Articles for Half Moon Bay

Farms where mass shooting killed workers must pay more than $450,000 in back wages and damages
7 months ago

Farms where mass shooting killed workers must pay more than $450,000 in back wages and damages

LA Times  

A cluster of mobile homes is seen at the California Terra Garden, formerly Mountain Mushroom Farm, in Half Moon Bay, Calif., last year. Two mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay, where seven people were killed in a mass shooting, owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in back wages to workers, and charged many of them to illegally live in trailers …

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California farmworkers cheer new housing in town scarred by mass shooting
7 months ago

California farmworkers cheer new housing in town scarred by mass shooting

Al Jazeera  

California’s high cost of living has pushed many agricultural labourers into cramped and unserviced housing. Half Moon Bay, California – Almost a year and a half after a mass shooting took the lives of seven farmworkers in the town of Half Moon Bay, California, a new project is seeking to address the poor living conditions experienced by many of the …

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After mass shooting that killed farmworkers, Gov. Newsom urges Half Moon Bay to stop delaying housing project
7 months, 2 weeks ago

After mass shooting that killed farmworkers, Gov. Newsom urges Half Moon Bay to stop delaying housing project

LA Times  

In an aerial view, greenhouses are seen at a farm where a mass shooting occurred in 2023 in Half Moon Bay. The plan, currently under review by the city’s planning commission, would result in 40 low-income units in a five-story building for retired and aging farmworkers, with a resource center in Half Moon Bay’s downtown. “This delay is egregious and …

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California’s water outlook has brightened for now, but salmon and other fish are still in peril
8 months, 2 weeks ago

California’s water outlook has brightened for now, but salmon and other fish are still in peril

LA Times  

Welcome to today’s edition of Boiling Point. “It’s all water mismanagement.” Brown said his business was down 40% because of the shutdown of salmon fishing last year, and the outlook this year isn’t much better. For my story about the salmon fishing shutdown, I also spoke with Charlton “Chuck” Bonham, director of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, who …

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Salmon populations are struggling, bringing economic woes for California’s fishing fleet
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Salmon populations are struggling, bringing economic woes for California’s fishing fleet

LA Times  

On the docks at Pillar Point Harbor, fishing crews have been arriving with loads of freshly caught Dungeness crab. Charter boat captain Duane Winter, right, catches up with commercial fisherman Chris Pedersen on the docks in Half Moon Bay, Calif. “The problem is, fish don’t pay for water, and everybody else does. If the state doesn’t make changes to ensure …

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Florida man steals a plane in California, crash lands it on a nearby beach and walks off, sheriff says
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Florida man steals a plane in California, crash lands it on a nearby beach and walks off, sheriff says

LA Times  

A photo from the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office shows the fixed-wing, single-engine plane that was allegedly stolen from Palo Alto Airport on Thursday evening and flown to Poplar Beach in Half Moon Bay. A Florida man purloined a plane in Palo Alto on Thursday and put it down on a beach in Half Moon Bay, according to flummoxed San …

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Joe Biden remembers victims of Monterey Park, Half Moon Bay shootings one year after massacres, calls for gun control
11 months ago

Joe Biden remembers victims of Monterey Park, Half Moon Bay shootings one year after massacres, calls for gun control

Hindustan Times  

One year after the tragic Monterey Park shooting, president Joe Biden has paid tribute to the people who lost their lives. He also remembered those who died two days later when a gunman opened fire in Half Moon Bay, killing seven people. Just two days later, a shooter murderedseven people at two landscaping nurseries in Half Moon Bay in San …

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Woman’s body discovered after small plane crash in Half Moon Bay
11 months, 1 week ago

Woman’s body discovered after small plane crash in Half Moon Bay

LA Times  

The investigation continues into the Sunday night crash of a small plane in the waters near Half Moon Bay. Authorities on Monday suspended their search for possible survivors after a Cozy Mark IV plane crashed into the water near Half Moon Bay Sunday night, shortly after taking off from Half Moon Bay Airport. The body was spotted by a commercial …

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Pumpkin weighing 2,749 pounds wins California contest, sets world record for biggest gourd
1 year, 2 months ago

Pumpkin weighing 2,749 pounds wins California contest, sets world record for biggest gourd

Associated Press  

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — A Minnesota horticulture teacher set a world record in California on Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after growing a giant jack-o'-lantern gourd weighing 2,749 pounds. A pumpkin called “Michael Jordan,” grown by Travis Gienger of Anoka, Minn., is lifted to be weighed at the Safeway 50th annual World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, …

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Golf, Aussie-style: How to play alongside crocodiles, snakes and kangaroos
1 year, 5 months ago

Golf, Aussie-style: How to play alongside crocodiles, snakes and kangaroos

CNN  

CNN — A ball flies down the fairway, watched by a mob of kangaroos with passing interest. It brings a new meaning to the term ‘water hazards’ at Queensland’s various golf courses, including Half Moon Bay Golf Club near Cairns, situated on the state’s north-eastern tropical coastline and carved out of the thick coastal scrub between the Coral Sea and …

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Golf, Aussie-style: How to play alongside crocodiles, snakes and kangaroos
1 year, 5 months ago

Golf, Aussie-style: How to play alongside crocodiles, snakes and kangaroos

CNN  

CNN — A ball flies down the fairway, watched by a mob of kangaroos with passing interest. It brings a new meaning to the term ‘water hazards’ at Queensland’s various golf courses, including Half Moon Bay Golf Club near Cairns, situated on the state’s north-eastern tropical coastline and carved out of the thick coastal scrub between the Coral Sea and …

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What's prompting more Asian Americans to taking up guns in the US?
1 year, 10 months ago

What's prompting more Asian Americans to taking up guns in the US?

Firstpost  

Azusa: Ricky Lam has always stayed away from guns. “But it’s a great tool for self-defence; I’d rather have protection than rely on good luck.” Pandemic Around 6.6 per cent of the US population identifies as ethnically Asian, and, while no precise national statistics exist, gun industry watchers say the community has traditionally been less involved with guns than other …

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Half Moon Bay farmworkers processing shooting as jobs resume
1 year, 10 months ago

Half Moon Bay farmworkers processing shooting as jobs resume

Associated Press  

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — Barely a week after their colleagues were fatally shot, workers were back picking mushrooms at a farm in northern California. “We all feel like we need each other; we feel like the people at the farm are the ones who really understand you right now,” said one worker at the farm in Half Moon Bay …

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‘They have to return to survive’: Farmworkers back at work after Half Moon Bay shootings
1 year, 10 months ago

‘They have to return to survive’: Farmworkers back at work after Half Moon Bay shootings

LA Times  

Less than a week after seven people were killed in a mass shooting at two mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay, agricultural workers returned to work at the sites where their colleagues and neighbors were gunned down. “We said whenever you’re ready to come back to work, as you’re comfortable, we’ll accommodate.” The reopening of the farms comes as farmworker …

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California shooting underscores strain on state’s farmworkers
1 year, 10 months ago

California shooting underscores strain on state’s farmworkers

Al Jazeera  

A mass shooting that killed seven farmworkers in the United States last week has brought renewed attention to the hardships faced by agricultural workers in the state of California, stretched thin by low wages and the high cost of living. The shooting on January 23 took place in the coastal community of Half Moon Bay, a small coastal town about …

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Our psychological armor helps us cope with mass shootings, but numbs us to the destruction
1 year, 10 months ago

Our psychological armor helps us cope with mass shootings, but numbs us to the destruction

LA Times  

People in Oakland gather Wednesday for a candlelight vigil in memory of the shooting victims in Monterey Park, Half Moon Bay and Oakland. California Honoring the lives lost in the Monterey Park mass shooting On Jan. 21, the Monterey Park community was shattered when the Star Ballroom Dance Studio became the site of one of California’s worst mass shootings in …

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Monterey Park. Half Moon Bay. Our deranged gun culture kills again
1 year, 10 months ago

Monterey Park. Half Moon Bay. Our deranged gun culture kills again

LA Times  

I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023. Of course, I’m talking about the mass shooting Jan. 21 in Monterey Park, where 11 people died at a dance studio amid Lunar New Year revelry. Which is what The Times’ editorial board did in its piece reacting to Monterey Park: “Past perpetrators have included the psychotic, domestic abusers, bigots, …

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‘I want to be heard’: Half Moon Bay farmworkers struggle in ‘deplorable’ conditions
1 year, 10 months ago

‘I want to be heard’: Half Moon Bay farmworkers struggle in ‘deplorable’ conditions

LA Times  

It’s not news to Bernardina Medrano and Margarita Martinez that many migrant farmworkers along the San Mateo County coast live in “deplorable” conditions, as Gov. “Like it’s all about to fall.” On Friday night, hundreds gathered at Mac Dutra Park in Half Moon Bay for a memorial service for the shooting victims. Both received applause, and the hundreds of attendees …

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Farm where 4 were killed had separate shooting last summer
1 year, 10 months ago

Farm where 4 were killed had separate shooting last summer

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — The shooting that left four dead at a California mushroom farm on Monday was at least the second time an employee tried to kill a coworker on the property, records show. Law enforcement interviewed Bing’s wife, Ping Yang, but it’s not clear from those interviews whether Bing was at home during the shooting, said Sean Gallagher, chief …

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Suspect in Half Moon Bay farm killings faces 7 murder counts
1 year, 10 months ago

Suspect in Half Moon Bay farm killings faces 7 murder counts

Associated Press  

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — A farmworker accused of killing seven people in back-to-back shootings at two Northern California mushroom farms was charged Wednesday with seven counts of murder and one of attempted murder. Authorities believe Zhao acted alone Monday when he entered a mushroom farm where he worked in Half Moon Bay, shot and killed four people and seriously …

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Accused Half Moon Bay gunman says he suffered ‘years of bullying’ as authorities investigate ‘deplorable’ farm conditions
1 year, 10 months ago

Accused Half Moon Bay gunman says he suffered ‘years of bullying’ as authorities investigate ‘deplorable’ farm conditions

LA Times  

Chunli Zhao appears at an arraignment in San Mateo Superior Court in Redwood City, Calif., on Wednesday. “California is investigating the farms involved in the Half Moon Bay shooting to ensure workers are treated fairly and with the compassion they deserve.” California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health and the labor commissioner’s office confirmed they’re investigating the two Half Moon …

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Suspected Half Moon Bay Shooter To Be Charged With 7 Counts Of Murder
1 year, 10 months ago

Suspected Half Moon Bay Shooter To Be Charged With 7 Counts Of Murder

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — A farmworker accused of killing seven people in back-to-back shootings at two Northern California mushroom farms will be charged with seven counts of murder and one of attempted murder, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Authorities believe Zhao acted alone Monday when he entered a mushroom farm where he worked in Half Moon Bay …

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Fatigue and despair build as California copes with massacres
1 year, 10 months ago

Fatigue and despair build as California copes with massacres

Associated Press  

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — In the wake of the worst massacre in Los Angeles County history, the California governor was meeting gunshot victims in the hospital when he was pulled away and briefed on a mass shooting at the other end of the state. “I can’t keep doing them,” he told reporters earlier Monday in Monterey Park, where 11 people …

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Suspect in shootings at Half Moon Bay farms was employee
1 year, 10 months ago

Suspect in shootings at Half Moon Bay farms was employee

Associated Press  

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — A farmworker killed seven people in back-to-back shootings in a case of “workplace violence” at two Northern California mushroom farms, officials said Tuesday as the state mourned its third mass killing in just over a week. Authorities believe Zhao acted alone when he entered a mushroom farm in Half Moon Bay, California, and opened fire, …

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