Deal gives teachers full pay, adjusted hours

The part-time work schedule was also adopted by other districts across the state, including Los Angeles, San Diego and Oakland, which stressed an "absolute" maximum of 240 minutes of working a day, including two hours of instruction and two hours of flex time. 

Protests underway in show of solidarity with suspended Santa Monica nurses amid coronavirus crisis

Protests were planned across California Friday to show solidarity after ten registered nurses at Providence St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica were reportedly suspended after refusing to treat COVID-19 patients without proper personal protective equipment (PPE).

Local company makes 2,000 face shields to donate to hospitals

The idea came about while delivering meals to hospitals, when it came to light that there is a critical need for face shields. So two local businessmen got to work finding plastic to make their own.

4 Rivers, local companies rehire staff to help package meals for those in need

“There’s no shortage of people in need and I think we’re just at the beginning of this – that a month or two from now those numbers of people in need are just going to increase,” said John Rivers, CEO of 4 Rivers and 4 Roots.

Florida’s jobless rate shoots to 4.3%, highest in 2 years

It was a dramatic increase from the state’s previous month’s unemployment rate of 2.8%, and economists warned that March’s preliminary numbers didn’t capture the extent of the damage caused by business closures.

Unemployment relief not coming soon enough

Right now Gov. Ron DeSantis is dealing with the state’s broken unemployment system by signing an executive order eliminating the requirement for people to provide proof that they are looking for new work every two weeks.

Fears about coronavirus, allow some sex assault victims to collect their own evidence

The temporary measure put in place in Marin County after shelter-in-place orders were issued last month to stop the spread of the virus raises issues of evidence contamination and other problems that would be challenged in court, defense attorneys said.

Lions spotted napping on road during coronavirus lockdown

“This lion pride are usually resident on Kempiana Contractual Park, an area Kruger tourists do not see,” Kruger National Park tweeted on Monday.