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This Thursday, May 27, 2021, photo shows the closed Sears in Buena Park Mall in Buena Park, Calif. California state lawmakers are grappling with a particularly 21st-century problem: What to do with the growing number of shopping malls and big-box retail stores left empty by consumers shifting their purchases to the web. A possible answer in crowded California cities is to build housing on these sites, which already have ample parking and are close to existing neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
California eyes shuttered malls, stores for new housing

By Adam Beam May. 31, 2021 04:53 PM EDT

Nurse practitioner Sigrid Stokes, 76, gives a health care worker a COVID-19 vaccine at the Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in Salinas, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Stokes is following in her family's footsteps during the pandemic. In 1918, Stokes' mother Kristine Berg Mueller was a 14-year-old hospital volunteer in Norway during the Spanish Flu pandemic, putting her in regular contact with the deadly disease. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)
2 nurses: Her mom battled 1918 pandemic, she fights this one

By Haven Daley And John Rogers Feb. 05, 2021 12:05 AM EST