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A rural California county allowed nonessential businesses to reopen and diners to eat in restaurants on Friday, becoming the first to defy Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statewide shutdown orders during the coronavirus pandemic.Modoc County is “moving forward with our reopening plan,” said Heather Hadwick, the county's deputy director of emergency services. She said the county of…

TONI: A TURLOCK NURSING HOME HAS MORE THAN 50 POSITIVE CASES OF CORONAVIRU 134 WERE TEST. 34 POSITIVE RESULTS. 10 NEGLECT TIFMENT 87 PENDING. STAFF MEMBERS WERE TESTED WITH 115 STILL PENDING. THE CENTER IS TAKING SEVERAL STEPS TO STOP THE SPREAD. TEO: BEGINNING TODAY YOU CAN GET A CITATION FOR NOT WEARING A FACE…

Nicole Hayden, Palm Springs Desert Sun Published 3:28 p.m. PT April 26, 2020 CLOSE A Riverside County, California inmate speaks on being infected with COVID-19 inside jail after being released. (April 23, 2020) Palm Springs Desert SunRiverside County health officials on Sunday reported 154 new coronavirus cases and one new virus-related death. A total of 118 people have…

When Jyri Engestrom, a 42-year-old entrepreneur who runs a small early stage venture fund in San Francisco, California, read an article in the Guardian newspaper about an Italian village that tested its entire community for the novel coronavirus and was reportedly able to eradicate the virus by doing so, he was inspired.Engestrom wanted to do the…

The Southern California housing market has seized up. The coronavirus outbreak has closed businesses and kept people hunkered down in their homes. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s also resulted in a market that experts describe as essentially frozen. Data released Thursday from real estate company Zillow show the number of deals entering escrow has fallen off a…