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Rural California county hums back to life, defying order

by Associated Press
| May 2, 2020 12:03 AM

ALTURAS, Calif. (AP) — At the Brass Rail, two neon signs were beaming “OPEN" Friday, as the town and county slowly hummed to life, the first to do so in California in defiance of Gov. Gavin Newsom's order to stay home.

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