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July 7, 2020 | 8:01pm A California duo was charged with a hate crime for defacing a newly painted Black Lives Matter mural outside of a courthouse, officials announced Tuesday. Nichole Anderson, 42, was filmed using a roller to cover part of the yellow letters with black paint on Saturday as her cohort, 53-year-old David…

Jordan Culver, USA TODAY Published 9:04 p.m. ET July 7, 2020 CLOSE Cities across the country followed Washington D.C.'s lead by painting "Black Lives Matter" and other words of support on city streets. USA TODAYA white man and woman who were captured on video vandalizing a Black Lives Matter street mural in California face hate crime charges,…

By Amy Graff, SFGATE Published 12:04 pm PDT, Monday, July 6, 2020 UCSF Hellen Diller Medical Center Hospital in San Francisco, Calif. on March 20, 2020. The Bay Area is under a shelter-in-place order due to the the COVID-19 coronavirus. UCSF Hellen Diller Medical Center Hospital in San Francisco, Calif. on March 20, 2020. The Bay…

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As COVID-19 infections spread rapidly through California’s prisons, authorities on Monday announced the replacement of the state correction system’s top medical officer, and Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized an earlier decision to transfer hundreds of inmates from a Chino facility that had been battling an outbreak.The leadership shakeup occurred as corrections officials reported three more deaths…