A 63-year-old restaurant in Santa Barbara, Calif., has decided to rebrand entirely after a petition urged the owner to change the eatery’s name amid the ongoing George Floyd protests.Sambo’s, which was once part of a large chain of breakfast restaurants, was originally named after its two founders — Sam Battistone and Newell Bohnett — who…
A month into the statewide stay-at-home order due to COVID-19, life in Santa Barbara County is markedly different. Some of the biggest changes – closing schools, bars, dine-in restaurants and “non-essential businesses” — were already implemented by the time Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the order on March 19. The shutdown has had a huge economic toll,…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…