This morning, a semi-truck crashed into an SUV that was carrying 25 people on a Southern California highway near the Mexican border. 13 people were killed and others were injured in the two-vehicle accident.
A vehicle was traveling westbound on Norrish Road near State Route 115 when it traveled "in the direct path" of a semi-truck traveling northbound on 115. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
California Highway Patrol Chief Omar Watson said 12 people died at the scene, which is about 11 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, and another died after arriving at the hospital. Hospital officials earlier reported there were 15 killed and more people in the SUV.
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The Monterey Peninsula Unified School District says it will reopen and start bringing kids back into the classroom starting next month.
The Monterey school district is marking one year of being closed for in-person learning due to the pandemic. School officials say they are hopeful of seeing kids back in the classroom after spring break.
The grades and return dates are planned for in-person instruction in a hybrid model, as follows:
- April 8 and 9 | Transitional Kindergarten - 5th Grades
- April 12 | 6th, 9th, and 10th Grades (This date is contingent on Monterey County entering the red tier)
- April 19 | 7th, 8th, 11th, and 12th Grades (This date is contingent on Monterey County entering the red tier)
MPUSD held a community Town Hall in English and Spanish on Thursday To see an archive of the meeting, as well as the PowerPoint, click here.
A town hall to answer parents' questions is scheduled for mid-March.
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President Biden said on Tuesday that the U.S. will produce enough vaccines for every adult in the U.S. by the end of May, while making a fresh push to vaccinate school staff over the next month.
"We're now on track to have enough vaccine supply for every adult in America by the end of May," Biden said, crediting his administration's efforts to boost production and moving up the timeline from the end of July, which is what the president was saying just a few weeks ago.
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A serial killer, known as the “1-5 Strangler”, was killed Sunday while incarcerated at Mule Creek State Prison. 81 year-old Roger Reece Kibbe, who was serving multiple life sentences, was found unresponsive in his cell...and although he was moved to the prison health care facility he was pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
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