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On Saturday, officials in the California city of Burbank resorted to putting a chain-link fence around a restaurant, the Tinhorn Flats Saloon & Grill, because it was repeatedly defying COVID-19 mandates. This move comes as demonstrators continue to rally on both sides of the issue, according to NBC Los Angeles. City police Lt. Derek Green […]
A far-right white supremacist rally held in Huntington Beach, California was shut down by police less than two hours after it started on Sunday. As per NBC Los Angeles, the rally was part of a disorganized effort from far-right extremists that was ultimately outnumbered by counter-protesters. The “White Lives Matter” rally was scheduled for 1 […]
As anti-Asian hate continues to run rampant across the country, Olympic athlete Sakura Kokumai is the latest victim in a string of unprovoked, verbally abusive rants targeting Asian-Americans. The karate athlete is set to appear in the Tokyo Olympics this summer. As she was sitting in a park in Orange County, California, she says a man came up to […]
A wild car chase involving a California man wanted in connection to a murder came to an abrupt end Tuesday when a tractor-trailer driver blocked the vehicle’s path, FOX 11 Los Angeles reports. Ahmed Shabaan said he overheard that the police were pursuing a murder suspect, so he tracked down the pickup truck, and got his big rig […]
The son of a California man who died after an amateur taco eating contest has filed a lawsuit against the event’s organizers. The Fresno Bee reports that 18-year-old Marshall Hutchings is suing Fresno Sports and Events LLC—owners of the Fresno Grizzlies—for negligence, saying his 41-year-old father, Dana Hutchings wasn’t aware of the competition’s risks. The […]
An emerging coronavirus variant that experts believe to be partly responsible for the surge in cases in India has now been found in California. The Stanford Clinical Virology Lab identified one case of the “double mutant” variant in the Bay Area and is screening seven other possible cases, spokesperson Lisa Kim told the San Francisco Chronicle. […]
A 64-year-old Asian woman was fatally stabbed on Saturday morning while walking her two dogs in Riverside, California. KTLA-5 reports that police were called to the scene around 7:30 a.m. where they discovered Ke Chieh Meng bleeding on the ground after having been stabbed in the abdomen area. Meng was rushed to the hospital where she was […]
California, which was once considered a COVID-19 hot spot, is preparing to bring back indoor concerts. State officials announced the big move in a press release Friday, about a year after California started banning large-scale, in-person events in an effort to reduce the spread of coronavirus. The state’s Department of Public Health said that beginning April 15, indoor concerts, performances, […]
A gunman opened fire at an office complex in Orange, California on Wednesday at around 5:30 p.m. local time, The Los Angeles Times reports. Four people, including a child, were killed in the shooting. The suspect has been taken into custody and hospitalized with injuries. A fifth person was also wounded. It’s currently unclear why […]
A California man has been charged with two counts of murder for using a knife as a deadly and dangerous weapon after he allegedly killed his uncle and mother while she was on a Zoom call last week, KTLA reports. On March 22, Robert Anderson Cotton, 32, allegedly stabbed his mother Dr. Carol Brown, 67, and uncle Kenneth […]
