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REESE DUNKLIN, JUSTIN PRITCHARD, JUSTIN MYERS and KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press Companies with thousands of employees, past penalties from government investigations and risks of financial failure even before the coronavirus walloped the economy were among those receiving millions of dollars from a relief fund that Congress created to help small businesses through the crisis, an Associated Press investigation found. The Paycheck Protection Program was supposed to infuse small businesses, which typically have less access to...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Temperatures will remain mild today in San Diego County, but the mercury is expected to rise quickly starting on Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. The remnants of a low pressure system that brought cloudy conditions and a chance of rain will clear today, with temperatures expected to remain around seasonal averages throughout the county, forecasters said. There is a slight chance of rain this morning in coastal areas, the western valleys and the San Diego County mountains. The mountains... Full story
STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Oil's chaotic collapse deepened, and stocks around the world dropped on Tuesday as the economic carnage caused by the coronavirus pandemic turns markets upside down. A day after oil futures plunged below zero for the first time, traders in one corner of the U.S. crude market were still close to paying others to take it off their hands. That's a market quirk created by a glut of oil, which has traders running out of places to store it in the near term. Prices remain well above z...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The average price of a gallon of self-serve gasoline in San Diego County dropped today to its lowest amount since Jan. 6, 2017, decreasing 1.6 cents to $2.827, the 46th decrease in 47 days. The average price is 7.3 cents less than a week ago, 43.8 cents lower than a month ago and $1.235 below what it was one year ago, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service. It has fallen 77.5 cents since the start of the year. The average price fell 44 consecutive days, rose three-tenths of a...
COLLEEN LONG, CARA ANNA and JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN (AP) — Spain canceled the Running of the Bulls in July, the U.S. scrapped the national spelling bee in June and Germany even called off Oktoberfest, making it clear Tuesday that the effort to beat back the coronavirus and return to normal could be a long and dispiriting process. Amid growing impatience over the shutdowns that have thrown millions out of work, European countries continued to reopen in stages, while in the U.S., one state after another — mos...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The total of COVID-19 cases in San Diego County is creeping toward the 2,500 mark, but only two deaths have been reported since Friday. County health officials confirmed 57 new COVID-19 cases and one additional death on Monday, raising the county totals to 2,325 cases and 72 deaths. The number of San Diegans who have been hospitalized due to coronavirus complications increased to 562 Monday, with 189 in intensive care units. According to county data, there have been 1,332 documented COVID-19 recoveries. The... Full story
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego city parks will partially reopen today following weeks of COVID-19-related closures. San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, who announced the re-openings on Monday, said parkgoers will be limited to individual activities, with all social distancing, face covering recommendations and other health-related measures remaining in effect. Group activities and active sports will not be allowed, and park playgrounds, basketball courts and other areas where groups might congregate will remain closed. The mayor... Full story
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Monday that he will sign an executive order "to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States" because of the coronavirus. "In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!" Trump tweeted. He offered no details as to what immigration programs might be affect...
NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — While most countries are working on ways to contain the coronavirus, New Zealand has set itself a much more ambitious goal: eliminating it altogether. And experts believe the country could pull it off. The virus "doesn't have superpowers," said Helen Petousis-Harris, a vaccine expert at the University of Auckland. "Once transmission is stopped, it's gone." Geography has helped. If any place could be described as socially distant it would be New Zealand, surrounded b...
RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Governors in the Midwest are working to keep large meatpacking plants operating despite coronavirus outbreaks that have sickened hundreds of workers and threaten to disrupt the nation's supply of pork and beef. In Kansas, Gov. Laura Kelly sent personal protective equipment and testing supplies to counties with meat processing plants. Gov. Kristi Noem said she didn't think it would be difficult to fulfill federal requirements to reopen a shuttered facility in South D...
BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An estimated 320,000 adults in Los Angeles County may have been infected with coronavirus, according to preliminary results of a study that suggests the illness is far more widespread than current testing shows and the death rate is much lower. The study conducted April 10-11 by the county and the University of Southern California estimated that approximately 4.1% of the county's adult population of 8 million has antibodies to the virus. When adjusted for margin of error, t... Full story
MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer A flood of new research suggests that far more people have had the coronavirus without any symptoms, fueling hope that it will turn out to be much less lethal than originally feared. While that's clearly good news, it also means it's impossible to know who around you may be contagious. That complicates decisions about returning to work, school and normal life. In the last week, reports of silent infections have come from a homeless... Full story
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - County health officials confirmed 57 new COVID-19 cases and one additional death today, raising the county totals to 2,325 cases and 72 deaths. The number of San Diegans who have been hospitalized due to coronavirus complications increased to 562 Monday, with 189 in intensive care units. According to county data, there have been 1,332 documented COVID-19 recoveries. The proportion of positive test cases has been on a downward trend for the past two weeks, said Dr. Wilma Wooten, the county's public health... Full story
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer said today that a limited reopening of some city parks will commence Tuesday, following weeks of COVID-19 related closures. Parkgoers will be limited to individual activities, Faulconer said, with all social distancing, face covering and other health-related measures remaining in effect. Group activities and active sports will not be allowed, and park playgrounds, basketball courts and other areas where groups might congregate will remain closed. The mayor also said parkgoers... Full story
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Though it's been downright wintry at times, spring 2020 will finally start to feel more like spring -- or even summer -- in the an Diego area this week, according to forecasters. The cool, windy and intermittently wet conditions that have prevailed for weeks will hang around on Tuesday, after which a developing high-pressure atmospheric system over the eastern Pacific will bring clear skies and above-average temperatures starting Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. The warmest days over...
DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO (AP) — Hundreds of protesters lobbying to ease Gov. Gavin Newsom's tight stay-at-home orders rallied around the California Capitol on Monday, even as Newsom continued to urge restraint, saying the worst thing state leaders could do is "make a decision that's based on politics and frustration." He outlined his approval for some counties to gradually relax some restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus. Newsom said he approved a plan by Ventura County in Southern C... Full story
STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Oil futures plunged below zero on Monday, the latest never-before-seen number to come out of the economic coma caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Stocks and Treasury yields also dropped on Wall Street, with the S&P 500 down 1.8%, but the market's most dramatic action by far was in oil, where the cost to have a barrel of U.S. crude delivered in May plummeted to negative $37.63. It was at roughly $60 at the start of the year. Traders are still p...
KAT STAFFORD Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The Congressional Black Caucus PAC endorsed Joe Biden's presidential bid on Monday, further cementing his support among the nation's influential black political leadership. The political action committee's unanimous endorsement came on the heels of several key nods of support among caucus leadership and members, including civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis of Georgia and caucus Chairwoman Rep. Karen Bass of California. The PAC is the caucus's separate campaign arm. "There's no q...
JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's governor announced plans Monday to restart the state's economy before the end of the week, saying many businesses that closed to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus could reopen as early as Friday. The governor in neighboring Tennessee planned to let businesses in most of his state begin reopening as soon as next week. Georgia's timetable, one of the most aggressive in the nation, would allow gyms, hair salons, bowling alleys and tattoo parlors to reopen as long as o...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has sent nearly half a million pieces of personal protective equipment to hospitals in the San Diego region, much of it expected to arrive this week, UC San Diego Health announced today. Joe Tsai is a resident of San Diego with his wife Clara and their children. The Tsai family reached out to UCSD to help distribute equipment throughout the region to keep health care workers safe while battling COVID-19. "Our university is privileged to play a role in assisting...
MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - The unofficial holiday celebrating all things cannabis arrives Monday as the nation's emerging legal marijuana market braces for an economic blow from the coronavirus crisis, with many consumers reducing spending or going underground for deals. It was supposed to be a long weekend of festivals and music culminating on April 20, or 4/20, the code for marijuana's high holiday. Instead, it has been reduced to an online replica...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A team of researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center used genome technology to identify key markers of an aggressive type of leukemia, which may help pinpoint the cancer's weaknesses, the university reported today. The researchers used CRISPR technology -- a technology which identifies families of DNA sequences -- to identify key regulators of aggressive chronic myeloid leukemia, a type of cancer that remains difficult to treat and is marked by frequent relapse. "We used...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego Economic Recovery Advisory Group will meet for the first time today to develop a framework for a phased re-opening of San Diego County's economy once the threat of COVID-19 has been tamed. The group, which was announced Friday, consists of local "civic and business leaders'' representing a variety of industries that can advise how best to safely reopen for business, and how to have the local economy thrive in a business environment so widely impacted by COVID-19. "This group will not be...
CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) - Scrambling to address voting concerns during a pandemic, election officials across the country are eliminating polling places or scaling back opportunities for people to cast ballots in person - a move raising concerns among voting rights groups and some Democrats who say some voters could be disenfranchised. In Nevada, election officials will open only one polling place per county for its June...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The average price of a gallon of self-serve gasoline in San Diego County dropped today to its lowest amount since February 1, 2017, decreasing seven-tenths of a cent to $2.843, one day after a 44-day streak of decreases ended with an increase of three-tenths of a cent. The average price is 7.6 cents less than a week ago, 44.7 cents lower than a month ago and $1.217 below what it was one year ago, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service. It has fallen 75.9 cents since the start of...
