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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death robs vaccine safety advocates of one of their SCOTUS champions. The other is Sonia Sotomayor. In 2015, RBG joined Sotomayor in a withering dissent of Judge Scalia’s historic decision in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth. Scalia and his corporatist brethren interpreted the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (NCVIA) to shield Big Pharma with full immunity from liability for vaccine injuries. Their decision removed all incentives for pharmaceutical corporations to make vaccines safe, and Americans for...
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A pair of active-duty U.S. Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton were arrested Tuesday, Sept. 22 on a federal grand jury indictment charging one of the Marines and three civilians with conspiring to distribute narcotics -- including oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl -- to civilians and members of the Marine Corps, one of whom suffered a fatal drug overdose in May. Lance Cpls. Anthony Ruben Whisenant, 20, and Ryan Douglas White, 22, were expected to make their initial appearances this afternoon in U.S....
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County will remain in the "red'' tier of the state's COVID-19 reopening plan for at least one more week, state officials said Tuesday, Sept. 22, citing data on the two metrics California uses to adjust counties. The county is reporting 6.9 new daily cases per 100,000 population, just .1 away from the dreaded "purple'' tier, the state's most restrictive. San Diego County is also posting a 3.8% positive testing rate for the novel coronavirus -- well...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The Lawyers Club of San Diego called Monday, Sept. 21 for a state holiday honoring the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday at the age of 87. In a statement calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to consider declaring a holiday in her honor, the Lawyers Club said Ginsburg ``was relentlessly devoted to the principles of equal protection.'' ``As a national leader in pursuing equality for all, the state of California should honor Justice Ginsburg with a state holiday in her name,'' the...
VISTA (CNS) - A man who allegedly struck and killed a 17-year-old girl with his SUV in Escondido, then drove off , pleaded not guilty Monday, Sept. 21 to a felony hit-and-run charge. Paul Anthony Lissona, 30, of Escondido faces up to four years in state prison if convicted of the June 6 death of Kirsten Rain Tomlinson, who was struck on Mesa Rock Road near Mesa Ranch Drive and died at the scene. Shortly after Tomlinson was killed, the California Highway Patrol called on the public to be on the lookout for a white Toyota...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - An education task force released a report Monday, Sept. 21 highlighting the urgency for every San Diego County student to have equitable access to learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. For distance learning to be equitable, teachers must have training, parents and caregivers must have resources and students have supportive learning environments, according to the Equitable Distance Learning Taskforce -- a countywide group of school districts, education experts, nonprofit organizations and community leaders....
Deb Riechmann, Matthew Lee and Jonathan Lemire Declaring "the dawn of a new Middle East," President Donald Trump signed historic diplomatic pacts Tuesday, Sept. 15, with Israel and two Gulf Arab nations that he hopes will lead to a new order in the Middle East and cast him as a peacemaker at the height of his reelection campaign. Hundreds of people massed on the sun-washed South Lawn to witness the signing of agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain....
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny posted a picture of himself Tuesday, Sept. 15, from his hospital bed in Germany where he's recuperating from being poisoned with a nerve agent, wryly joking about being able to breathe on his own. "Hi, this is Navalny," he said in the Russian-language post on Instagram in the first image of the 44-year-old since he was taken to Berlin's Charite hospital. The photo shows him being given a hug by his wife Yulia and flanked by his two...
Federal judge rules that Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s pandemic restrictions are unconstitutional....
More than 2,000 rape kits from a dozen local law enforcement agencies have been sent to an independent lab for testing, with test results received on nearly 90% of the kits, the San Diego County district attorney’s office announced. The district attorney’s office said the 2,030 kits represent all the previously untested kits from 12 agencies dating back to 1990. The figures do not include San Diego Police Department kits, as the department conducts its own testing. Of the 2,030 kits sent to Bode Cellmark Forensics of Lorton,...
San Diego Comic-Con released new details Thursday, Sept. 10, on the Comic-Con Museum, slated for a grand opening summer 2021 in Balboa Park. Though it is on track to open its doors at the 68,000-square foot Federal Building in the park’s Palisades section in mid-2021, the museum will not completed until 2024, with portions of it opening in phases until then. Comic-Con officials said the museum has reached the halfway mark toward its $34 million funding goal, with funds raised so far from larger corporate contributions and spo...
When flames chased Chuck and Janie Dee down the mountain two years ago, they thought they'd never be back. Yet there they were Sunday, Sept. 13, parking a camper next to their dirt lot and the shell of what had been their swimming pool, excited for their role in restoring their hometown of Paradise to what it was before the deadliest wildfire in California history destroyed their home and most of the community. They installed a septic tank. They filed for a building permit....
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Friday, Sept. 11, that would give judges a say on whether to list someone as a sex offender for having oral or anal sex with a minor. The bill would expand the discretion currently granted judges in statutory rape cases and was promoted as bringing fairness under the law to LGBTQ defendants. The current law, in place for decades, permits judges to decide whether a man should be placed on California’s sex offender registry if he had voluntary intercourse with someone 14 to 17 years o...
The American Civil Liberties Union and University of California San Diego have reached a settlement in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a satircal student-run newspaper, which alleged that its funding was cut off following the publication of a controversial article in violation of the First Amendment. The case involves The Koala and a November 2015 article it published satirizing “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings,” leading UCSD’s student government to disqualify student newspapers from eligibility for campus activity funds. At...
The city of Louisville will pay millions to the mother of Breonna Taylor and reform police practices as part of a lawsuit settlement months after Taylor's slaying by police thrust the Black woman's name to the forefront of a national reckoning on race. A person who has seen the settlement told The Associated Press it is the largest sum paid by the city for a police misconduct case. The source asked not to be identified because the settlement has not been announced publicly. Ta...
FALLBROOK – Hope Clinic for Women will host its annual Hats in the Garden Tea and Auction Saturday, Oct. 10, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., online this year due to COVID-19. The speaker for the event is Kristen Lascola, a pastor at North Coast Church in Fallbrook. She hosts the "Ministry Coach Podcast" with her husband Jeff. Funds raised at the event will support HCW's newly licensed free primary care medical clinic for free testing for pregnancy and ultrasounds and support resources...
California fitness centers have filed a lawsuit alleging Gov. Gavin Newsom’s measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus unfairly target the industry and are demanding they be allowed to reopen. The California Fitness Alliance, which represents nearly 300 businesses, filed the suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Scott Street, a lawyer for the group, said Tuesday, Sept. 15. The suit accuses state and Los Angeles County officials of requiring gyms to close without providing evidence that they contribute to vi...
The number of people who died from suicide in the region dropped in 2019, according to the San Diego County Suicide Prevention Council’s 2020 Report to the Community released Thursday, Sept. 10. In 2019, there were 429 deaths by suicide, 36 fewer than the 465 reported in 2018. The annual report provides a comprehensive look at suicide in the region and brings together data from multiple sources for the years 2015 through 2019. Other findings in the report include the suicide rate per 100,000 population: 12.8 in 2019 c...
VISTA – A virtual “Magical Mystery Tour,” a take on the Beatles’ classic album, will kick off an online, fun-packed fundraiser from 6:30-7 p.m. Sept. 26, to benefit Vista Community Clinic. Established in 1972, VCC has evolved over the years to become a federally designated Community Healthcare Center serving Southern California. “We’re doing what we can to pick up the pieces from COVID-19 and offset the deep losses we’ve experienced,” Fernando Sañudo, the VCC’s CEO, said. There will be no charge to register for the v...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County health officials reported 284 new COVID-19 infections and no new deaths today, raising the region's totals to 44,577 cases with the death toll remaining at 760. Of the 9,097 tests reported through Saturday, 3% returned positive, bringing the 14-day rolling average of positive tests to 3.6% -- potentially a good sign as San Diego County appears poised to regress into the state's most restrictive public health tier due to increasing COVID-19...
FALLBROOK – Hope Clinic for Women is a charitable nonprofit organization committed to provide safe, confidential, supportive medical care that promotes sexual health and well-being. Its demographic, 17-24-year-olds, is 10.9% of the Fallbrook population. Many local residents may know HCW better by its former name of Fallbrook Pregnancy Resource Center, which has been in Fallbrook for over 20 years serving young women facing a planned or unplanned pregnancy. HCW clients r...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Parkinson’s Support Group invites everyone to meet virtually Friday, Sept. 25, at 10 a.m. via Zoom webinar. There is no cost associated with this webinar. Anyone interested can contact Irene Miller at 760-731-0171 or [email protected] with any questions, concerns and the link to join in. Patrick LoSasso, the guest speaker for September, will be sharing information on “How Parkinson’s Exercise is Different.” LoSasso is a personal trainer, certified strength and conditioning specialist and correctiv...
E. coli is a bacterium found in the intestines of humans and the gut of animals. The technical term is "Escherichia coli." This bacterium has warranted itself quite the bad reputation. Most of the time E. coli is harmless and helps the digestive system; however, when the bad type of E. coli strikes, havoc ensues, resulting in diarrhea. These strains of the bacteria are found in contaminated foods or drinks. When E. coli strikes, food poisoning, pneumonia and breathing problems...
