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Vallejo sees rash of homicides during 2020 City accounts for two-thirds of Solano County’s violent deaths Glen Faison
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FAIRFIELD — Authorities investigated 45 deaths – one characterized suspicious in nature, the rest the result of violence or driving incidents – during a year that saw Vallejo and the nearby unincorporated area experience 30 sushomicides. TOP STORIES pected The city itself had 29 reported homicides during the year, with YEAR IN REVIEW an additional homicide in rural Vallejo. The vast majority of the deaths were the result of shootings. Two were incidents of domestic violence in which the suspect also killed himself. The suicides are not included in the city’s total number of homicides for the year. Another suspected killer was shot and killed by police in another county as authorities tried to apprehend him. Three people were shot and killed in two incidents in February. One was a 38-year-old Vallejo man who was shot and killed shortly after 7 p.m. Feb. 6 at Highland Park at 101 Regents Park Drive. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died. The other shooting was a domestic violence incident late Feb. 12 and early Feb. 13 when police report that a man shot See Vallejo, Page A12
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Fairfield Police investigate the scene of a shooting at the intersection of East Tabor and Dover avenues in Fairfield, April 3, 2020. Deantwan Cartwright Myles, 21, was shot in the head and died in the hospital April 10.
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Workers lower an old streetcar onto the tracks at the Western Railway Museum, Thursday.
Historic streetcar arrives at Western Railway Museum
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RIO VISTA — The San Diego Diego Electric Railway PCC No. 502, a streetcar that’s been “desired” by Western Railway Museum volunteers for a few years, will not be referred to as “A Streetcar Named Desire.” A bevy of heavy equipment, and a handful of volunteers, pulled into the open gate that leads to the rear of the Highway 12 museum Thursday morning. On the top of one flatbed trailer was a crane. Aboard the other was the 1937 PCC No. 502. Also in the mix was a pickup truck with rigging equipment as the 34,000pound car would be lifted off the flatbed and onto the track. The history of the car is comparable to how the PCC No. 502 came to Rio Vista. A GoFundMe campaign raised $20,000 to purchase the car as well as transport it from Colfax to Roseville, then down Interstate 80 to Highway 12. It’s the first Presidents Conference Committee streetcar to arrive on the West Coast, said volunteers who helped bring the car to Rio Vista. PCCs were the last streetcars built in the United States prior to the light rail vehicles. The car has been stored outdoors for nearly half a century. The previous owner purchased it in 1998 with the
Workers prepare to lift a newly acquired streetcar onto the tracks at the Western Railway Museum, Thursday. goal of establishing a proposed streetcar line in the South Lake Tahoe area. That didn’t happen. The San Diego Electric Railway ordered 28 PCC cars in 1937 to replace aging equipment, modernize its system and bring back passengers who were moving to the automobile. The 502 was one of two cars painted red and blue for the American Red Cross’ blood donation campaign during World War II. National City Lines purchased the San Diego Electric Railway in 1948,
and by 1949 the streetcar lines were closed and replaced by buses. No. 502 and 16 of its sister PCC cars were sold in 1950 to El Paso City Lines for service on the international loop between El Paso, Texas, and the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, where it was numbered 1500. This line was closed in 1973, and El Paso City Lines shut down a year later. The city of El Paso opted to
It’s ‘World War III,’ says doctor beset by intensely sick Covid-19 patients
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WASHINGTON — Nearly a dozen Republican senators signaled Saturday that they will challenge the Electoral College results next week, a last measure of their full devotion to a defeated president that has frustrated Senate GOP leaders and exacerbated concerns about the health of American democracy. Eleven current and soon-to-be lawmakers – almost a quarter of the
LOS ANGELES — Many Californians spent New Year’s Eve in a safe place with immediate family. Dr. Nick Kwan, the assistant medical director of emergency services at Alhambra Hospital in Los Angeles County, spent it with a Covid-19 patient who went into code blue – cardiac or respiratory arrest – five separate times. Code blue requires the medical staff to summon a quick and intense response to resuscitate the patient. “It’s mentally, physically and emotionally draining,” said Kwan, who
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A nurse holds a Covid-19 patient’s hand before she is intubated by a medical team led by pulmonologist Dr. Laren Tan, center, in the ICU at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, Dec. 15, 2020. The hospital is experiencing a huge surge in Covid-19 patients.
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struggled to articulate the toll that a monthlong surge of Covid-19 patients is placing on his and other hospitals across Los Angeles County. “This is a full-on Category 10. . . . It’s literally World War III,” he said. “It’s not the volume of patients,” he said. “It’s the intensity and sickness of the patients. I’ve never thought some of these numbers are compatible with life, with patients coming in sicker than you can imagine.” Across L.A. County and much of Southern California, hospitals are struggling
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