including a booster mandate for healthcare workers, during a news conference Wednesday morning. By February 1, 2022, health care workers and all employees in high-risk congregate settings, including nursing homes, will be required to get their booster. In the interim, all health care staff that have not received their
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Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that California will be requiring healthcare workers to get a COVID-19 vaccination booster shot. Never miss an update: download the News Channel 3 News App here. Details on the requirements were limited. Newsom said there would be more information available on Wednesday during an official announcement. CA will require healthcare workers
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By ADAM BEAM SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hiring in California slowed significantly in November even as the state’s unemployment rate dipped below 7% for the first time since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, according to new data released Friday. Even though California’s unemployment rate fell to 6.9% in November from 7.3% in
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California is exempting San Francisco from a rule that takes effect Wednesday requiring all people to wear masks indoors in a bid to contain a troubling rise in new coronavirus cases. San Francisco will continue to allow fully vaccinated people to remove their masks in gyms and workplaces while its overall
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By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — State lawmakers may help pay for people from other states to come to California for abortions if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. A report released Wednesday by dozens of abortion providers and advocacy groups asks state policymakers to pay for things such as
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OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A U.S. Marine was killed early Monday morning in Southern California when he was struck by a box truck as he was aiding motorists on the side of the highway, authorities said. The Marine had been helping a couple in an SUV who had been in a crash on Interstate 5
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Confirmation of the first U.S. case of the omicron variant in California was not surprising and shouldn’t force another shutdown heading into the holidays, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday. State health officials said they are increasing COVID-19 testing at California’s airports for arrivals from countries identified by the U.S. Centers for
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