Camp Galileo, an Oakland-based children’s summer camp program with 70 locations in the Bay Area, plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the wake of financial setbacks due to the coronavirus pandemic. The company sent an email to registered families announcing its decision to voluntarily file for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday. “While we had…
The maps that the National Weather Service publishes every month, forecasting what may happen in the months to come, predict above-average temperatures and rainfall for much of the United States in May, June, and July. In normal times, that would be unnerving news, a sign of storms coming and a climate wrenched awry. Right now,…
Quinton de Kock (Gallo Images) Earlier this year Quinton de Kock was handed the responsibility of captaining the Proteas' ODI and T20 sides on a permanent basis.The 27-year-old's first assignment was to lead a new-look South African side against reigning Cricket World Cup champions England.Coming off a 3-1 Test series defeat (under Faf de Plessis'…
(CNN)With a handful of states reopening parts of their economies, a coronavirus model routinely cited by the White House warns that no state should be opening before May 1. South Carolina and Georgia, which are leading the pack to get their economic engines…
California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs. If the state Office of Health Care Affordability adopts the fines next week, hospitals, medical groups
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug. 13. The sick people are spread across 17 states. There are 454 patients who have