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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TERRY TANG Associated Press When Eddie Song leaves his Manhattan home, it can feel like heading into battle. The Korean American startup founder and avid rider dons his armored motorcycle jacket, motorcycle gloves, a skull face mask and a GoPro camera. "The GoPro is on all the time whenever I leave the house now. Basically it's a rolling camera," Song said. "With the combination of looking intimidating and having the camera — if they pick a fight with me, they know I'm prepared." As the coronavirus first seen in China now r...
JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors charged a New York retailer Friday with hoarding tons of disposable masks, surgical gowns and hand sanitizer in a Long Island warehouse and selling the items at huge markups. Amardeep "Bobby" Singh, 45, was charged with violating the Defense Production Act of 1950 in what authorities described as the first such prosecution during the coronavirus pandemic. Singh is expected to surrender to authorities next week in the case around what is known as personal p...
ARIJETA LAJKA, BEATRICE DUPUY and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: CLAIM: "Worst pandemic in 100 years, what does Congress do? Takes a paid vacation." - Facebook post, April 24 THE FACTS: Members of Congress aren't taking a vacation while millions of...
For all the uniqueness of this NFL draft, including the angst over a potential communications fiasco, things looked and sounded pretty normal Thursday night. Quarterbacks were in demand. Ohio State(the top three picks played there) and the Southeastern Conference (a record 15 picks) dominated. The Patriots traded out of the first round. And Commissioner Roger Goodell even got booed, if only digitally. "I do believe this draft is going to be the most memorable we have ever had,...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Scripps Health recently became the first health care provider in San Diego County to use an experimental plasma therapy as a possible treatment for COVID-19 patients, the hospital announced today. The treatment involves transfusing plasma donated by someone who has recovered from COVID-19 into a hospitalized patient who is battling a serious COVID-19 infection. Plasma is the almost-clear liquid that remains after red and white blood cells and platelets are removed from the blood. The idea behind the...
BRADY McCOMBS and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State and local governments across the United States have obtained more than 30 million doses of a malaria drug touted by President Trump to treat patients with the coronavirus, despite warnings from doctors that more research is needed. At least 22 states and Washington, D.C. secured shipments of the drug, hydroxychloroquine, according to information compiled from state and federal officials by The Associated Press. Sixteen of those states were w...
MARTIN CRUTSINGER and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he won't approve a $10 billion loan for the U.S. Postal Service unless the agency raises charges for Amazon and other big shippers to four to five times current rates. "The Postal Service is a joke because they're handing out packages for Amazon and other internet companies and every time they bring a package, they lose money on it," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. The president was responding to a q...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego-based Sempra Energy announced today that it completed the sale of its Peruvian businesses, generating about $3.59 billion in total cash proceeds. "We are very pleased with today's announcement as the sales proceeds will be used to further strengthen our balance sheet and our already solid liquidity position,'' said Jeffrey W. Martin, chairman and CEO of Sempra Energy. "We're also very excited that, in the face of current travel restrictions, all parties worked safely together to complete this deal...
LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Navy officer has recommended the reinstatement of the aircraft carrier captain fired for sending a fraught email to commanders pleading for faster action to protect his crew from a coronavirus outbreak, officials familiar with the investigation said Friday. Adm. Mike Gilday recommended that Navy Capt. Brett Crozier be returned to his ship, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the results of an investigation that have n...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Pilots in more than two dozen planes are slated to fly in formation over hospitals across the San Diego area today to salute health care professionals working the front lines of the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. The contingent of aviators, including members of a well-known local flight-performance team, will execute flyovers in various groupings above 12 hospitals in the county in the late morning, towing banners, writing sky messages with smoke and performing stunts. Medical workers and patients...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Parks in the city of Vista will reopen for "passive use" today, along with two popular walking paths in Encinitas, while anyone who visits an essential business in Chula Vista is now required to wear a face covering. Parkgoers in Vista must practice physical distancing and will be limited to individual or household unit activities, such as walking, jogging or running. Dogs on leashes will be permitted. Group activities and active sports will not be allowed, meaning athletic fields, skate parks, playgrounds,...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A precipitous drop in home sales during the second half of March due to the COVID-19 pandemic has since leveled off and begun to recover, a report released today by real estate site Zillow found. While sales are down 22.5% year-over-year, San Diego is still one of the better-off large metropolitan areas. Among large metros, pending sales have fallen the most compared to a year ago in Pittsburgh, down 74.4%, Detroit down, 66.8%, and Los Angeles, down 58.7%. They have fallen the least in Cleveland, at 16.8%....
MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) - A once-bustling bar and grill tucked below a Michigan Avenue overpass famously inspired a "Saturday Night Live" skit starring John Belushi and Bill Murray. But the money the Billy Goat Tavern is losing during the coronavirus outbreak is no joke. The tavern and millions of other shuttered businesses nationwide have turned to their insurers to help recoup their losses following state-mandated closures, which combined may...
DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO (AP) - A conservative organization is asking the California Supreme Court to block the state's first-in-the-nation plan to give money to immigrants living in the country illegally who are hurt by the coronavirus. The Center for American Liberty argued on behalf of two long-shot Republican legislative candidates that the $75 million plan Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last week is barred by both state and federal law. Newsom is offering...
JOYCE M. ROSENBERG AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Big public companies that received loans under a government program intended to help small businesses devastated by the coronavirus outbreak could be forced to return it. The Small Business Administration issued an advisory Thursday clearly aimed at companies like restaurant chains Ruths' Chris Steak House and Potbelly that received loans under the Paycheck Protection Program. The guidelines imply that unless a company can...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Calls mounted Thursday for an investigation into the ouster of a senior government scientist who says he's being punished for opposing widespread use of an unproven drug President Donald Trump touted as a remedy for COVID-19. Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, says he was summarily removed from his job earlier this week and reassigned to a lesser role because he...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Temperatures could climb into the 90s today in the San Diego County inland valleys for the first time this year and highs in the deserts could reach the triple digits, according to the National Weather Service. Temperates are expected to reach 84 degrees on Thursday, 91 degrees in Fallbrook on Friday, 87 degrees on Saturday and 83 degrees on Sunday. A patch of high pressure will drift in from the coast starting today, causing a rapid rise in temperatures...
JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Daily reports of giant meat-processing plants closing because workers tested positive for the coronavirus have called into question whether slaughterhouses can remain virus-free. According to experts, the answer may be no. Given that the plants employ thousands of people who often work side by side carving meat, social distancing is all but impossible. Because of that, the risk of catching the virus will likely remain even as companies take steps to increase worker protections. "...
MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that sewage plants and other industries cannot avoid environmental requirements under landmark clean-water protections when they send dirty water on an indirect route to rivers, oceans and other navigable waterways. Rejecting the Trump administration's views, the justices held by a 6-3 vote that the discharge of polluted water into the ground, rather than directly into nearby waterways, does not relieve an industry of complying with the Clean W...
COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer The Trump administration is barring most international students and all students who entered the U.S. illegally from receiving emergency college grants approved by Congress as part of nearly $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos issued the restriction in new guidelines released Tuesday telling colleges how to distribute more than $6 billion in grants meant to help students cover unexpected costs triggered by the pandemic. Earlier guidance from the Education...
MADILL, Okla. (AP) — Severe weather moved through the South on Thursday after killing at least seven people in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, including a worker at a factory hit by an apparent tornado, a man whose car was blown off the road and a man who went outside to grab a trash can and was swept away in a flood. More than 150,000 customers from Texas to Georgia were without power Thursday as the severe weather blew eastward, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks utility reports. There were no immediate reports of d...
