Christopher Weber, Author at Greenfield Recorder

Shania Dod, right, collects a sample at a United Memorial Medical Center COVID-19 testing site, Wednesday, July 8, 2020, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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Americans face testing delays as virus surges

by Christopher Weber Associated Press, and Sophia Tulp Associated PressJuly 8, 2020

LOS ANGELES — For two weeks, Rachael Jones has stayed home, going without a paycheck while waiting and waiting for the results of a COVID-19 test from a pharmacy near Philadelphia. “I’m just so disappointed. I just don’t know how — with the resources…

Ali De Leon pauses at a growing memorial with her son Leo and her dog Vinny across the street from the Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway, Calif., on Monday, April 29, 2019. A gunman opened fire on Saturday, April 27 at the synagogue as dozens of people were worshipping exactly six months after a mass shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue. (AP Photo/Greg Bull)

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FBI got tips about threat minutes before synagogue shooting

by Amy Taxin Associated Press, Christopher Weber Associated Press, and Michael Balsamo Associated PressApril 29, 2019

Austin Beutner, left, Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, speaks during a news conference as Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, right, listens after a tentative deal was reached Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, between school officials and the teachers union that will allow educators to return to classrooms after a six-day strike against the nation's second-largest district. Mayor Eric Garcetti, accompanied by leaders United Teachers Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Unified School District, announced the agreement at City Hall a few hours after a 21-hour bargaining session ended before dawn. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel

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Tentative deal reached to end LA teachers strike

by Christopher Weber Associated Press, and Brian Melley Associated PressJanuary 22, 2019

Spanish teacher at Hamilton High School, Jose Ramos, left, joins teachers during a strike in front of Hamilton High School in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. Los Angeles school administrators urged the union to resume bargaining as tens of thousands of teachers planned to walk picket lines for a third day Wednesday, after being joined on strike for the first time by some of their counterparts from independent charter schools. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

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LA teachers, district to resume negotiations amid strike

by Christopher Weber Associated PressJanuary 17, 2019

Elementary students, from right, Sawyer Mack is joined by his sisters, Capri and Kaya in support of a teachers strike in front of Hamilton High School in Los Angeles on Wed. Jan. 16, 2019. Los Angeles school administrators urged the union to resume bargaining as tens of thousands of teachers planned to walk picket lines for a third day Wednesday, after being joined on strike for the first time by some of their counterparts from independent charter schools. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

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L.A. teachers union hints at new talks

by Christopher Weber Associated PressJanuary 16, 2019

Alessandro Niculescu, 10, holds up a sign in the rain during a teacher strike outside John Marshall High School, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, in Los Angeles. Tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers are striking after contentious contract negotiations failed in the nation's second-largest school district.(AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

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LA teachers strike

by Christopher Weber Associated PressJanuary 14, 2019

Bill Asher walks through mud in his home damaged by storms in Montecito, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018. Rescue workers slogged through knee-deep ooze and used long poles to probe for bodies Thursday as the search dragged on for victims of the mudslides that slammed this wealthy coastal town. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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Hopes of finding survivors drop after Calif. mudslides

by Christopher Weber Associated Press, and Brian Melley Associated PressJanuary 11, 2018

In this photo provided by the Santa Barbara County Fire Department, a Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane makes a water drop on hot spots along the hillside east of Gibraltar Road in Santa Barbara, Calif., Sunday morning, Dec. 17, 2017. One of the largest wildfires in California history is now 40 percent contained but flames still threaten coastal communities as dry, gusty winds are predicted to continue.(Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire Department via AP)

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Flames threaten coastal towns as firefighters mourn

by Christopher Weber Associated PressDecember 17, 2017

In this Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017, photo Cal-Fire firefighters keep watch on a wildfire blaze burning the mountainside near the Cate School campus in Carpinteria, Calif. (Kenneth Song/Santa Barbara News-Press via AP)

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Crews struggle to keep fire from Calif. homes

by Christopher Weber Associated PressDecember 12, 2017

Firefighters light backfire while trying to keep a wildfire from jumping Santa Ana Rd. near Ventura, Calif., on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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New evacuations as huge So. California fire flares up

by Christopher Weber Associated PressDecember 10, 2017