Metallic Valentine's Balloon Cuts Power To Thousands In Central California
A Valentine's Day balloon filled with helium drifted into a power line Sunday, sparking an outage that temporarily plunged more than 2,300 Fresno households into the dark.
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A Valentine's Day balloon filled with helium drifted into a power line Sunday, sparking an outage that temporarily plunged more than 2,300 Fresno households into the dark.
Revenge bedtime procrastination may be a newer term, but the type of sleep schedule it describes is not, said Dr. Rajkumar Dasgupta, assistant professor of clinical medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles.
Though officials and health experts say the end of the Covid-19 pandemic will rely on a large proportion of Americans being inoculated, nearly a third of US adults say they have not decided if they will get the vaccine when it is offered to them.
Ever since the world learned of the new coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, harassment and violence targeting the Asian American and Pacific Islander community has rapidly increased across the United States.
Health officials urged Californians to protect their loved ones from the coronavirus by celebrating Valentine's Day virtually this year.
The California Republican Party announced Saturday it is giving $125,000 to the campaign aimed at recalling Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, and organizers of the campaign say they have collected more than the 1.5 million petition signatures required to qualify the proposal for the ballot.
General Motors Co. has agreed to a $5.75 million settlement with California regarding false statements the company made to investors about problems with its deadly ignition switches, Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Friday.
The state reported 8,251 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Tuesday, which is a 0.5% increase from Monday's report. There were also 327 more deaths reported, which is a 0.7% increase from Monday.
The United States could start letting the general public have access to coronavirus vaccines by April - and the country may be able to inoculate most Americans by the middle or end of the summer, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday.
California has spent $13 billion in the last three years to tackle a massive homelessness problem likely to worsen with the pandemic, yet its approach is so fragmented and incomplete as to hinder efforts at getting people into stable housing, the state auditor said in a report released Thursday.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is defending his decision to attend his son's wedding in California in early December amid the resurgence of Covid-19 cases in the state, writing in a Facebook post he didn't regret the decision.
Even as California has started to see improvement in coronavirus trends, new numbers from Johns Hopkins University show the state has edged past New York in the grim statistic of the number of deaths due to COVID-19.
The effort to remove Gov. Gavin Newsom from office is close to the 1.5 million signatures it needs to get on the ballot.
Porch pirates could face prison time under a proposed California law.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said that California has identified the state's first two cases of the South African variant of COVID-19.
