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CALIFORNIA—On Friday, March 5, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced that outdoor activities, such as amusement parks, can reopen in California starting Thursday, April 1. In a news release, the Department of Public Health said that "outdoor ballparks, stadiums, and theme parks" can reopen "with significantly reduced capacity, mandatory masking and other public health precautions." California Secretary of Health...

UNITED STATES—On Thursday, June 10, President Joe Biden announced a donation of half a billion Pfizer vaccines for COVID-19 to the world’s poorest countries. https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1402606367345623048 According to the White House website, 500 million vaccines will be delivered by June 2022, with 200 million of those being delivered by the end of 2021. https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1402946174663938053 A White House press release relayed that a billion vaccines...

CALIFORNIA—On Tuesday, June 5, voters cast their ballots in the primary elections. In the state of California, candidates compete against each other regardless of party affiliation. The top two contenders move on to the General Election in November. The two candidates remaining in the race for Governor of California are Democrat Gavin Newsom and Republican John Cox. Newsom earned 33.8...

SAN FRANCISCO—Philanthropist, Daniel Lurie, has created a public engagement campaign called “All In” to work towards aiding the homelessness epidemic and to support funding homes for 1,100 people in the Bay Area. Lurie, founder of Tipping Point Community, a non-profit organization that researches and funds anti-poverty programs, raised $100 million in the span of two years to prepare for this...

CALIFORNIA—California Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued a price gouging alert on Wednesday, March 4 following the statewide public health emergency declaration in California. Under Penal Code Section 396, price gouging is illegal in all California communities during the declared state of emergency. “Californians shouldn’t have to worry about being cheated while dealing with the effects of coronavirus," said Attorney General...

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...

WEST HOLLYWOOD—The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is seeking information on the driver that abandoned the scene after crashing a grey, four-door car into a West Hollywood apartment building on the 1100 block of North Laurel Avenue on Wednesday, July 29. Reports of the crash came in at 3 a.m. an LASD spokesperson told KTLA news. The back half of...

LODI—On Wednesday, August 12, around 8:44 a.m., Officer Erika Urrea saved a man from an oncoming train whose wheelchair got stuck on the tracks. Urrea and Sergeant Steve Maynard were patrolling near Lodi Avenue when she spotted the 66-year-old man in a wheelchair sitting on the tracks with the railroad crossing arms coming down. Urrea's body cam video shows her...

PORTLAND— On Saturday, August 29 a man was fatally shot outside of a parking garage on Southeast 3rd Avenue and Alder Street at around 8:45 p.m., according to a police report. The victim who was shot in the chest has been identified but Portland PD has not yet released his name to the public. Pictures of the corpse have revealed that...

CALIFORNIA—Surveillance footage released by the Pleasant Hill Police Department on January 28, displays a man being pushed over in his wheelchair.  On January 11, Philip Kinstler, 52, who has been wheelchair-bound for over 30 years, pulled into a Target parking lot on Contra Costa Boulevard in Pleasant Hill in a hand-controlled van. He later told authorities he noticed a...