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Regulators Withdraw Controversial California Work Mask Rules
California’s workplace regulators have withdrawn a controversial pending mask regulation while they consider a rule that more closely aligns with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s promise that the state will fully reopen from the pandemic on Tuesday.
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Inmate Transfer in Calif. Unleashed ‘Public Health Disaster': Report
The report provided new details on last spring’s catastrophic decision to move inmates from the California Institution for Men east of Los Angeles to San Quentin State Prison north of San Francisco. The inmates were put onto buses for the more than 400-mile (680 kilometer) trip and the tight quarters increased the risk of infections spreading.
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Health Officials Say COVID-19 Variant Was Detected in San Diego County
San Diego County health officials confirmed Wednesday that the COVID-19 variant found in the U.K. and in Colorado was detected in a patient in San Diego.
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California Could Face a Once-Unthinkable 100,000 Hospitalizations Within a Month
California has recorded a half-million coronavirus cases in the last two weeks, overwhelming emergency rooms in urban centers and rural areas including along the Mexican border where a small hospital system warns it is fast running out of patient beds.
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New Calif. Law Gives Ex-Inmate Firefighters a Pathway to Job in Field
California’s inmate firefighters will have a shot at becoming professional firefighters once they complete their sentences, under a bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law on Friday.
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California's Prison Chief is Retiring Amid Virus, Protest Pressure
California’s corrections secretary is retiring after two years in a job that Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday said involved “unparalleled challenges” — most recently coronavirus outbreaks that swept state prisons and led to calls for new leadership amid increasing social pressure to ease mass incarceration. Ralph Diaz will retire Oct. 1 after 30 years with the California Department of Corrections…
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California High Court Rejects Scott Peterson's Death Penalty
The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld the conviction but overturned the 2005 death sentence for Scott Peterson in the slaying of his pregnant wife, and said prosecutors may try again for the same sentence if they wish in the case that attracted worldwide attention.
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Golden State Killer Admits to Dozens of Rapes, Murders
A former police officer who terrorized California as a serial burglar and rapist and went on to kill more than a dozen people while evading capture for decades pleaded guilty Monday to murders attributed to a criminal dubbed the Golden State Killer.
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Probe Continues Into US Coronavirus Case Believed to Be 1st From Unknown Origin
California and federal officials were in the midst of an intense effort Thursday to retrace the movements of a Northern California woman believed to be the first person in the U.S. to contract the highly contagious coronavirus with no known connection to travel abroad or other known causes.
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Calif. Man Charged With Killing 5 of His Infant Children
A California man has been arrested in the decades-old killings of five of his infant children.
