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Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Empire has promoted veteran music executive Tina Davis to president, the independent record label, distributor and publisher announced today. In her new role, Davis will continue to lead Empire’s A&R team as well as help with the strategic planning and day-to-day operations of the company. Most recently, Davis served as the company’s senior vice president of A&R. Prior to joining Empire, Davis was the first woman to lead Def Jam’s A&R department — a role she held for more than 10 years, working closely with such artists as Jay-Z, DMX, Method Man and many others. Following Def Jam, she worked closely with Chris Brown, and has been featured on Variety Women’s Impact Report and Dealmakers lists, as well as Billboard;s Women in Music and Hip-Hop/R&B Power Players lists. She also works on Live Nation’s Femme It Forward endeavor for young women and Solano County School District.

Two inmates serving life sentences have died after being attacked at California prisons, corrections officials said Wednesday. Robert Tunstall, 64, died Wednesday morning after another inmate attacked him in the recreation yard at Salinas Valley State Prison, according to a statement from the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Life-saving measures failed and Tunstall was pronounced dead about a half-hour after the attack, authorities said.

Under current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, 13 of California’s 58 counties moved today into “high” levels of Covid and are supposed to require masks in indoor public spaces. They include some of the state’s most populous counties, like Santa Clara and Sacramento as well as some of its smallest, like Del Norte and San Benito.

Wildfires can sometimes result in death — but this one apparently started with a death, too.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorOn Tuesday, California Health and Human Services Director Dr.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorThe LNU complex fire in Northern California became the second-largest wildfire in state history overnight, according to Cal Fire.The blaze has scorched 314,000 acres in five counties: Sonoma, Lake, Napa, Yolo and Solano.

Cisco Adler -- who partnered on NoCap with singer and songwriter Donavon Frankenreiter -- is hoping the platform will usher in a new business model for artists, venues and touring crews that have largely been sidelined by the spread of coronavirus."We started this project four months ago right in the first days of the outbreak," explains Adler, who launched NoCap with a live stream of Frankenreiter's June 26 concert at the Belly Up Tavern in Solano Beach at $10 per ticket."Donovan tours 300 days

A new coronavirus case in California could be the first in the U.S. that has no known connection to travel abroad or another known case, a possible sign the virus is spreading in a U.S.