A dangerous rescue in California was captured on the body camera of a police officer – and now that officer is being praised for risking her life to save another. On Wednesday morning, Lodi police department officer Erika Urrea tracked down a man in a wheelchair who appeared to be …
Read More »New data shows California is ‘Turning the Corner’ – NBC Bay Area
California is showing improvement in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic, Govin Newsom said Wednesday, citing a significantly lower number of confirmed new cases as the state begins to remove overdue cases from a data error. The Democratic governor said he was also encouraged by a declining trend in the …
Read More »Uber CEO says its service is likely to shut down temporarily in California if it is forced to classify drivers as employees – NBC Bay Area
Uber would likely shut down temporarily for several months if a court did not reverse a recent ruling requiring it to classify its drivers as full-time employees, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an interview with Stephanie Ruhle on Wednesday on MSNBC. “If the court does not reconsider, then in California …
Read More »Joe Biden chooses Kamala Harris as VP Running Mate for elections in 2020
Joe Biden on Tuesday chose Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, betting that her ties to the African-American community and self-branding as a “progressive prosecutor” would help send him to the White House. Harris, 55, who ran against Biden in the Democratic presidential race, becomes the first Black woman …
Read More »Trini Lopez, American singer and star of The Dirty Dozen, dies aged 83 from Covid-19 | Music
Mexican-American singer and actor Trini Lopez has died at the age of 83 after contracting Covid-19 at a hospital in Rancho Mirage, California. As he became second in the World War II classic The Dirty Dozen in 1967 as one of the eponymous gang, Lopez scored a transatlantic hit with …
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