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Is California’s winter COVID-19 surge sputtering?

SAN JOSE, Calif. — It’s early yet, but there are signs the dreaded holiday surge in COVID-19 cases may be losing steam, with cases and deaths at a fraction of the levels seen around the same time in 2020 and 2021.

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'Catfish' cop used his father as a reference to get job as deputy

WASHINGTON — Austin Lee Edwards, the cop who “catfished” a 15-year-old Riverside, California, girl and killed her grandparents and mother before taking his own life, used his own father as one of three character references on his application for a job as a sheriff’s deputy.

Los Angeles Times

ER doctors call private equity staffing practices illegal and seek to ban them

A group of emergency physicians and consumer advocates in multiple states are pushing for stiffer enforcement of decades-old statutes that prohibit the ownership of medical practices by corporations not owned by licensed doctors.

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George Skelton: If Karen Bass succeeds as LA mayor, she could have a shot at making historic firsts as California governor

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California has had 40 governors in its 172 years as a state. And not one has been a woman. Nor a Black person. Or a Los Angeles mayor.

Los Angeles Times

LA students' grades are rising, but test scores are falling. Why the big disconnect?

LOS ANGELES — Claudia Chacon said her two children, who attend Fairfax High School, bring home good grades in math and English. But when she reviews their individual scores on California's statewide tests, she wonders what they are learning. The standardized exams have shown her boys do not meet grade-level…

Los Angeles Times

Water war brewing over Colorado River

Diminished by climate change and overuse, the river can no longer provide the water states try to take from it

Salon

Texas is now home to 30 million people

Texas has joined California as the only other state in the nation with a population of more than 30 million, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Texas Tribune

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From DeFremery Park to the Garden: The Oakland roots of Boston Celtics greatness

A school, a park, and a home in Oakland California helped create a hotbed for Black excellence central to the Celtics' success.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Weekly LA County COVID deaths top summer surge. ‘There’s a whole lot of winter left’

LOS ANGELES — Weekly COVID-19 deaths in Los Angeles County are higher than at any point during the summer surge, illustrating the persistent toll the pandemic continues to exact amid concerns that cases could surge again this winter.

Los Angeles Times

UCSF apologizes for experiments done on prisoners in the '60s and '70s

The University of California, San Francisco has issued a public apology after conducting an investigation into experiments performed by two faculty members in the 1960s and '70s on prisoners, some of whom were mentally ill. In many cases, there was no record that the prisoners had provided informed consent.

Los Angeles Times

Ballotpedia’s analysis of 2022 local ballot measures in top 100 largest cities and state capitals

There were 382 local ballot measures in 39 different states on the ballot for voters in the top 100 largest cities in the U.S. and state capitals. Of the measures, 348 (91.10%) were approved, and 34 (8.90%) were defeated.

Ballotpedia

Most of the US is facing a 'bomb cyclone.' Here's why California will be spared

LOS ANGELES — The National Weather Service has called it a "once in a generation type event" — a massive "bomb cyclone" barreling across the United States, snarling traffic, grounding airplanes and delivering some of the coldest temperatures ever recorded.

Los Angeles Times

California university apologizes for prisoner experiments

A prominent California medical school has apologized for conducting dozens of unethical medical experiments on at least 2,600 incarcerated men in the 1960s and 1970s

The Independent UK

A family’s dog went missing a year ago. Now he’s been found 1,600 miles from home

How did three-year-old Zeppelin get from Sacramento, California all the way to Kansas?

The Independent UK

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US probing automated driving system use in 2 Tesla crashes

The U.S. government’s highway safety agency says it's sending teams to investigate November crashes in California and Ohio involving Teslas that may have been operating on automated driving systems

Capital & Main

It’s Three Years Since COVID Arrived, and Some Things Haven’t Changed

California’s hospitals struggle once more to find beds for desperate patients.

Daily Mirror

German shepherd missing for over a year found 1,600 miles away and returns to owner

Owner Sandra O’Neill was left devastated when her three-year-old German shepherd mix Zeppelin went missing from his home in West Sacramento in October 2021, but the pair have been reunited

Salon

Many coroners have no medical background

“A coroner doesn’t have to ever have taken a science class in their life."

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The Independent UK

California earthquake puts early warning system to the test

An earthquake warning system operated by the U.S. Geological Survey warned 3 million people about a quake that jolted Northern California's coast

The Orange County Register

30 of the biggest concert tours coming to Southern California in 2023

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Though the area witnessed some of the biggest tours, record-breaking residencies and venue reopening performances this year, 2023 is shaping up to be an even bigger year for music in Southern California stadiums, arenas and outdoor amphitheaters.

The Independent UK

California county passes law stopping landlords from conducting criminal background checks on renters

Law prohibits landlords in private and public housing from using criminal records when considering prospective tenants

Los Angeles Times

These rebates can help with climate-friendly upgrades around the home

LOS ANGELES — As Southern California struggles to rid its skies of smog and the state aims to become carbon neutral, local government agencies and utilities are offering rebates aplenty to help residents upgrade to cleaner appliances and devices.

Tribune News Service

The official who investigates suspicious deaths in your town may be a doctor — or not

When a group of physicians gathered in Washington state for an annual meeting, one made a startling revelation: If you ever want to know when, how — and where — to kill someone, I can tell you, and you’ll get away with it. No problem.

Los Angeles Times

Making a salad might be getting more expensive. Could climate change be to blame?

In his nearly four decades of growing lettuce, spinach, kale and other leafy greens in California and Arizona, Tony Alameda has seen plenty of bad years. But lately, he said, there have been many more “noticeably bad” years in a row.

Los Angeles Times

Forget honey bees. This LA artist finds meaning chasing California native bees

LOS ANGELES -- Krystle Hickman is the epitome of single-minded. She's polite and friendly with the reporter and photographer trailing her through the sand and rocks of the Acton Wash Wildlife Sanctuary south of Palmdale, but her distraction is apparent. There's clearly something else buzzing in the back of her…

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