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JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - National Guard troops reinforced police in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Vallejo after a second night of violence. That was among scattered incidents that stood in contrast to largely peaceful California protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Fifty members of the Guard arrived Tuesday after they were requested to "assist in securing locations that are considered high-risk," said statement from the...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A local timeshare company has agreed to pay up to $5.4 million to settle a consumer protection lawsuit alleging false promises were made to customers during sales presentations, the San Diego County District Attorney's Office reported today. Welk Resorts will pay $2 million in penalties and up to $3.4 million in restitution to timeshare purchasers who were told various things during presentations held between Jan. 1, 2011 and March 31, 2016, according to prosecutors, including that customers were buying...
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The epic damage to America's job market from the viral outbreak will come into sharper focus Friday when the government releases the May employment report: Eight million more jobs are estimated to have been lost. Unemployment could near 20%. And potentially fewer than half of all adults may be working. Beneath the dismal figures will be signs that job cuts, severe as they are, are slowing as more businesses gradually or partially reopen. Still, the economy is mired i...
PAN PYLAS and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people demonstrated in London on Wednesday against police violence and racial injustice following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which has set off days of unrest in the United States. In Athens, police fired tear gas to disperse youths who threw firebombs and stones at them outside the U.S. Embassy toward the end of an otherwise peaceful protest by about 4,000 people. No injuries or arrests were reported. The London demonstration began in H...
AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors plan to charge a Minneapolis police officer accused of pressing his knee against George Floyd's neck with second-degree murder, and for the first time will level charges against three other officers at the scene, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Widely seen bystander video showing Floyd's May 25 death has sparked protests nationwide and around the world. The officer, Derek Chauvin, was fired May 26 and initially charged with third-degree murder a...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted today to extend a moratorium on evictions for both residents and small businesses for another month, in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Supervisor Nathan Fletcher, along with board Chairman Greg Cox, made the request, which was unanimously approved. The board first approved an eviction moratorium in late March. ``By extending the moratorium, we are giving families and business owners another tool to assist in their recovery from the pandemic,''...
JEFFREY COLLINS and MICHAEL SISAK Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Hundreds of cities have imposed curfews to keep the peace during a week of violent unrest across the U.S., employing a tactic that gives law enforcement sweeping arrest powers but is frequently flouted and criticized as being unconstitutional. From New York City to Fargo, North Dakota, cities large and small have put curfews in place - in some cases for the first time in decades - sending out emergency no...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - County public health officials reported 120 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases and seven additional deaths today, as beaches across the region reopened for passive recreation activities like sunbathing. After two days of new cases dipping below triple digits, the 120 cases raises the county total to 7,674. The deaths reported Tuesday -- the first reported in two days -- raise the county's death toll to 276. The deaths were five men and two women who ranged in age from 46 to 94, and all but one had an underlying...
MICHELLE R. SMITH and NICKY FORSTER Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - As demonstrators flooded streets across America to decry the killing of George Floyd, public health experts watched in alarm - the close proximity of protesters and their failures in many cases to wear masks, along with the police using tear gas, could fuel new transmissions of the coronavirus. Many of the protests broke out in places where the virus is still circulating widely in the population. In... Full story
MESFIN FEKADU AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Though Black Out Tuesday was originally organized by the music community, the social media world also went dark in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, joining voices around the world outraged by the killings of black people in the U.S. Instagram and Twitter accounts, from top record label to everyday people, were full of black squares posted in response to the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. Most...
ZEKE MILLER and MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday turned up the pressure on governors to quell the violence set off by the death of George Floyd, demanding New York call up the National Guard to stop the "lowlifes and losers." As more demonstrations began taking shape around the country during the afternoon, and cities girded for another round of scattered violence after dark, the president amplified his hard-line calls of a day earlier, in which he threatened to send in the mi...
