Author: Daisy Nguyen
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Infected cruise ship unloads passengers in California
OAKLAND, Calif. • The cruise ship forced to idle for days off the California coast because of a cluster of coronavirus cases aboard arrived in port Monday, and dozen of passengers began to leave for military bases where they would be quarantined or to return to their home countries. The Grand Princess pulled into the…
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Synagogue shooting kills 1, wounds 3 during Jewish holiday
POWAY, Calif. — A 19-year-old gunman opened fire inside a synagogue near San Diego as worshippers celebrated the last day of a major Jewish holiday, killing a woman and wounding the rabbi and two others Saturday, authorities said. President Donald Trump and other elected officials decried what they called an anti-Semitic attack exactly six months…
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Park hikers may have died in ‘sympathetic murder-suicide’
SAN FRANCISCO — Friends and relatives of a couple whose bodies were found in Joshua Tree National Park say they believe the two got lost while hiking in the sprawling desert park and struggled in the searing heat with little food or water before they died in a “sympathetic murder-suicide.” Rachel Nguyen, 20, and Joseph…
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Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory has died
LOS ANGELES — Dick Gregory, who broke racial barriers in the 1960s and used his humor to spread messages of social justice and nutritional health, has died. He was 84. Gregory’s son, Christian, told The Associated Press his father died late Saturday in Washington, D.C. after being hospitalized for about a week. He had suffered…
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Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau dies at 89
LOS ANGELES — Martin Landau, the chameleon-like actor who gained fame as the crafty master of disguise in the 1960s TV show “Mission: Impossible,” then capped a long and versatile career with an Oscar for his poignant portrayal of aging horror movie star Bela Lugosi in 1994′s “Ed Wood,” has died. He was 89. Landau…
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Police: California mom attacked child in attempted exorcism
SAN FRANCISCO — A Northern California woman was in custody Sunday on suspicion of beating, biting and choking her 11-year-old daughter in an attempt to perform an exorcism on the child, authorities said. Kimberly Felder, 45, stripped her daughter naked and shoved sand into her mouth and into her eyes before a witness tried to…
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McDonald’s restaurant redone in keeping with harmonic principles
Palmer’s Andre Brown (32) fights for a rebound against Aurora Central’s Kilen Vanable, left, and Joseph Goyer in the 5A Boys Basketball Tournament Wednesday night, March 5, 2008, at the World Arena. Photo by Kevin Kreck, The Gazette KEVIN KRECK