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One house, two doctors, three generations and the long-awaited relief of a vaccine Diana Marcum © Provided by The LA Times Dr. Rene Ramirez, an emergency medicine physician, and Dr. Veronica Ramirez, a pediatrician, help their daughters Danielle, 5, left, and Samantha, 8, with school work at their home in Fresno. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) In the Before (as their children call pre-coronavirus), Rene and Veronica Ramirez sometimes joked after a hectic day that they were “livin’ the dream.” It was a dream hard-won. Veronica, a pediatrician, was the daughter of...

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In the dusty fields of the San Joaquin Valley, “El Profe” brings masks, music and help to farm laborers, some of whom are barely scraping by. A year ago, Rene and his colleagues with the Fresno campus of UC San Francisco, saw hospitals in Italy overrun with COVID-19 patients. They knew it was only a matter of time until it reached California’s fifth-largest city, which has some of the nation’s most concentrated poverty and is surrounded by farm towns where people work closely in the fields, packing houses and processing plants. Advertisement Some of the doctors bought RVs or built gue...

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California Man Sentenced to More Than 7 Years in Prison for Orchestrating Firearms Trafficking Ring Details Written by Imperial Valley News Fresno, California - Rafael Sanchez, Jr., 41, of Hanford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to seven years and three months in prison for orchestrating a large-scale firearms trafficking ring, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. According to court documents, between April 2016 and March 2018, while residing in Hanford, Sanchez identified firearms available for purchase in Tennessee with the assistance of...