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Heat Wave Putting Historic Strain on Power Grid, With Rolling Blackouts Possible
California is facing its highest chance of blackouts this year as a brutal heat wave continues to blanket the state with triple-digit temperatures. State energy officials said the electrical load Tuesday afternoon could top 51,000 megawatts, the highest demand the state has ever seen.
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California Facing Chance of Blackouts Amid Brutal Heat Wave
Authorities say California will face its highest chance of blackouts this week as a brutal heat wave continues to blanket the state with triple-digit heat.
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Feds Say Santa Rita Jail Violates Rights of Mentally Ill
A federal report stated that Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County violated civil rights by failing to provide mental health services to inmates.
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California Health System Buckling Under COVID-19 Pandemic
Top executives from the state’s largest hospital systems —Kaiser Permanente, Dignity Health and Sutter Health, which together cover 15 million Californians — said Tuesday that increasingly exhausted staff, many pressed into service outside their normal duties, are now attending to COVID-19 patients stacked up in hallways and conference rooms.
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California Issues Health Guidelines for Youth Sports
California on Monday issued guidelines for youth sports programs that effectively bar competitions, tournaments and assemblies by school teams and club and recreational teams.
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Man Who Claimed Innocence Leaves Prison After 27 Years
A California man who spent a quarter-century behind bars for shooting at a group of teenagers — an attack he denied committing — was freed from prison on Thursday after the governor commuted his sentence, his attorneys said.
