CALIFORNIA – Manna Beverages told the California Employment Development Department (EDD) it laid off 638 employees statewide on October 7. The move comes as the...

BARSTOW – WorldStrides, an educational travel and experiential learning company, announced that Barstow High School Aztecs marching band was selected to perform at the Alamo Bowl, December 29, in San Antonio Texas.

CALIFORNIA — A routine DUI enforcement operation took an unexpected turn last week when San Bruno police officers stopped a fully autonomous vehicle that made an illegal U-turn directly in front of them. “There was no driver, no hands, no clue,” the department joked in a Facebook post describing the encounter. Officers contacted the vehicle’s operator, Waymo, to report the violation since there was no human behind the wheel to cite. Because California’s Vehicle Code still requires traffic citations to be issued to a person — not a machine — the officers couldn’t issue a ticket. “Our citation books don’t have a box for ‘robot,’” the department said. DMV has received 868 autonomous vehicle collision reports As of September...