[aggregation-styles] KUSI News In San Diego County, strip clubs are open, but schools and many non-essential businesses have been forced to close in accordance with state orders after being moved into the most restrictive Purple Tier. Under the Purple Tier, indoor operations in locations such as restaurants, museums, places of...
‘Once-in-Lifetime’ Celestial Event Links Saturn, Jupiter on Dec. 21
[aggregation-styles] MSN Jupiter and Saturn will appear to look like a double planet just after sunset on Dec. 21, as the two planets will be in conjunction, also known as the “great conjunction,” said Amy Oliver, a spokeswoman for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “Most adult people have never seen...
Gun Store Chain Expands Valley Reach With Purchase of Bakersfield’s Second Amendment Sports
[aggregation-styles] Bakersfield Californian Bakersfield four-location gun store Second Amendment Sports has sold to a large, Rancho Cucamonga-based chain during a bumpy time for the nation's firearm retailers. Turner's Outdoorsman, a 49-year-old company with 29 stores including in Fresno and Tulare, said its purchase of Second Amendment will expand its reach...
The Election Went Down to Georgia
[aggregation-styles] The Wall Street Journal Subscription America’s political attention is now focused not on Washington but Georgia, 700 miles south, where a Jan. 5 runoff election will decide that state’s two U.S. Senate seats—and with them, which party controls the upper chamber. These runoffs are required by Georgia law because...
20 People Won South African Lottery After Playing 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 — Investigation Showed No Fraud: Report
[aggregation-styles] ABC News Twenty people won South Africa's national lottery this week by picking the numbers 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. The unusual sequence sparked thousands of comments on Twitter and Facebook, as many questioned if a scam occurred. The outcry prompted the country's lottery regulator to respond...
Hell and 2020 Are Latest Couple on Match.com Commercial
[aggregation-styles] The Wrap Satan and 2020 are a perfect match in a new ad for dating website Match.com, the result of a unique collaboration between actor Ryan Reynolds and pop artist Taylor Swift. From Reynolds’ Maximum Effort production company, the commercial plays out like any other app-date between two people...
San Jose Mayor Says He Didn’t Know His Thanksgiving Gathering Broke State Health Rules
[aggregation-styles] NBC Bay Area San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, speaking exclusively to the NBC Bay Investigative Unit, revealed he was unaware state health guidelines prohibited the very type of gathering he attended with relatives on Thanksgiving. "There's no question that it was on me to know better," Liccardo said. "The...
Is San Francisco Trying to Hasten Its Own Demise? Recent Blunders Point to Yes.
[aggregation-styles] Washington Post | OPINION Subscription For years, San Francisco’s golden goose seemed impossible to kill, no matter how expensive or over-regulated the city got. Until covid-19 arrived. A rational person might expect leaders and voters to respond to a recent exodus by making the city a more affordable and...
Mystery Obelisk Appears on Pine Mountain (Near Atascadero)
[aggregation-styles] Atascadero News In late November, a mysterious 9-foot obelisk appeared in Utah, sparking world-wide awe as many made a pilgrimage to see it in San Juan County. The Utah obelisk was illegally installed without cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management. On Black Friday, it disappeared as mysteriously as...
‘Scary Is the Word’: Tulare County Hospitals Grapple With Increasing COVID-19 Patients
[aggregation-styles] Visalia Times Delta Tulare County hospitals are contending with another spike in COVID-19 patients, leaving medical centers nearly full before an anticipated surge of Thanksgiving holiday-borne infections. On Monday, Kaweah Delta Medical Center in Visalia reached 90% capacity, according to CEO Gary Herbst. In the past few weeks, COVID-19...