CAIRO — Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen claimed responsibility Sunday for last year's deadly shooting at the Naval Air Station Pensacola by an aviation student from Saudi Arabia. The shooter, 2nd Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, was a member of the Saudi Air Force in training at the base. He opened fire inside...
Kaiser Commits $130 Million to Train 10,000 for Medical Jobs
Kaiser Permanente and its labor partner are teaming up to create Futuro Health, a $130 million nonprofit to address California's healthcare worker shortage. Listen to this article: The partnership stems from the four-year contract reached last October between the healthcare provider and SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West. The idea is to...
Navy: Flight Training Suspended for Saudi Students
WASHINGTON — Flight training has been suspended for more than 300 Saudi Arabian students at three bases in Florida in the wake of the deadly shooting by a Saudi Air Force officer on Friday, the U.S. Navy said Tuesday. Navy Commander Clay Doss said classroom training is going to start...
Meet Six Valley Medical Students in Unique Training Program
By Brandy Ramos Nikaido UCSF Fresno The start of the new UCSF San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education (SJV PRIME) comes at a critical time, as California is facing a projected shortfall of up to 4,100 primary care clinicians in just 10 years, according to the California Future Health Workforce...
Pay with Credit Card at DMV? It's Coming to Fresno
SACRAMENTO — California's DMV is trying to improve customer service by accepting credit cards, upgrading its website and offering clearer instructions on how to obtain a new federally mandated ID, according to details announced Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Fresno will be one of the test sites in October for...
Armed Utah Teachers Don't Want to Be a 'Sitting Duck'
SPANISH FORK, Utah — Nancy Miramontes had 30 seconds to find the gunman. The Utah school psychologist weaved through a maze of dusty halls before spotting him in the corner of a classroom, holding a gun to a student's head. She took a deep breath and fired three shots, the...
Champion Boxer Balances Training With Day Job at Gas Company
LOS ANGELES — Andrew Cancio gets up around 4 a.m. every weekday and goes for a pre-dawn run near his home in Oxnard. He drives 30 minutes to Simi Valley, changes into his uniform and starts his shift as a technician for the Southern California Gas Company at 6:30 a.m....
July Jobs Report Shows Need for Strategic Workforce Training
The latest Department of Labor jobs report released Friday for the month of July once again has great news for workers, but bad news for employers: America has more open jobs (approximately 6.7 million) than it has unemployed workers to fill them (6.3 million). This type of labor market can...
How To Survive an Active Shooter: Run, Hide, Fight
"This may be the most important video you will ever watch." Thursday's tragic events in Annapolis, Maryland, where a lone gunman shot and killed five Capital Gazette newspaper employees and wounded two more, remind us of the importance of preparing for the unthinkable. Thus we present this video posted Feb....
How Do You Survive an Active Shooter? Run. Hide. Fight.
"This may be the most important video you ever watch." Thus begins this video posted Feb. 18, 2018, on YouTube by the California State University system. Although the odds are slim that you will ever face an active shooter, the chances are increasing — especially on school and university campuses....