Sam Ribakoff

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Gunshots shocked other officers, who expected to chase and apprehend Nicholas Bils when he ran from police custody, not shoot and kill him, a federal prosecutor argued. SAN DIEGO (CN) — A former San Diego County sheriff's deputy shocked fellow officers when he fatally shot an unarmed man outside San Diego’s downtown jail because the man he shot wasn’t a threat to anyone, an attorney for the federal government said during opening arguments in the officer’s criminal trial on Tuesday.

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SAN DIEGO (CN) — A majority of mental health care workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities in Southern California voted to sign a new contract and end their more than six months of striking, the National Union of Healthcare Workers said on Thursday. “These negotiations were like fighting a battle,” said Adriana Webb, a medical social worker at Kaiser and a member of the NUHW’s bargaining committee, in a press release sent by the union.

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SACRAMENTO (CN) — As mental health care workers are ratifying an agreement to end more than six months of striking against Kaiser Permanente facilities in Southern California, a parent, a therapist and their union president asked California lawmakers Tuesday to keep pressuring the company to improve their mental health services. “The root of the problem is the ongoing systemic undervaluation of behavioral health care by Kaiser Permanente.

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SAN DIEGO (CN) — The city of San Diego can’t prove that demonstrations outside of schools have caused any disruption to students' learning before, therefore an anti-abortion activist should be allowed to hand out leaflets to children without any restrictions, the activist argued at a hearing in San Diego federal court on Friday.

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Annette Hubbell says a San Diego library manager initially asked her to perform as two Black historical figures In her one-person play, and then later backed out when they felt uncomfortable. SAN DIEGO (CN) — A actress and playwright claims the San Diego County Library violated the Civil Rights Act by cancelling her one-person show that included performances of Black historical figures like Mary McLeod Bethune, and Harriet Tubman because she’s white.