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Well, time to pack it up y’all. In case you didn’t already feel like humanity was dangling on the brink of collapse, the bubonic plague has returned to California. Yes, that bubonic plague. According to CNN, a South Lake Tahoe resident was diagnosed with the plague, making it the first human case in the state […]
Footage that’s gone viral in recent days shows a woman hurling racist language at a Latino man who had intervened during her verbal attack on another man who was walking his dog. The footage in question, per a report from San Francisco-based news outlet KGO, was taken by Stanley Gonzalez on Sunday. Gonzalez is said […]
Amid the heatwave that struck California over the last few days, Death Valley’s Furnace Creek recorded the hottest recorded temperature in the U.S. since 1913. On Sunday, Furnace Creek in the deserts of Southern California reached a temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit, the NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center confirmed. It is expected that the high temps in SoCal will […]
Lyft and Uber have threatened to suspend services in California if the state forces them to change the employment status of their drivers. The companies made the announcements Wednesday, just days after a California judge granted a preliminary injunction that prohibited Lyft and Uber from classifying their drivers as independent contractors instead of employees. The move was applauded […]
Residents of Los Angeles were awoken around 4:30 a.m. on Thursday thanks to a 4.2 magnitude earthquake that hit under a mile outside of the city. Deadline reports that the earthquake was originally said to be 4.3 magnitude, but it was later downgraded to a 4.2. Shortly after the initial earthquake, a smaller 3.3 magnitude quake followed. It […]
California has surpassed New York state for the most coronavirus cases. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the unfortunate milestone via Twitter on Wednesday, confirming the Golden State has posted a single-day record of new infections over the last 24 hours. According to his tweet, the state had recorded an additional 12,807 confirmed cases on Tuesday, bringing its […]
A California man was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in federal prison for trying to sell $6 million worth of paintings he claimed were created by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, and Keith Haring, ABC News reports. Philip Righter, 43, had already pleaded guilty in March to mail fraud and aggravated identity theft in Miami. […]
The second wave continues to claim victims across the country. BuzzFeed reported on Saturday that more than 300 employees at the Los Angeles Apparel garment manufacturing company tested positive for COVID-19. Per public health officials, this outbreak has caused four deaths. This comes after the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health told the manufacturer on June 27 to […]
After a monthlong investigation, California authorities have determined 24-year-old Robert Fuller died by suicide. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office announced the ruling during a press conference Thursday, almost one month after the young Black man’s body was found hanging from a tree near Palmdale City Hall. Investigators deemed Fuller’s death a suicide shortly after his body was discovered, […]
Naya Rivera is missing after swimming in Lake Piru with her four-year-old son. According to a report from a regional NBC News outlet, Rivera’s son was discovered alone on a boat on the Ventura County-area reservoir on Wednesday afternoon. Responding officers found the child asleep on a boat that, just three hours earlier, had been […]
