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Questions were raised over whether an off-duty LAPD officer’s drink was tampered with at a Starbucks franchise store.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco bus driver was allegedly beaten with a bat after asking three passengers to wear a mask, authorities said.According to the San Francisco Police Department, on Wednesday around 3:30 p.m. officers were called to 11th and Division streets regarding an assault on a bus.The driver told police three men had boarded the bus without wearing masks.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - San Francisco Giants pitcher Sam Coonrod was the only player to stand during a moment honoring the Black Lives Matter movement ahead of the season opener against the Los Angeles Dodgers, telling reporters after the game that as a Christian he “can’t kneel before anything besides God.”MLB provided teams with a long black ribbon that players on both sides jointly held as they kneeled in unity.TRUMP WANTS PLAYERS TO STAND DURING NATIONAL ANTHEM AFTER HE SAYS HE WILL THROW FIRST PITCH AT YANKEES GAMEEvery player and coach from the Washington Nationals and New York Yankees took part in the demonstration ahead of their game, but hours later, Coonrod stood alone.I’m a Christian," he said, according to TMZ Sports. “So I just believe that I can’t kneel before anything besides God.” 

DESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif. -- A 7-year-old boy who was viciously attacked in California in an apparently random incident is slowly recovering, according to his mother.On Thursday, Wendy Ludwick posted on a GoFundMe page that her son Gavin was finally able to sit up by himself, opening his right eye in a miraculous turn of events after he survived a brutal attack allegedly by Daniel Birch Poulsen, 32, who was arrested Sunday and booked at the Indio jail, with bail set at $1 million, according to the Desert Hot Springs Police Department.According to the fundraiser page for Gavin, he was found bloodied in the street, reportedly in the throes of a seizure after Poulsen allegedly picked him up and threw to the ground on his head.

CARSON, Calif. -- The gloves are back on.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California has surpassed New York for the most coronavirus cases in the country, reporting more than 409,000 infections after setting a record on Tuesday for the state's most confirmed new cases in a single day since the start of the pandemic.The surge of cases comes as California reopened much of its economy in May.

LOS ANGELES — Federal investigators have unspecified evidence linking the killing of a men's rights lawyer in California to the suspect in the ambush shooting of a federal judge’s family in New Jersey, authorities said Wednesday.The evidence allegedly connects Roy Den Hollander, another men's rights attorney who was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound the day after an attack that killed the judge’s son and wounded her husband, to the death of Marc Angelucci in San Bernardino County, California.FBI officials in Newark, New Jersey, on Wednesday would not describe the evidence or explain how it ties into the two cases.Angelucci was shot to death at his home on July 11.The FBI says Den Hollander was the “primary subject in the attack” Sunday at the home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas in North Brunswick, New Jersey, where 20-year-old Daniel Anderl was killed and his father, Mark Anderl, 63, was wounded.Salas, 51, was in another part of the house and was unharmed.

A woman in created a ruckus inside a Walmart when she refused to wear a mask and repeatedly told customers around her that it wasn't the law.

OAKLAND, Calif. — San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler plans to use his position to speak out against racial injustice and provide a voice for those who aren't heard.Kapler and several of his players knelt during the national anthem before their 6-2 exhibition victory against the Oakland Athletics.

LOS ANGELES --  Who says you can't have fun while social distancing?

LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles woman is sharing her story to bring awareness to the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic after she tested positive for the virus for the second time despite doing "everything right." Health officials have reported an increased number of people who tested positive for COVID-19, recovered, and then testing positive for a second time.Mary, who did not want to disclose her last name, is coming forward with her story.She initially tested positive for the virus in April.

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LOS ANGELES -- Despite the lengths some have been willing to go to in order to protest against state policies that demand residents wear masks in public, some anti-maskers who previously refused to wear facial coverings are apparently deciding to wear face masks that offer no actual protection from respiratory droplets that can help spread a virus the COVID-19.

LOS ANGELES --  Los Angeles County health officials say Latinos are more than twice as likely to be infected with COVID-19 as compared to white people.Health officials also say Latinos are dying in higher numbers than any other ethnicity, particularly because many of them are frontline essential workers who aren’t able to work from home.That was the case for one dad who passed away and his heartbroken daughter is sharing his story.Misty Diaz had just been told her father, her protector, wasn’t going to survive his fight with COVID-19.

John Wayne’s son is speaking out after California Democrats in Orange County recently demanded that the county’s John Wayne Airport be renamed and all likenesses of Wayne be removed from the airport, over “racist and bigoted statements” made by the American icon decades ago.

SAN FRANCISCO — California is on its way to acquiring nearly 16,000 hotel rooms to house the homeless during the pandemic, Gov.

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