The Record (Stockton)

WASHINGTON – California Rep. Adam Schiff, the lead manager in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, tried to get senators to put themselves in the shoes of Joe Biden and Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

BEIJING — Cutting off access to entire cities with millions of residents to stop a new virus outbreak is a step few countries other than China would consider, but it is made possible by the ruling Communist Party's extensive social controls and experience fighting the 2002-03 outbreak of SARS.CITIES AFFECTED: The first city closed off was Wuhan, with 11 million people, or 1 1/2 times the population of New York City.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

MIDDLETOWN, N.J. — A former Applebee's supervisor is suing the restaurant chain, claiming she was retaliated against and fired after kicking out a customer who made Islamophobic comments while at the restaurant's bar.Amanda Breaud, 25, of Eatontown was supervising a shift at the chain's Middletown location on Route 35 on May 13, 2019, when she was approached by a customer complaining that a bar patron was having an offensive conversation with a bartender, according to a [...]

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has named a new head of the U.S. Border Patrol.Rodney Scott will take over for Carla Provost, who is retiring, according to an announcement obtained Friday by The Associated Press from Mark Morgan, acting head of U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Influenza rarely gets the sort of attention that coronavirus has, even though flu has already sickened at least 13 million Americans this winter and killed 6,600 people. In a bad year, the flu kills up to 61,000 Americans.

NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area's Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis.Attorneys for about two dozen men suing the church say in court filings that the 276 documents they obtained through discovery show that the NFL team, whose owner is devoutly Catholic, [...]

Members of the San Joaquin County bomb squad and technicians from Travis Air Force Base will be at a north Stockton home today and possibly into the weekend to go through the hundreds of potential military devices discovered there yesterday."Since there are so many, safety is the No.1 concern right now because the technicians have to go one by one through those devices to see if they’re live or not and that’s what’s going to take a long time,” Stockton [...]

The settlement means the closely watched trial will not move forward now, but it does not resolve more than 2,600 other lawsuits across the country seeking to hold the drug industry accountable for an opioid crisis that has been linked to more than 400,000 deaths in the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The Justice Department on Monday issued amended regulations that would mandate DNA collection for almost all migrants who cross between official entry points and are held even temporarily.

Stockton man ID'd as pedestrian killed by trainSTOCKTON — Deallen Jordan, 35, of Stockton was identified as the pedestrian struck and killed by a train Sunday morning south of downtown, according to the San Joaquin County Coroner’s Office.Jordan was on the BNSF Railway tracks where they cross South Lincoln Street when he was hit about 9:34 a.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share