SAN DIEGO (CNS) – State officials are awarding $50,000 prizes today to another 15 vaccinated residents as part of a financial incentive program to encourage inoculations against COVID-19. Gov. Gavin Newsom was inSan Diego with one of last week’s winners to help announce the new lucky residents. Watch the drawing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb3WwrGAV9g One winner was
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A half-dozen Southern California men, including four Riverside County residents and a former Orange County police chief, were indicted in connection with the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, federal prosecutors announced today. Derek Kinnison, 39, Felipe Antonio Martinez, 47, both of Lake Elsinore, along with Ronald Mele, 51, of Temecula and Erik
Continue ReadingGov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta held a news conference in San Francisco to announce the next legal steps following a San Diego federal judge’s ruling overturning the state’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons. The news conference will be live-streamed below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upzbq45ssnw On June 4, a federal judge overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on
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California workers will need to stay masked on the job. That was the ruling Wednesday night from Cal/OSHA, ahead of the state preparing to lift most coronavirus restrictions starting next Tuesday, June 15. The Cal/OSHA board voted to rescind the new workplace rules that they had just approved last week on June 3. That means
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Officials with the Orange County District Attorney’s Office and California Highway Patrol are set to hold a news conference on the arrest of two suspects in connection with a highway shooting that killed a six-year-old boy. Two people were arrested in a fatal suspected road rage shooting in Orange County, California that killed a 6-year-old boy last
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A series of earthquakes were reported Saturday morning in an area southeast of the Salton Sea, near Calipatria. A preliminary magnitude 5.3 earthquake jolted Imperial County according to the United States Geological Survey. The largest of the quakes hit at 10:55 a.m. Saturday about 6 miles west of Calipatria, a small town near the Salton
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, ruling that it violates the constitutional right to bear arms. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego ruled Friday that the state’s definition of illegal military-style rifles unlawfully deprives law-abiding Californians of weapons commonly allowed in most other states.
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ACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday he will not lift a state of emergency that gives him broad powers to impose or suspend rules involving the coronavirus. But he still intends to lift most mask and other restrictions on that date. California has been under the state of emergency since March
Continue Reading California is giving away the country’s largest pot of vaccine prize money — $116.5 million — in an attempt to get millions more inoculated before the most populous state fully reopens later this month The first in a series of drawings is Friday, June 4. You can watch it below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDiNAF0ISrM Some mask mandates, state
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UPDATE: 7:30 PM: The states occupational safety board, Cal/OSHA, voted Thursday to keep masks mandatory for employees at work past June 15, unless everyone in the room is fully vaccinated. But the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board made clear Thursday night that the regulations are only a stopgap while they consider further easing
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — There’s one pandemic change that Californians are sure to toast: The to-go cocktail. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday that the state will continue allowing restaurants to sell takeout alcohol and keep expanded outdoor dining through the end of the year. Restaurants turned to takeout and outdoor dining during the past
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SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) — A Los Angeles County firefighter appeared to have a longstanding job-related dispute with the colleague he shot and killed at their small, rural fire station in what became California’s second deadly workplace shooting in less than a week, authorities said Wednesday. The gunman also wounded a fire captain at the
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An overnight procession honored the sacrifice made by Sgt. Dominic Vaca, a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department employee who served for 17 years. He was a sergeant at the Morongo Basin Station. Vaca was killed in a shooting in Yucca Valley on Memorial Day. “We appreciate the outpouring of support and prayers for Sergeant Vaca,
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Lottery style cash prizes for recipients of the Covid-19 vaccine are already happening in Ohio. Other states, including California, have announced similar programs. “So I think it’s a definitely a good incentive and a way to properly spend the state’s money,” said vaccine recipient Tyler Evoniuk. Governor Newsom announced the plan Thursday after the federal
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An initiative to allow sports betting at tribal casinos and horse-racing tracks in California has qualified for the November 2022 ballot. The proposed constitutional amendment, written by Native American tribes, qualified on Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reported. Backers submitted 1.4 million signatures and the secretary of state reported that counties verified enough
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At Rancho Mirage High School, one student we spoke with says she’s fortunate she won’t need to take summer classes but knows other who do. “It’s been pretty difficult for most kids but I mean summer school is gonna help a lot of us because distance learning is hard for some of us,” said 10th
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Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new $116.5M vaccine incentive program to encourage more Californians to get vaccinated ahead of the state’s June 15 reopening. You can watch the announcement live below (Starts at 2:15 pm): California reported that more than 36 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered to date. With the recent expanded eligibility
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A brush fire that erupted today in the Santa Ana River bottom between Jurupa Valley and Riverside expanded to 150 acres after a second blaze branched off from the main one, and the combined wildfire threatened homes and triggered evacuations amid windy conditions. The main blaze started about 11:10 a.m. in the area of Jurupa
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California extended its slow but steady economic recovery in April, adding more than 100,000 jobs for the third consecutive month, officials said Friday. The state’s Employment Development Department says California has now regained 1.3 million jobs, or 48% of the 2.7 million it lost in March and April of 2020. The
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IVERSIDE (CNS) – A Riverside motorcyclist left paralyzed in a freeway collision triggered by a precinct walker reached an $11 million settlement with the California Republican Party, an agreement that appears to the first of its kind in the nation, the plaintiff’s attorney said today. Â Â Â Richard Ruehle, a married father of six, was left
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