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Demonstrators at Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital in Baytown, Texas, protest a hospital policy requiring employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or lose their jobs. A federal judge dismissed their lawsuit, saying if workers don’t like the rule, they can go find another job.

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Hospital vaccine rules generate worker pushback

by Juan A. Lozano Associated Press, and Brian Melley Associated PressJune 14, 2021

FILE - This undated photo released by the FBI shows Kristin Smart, the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo student who disappeared in 1996. The San Luis Obispo County sheriff plans a major announcement Tuesday, April 13, 2021, in the nearly 25-year mystery of the disappearance of Smart. (FBI via AP, File)

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Prosecutor: Missing Calif. student killed during 1996 rape attempt

by Brian Melley Associated PressApril 14, 2021

FILE - In this July 26, 2018, file photo, former Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna watch the U.S. national championships swimming meet in Irvine, Calif. Federal safety officials are expected to vote Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, on what likely caused the helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others to crash into a Southern California hillside last year, killing all aboard. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, file)

US officials: Pilot error caused Kobe Bryant chopper crash

by Stefanie Dazio Associated Press, Brian Melley Associated Press, and David Koenig Associated PressFebruary 9, 2021

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2020, file photo, medical workers remove a stretcher from an ambulance near medical tents outside the emergency room at UCI Medical Center, in Irvine, Calif. After months spent tamping down surges and keeping the coronavirus at manageable levels, a variety of factors combined to bring California to a crisis point in the pandemic. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

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Once a model, Calif. now struggles to tame virus

by Brian Melley Associated PressJanuary 1, 2021

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020 file photo, manager Yllka Murati waits for a delivery driver to pick up takeout orders behind a partition displaying a sign to remind customers to wear a mask, at the Penrose Diner, in south Philadelphia. Despite the expected arrival of COVID-19 vaccines in just a few weeks, it could take several months — probably well into 2021 — before things get back to something close to normal in the U.S. and Americans can once again go to the movies, cheer at...

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Restaurant workers jobless again as virus surges anew

by Tammy Webber Associated Press, Daniella Peters Associated Press, and Brian Melley Associated PressNovember 24, 2020

Douglas Johnsrude talks on the phone at an emergency evacuation center in Gridley, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. Johnsrude evacuated his home in Feather Falls on Tuesday. He thinks he lost his home in the fire but is not sure. He also lost his home in the Ponderosa Fire in 2017. (AP Photo/Adam Beam)

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California fire that killed 3 threatens thousands of homes

by Terence Chea Associated Press, and Brian Melley Associated PressSeptember 10, 2020

Firefighters watch the Bear Fire approach in Oroville, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. The blaze, part of the lightning-sparked North Complex, expanded at a critical rate of spread as winds buffeted the region. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Explosive Calif. wildfires stoked by fierce winds

by Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press, and Brian Melley Associated PressSeptember 9, 2020

Robert Durst sits in court in Los Angeles, Dec. 21, 2016.

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Lawyers: Robert Durst wrote incriminating ‘cadaver’ note

by Brian Melley Associated PressDecember 31, 2019

Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks March 14 in Hawthorne, Calif.

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Musk: ‘Pedo guy’ tweet was response to insult

by Brian Melley Associated PressDecember 3, 2019

A firefighter sprays water on a leveled home as the Hillside Fire burns in San Bernardino, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019. Whipped by strong wind, the blaze destroyed multiple residences. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Winds driving California fires die down

by Brian Melley Associated Press, and Terence Chea Associated PressOctober 31, 2019