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California Recommends AT&T, Frontier, Six Others for $143M in Broadband Grants
The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has recommended a total of $143.3 million in grants to go toward broadband deployments to locations in the state that currently lack high-speed broadband service. AT&T was recommended for two grants totaling $18.1 million and Frontier was recommended for three grants totaling $22.9 million....
Have you seen her? Missing 11-year-old in Visalia
VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Officers are looking for the public’s help to find an 11-year-old girl who went missing in Visalia. Officers say they are searching for 11-year-old Alyna Hurtado. She is 5 feet tall, with hazel eyes and dark brown hair. She was last seen in the 4000 block of West Douglas Avenue at […]
California took vacation time from a prison doctor. Now it has to pay him $1.8M
A jury last week awarded nearly $2 million to a former California prison psychiatrist who claimed the state retaliated against him when officials began raising questions about how he earned high incomes from two government agencies. A decade ago, Anthony Coppola held a senior position at a former state prison in Tracy and a part-time assignment as a psychiatrist at Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail. ...
Man sentenced for gang-related Reedley murder in 2021
A convicted killer learned his punishment on Thursday for a murder near Reedley.A judge sentenced David Cedeno to 75 years to life for the shooting death of Elizandro Diaz Jr."I remember praying and asking God to please not take him, and hoping the call I had received was somehow not real," recalled Joanna Diaz, Elizandro's sister.That call to Diaz came in April 2021, when she learned her brother was shot and killed while on a break from work.He had stopped at the Oaks Mini Mart in Reedley to get some snacks, when surveillance video showed he ran into Cedeno, who...
HMTC This Week: The price of online theater arts classes more expensive
As we might remember, online classes thrived during the pandemic. Now that the restrictions are gone, I expected online classes to subside substantially. I was wrong. Online classes persist and are thriving!
Stockton ranked worst city for renters in new study as more housing is unveiled
STOCKTON — In a new study by RentCafe, Stockton was ranked the worst city for renters in Northern California based on living costs, housing opportunities, and quality of life.So what are officials doing about this?One project that aims to help: 40 newly renovated studio apartments in Stockton on Wilson Way. They are open to those who really need it, like Heather Long."It's not stability like everybody else, but its stability for the homeless. That's what we have," she said.Long was homeless, in and out of prison but is now trying to make change for herself."I've been homeless off and on...
Optum laying off 364 employees in California, many at urgent care facilities
Optum, a health care company owned by UnitedHealth Group, is laying off 364 workers in California, many of them at urgent care facilities.The company is laying off 525 people nationwide.According to a letter from Optum sent to the Employment Development Department, layoffs and departmental closures are being carried out in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties.Locations include Glendora, Montebello, Covina, Pasadena, Long Beach, Redlands, Highland, Los Angeles, Beaumont, Irvine, Hayward, El Segundo and Cerritos.Optum didn't give a reason for the layoffs and didn't say if severance pay is being offered. The layoffs will take place in series of eight "waves," starting in September and ending in January.
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