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California reported 107 fewer hospitalizations, 6,849 Sunday, marking the fifth day straight that hospitalizations have been down. The state had 3,642 new cases and 69 new deaths, bringing the total cases to 557,690 and deaths to 10,370, according to unofficial counts from county websites on Sunday. The U.S. surpassed 5 million coronavirus cases with a…

Coroner’s officials Sunday identified a 77-year-old man who died Friday night after he was struck by a vehicle on the border between Costa Mesa and Newport Beach. Carlos Romo of Newport Beach was walking near the intersection of 17th Street and Irvine Avenue that evening when he was hit by a vehicle at 8:34 p.m.,…

Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia released this message on Saturday, Aug. 8, an update on the city’s status amid the novel coronavirus outbreak This week, I released my budget recommendations for the next fiscal year. The total city budget is $2.6 billion with a general fund of approximately half a billion dollars and funds the…

Los Angeles County’s daily coronavirus numbers continued to head in divergent directions on Saturday, Aug. 8. While deaths and cases remained unnervingly high — at 51 and 2,645, respectively — hospitalizations again dropped significantly, with 1,610 confirmed COVID-19 patients. Of these patients, 31% are being treated in intensive-care units, county public health officials said in…

Nursing home caregivers say they are scared of becoming infected with the coronavirus and then transmitting it to their children. Food pantry volunteers are wracked with guilt when shelves go bare and someone walks away hungry. Healthcare workers say the toughest part of their day is after their shift because at home, no one gets…

TRACY (CBS13) – The luck of the draw is drawing people out to Stars Casino in Tracy after the casino moved operations outdoors following a voluntary shutdown amid the pandemic. “We’re on a first-name basis with everyone, so we’re like family,” said Carol Lussier, a dealer at the casino. Lussier said she is relieved to…

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Salons across the Sacramento region are at their tipping point financially and say it’s either they start indoor services again or go bankrupt. “It makes me want to just cry,” said Lindsey Wentz, the owner of Mint Salon in Lodi. “And it’s, you know, I can’t do anything about it.” On Saturday,…

VACAVILLE (CBS13) – A parolee arrested in Vacaville led officers on a car and foot chase in a stolen vehicle that caught fire after he collided with a tree, authorities said. Eligio Nunez, 41, of Hayward, was booked into Solano County Jail where he faces charges of possessing a stolen vehicle, evasion and violation of…

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ZEKE MILLER BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Seizing the power of his podium and his pen, President Donald Trump on Saturday bypassed the nation’s lawmakers as he claimed the authority to defer payroll taxes and replace an expired unemployment benefit with a lower amount after negotiations with Congress on a new coronavirus rescue…

California reported 6,956 hospitalizations, 321 fewer than Friday, bringing the total number of hospitalizations in the state below 7,000 for the first time since early July, as of Saturday. This marks the fourth day in a row that hospitalizations have been down. California had 6,060 new cases and 144 new deaths bringing the number of…

The Orange County Health Care Agency reported 322 new cases of the coronavirus, as of Saturday, Aug. 8, bringing the county’s cumulative total of positive tests to 39,076 cases. The agency noted that the California Reportable Disease Information Exchange has been experiencing issues with the application that receives test reports from laboratories and then sends…

A parade of top Los Angeles politicos appeared before a federal judge Friday, Aug, 7, to lay out their plans for creating cabin villages, shared housing programs, safe parking sites and other options for sheltering more than 6,000 unhoused Angelenos who could be relocated from encampments near freeways. The six-hour hearing, held in the chambers…

California has surpassed 10,000 deaths related to the coronavirus, based on updates Friday, Aug. 7, to statewide statistics. California had 181 deaths reported according to unofficial counts from county websites on Friday, raising its total to 10,171 people who have died. The state also had 9,471 new cases of the coronavirus reported. Total cases is…

Public health officials logged more than 50 new coronavirus-related deaths in Los Angeles County on Friday, Aug. 7, with the statistical landscape still clouded by technical snarls at the state level. However, state medical czar Dr. Mark Ghaly said Friday that the snags are nearly resolved and the backlog — affecting as many as 300,000…

LODI (CBS13) — It may be a nerve-racking weekend with a looming countdown to distance learning. Several districts will kick off online classes on August 10, but not without many feeling unprepared. Kat Ellis teaches second grade at Live Oak Elementary School in Lodi. Like many other districts, teachers and parents sat in limbo waiting…

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE (CBS13) — The hardest-hit region of El Dorado County is taking a new approach when it comes to mask mandates. Volunteers with the city of South Lake Tahoe are walking the city, looking for people who are not covered up and making sure they have a mask. “When I came up with…

ELK GROVE (CBS13) – An Elk Grove resident was met by a startling sight when he walked into the bathroom. On Friday morning, Irma Zambrano says her husband was about to use the toilet when a snake, specifically a boa constrictor, popped out. “That’s like the worst nightmare is something coming out of the toilet,”…

Just hours before the 5 p.m. deadline for submitting a ballot measure to the Orange County Registrar of Voters, the Westminster City Council met Friday, Aug. 7  for a redo of its peculiar meeting earlier in the week. Mayor Tri Ta and Councilman Tai Do, known for butting heads, again joined forces to kill the…

After years of bureaucratic hurdles and increasing regulatory requirements, Poseidon Water was dealt yet another delay Friday, Aug. 7, in its pursuit of a controversial desalination plant in Huntington Beach. The Regional Water Quality Control Board concluded three days of hearings on the project’s next permit by telling Poseidon it must return with a more…

Los Angeles’ cavalcade of dockless scooters and bikes will avoid stricter requirements, including new fees and a requirement for locks, at least until the end of the year while the Los Angeles Department of Transportation irons out several key regulations for the fledgling industry. The Los Angeles City Council’s transportation committee technically approved a series…

Los Angeles County surpassed 200,000 coronavirus cases on Thursday, Aug. 6, prompting public health officials to re-sound the alarm on the pandemic’s toll on low-income communities. Technical glitches, meanwhile, continue to hamper the effort to asses the pandemic’s full scope in the region, which lost another 48 lives to the disease. Countywide,  3,290 new cases…