Last year, the western states were hit with a double-whammy of natural disasters: Not just the COVID-19 pandemic, but also a historically long and intense wildfire season that blanketed the region with plume after plume of noxious smoke. The confluence of those two was deadly: A study published recently in …
Read More »Deaths At Coalinga State Hospital: How We Conducted Our Investigation
Last year, 30 patients died at Coalinga State Hospital, a psychiatric facility in western Fresno County. That’s more than 2 percent of the population–a death rate that’s almost twice the average of California’s entire state hospital system, and almost seven times higher than the rate within the state prison system. …
Read More »Report: During 8 Months In 2020, Deaths Among Farm Workers Rose 40 Percent
Since the start of the pandemic, 43,000 Californians have officially died due to COVID-19 . But a new research paper by a team of epidemiologists at the University of California, San Francisco suggests that the true death toll due to the virus is likely much higher , after studying deaths …
Read More »State Senator Questions Medical Board About Its Handling Of Bakersfield Doctor After Patient Deaths
A San Joaquin Valley legislator is seeking answers from the Medical Board of California as to why the oversight agency allowed a Bakersfield doctor to remain in practice even though it determined he had been negligent with patients. Obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Arthur Park has been associated with the deaths of at …
Read More »Deaths Of Mothers, Infants During Childbirth Prompt Calls To Revoke Bakersfield Doctor’s License
Following a string of patient injuries and deaths, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Bakersfield has been placed on probation. Dr. Arthur Park has been treating women and delivering babies in Bakersfield since 1988. In that time, he’s also been the defendant in at least 10 lawsuits alleging negligence, medical malpractice, or wrongful …
Read More »Dozens of baby gulls pushed to their deaths in Chicago were attacked by other gulls, not humans, wildlife official says
Wildlife officials say some 70 baby seagulls found on a Chicago sidewalk were attacked and, in most cases, dropped to their death by older birds in their colony. Annette Prince, … Click to Continue »
Read More »Two climbers fall to their deaths off El Capitan in Yosemite National Park
Two rock climbers fell to their deaths while scaling El Capitan in Yosemite National Park Saturday morning. At 8:15 a.m., park rangers received multiple 911 calls reporting an incident at … Click to Continue »
Read More »NOAA probes 13 North Atlantic right whale deaths
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries division and Canadian authorities are launching an investigation after a number of North Atlantic right whales have died this summer, stressing the already … Click to Continue »
Read More »One tree, three fiery deaths and a highway judged America’s most dangerous. Is Caltrans to blame?
Is a solitary eucalyptus tree standing alongside Highway 99 through Madera County an example of deadly negligence by the state of California? One attorney says it is. Los Angeles attorney … Click to Continue »
Read More »NOAA investigating humpback whale deaths, including 2 in Maryland waters
Biologists are investigating an unusual number of humpback whale deaths along the Atlantic Coast since the beginning of 2016, including six in recent months at the mouth of the Chesapeake … Click to Continue »
Read More »Pedestrian deaths in Merced County continue to rise, following national trend
Pedestrian deaths in Merced County appear in line with a national trend that shows people on foot are dying in traffic collisions at a higher rate than years past. A … Click to Continue »
Read More »2 pedestrian deaths under investigation in Merced County
In less than an hour, two separate incidents Thursday evening left two pedestrians dead and investigators searching for answers. Investigators on Friday were searching for the driver of a pickup … Click to Continue »
Read More »Parachutes didn’t open in Lodi tandem skydiving deaths last month
A skydiving instructor and a first-time jumper plummeted to their deaths after the instructor’s main and emergency parachutes failed to open during a tandem jump near Lodi last month, the … Click to Continue »
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