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Six months after California lost its first victim to COVID-19, the state surpassed 10,000 deaths — a grim milestone, composed largely of Los Angeles County’s death toll.
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Restaurants and food trucks can operate but L.A. County public heath officials continue to shut out vendors who prepare food at farmers markets.
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Allegations that two Los Angeles police officers lied about a traffic stop and planted a gun into evidence to justify a man’s arrest in 2018 are now in the hands of county prosecutors after a review by LAPD internal affairs detectives.
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A proposed ordinance would allow L.A. to revoke city approvals for real estate projects if the City Council finds developers engaged in corruption.
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Alameda County in California’s Bay Area is planning to offer stipends of $1,250 for low-income residents to stay home if they have tested positive for COVID-19.
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Caltrans announced both the southbound and northbound 55 connectors in Costa Mesa will close at 10 p.m. Friday and reopen at 5 a.m. on Monday.
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In weeks, as many as 1 million families across California may be at risk of being forced out of their homes, pushed off the ‘eviction cliff.’
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Hit with a flood of more than 9 million applications for unemployment benefits, California is trying to identify which of them may be fraudulent.
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Expanded federal jobless benefits and an eviction moratorium have expired. And the biggest state protection against evictions could go away this month.
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Current and former employees at Cal/OSHA say dysfunction and vacancies have hobbled agency during ongoing crisis
State Laws, Politics & Policy
California elections officials are scrambling to determine how many voting locations they can muster, and how they’ll find enough short-term workers to enforce coronavirus safety measures.
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Black and Latino voters, especially those who mostly speak Spanish, are far more likely than white voters to report the virus has had an impact on jobs and health.
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If Joe Biden chooses a short-listed Californian as his running mate — Sen. Kamala Harris or Rep. Karen Bass — the decision will have a significant impact on politics in the state.
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California’s legislative leaders want more time before a state court-imposed eviction ban is lifted amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A Sacramento scheme to keep borrowing federal dollars to help those in need echoes California’s historical progressivism. Upton Sinclair would admire the moxie.
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The lack of reliable test result data is disrupting pandemic response efforts, leaving officials in the dark about the spread of COVID-19.
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Just days before fall semester is set to begin, California colleges and universities are scrambling to finalize reopening plans, but top leaders say the state’s lack of guidance has frustrated efforts to bring back limited in-person learning and dorm living.
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Hit with a flood of more than 9 million applications for unemployment benefits, California is trying to identify which of them may be fraudulent.
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The coronavirus is now hitting California’s Central Valley the hardest.
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California has mandated that school districts continue to provide special education to students with disabilities during the pandemic, but has waived key timelines that allow students to receive assessments and services quickly.
Ventura County is suing pastor Rob McCoy and Godspeak Calvary Chapel, which has hosted in-person, indoor services without masks or social distance since May 31.
California’s toll underscores how a state that was once hailed as a pandemic success story is now struggling to slow outbreaks.
The 32 newly reported fatalities pushed the county’s total deaths related to the coronavirus to 697.
Two people were arrested for manufacturing and selling drugs at a hotel used to house homeless people who are at risk for contracting COVID-19.
Sgt. Seeyengkee Ly spent more than 17 years with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
At fraternity houses and Hollywood mansions, parties that defy public health orders are fueling a coronavirus surge in the young.
Police were sent to a wedding reception at a mansion in the tony Holmby Hills area Wednesday night in response to multiple noise complaints.
The Sacramento Kings’ former arena was one of 15 California sites turned into COVID-19 field hospitals, at a cost of millions of dollars.
Fishing the L.A. River offers a respite from the stresses of a global pandemic, social unrest and partisan politics — in a convenient socially distanced setting.
The coronavirus pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on L.A. communities. On one day, we look at how the pandemic is playing out across the city.
Churches in California’s “Bible Belt” reopen, again, with new complications.
Lucy Reyes worked at Mitla Cafe, the oldest Mexican restaurant in the Inland Empire, for 68 of its 83 years.
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How a national tutoring program for new college graduates could ease the burden on teachers.
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Educators, health officials and scientists are still working to understand what it will take to make schools safe in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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As many private preschools prepare to reopen for the school year, many of California’s poorest and neediest children are stuck at home, waiting for public preschools to reopen or offer distance learning, which is far from ideal for a 4-year-old.
Housing & Homelessness
There’s a good reason not to force homeless people to move off a sidewalk for deep cleaning. It means they move somewhere else and increase their chances of getting COVID. If we are going to do cleanings, let’s be careful.
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The death of a promising young skateboarder fits a surprising pattern: Increasingly, homeless people in L.A. and its environs are dying by hanging.
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Housing advocates fear that they could see a wave of evictions in the coming months, as states end moratoriums put in place during the coronavirus outbreak.
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In repealing a rule meant to integrate neighborhoods, President Trump is relying on outdated and false stereotypes of suburban life.
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Leland “Hobo” Goodsell and his dog, Dreamer, were a familiar sight in Goleta. He died of COVID-19 in April.
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A judge ordered officials to provide space in shelters or alternative housing for homeless residents living near freeways. But where will they go?
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A magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported at 9 a.m. Thursday off the California coast, 16 miles from Santa Cruz.
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A magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Tuesday afternoon at 2:28 p.m. Pacific time 11 miles from Coalinga, Calif., according to the USGS.
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The quake was reported Monday afternoon at 3:18 p.m. Pacific time in Placentia, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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The earthquake was reported Sunday morning at 5:40 a.m. Pacific time less than a mile from San Jose, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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The Alameda County Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved a pilot program to give some residents diagnosed with COVID-19 a $1,250 one-time stipend to stay home and quarantine.
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Ventura County firefighters made the best of a fowl situation as they rescued seven chickens from a garage fire in Camarillo on Thursday.
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Grand jury charges UC Davis researcher with visa fraud and concealing membership in Chinese military
Grand jury charges UC Davis researcher with visa fraud and concealing membership in Chinese military
A federal grand jury in Sacramento charged that Juan Tang, a cancer researcher at UC Davis, committed visa fraud when she concealed her alleged membership in the Chinese military
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The investment chief at California’s massive state pension fund stepped down. It seems CalPERS might have fallen short of its own conflict-of-interest rules.
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The fire in Saugus started about 2 p.m. Thursday and has grown to 130 acres, but it has not caused any structural damage and is 10% contained, officials say.
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A judge set bail at $90 million for the jailed leader of La Luz del Mundo church, Naason Joaquin Garcia, who is charged with rape and possessing child porn
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Funeral service is held for L.A. Police Officer Valentin Martinez, the agency’s first sworn employee to die of complications from COVID-19.
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On Thursday, a federal judge in San Francisco issued a searing ruling, saying ICE has “responded to the health crisis in such a cavalier fashion” that it has “lost the right to be trusted.”
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Three food-service businesses in Long Beach show adaptability and determination as they open their operations during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Two days after most evacuation orders were lifted in Riverside County, the San Bernardino County sheriff warns Morongo Valley residents to leave as the Apple fire grows.
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An LAPD sergeant alleging that a group of officers known as the ‘SWAT mafia’ corrupted the tactical unit had previously flagged the group’s influence.
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The pastor of Abundant Life Ministries was arrested after a six-month investigation and charged with sexually assaulting young girls.
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A Los Angeles police officer was shot accidentally by a fellow officer while responding Wednesday to reports of a distraught man, the LAPD said.
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Police in Arizona drop charges against the YouTube personality in a May incident, as federal officers serve search warrants at his California home.
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California state prison officials say as many as 17,600 inmates may be released early, despite concerns some could be dangerous.
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A majority of the California Legislature calls on Newsom to immediately begin paying unemployment benefits to more than 1 million jobless workers.
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As California grapples with a deluge of requests for unemployment benefits during the pandemic, government workers tasked with processing claims say they are hampered by outdated technology, bureaucratic red tape and a shortage of trained staff.
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L.A. County’s contact-tracing system has repeatedly failed to alert officials to outbreaks at workplaces, allowing COVID-19 to continue to spread.
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Many people who lost jobs or income in California due to coronavirus say they have been unable to get the benefits for which they are eligible.
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It’s becoming increasingly clear that California is not going to conquer the coronavirus until it dramatically improves safety measures for essential workers at the epicenter of the health crisis.
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Assemblyman Phil Ting said there is support for providing up to $600 weekly to jobless Californians
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Legislators have proposed expanding workers’ compensation eligibility so that more employees will be covered if they are diagnosed with COVID-19, increasing the number of sick days for food service workers and requiring employers to pay a portion of utility and internet bills for teleworkers.
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Los Angeles swap meets are an infinite jumble of commerce, tailored to the needs of low-income communities.
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With coronavirus cases surging and indoor dining banned, cities are letting struggling restaurants use sidewalks, parking spaces and private lots to serve meals.
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For the fourth consecutive day, L.A. County sees more than 2,100 people hospitalized for COVID-19
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Metro bus drivers said they face a greater risk of contracting the coronavirus as COVID-19 cases surge in L.A. County and bus lines grow more crowded.
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Los Angeles will not ticket vehicles that are parked in rush-hour and anti-gridlock zones or in residential areas during street sweeping until Aug. 1 at the earliest.
