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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...

CALIFORNIA—The California authorities arrested Donald Siao, 55, for prescribing numerous prescription drugs to undercover agents who posed as patients and had no legitimate medical reason for the drugs, the United States Department of Justice indicated in a news release. “During the investigation, the complaint alleges that undercover law enforcement agents posed as new patients and met with Siao at his...

SAN FRANCISCO—During the COVID pandemic, hackers stole close to $2 billion in unemployment benefits, but Bank of America is denying victims’ claims. Bank of America has an revenue-sharing agreement with the Employment Development Department that is profitable for both the bank and the state, and as of November 19,2020, more than $8 million unemployment Bank of America accounts held...

LONG BEACH—At around 5:50 p.m. on January 3, Long Beach police, responding to reports of gunshots, arrived at a home located on the 100 block of W. 51st Street and found three adults suffering from multiple gun shot wounds. There was a three-week-old infant, later identified as Eliza Delacruz, present in the house when the incident occurred, but she was missing...

MOUNTAIN VIEW—According to the Mountain View Fire Department, three Starbucks employees reportedly got sick after inhaling toxic fumes in one of the coffeehouse's bathrooms on Tuesday, December 13. The MVFD was alerted at approximately 12:40 a.m after the employees began feeling "sick" and "short of breath" as they were cleaning the restroom. When officials arrived, two of the three employees were...

CALIFORNIA — The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) said on Friday, November 20 that the state is seeing a rise in cases of a severe form of gonorrhea. In a news release, the department said that disseminated gonococcal infections (DGI), a severe form of gonorrhea, has gone mostly untreated.  This severe type of gonorrhea takes place when "the sexually...

SAN FRANCISCO—In an effort to accommodate the California drought, one brewery is creating an innovative way to conserve California water by using recycled water. Mavericks Brewing Company is creating a prototype of their award-winning Tunnel Vision IPA, using a specially brewed tactic made from recycled water. Co-owner and co-founder of Mavericks, Lenny Mendonca, stated that the beer is brewed using...

CALIFORNIA—After nearly three months, wineries in Sonoma are now open to the public. Various wineries have had different experiences throughout the time that they have been operating during COVID-19. While wholesale purchases have been up during quarantine, smaller wineries have lost up to 43% of sales since the pandemic began. This is due to events being cancelled, fewer visitors,...

SAN FRANCISCO—Legislation written to expand the quantity of restrooms-both men and women, installed with diaper-changing tables was introduced on Tuesday, December 13 by San Francisco Board of Supervisor Katy Tang. President Obama signed the legislation, “Bathrooms Accessible for Babies in Every Situation Act” or the BABIES Act, on October 7, specifically mandating that federal buildings with public restrooms be equipped with...

OAKLAND—Brokeass Cooks, a backyard pop-up restaurant, was founded by three out-of-work chefs, Bilal Ali, Hoang Le, and Keone Koki, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Brokeass Cooks sells family-style jerk chicken in the West Oakland backyard they share. They offer a whole chicken ($50), a half jerk chicken ($25), and organic soy milk ($4). According to their ordering site,  “To order a...