Entertainment Industry Foundation Launches Campaign to Support California’s Firefighters

CAMBRIA At the 25-room White Water lodge, which sits on Moonstone Beach (located a little south of Hearst Castle), most rooms have full or partial ocean views and fireplaces. Owner PRG Hospitality Group also recently opened a sister property, the San Luis Creek Lodge, in San Luis Obispo.

Kendrick Sampson, the actor and activist co-founder of the social justice group BLD PWR, has been an active voice this year in local L.A. politics, including co-leading a weekly protest at the offices of Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey over her handling of police killings of civilians.

A group of officials from California's major theme parks gathered Wednesday for a virtual press conference to once again voice their outrage over the state's reopening guidelines for their businesses. They went so far as to say legal action is being considered.

Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood on Tuesday received stringent guidelines from the state for reopening after being shuttered most of the year due to the pandemic. The industry has been locked in a bitter battle with California Gov.

A sizable number of California residents acquired a firearm since the coronavirus pandemic began as concerns about violence rose throughout recent months, a new study shows. An estimated 110,000 people acquired firearms in the state, including about 47,000 first-time owners, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of California, Davis, and several other institutions.

A U.S. Navy fighter jet crashed in southern California on Tuesday, a U.S.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorJust minutes after California’s Director of Health and Human Services on Tuesday unveiled restrictive new guidelines under which amusement parks in the state could reopen, the industry fired back.“We have proven that we can responsibly reopen, with science-based health and safety protocols strictly enforced at our theme park properties around the world,” said Disneyland Resort president Ken Potrock.

new state guidelines released on Tuesday.Smaller parks can reopen outdoor attractions with 500 visitors or at 25% capacity, whichever is fewer, if the county the park is located in has reached the state’s “moderate” tier.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorCalifornia’s director of Health and Human Services, Dr.

Dave McNary Film ReporterThe state of California has set strict guidelines for reopening Disneyland and other large theme parks in the coming months.California’s Director of Health and Human Services, Dr. Mark Ghaly, announced Tuesday at a news conference that the large California theme parks will only be able to open when their counties reach the lowest “yellow” tier under the color-coded reopening system for counties based on coronavirus prevalence and testing rates.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorOn Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom teased the release of reopening rules for theme parks saying cryptically, “We are going to break up the theme parks…Not just one or two brands, it is many different parts of the theme park industry.”Well, now we know what that means.Smaller theme parks can resume operations in the state’s Orange Tier.All theme parks may resume operations in tier 4, Yellow, which is much further down the road.California’s director of Health and Human

A year after resigning from Congress amid a nude photo scandal, former U.S. Rep.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesIt was 2003 and Maria Shriver had begun her tenure as first lady of California when her father, Sargent Shriver — U.S. ambassador to France, 1972 vice presidential candidate and the first director and co-founder of the Peace Corps — was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, a ravaging brain disease that, according to statistics procured from the Alzheimer’s Assn., affects some 5.8 million Americans and 50 million individuals globalwide.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham, who is accused of having had an extramarital affair, received multiple campaign contributions from his alleged mistress around the time they were supposedly intimate, campaign finance records show.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has launched attack ads against his Democratic challenger MJ Hegar with less than three weeks left before the election.

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla on Wednesday said that the number of vote-by-mail ballots that have been returned has already well-exceeded the number of ballots returned at this same point in the 2016 presidential election. “As of this morning, over 1.5 million vote-by-mail ballots have already been returned by California voters,” Padilla wrote in a statement.