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A 12-year-old California girl has raised almost $50,000 for a homeless man who returned her grandmother’s lost wallet. According to People, 57-year-old Sean Currey was looking for food in a dumpster behind a coffee shop in San Rafael, California when he came upon the wallet. While he’s been homeless throughout the years, he only briefly thought […]
Two gorillas at the San Diego Zoo have tested positive for coronavirus, according to a press release shared by the park. Zoo officials believe the coronavirus was spread to two of the gorillas by an asymptomatic park employee. Three gorillas began to exhibit symptoms last Wednesday. Tests returned on Friday from the California Animal Health and […]
Dr. Dre‘s residence in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles, California was the sight of an attempted break-in on Tuesday night while the music industry icon was in the hospital. The burglars, per a report from regional outlet KABC-TV, tried to break into a home owned by Dre at approximately 10 p.m. local time but […]
Thanks in large part to those who insisted on traveling for the holidays during a goddamn global pandemic, Los Angeles County health officials are expecting the next few weeks to potentially be the worst of this entire era. In a memo sent out to ambulance workers last week, as excerpted in this CNN report, just […]
A hospital in California suspects that an inflatable costume may be behind a massive COVID-19 outbreak that has infected at least 44 employees, The San Francisco Chronicle reports. A Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center employee briefly wore the air-powered costume in the emergency room on Christmas Day to “lift the spirits” of fellow co-workers, but may have unknowingly […]
While Los Angeles County may have sun, beaches, and nightlife, it’s also susceptible to a number of natural disasters. In fact, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has calculated that the area is the most dangerous in the U.S. Deadline reports that FEMA determined the risk of every county in America based on 18 types of natural […]
As we send 2020 off into the ether, we might as well be subjected to a few more collective sighs. Some frontline healthcare workers, despite having priority access and despite fucking science, are apparently declining to take the COVID-19 vaccine. That’s the takeaway from a new Los Angeles Times report, out Thursday, i.e. New Year’s […]
The 2020 monolith mystery continues—with a holiday a twist. Weeks after the first unexplained structures were spotted in Utah and Romania, a similarly shaped object was found on Christmas Day in a San Francisco park. But unlike the previous metal monoliths, this one was constructed with a classic holiday treat: sheets of gingerbread seemingly glued together with frosting and gumdrops that […]
California is now the first state in the U.S. to record more than two million COVID-19 cases. In a Los Angeles Times report early Thursday morning, the publication said the two-million mark had been hit in their county-by-county tally of statewide cases. Johns Hopkins University also confirmed the same milestone, reporting on Thursday that the […]
To say that the college football season has been different would be an understatement. Along with robbing fans of their usual dose of inter-conference play, the pandemic has also taken away one very important tradition: The Rose Bowl. The College Football Playoff and the Tournament of Roses announced Saturday that The Rose Bowl will no longer be the […]
