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  • 10 years after BP spill: Oil drilled deeper; rules relaxed

    Updated Apr 18, 2020

    KEVIN McGILL and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can be huge but the risks are greater than ever. Industry leaders and government officials say they're determined to prevent a repeat of BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster. It spilled 134 million gallons of oil that fouled...

  • Racial toll of virus grows even starker as more data emerges

    Updated Apr 18, 2020

    KAT STAFFORD, MEGHAN HOYER and AARON MORRISON Associated Press As a clearer picture emerges of COVID-19's decidedly deadly toll on black Americans, leaders are demanding a reckoning of the systemic policies they say have made many African Americans far more vulnerable to the virus, including inequity in access to health care and economic opportunity. A growing chorus of medical professionals, activists and political figures is pressuring the federal government to not just release comprehensive racial demographic data of the...

  • Lacking US coordination, states team up on when to reopen

    Updated Apr 18, 2020

    GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press President Donald Trump, in a roller-coaster week of reversals and contradictions, told governors to "call your own shots" on lifting stay-at-home orders once the coronavirus threat subsides. But then he took to Twitter to push some to reopen their economies quickly and tell them it was their job to ramp up testing. "This is mayhem," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday. "We need a coordinated approach between the federal government and the states." In the absence of one, Cuomo and sixteen...

  • The week that was: Stories from the coronavirus saga

    Updated Apr 18, 2020

    The Associated Press The pressure is on to reopen America for business — even as the hardest hit areas in the United States and around the world are still struggling mightily to contain the coronavirus. The debate over easing lockdowns has taken on partisan tones in the United States, with Republican President Donald Trump urging supporters to "liberate" three states led by Democratic governors. But the crisis is still surging. In Africa, lockdowns to slow the spread of the coronavirus may be having an unintended effect ...

  • Governors feel heat to reopen from protesters, president

    Updated Apr 18, 2020

    PAUL WEBER and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Stores in Texas can begin selling merchandise with curbside service, and hospitals can resume nonessential surgeries. In Florida, people are returning to beaches and parks. And protesters are clamoring for more. Governors eager to rescue their economies and feeling heat from demonstrators and President Donald Trump are moving to ease restrictions meant to control the spread of the coronavirus, even as new hot spots emerge and experts warn that moving too fast...

  • Suspect jailed in seemingly-random killing of Oceanside teacher

    City News Service|Updated Apr 18, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - An Oceanside woman was behind bars today on suspicion of attacking a neighbor she had never met and fatally stabbing him as he returned home from walking his dog on the morning of his 45th birthday. Jennifer Ramos, 22, allegedly killed Jefferson Middle School physical education instructor Chad Danielson in his front yard in the 500 block of Garfield Street shortly before 8 a.m. last Friday, Oceanside police spokesman Tom Bussey said. Patrol officers arrived to find Danielson gravely wounded and the assailant...

  • Cox to offer free internet for low-income families with children in school

    City News Service|Updated Apr 18, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Cox Communications has announced it will offer free internet service through mid-July for eligible low-income families with a student in kindergarten through 12th grade who is studying at home. Customers signing up before May 15 can receive the offer, which provides the company's Connect2Compete service free of charge until July 15. The offer for the Connect2Compete service is available to families who have at least one kindergarten through 12th grade student at home, and receive benefits from the National...

  • TV doctors Oz and Phil explaining controversial Fox comments

    Updated Apr 17, 2020

    DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Two television doctors — Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil — are finding themselves trying to explain comments they made about coronavirus restrictions during appearances on Fox News Channel this week. Mehmet Oz says that he misspoke in an interview with Fox's Sean Hannity, when he said reopening schools was a "very appetizing opportunity" despite the coronavirus pandemic. Phil McGraw, another daytime talk show host who, like Oz, catapulted to TV fame as a protege of Oprah Winfrey, recei...

  • Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen to serve out prison sentence at home

    Updated Apr 17, 2020

    MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's former lawyer and longtime fixer Michael Cohen will be released from federal prison to serve the remainder of his sentence in home confinement because of the coronavirus pandemic. Cohen is currently locked up at FCI Otisville in New York after pleading guilty to numerous charges, including campaign finance fraud and lying to Congress. He will remain under quarantine for 14 days before he is released. Federal statistics show 14 inmates and seven staff...

  • California tops 1,000 coronavirus deaths as economy tumbles

    Updated Apr 17, 2020

    BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California recorded more than 1,000 deaths from the coronavirus Friday as the pandemic pushed the state into recession, despite signs that have emerged of an improving outlook for the virus. The state topped a number it once hoped to avoid, reaching 1,021 deaths, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. The death toll came after California recorded its greatest number of deaths in one day, 95, on Thursday, eclipsing the previous mark of 71. The state also reported f...

  • California's attorney general defends virus shutdowns

    Updated Apr 17, 2020

    DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO (AP) — What would normally be broad constitutional protections for freedoms of assembly, religion — even buying guns — may be curtailed when they endanger others during the coronavirus pandemic, California's top law enforcement officer said in an interview. The state has been sued over all three during its shutdown as government officials pick winners and losers in deciding which businesses and activities can operate and which can't. But in an interview with The Associated Press on Th...

  • Cox offers free internet for K-12 students amid COVID-19 school closures

    City News Service|Updated Apr 17, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Cox Communications announced today it will be offering free internet service through mid-July for eligible low-income families with a student from kindergarten through 12th grade at home. Customers signing up before May 15 can receive the offer, which provides the company's Connect2Compete service free of charge until July 15. The offer for the Connect2Compete service is available to families who have at least one kindergarten through 12th grade student at...

  • Regional advisory group to develop plan for phased re-opening of local economy

    City News Service|Updated Apr 17, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - City and county elected officials today announced the creation of an advisory group that will develop strategies for an eventual phased re-opening of San Diego's economy, which has been largely shuttered due to COVID-19-related public health orders. The San Diego Economic Recovery Advisory Group will begin meeting Monday to develop a framework for reopening the region for business once it is deemed safe. The group will consist of local ``civic and business leaders,'' representing a variety of industries that...

  • Citing ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, San Diego Comic-Con canceled in 2020

    Updated Apr 17, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Comic-Con International announced today it is canceling this year's San Diego Comic-Con in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 celebration -- which had been scheduled for July 23-26 -- would have been the 51st iteration of the convention, one of San Diego's largest and most lucrative conventions. In 2019, more than 130,000 people attended. Organizers said the event will return next year to the San Diego Convention Center from July 22-25. ``Recognizing...

  • Hope takes the reins on Wall Street, stocks rally worldwide

    Updated Apr 17, 2020

    STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — In Wall Street's tug of war between hope and pessimism about the coronavirus pandemic, hope is fighting back. U.S. stocks joined a worldwide rally Friday and closed out their first back-to-back weekly gain since the market began selling off two months ago. The S&P 500 jumped 2.7% for the day, following up on even bigger gains in Europe and Asia. Investors latched onto several strands of hope about progress in the fight against the coronavirus. They...

  • California's unemployment rate soars, but worst yet to come

    Updated Apr 17, 2020

    ADAM BEAM and JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press SACRAMENTO (AP) — California lost nearly 100,000 jobs in March, state officials announced Friday, signaling a sudden end to a record 10-year streak of growth because of a coronavirus outbreak that has shuttered nonessential businesses and overwhelmed the state's unemployment office. The unemployment rate in the nation's most populous state was 5.3% in March — a 1.4 percentage point increase that is the largest jump on record since 1976, when state officials began using the cur...

  • No plan in sight: Test troubles cloud Trump recovery effort

    Updated Apr 17, 2020

    MATTHEW PERRONE and MICHELLE R. SMITH Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is struggling to test enough people to track and control the spread of the novel coronavirus, a crucial first step to reopening parts of the economy, which President Donald Trump is pushing to do by May 1. Trump on Thursday released a plan to ease business restrictions that hinges on a downward trajectory of positive tests. But more than a month after he declared, "Anybody who wants a test, can get a test," the reality has been much d...

  • White House moves to weaken EPA rule on toxic compounds

    Updated Apr 17, 2020

    ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump White House intervened to weaken one of the few public health protections pursued by its own administration, a rule to limit the use of a toxic industrial compound in consumer products, according to communications between the White House and Environmental Protection Agency. The documents show that the White House Office of Management and Budget formally notified the EPA by email last July that it was stepping into the crafting of the rule on the compound, p...

  • Maintenance and Operations Dept. lights up Fallbrook High clocktower

    Updated Apr 17, 2020

    On Thursday, April 16 Fallbrook Union High School superintendent Ilsa Garza-Gonzalez sent this photo to the Village News with the following message: "In case you haven't driven by FUHS this evening, our amazing Maintenance and Operation Dept. led by Bob Salas, Director, surprised us with a message of hope today."...

  • Virus-fueled conspiracy theories take aim at hospitals

    Updated Apr 17, 2020

    MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press The video lasts just 13 seconds and shows nothing more than the view from a car quietly driving past a hospital entrance. But the person who posted it on Twitter used the footage to sarcastically question reports of "apocalyptic conditions" at Mount Sinai Queens in New York City. That video and dozens of others like it have been spreading on social media through the #FilmYourHospital hashtag. The people taking and posting videos of quiet scenes outside hospitals are promoting a right-wing...

  • Friday: What you need to know today about the virus outbreak

    Updated Apr 17, 2020

    The Associated Press President Donald Trump is pressing to restart the U.S. economy, which has been ravaged by the pandemic in a short few weeks. He has given U.S. governors a road map for recovering from the acute economic pain, laying out a phased approach to restoring normal activity. "We're starting our life again," Trump said. Meanwhile, China acknowledged that the coronavirus death toll for epicenter of Wuhan was 50% higher than previously reported — a major revision that highlights just how seriously current numbers o...

  • France finds more than 1,000 virus cases on aircraft carrier

    Updated Apr 17, 2020

    JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The French navy is investigating how the coronavirus infected more than 1,000 sailors aboard the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, amid growing pressure on government leaders to explain how it could have happened. The ship, France's biggest carrier and the flagship of its navy, is undergoing a lengthy disinfection process since returning to its home base in Toulon five days ago. One person remains in intensive care and some 20 others hospitalized, navy s...

  • 'LIBERATE!': Trump goads states to lift virus restrictions

    Updated Apr 17, 2020

    ZEKE MILLER and MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after laying out a roadmap for gradually reopening the economy, President Donald Trump urged his supporters to "LIBERATE" three states led by Democratic governors Friday, in effect encouraging protests against the stay-at-home restrictions aimed at stopping the coronavirus. The president took to Twitter with the kind of rhetoric some of his supporters have used in demanding the lifting of the orders that have thrown millions of Americans out of work. "LIBE...

  • Teenage girl shot on Pala Indian Reservation, two teenage boys arrested

    City News Service|Updated Apr 17, 2020

    PALA (CNS) - Two teenage boys were arrested on suspicion of wounding a teenage girl during a shooting at a home on the Pala Indian Reservation, authorities in San Diego County said Friday. Deputies were called to a hospital in Riverside County shortly after 10:20 p.m. Thursday after receiving a report that a female juvenile had arrived at the hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound to the chest, San Diego County Sheriff's Sgt. Sean Zdunich said. Deputies quickly found out the shooting happened in the area of Sycamore Lane a...

  • Record 22 million have sought US jobless aid since virus

    Updated Apr 17, 2020

    CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The wave of layoffs that has engulfed the U.S. economy since the coronavirus struck forced 5.2 million more people to seek unemployment benefits last week, the government reported Thursday. Roughly 22 million have now sought jobless benefits in the past month — easily the worst stretch of U.S. job losses on record. It means that roughly one in seven workers have lost their jobs in that time. The grim figures point to an economy that is tumbling into what appears to...

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