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VENTURA—On Monday, July 13, a body was recovered from Lake Piru where actress Naya Rivera, 33, went missing last week. Best known for her starring role as Santana Lopez on the TV show "Glee," Rivera disappeared at Lake Piru on Wednesday, July 8, after renting a boat and taking her 4 year-old son swimming. When the pontoon boat did not...

CALIFORNIA—On Sunday, July 5, Jose Valdez, 29, of Vallejo, died when he lost control of his vehicle on Highway 80 at the Benicia Road off-ramp. The 29-year-old’s 2015 Cadillac CTS was located in an embankment by officers. Valdez was ejected from the vehicle. The incident occurred at approximately 2:30 a.m. The death of Valdez was one of four fatal vehicle...

CALIFORNIA—On Tuesday, July 7, the University of California (UC) Board of Regents named Michael V. Drake, 69, the 21st president of the $37 billion University of California system. Drake, the first Black leader in the system's 152 year history, will replace Janet Napolitano, who is retiring. He will be in charge of the 10 collegiate campuses, five medical centers,...

CALIFORNIA—On July 1, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced new orders to shutdown restaurants and entertainment centers in 19 California counties as a response to a rapid rise in coronavirus cases across the state. “As a consequence, we are doing everything we can to focus in on certain sectors of our economy where that spread is more likely to occur, where...

CALIFORNIA—Golden State Warriors' star point guard Stephen Curry and his wife Ayesha are planning to take their project, Restaurants for the People, which they developed with renowned chef Jose Andrés and his disaster relief organization World Central Kitchen, to new heights for the month of July. This project helps to support local restaurants so that they can effectively serve meals...

CALIFORNIA—Video footage has just been released of a woman walking into St. James Gate Bar in Belmont and allegedly coughing on the bartender when told to wear her mask. Other individuals in the bar reported that they noticed the woman as soon as she walked in because she was bumping into everyone and not practicing social distancing. The incident occurred...

San Francisco—Intensive Care Unit (ICU) centers at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, Marin General, and Seton Medical Center in Daly City are currently treating at least 25 inmates from San Quentin State Prison who are in need of medical care after contracting the coronavirus. This comes on the heels of a large and still growing COVID-19 outbreak at...

SAN FRANCISCO—As citizens of San Francisco get ready to honor this year's Pride week, others are left grieving in the LGBTQ+ community. Oakland's LGBTQ+ Community Center was vandalized Saturday morning by an unknown suspect. Staff and volunteers of the center reported that the windows were smashed with a golf club and that the suspect quickly rode off on a...

CALIFORNIA—A gunman who opened fire at a Walmart distribution center in Red Bluff, California has just been identified as 31 year-old Louis Wesley Lane. Lane was a former Walmart employee and was fired in 2019 for failing to show up to work. Lane circled the parking lot of Walmart four times at around 3:30 p.m. before he crashed his SUV...

SAN FRANCISCO—Nightly fireworks are being set off across the Bay Area a week before the Fourth of July. Local residents indicated that in the last 10 days, they have been woken up in the middle of the night by extremely loud noises. Some say at first that they were unsure if the noises were fireworks or something else. Bay Area...