Convenience Big Store: 'Prime suspect' arrested in Stockton-native Kristin Smart's 1996 disappearance

'Prime suspect' among two people arrested in Kristin Smart's 1996 disappearance – The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office announced the arrest of Paul Flores, 44, for the death of Kristin Smart. "I hope we can have justice for the Smart family," San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson said in a press conference. Flores was charged with the murder of Smart by the District Attorney's Office. The arrest is decades coming, and Paul Flores was the "prime suspect" in the 25-year-old disappearance of the California college student who was also a Stockton native. Flores was the last person seen with Smart before she vanished in 1996. He was arrested Tuesday in the Los Angeles area. His father, Ruben Flores, was arrested as an accessory to murder after the fact at his Arroyo Grande home, where sheriff’s investigators conducted another search just a month ago using cadaver dogs and ground penetrating radar. (Associated Press, Staff, ABC10)

Northern California counties, health providers adjust to Johnson & Johnson vaccine news – After the CDC and FDA recommended a pause on the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) vaccine, Dr. Rusty Oshita, leader of the vaccination clinic at Luther Burbank High scheduled to inoculate roughly 4,000 people with J&J doses, said she worried they would have to cancel the clinic. It was a step she didn't want to take in one of the region's hardest hit neighborhoods. So at about 5 a.m., they scrambled to come up with a plan B. "We had to pivot and beg, borrow and plead to get our Pfizer vaccine...which means that number one, that's a different draw method, a little bit more labor intensive and also...we need to have a three week follow-up appointment," Oshita said. (Lena Howland, ABC10)

Nugget Markets named one of the best workplaces in the U.S. for 16th year in a row – For the 16th consecutive year, Nugget Markets ranked at number 24 on Fortune Magazine's “100 Best Companies to Work For” 2021 list. The survey noted the company's handling of the coronavirus pandemic as one of its major achievements. "We’re in the people business, we just happen to sell groceries," explained Nugget Markets resident and CEO Eric Stille. "My number one goal was to make sure I was doing everything possible to keep our associates safe as well as our guests safe." Stille said much of the company's culture and values began with his grandfather, Mack Stille, when he founded the first Nugget Market in Woodland in 1926. (Barbara Bingley, ABC10)

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Child tax-credit update It's a strain, but the head of the IRS said Tuesday he expects to meet the July 1 deadline for the child tax-credit program aimed at reducing child poverty. That means new advance monthly payments of as much as $300 per child could begin flowing to lower-income families this summer. (Associated Press)

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13lb rage machine In a sarcastic and yet endearing social media post, a woman wrote a brutally honest depiction of her "loyal beyond belief" foster dog, who's also left her home "in the grips of the demonic Chihuahua hellscape." Tyfanee Fortuna describes some of pup Prancer's idiosyncrasies, including bonding only to women and being prone to attacking other dogs and cats. But, at the end of the day, Prancer is an extremely loyal dog. (Megan Yoder, TEGNA)