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UpdatedMon, Dec 14, 2020 at 10:26 am PT Replies(8) Dr. Stan Scheer in 2012 during his tenure with the Murrieta Valley Unified School District. (Maggie Avants/Patch) MURRIETA, CA — The Murrieta Valley Unified School District is mourning the passing Sunday of former Superintendent Dr. Stan Scheer due to complications from coronavirus. He was 77. His passing at Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, Colorado, came just days after his wife, Marian, 82, also succumbed to the virus on Dec. 7. "...

UpdatedMon, Dec 14, 2020 at 11:05 am PT Replies(170) The first shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine arrive at LAX on Sunday night. (Los Angeles World Airports) LOS ANGELES, CA — Californians will begin receiving the first coronavirus vaccinations Monday morning, the day after the state set new records for COVID-19 hospitalizations. Hundreds of thousands of Pfizers two-dose coronavirus vaccines arrived in California on Sunday night, and medical workers up and down the state will b...

UpdatedMon, Dec 14, 2020 at 8:45 am PT Reply Ethan Garrett Goolsby, 20, served as an aviation ordnanceman airman apprentice. (Photo provided by the Goolsby family) SAN DIEGO, CA — U.S. Navy officials publicly identified a sailor from the San Diego-based USS Theodore Roosevelt who died after going overboard last week. The sailor was identified as Ethan Garrett Goolsby, 20, of Texas, according to the Navy. He served as an aviation ordnanceman airman apprentice. Goolsby reported to the USS Theod...

Reply Doses of the Pfizer vaccine began shipping out from a Michigan facility Sunday bound for Southern California distribution centers and other locations in the United States. (Shutterstock) SAN DIEGO, CA — The Naval Medical Center in San Diego and the Naval Hospital in Camp Pendleton should receive doses of the first coronavirus vaccine this week, the U.S. Department of Defense said. Doses of the Pfizer vaccine began shipping out from a Michigan facility Sunday bound for Southern Californi...

Replies(3) If convicted, Farhat would face up to seven years in federal prison, prosecutors said. (Renee Schiavone/Patch) PALM DESERT, CA — A former Department of Defense civilian official from Palm Desert was arrested on charges that he took illegal cash payments to support a contractors effort to obtain $6.4 million from the government in connection with construction projects in the African nation of Djibouti, the Justice Department announced Monday. Nizar Farhat who was a former constructi...

Reply(1) A total of 16 liquor stores were visited during the drunk decoy operation. (Shutterstock.com) EAST COUNTY, CA — Santee and Lakeside sheriffs deputies and state Alcoholic Beverage Control agents conducted a drunk decoy operation Saturday. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, plain-clothes deputies entered liquor stores in the two cities and acted intoxicated, according to Lt. Richardo Lopez of the San Diego Sheriffs Department. "They smelled of alcohol, stumbled into the store, slurred th...

Torrance — 2,536 Today in LA County there were 70 new deaths and 11,476 new cases of confirmed COVID-19, according to LA County. To date, Public Health has identified 512,872 positive cases of COVID-19 across all areas of L.A. County and a total of 8,269 deaths. Subscribe Said LA County in a news release, "All key Public Health indicators are increasing to record levels. One month ago, on November 12, the 5-day average of cases was 2,134 and today the 5-day average is 10,034; this is an incr...