Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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TEMECULA – Temecula Valley Hospital and the Emergency Providers of Emergent Medical Associates wanted to remind the community that the emergency department is open for medical emergencies, including support for heart and brain procedures, relating to heart attacks, stroke and more. At this time, when home isolation is often encouraged, the hospital reminded residents it is not the same as medical isolation. If residents are having symptoms that could be an indicator of a medic...
JOYCE M. ROSENBERG and ANDREW TAYLOR AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The government's lending program for small businesses is on hold. The Small Business Administration said Thursday that it reached the $349 billion lending limit for the program, after approving nearly 1.7 million loans. Thousands of small business owners whose loans have not yet been processed must now wait for Congress to approve a Trump administration request for another $250 billion for the program. Lawmakers have been haggling over whether to e...
ANDOVER, N.J. (AP) — Police responding to an anonymous tip found more than a dozen bodies at a nursing home in northwestern New Jersey, according to news reports. Five bodies were found Sunday and 13 more were found on Monday at the Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center, Andover Township Police Chief Eric Danielson told The New Jersey Herald. The remains found at the facility were among 68 deaths linked to the home, including both residents and two nurses, The New York Times reported, citing Danielson, other officials a...
The Associated Press The ranks of Americans thrown out of work by the coronavirus is ballooning, causing an unprecedented collapse that has fueled widening protests and propelled President Donald Trump's push to relax the nation's social distancing guidelines. The government said 5.2 million more people applied for unemployment benefits last week, bringing the running total to about 22 million out of a U.S. workforce of roughly 159 million - easily the worst stretch of U.S.... Full story
AMANDA SEITZ and BARBARA ORTUTAY The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) - Potentially dangerous coronavirus misinformation has spread from continent to continent like the pandemic itself, forcing the world's largest tech companies to take unprecedented action to protect public health. Facebook, Google and others have begun using algorithms, new rules and factual warnings to knock down harmful coronavirus conspiracy theories, questionable ads and unproven remedies that regularly...
KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - The major banks in the U.S. are anticipating a flood of loan defaults as households and business customers take a big financial hit from the coronavirus pandemic. JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs raised the funds set aside for bad loans by nearly $20 billion combined in the first quarter, earnings reports released over the past two days show. And Wall Street expects that figure may go even hi...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego Pride announced today that its three-day summer celebration will be canceled due to public health considerations regarding large public gatherings amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The organization issued a statement Thursday saying the event, slated for July, would have to be canceled due to concerns of public health and safety. Pride Board Co-Chair Sue Hartman announced, ``This pandemic has impacted all of us. We have had to change how we live our lives and Pride is no different. This was not an easy d... Full story
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Authorities today will continue releasing inmates without bail in compliance with a state order to reduce prison populations in an effort to minimize the spread of COVID-19. The San Diego County Sheriff's Department was expected to release approximately 400 inmates without bail Wednesday and today, Sheriff Bill Gore said Wednesday. Nearly 1,200 inmates incarcerated for nonviolent misdemeanors or with fewer than 60 days remaining on their sentences have been r... Full story
ZEKE MILLER, AAMER MADHANI, and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said he's prepared to announce new guidelines allowing some states to quickly ease up on social distancing even as business leaders told him they need more coronavirus testing and personal protective equipment before people can safely go back to work. The industry executives cautioned Trump that the return to normalcy will be anything but swift. The new guidelines, expected...
JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) - China, where the coronavirus pandemic started in December, is cautiously trying to get back to business, but it's not easy when many millions of workers are wary of spending much or even going out. Factories and shops nationwide shut down starting in late January. Millions of families were told to stay home under unprecedented controls that have been copied by the United States, Europe and India. The ruling Communist Party says...
JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Weeks of quarantine with kids have a way of burning through a movie collection. Even with the libraries of streaming services like Netflix, Amazon, Disney Plus and others, there are plenty of households that have already had their fill of "Frozen" and overdosed on "Onward." In the best of times, the canon for kids movies can feel limiting. Disney overwhelms. But there's a wider world of movies out there for young ones. We'll assume...
ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO (AP) - California will be the first state to give cash to immigrants living in the country illegally who are hurt by the coronavirus, offering $500 apiece to 150,000 adults who were left out of the $2.2 trillion stimulus package approved by Congress. Many Americans began receiving $1,200 checks from the federal government this week, and others who are unemployed are getting an additional $600 a week from the government that has ordered...
NEW YORK (AP) - The government is approaching the $349 billion lending limit on its Paycheck Protection Program that is funneling relief money to the nation's small businesses. The Small Business Administration says that as of Wednesday afternoon, it had approved more than 1.44 million loans totaling more than $311 billion - up more than $50 billion since Monday. The Trump administration has asked Congress, which set the original ceiling, for another $250 billion for the progr...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego Humane Society is launching a virtual program to allow families sheltering at home to watch litters of puppies and kittens grow. The "Ready, Set, Grow!'' program allows the public to watch baby animals in foster care via Instagram and Facebook posts and at Sdhumane.org/readysetgrow/ as they wait to be adopted. The Humane Society began Ready, Set, Grow! by introducing a litter of Chihuahua puppies currently living in a foster home. Updates on the Chihuahua pups will continue to be posted to the...
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press Writers HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The bills are mounting for Justin Conrad, who lost his warehouse job three weeks ago and is anxiously awaiting his first state-provided unemployment check. Compounding his stress, his state, Connecticut, can't say when Conrad will get the additional $600 a week in benefits that the federal government is providing in an economic relief package. "I have no money coming in," says the 39-year old in Norwich, Connecticut. "And this week I have t...
WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Elizabeth Warren endorsed Joe Biden on Wednesday, the latest of the former vice president's onetime White House rivals to back him as the Democratic Party moves to project unity against President Donald Trump going into the November election. "Joe Biden has spent nearly his entire life in public service. He knows that a government run with integrity, competence, and heart will save lives and save livelihoods," Warren said in a nearly four-minute video announcing her d...
SARA BURNETT and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — When Bernie Sanders didn't win the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, Silvia Machado and Patrick Gibbons voted for Green Party candidate Jill Stein in protest. Four years later, the couple is still passionate about the Vermont senator's progressive agenda. But they're open to voting for the relatively centrist Joe Biden if that's what it takes to defeat President Donald Trump. "It's like hold your nose and vote," said Gibbons, 59. A week after Sanders' e...
CANDICE CHOI and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Federal health officials are coming under increasing pressure to start publicly tracking coronavirus infections and deaths in nursing homes amid criticism they have not been transparent enough in responding to an explosion of outbreaks that has already claimed thousands of lives. Public health experts say the lack of transparency has been a major blindspot, and that publicizing outbreaks as they happen could not...
PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - American industry collapsed in March as the pandemic wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy. Manufacturing and overall industrial production posted the biggest declines since the United States demobilized after World War II. The Federal Reserve reported Wednesday that manufacturing output dropped 6.3% last month, led by plunging production at auto factories that have entirely shut down. Overall, industrial production, which...
GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A team of retirees that scours the remote ravines and windswept plains of the Pacific Northwest for long-forgotten pioneer orchards has rediscovered 10 apple varieties that were believed to be extinct - the largest number ever unearthed in a single season by the nonprofit Lost Apple Project. The Vietnam veteran and former FBI agent who make up the nonprofit recently learned of their tally from last fall's apple sleuthing...
SACRAMENTO (AP) - California regulators will try again to convene an online public meeting to discuss a potential limited ban on freshwater fishing during the coronavirus pandemic after last week's teleconference was canceled when it became overwhelmed by hundreds of callers. The state Fish and Game Commission on Wednesday will consider emergency closures of some California rivers, streams and lakes at the request of local officials concerned that visiting anglers might...
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, PAUL WISEMAN and MIKE CORDER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Government relief checks began arriving in Americans' bank accounts as the economic damage to the U.S. from the coronavirus piled up Wednesday and sluggish sales at reopened stores in Europe and China made it clear that business won't necessarily bounce right back when the crisis eases. With lockdowns and other restrictions bringing factories to a shuddering halt, American industrial output...
ELANA SCHOR and MARIAM FAM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Tanzania's president claimed the coronavirus "cannot sit in the body of Christ." Israel's health minister dismissed a potential curfew by saying that "the Messiah will come and save us." A global Muslim missionary movement held mass gatherings - and took blame for spreading the disease. While most leaders of major religions have supported governments' efforts to fight the pandemic by limiting gatherings, a minority of...
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. retail sales plummeted 8.7% in March, an unprecedented decline, as the viral outbreak forced an almost complete lockdown of commerce nationwide. The deterioration of sales far outpaced the previous record decline of 3.9% that took place during the depths of the Great Recession in November 2008. Auto sales dropped 25.6%, while clothing store sales collapsed, sliding 50.5%, the Commerce...
