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The Mt. San Jacinto Community College District Board of Trustees voted on Thursday, Aug. 19, to approve the development and implementation of a COVID-19 vaccination and testing program. The decision, in response to the increasing cases of COVID-19 in the region, authorizes the district to implement a program designed to further protect students, faculty, and staff against COVID-19 and its variants. The program protocols will be discussed at the next Board of Trustees meeting scheduled for Sept. 9, 2021.

During the course of this investigation, three suspects were identified in the murder of victim, Jamon Hampton. The suspects are Maurice Williamson, 31 years of Riverside, Davonte Rowe, 24 years of Riverside, and DaRon Hooks II, 20 years of Riverside.

During the COVID-19 pandemic months of March 2020 to September 2020, U.S. alcohol retail store sales increased compared to usual trends while food services and drinking places sales decreased markedly during the same period, according to a new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. These results indicate an increase in home drinking in the U.S. The findings are published online in the journal Alcohol.

A slew of state legislative efforts aimed at transgender youth put a target on young people’s backs, bullying them and singling them out, said Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, a transgender advocate and policy expert.  

As a follow up to National Financial Awareness Day, Aug. 14, the Department of Veterans Affairs is launching an awareness campaign to inform elderly wartime Veterans and their families of their lesser-known pension, funeral, burial and survivor benefits.