Fresno Pacific University on Thursday released more details about how the southeast Fresno university is preparing for the fall semester amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The university cautioned that its plans are subject to change depending on the severity of the coronavirus outbreak in the Fresno area. Fresno Pacific had previously...
Herman Cain Treated for COVID-19 After Attending Trump Rally
WASHINGTON — 2012 GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain is being treated for the coronavirus at an Atlanta-area hospital, according to a statement posted on his Twitter account Thursday. It's not clear when or where Cain was infected, but he was hospitalized less than two weeks after attending President Donald Trump's...
Newsom Urges People to Avoid Fourth of July Gatherings
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday urged Californians to turn to their “better angels” and use common sense over the holiday weekend by wearing a mask and skipping traditional gatherings with family and friends. “We're not going into everybody's backyard and enforcing," he said. “We're just encouraging people to...
McLane’s New Pool Full of Promise, Empty of Swimmers for Now
The water shimmers invitingly over the 11 swimming lanes in the massive blue-tinged pool, which according to a nearby sign has a maximum occupancy of 434. But because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the brand-new pool at McLane High School in central Fresno has zero occupants. Except for the occasional nocturnal...
California Officials Blasted for Prison Coronavirus Outbreak
SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers harshly criticized state corrections officials' “failure of leadership” Wednesday, saying they botched their handling of the coronavirus pandemic by inadvertently transferring infected inmates to a virus-free prison, triggering the state’s worst prison outbreak. A third of the 3,500 inmates at San Quentin State Prison near San...
Alabama Students Attend ‘COVID-19 Parties,’ Gamble on Who Gets Sick First
[aggregation-styles] New York Post Students in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, are reportedly throwing “COVID parties” with their friends and gambling on who will get sick first, according to local officials. City council member Sonya McKinstry testified Wednesday that a series of previously reported parties were all part of a morbid game that...
Trump Says He Looks Like Lone Ranger in a Mask and Likes It
WASHINGTON — After long resisting wearing a mask in public, President Donald Trump said Wednesday he thinks it makes him look like the Lone Ranger — and he likes it. “I’m all for masks. I think masks are good,” Trump told Fox Business in an interview. "People have seen me...
California Creates 'Strike Teams' to Enforce Virus Limits
SACRAMENTO — California is creating “strike teams” from 10 state agencies to enforce guidelines designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday. He said the teams would “go after people that are thumbing their nose, that are particularly being aggressive, reticent to do anything." He...
Little Evidence That Protests Spread Coronavirus in US
NEW YORK — There is little evidence that the protests that erupted after George Floyd’s death caused a significant increase in U.S. coronavirus infections, according to public health experts. If the protests had driven an explosion in cases, experts say, the jumps would have started to become apparent within two...
Hundreds of Elephants Dead in Mysterious Mass Die-Off
[aggregation-styles] The Guardian More than 350 elephants have died in northern Botswana in a mysterious mass die-off described by scientists as a “conservation disaster”. A cluster of elephant deaths was first reported in early May, with 169 individuals dead by the end of the month. By mid June, the number...