Warning: There’s a good chance your Christmas tree is filled with bugs

Watch out for bugs on your real Christmas tree this holiday season. Top Featured Tags: – New Mexico News Press Release Distribution Service

Here’s how to keep porch pirates from stealing your packages this holiday season

With more people ordering online, there are more opportunities than ever for thieves to get their hands on your gifts. Top Featured Tags: – New Mexico News Press Release Distribution Service

UK investigates possible allergic reactions to COVID-19 shot

U.K. regulators have had two reports of possible allergic reactions from people who took part in the first day of Britain’s mass coronavirus vaccination program against COVID-19. Top Featured Tags: – New Mexico News Press Release Distribution Service

Long Beach will explore whether to enforce its mask mandate

Long Beach may consider enforcing its mask mandate on residents. The City Council voted 6-1 at its Tuesday, Dec. 8, meeting, with Councilmember Stacy Mungo dissenting and Councilmembers Dee Andrews and Al Austin absent, to request the city manager look into the possibility of enforcing mask usage in public spaces. Councilmember Jeannine Pearce brought the…

LA County’s restaurant aid program maxes out on applications

Los Angeles County’s Keep LA County Dining program has received 2,500 requests for $30,000 grants and is no longer accepting applications. The website facilitating grant applications for small restaurants crashed last week and then went back online Monday, Dec. 7. It was not immediately clear how long it took for the maximum number of applications…

Residents offer divided opinions in survey of their trust of LAPD

A survey in the wake of national civil unrest over police shootings asking Los Angeles residents about their police department revealed that people are split in their opinions about how much they trust the police and that recent events in the city have significantly shaped their mindsets, the findings released Tuesday, Dec. 8, showed. The…

Sacramento Mayor Proposes Homeless Crisis ‘Master Plan’

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Mayor Darrell Steinberg says he has a master plan to tackle homelessness in Sacramento in 2021. He says the key will be taking away the power of NIMBY or “not in my back yard” activists who he says have slowed down the search for places to put homeless shelters. Business owner Daniel…

Stockton Teens Riding Popular Bike Targeted At Gunpoint

STOCKTON (CBS13) —Teens are being targeted on the streets of Stockton over a trendy possession. Just last week, three kids were robbed within 24-hours of each other. All of them riding the same kind of bike. The suspects are approaching teens with the same kind of car, gun and at the same time of day.…

Mayor Condemns Placerville Proud Boys Chapter: ‘We Don’t Want You In Placerville’

PLACERVILLE (CBS13) — A Placerville Toys for Tots event took a dark turn this past weekend after the Proud Boys posed with Santa while holding up a gesture widely recognized as a symbol of hate.   “We were asked to take a picture. The police cruiser happened to be in the background,” said Patrick, the Placerville…

Good Afternoon, News: Portland Police Evicted from Red House, Supremes Betray Trump, and One Vaccination Down—7.5 Billion to Go

by Wm. Steven Humphrey The UK administers the first of what will eventually be billions of COVID vaccinations. Pool / Getty Images Europe Here’s your daily roundup of all the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • Around 100 protesters clashed…

Your Holiday Takeout Roundup—for the Tastiest Quarantine Ever!

by Mercury EverOut Staff Tusk [Here’s another great article from our 2020 Holiday Food & Drink Guide! Check the rest out here to make your holidays extra festive!—eds.] We know, you’ve already heard the now-familiar refrain: This holiday season won’t be the same, but no matter what form your responsible festivities take, you can still…

Your Sex Questions Answered LIVE—Don’t Miss the Savage Love Livestream, This Saturday!

by Wm. Steven Humphrey Now more than ever, you need some top-notch sex and relationship advice, right? (Or at the very least, hearing about the dirty, private lives of others?) Then this Saturday’s SAVAGE LOVE LIVESTREAM is for you! Do not miss this extra special LIVE version of the Savage Lovecast, in which the honorable…

Pedestrian fatally struck while walking in street in Orange

A pedestrian was struck and killed while walking in a street in Orange on Tuesday evening, the Orange Police Department said. The man was hit by a red sedan traveling south around 7 p.m. near the 1900 block of North Tustin Street, the Police Department reported. Paramedics responded and the victim was transported to a…

Man and woman killed in Newport Beach crash

A crash involving a car and an SUV in Newport Beach left two people dead on Tuesday evening, Dec. 8. The collision happened near South Pelican Hill Road and Newport Coast Drive at about 7:45 p.m., Newport Beach police spokeswoman Heather Rangel said. An SUV occupied by a single motorist collided with a car carrying…

After Bond fire menaced their homes, some canyon residents return

When David and Dar Sherwin returned to their sprawling ranch property in Williams Canyon in the Santa Ana Mountains, they found a little note from the firefighters who saved their home. The couple paused. Both teared up. “It said, ‘We have your back,’” Dar Sherwin said. Patio furniture sits outside a burned property on Williams…

China tests more than 250,000 people in three days to contain new Covid cluster

The Chinese government has tested 255,200 people in the southern city of Chengdu for Covid-19 after an elderly couple were diagnosed on Monday and contact tracing was completed to establish potential transmissions. Chengdu’s Health Commission announced that four individuals tested positive and one individual was found to be asymptomatic, alongside the two initial infections. All…

Beijing slams Washington’s ‘long-arm jurisdiction’ as US Treasury sanctions Chinese companies shipping North Korean coal

China’s Foreign Ministry has blasted Washington for its decision to blacklist Chinese companies allegedly involved in shipping of North Korean coal, saying it firmly opposes US interference in domestic affairs. Speaking during a daily press briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told reporters Beijing would “safeguard” the rights and interests of all Chinese companies and…

Contrary to climate alarmism and media coverage, reef islands are GROWING despite rising sea, says new study

Against all odds, low-lying reef islands actually appear to be growing in some parts of the world, despite rising sea levels, increasing their footprint and defying doomsday predictions. Geomorphologist Murray Ford from the University of Auckland in New Zealand led a team of researchers who examined Jeh Island, one of the 56 islands that make…

Ask a Climatologist: Southeast Alaska rain shattered many records

The ground outside of the AWARE offices on Glacier Avenue in Juneau is covered in debris after a mudslide on December 2. (Rashah McChesney/KTOO) Pretty much all of Southeast Alaska received record rain last week when a veritable fire hose of moisture hit the region. The rain wrecked havoc in some places, causing sinkholes and…

Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Volunteers carry heavy, wet carpet out of a home damaged by flooding as another dumps gravel on the ice in front of them to help with traction on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/KTOO) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. You can subscribe to Alaska Public Media’s newsfeeds via email, podcast and RSS. Follow us on Facebook…

Once again, Arctic Report Card shows the abnormal is now normal

Image from GlobalChange.gov The 2020 Arctic Report Card is out, and the results show the Arctic continues to warm at an accelerated rate. This year was the second warmest on record in the Arctic, with impacts to sea ice, erosion and marine ecosystems. In 2006, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its first Arctic Report Card,…

Amount of water released into Missouri River reduced

The Corps began reducing water flow from Gavins Point Dam late last month and has now reached its winter level of about 17,000 cubic feet per second. Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

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