Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Jennifer Trujillo made a 30-minute trip from her home in San Diego County to the country roads of Wildomar in Riverside County for the first time in weeks. For the last year, the Pala resident had made the trek up every Sunday to attend the service at Bundy Canyon Christian Church, a complex of colorful old-timey buildings along a rural road. The coronavirus outbreak had sidelined Trujillo, 37, from her trips to church, leaving her to reading the Bible and practicing her faith at home. She knew about the worries of church services leading to...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Jennifer Trujillo made a 30-minute trip from her home in San Diego County to the country roads of Wildomar in Riverside County for the first time in weeks. For the last year, the Pala resident had made the trek up every Sunday to attend the service at Bundy Canyon Christian Church, a complex of colorful old-timey buildings along a rural road. The coronavirus outbreak had sidelined Trujillo, 37, from her trips to church, leaving her to reading the Bible and practicing her faith at home. She knew about the worries of church services leading to...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Luis Chavarria and his brother are truck drivers based out of facilities in Compton and the Inland Empire. When his brother got COVID-19, Chavarria kept working — there were bills to pay and food to buy.The conditions for staying safe amid the pandemic are not ideal, Chavarria said, explaining that co-workers were not given protective equipment, and many did not wear masks because it made communicating with dispatchers difficult. No one wanted to talk about his brother’s hospitalization.“We do the best we can to protect ourselves,...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Luis Chavarria and his brother are truck drivers based out of facilities in Compton and the Inland Empire. When his brother got COVID-19, Chavarria kept working — there were bills to pay and food to buy.The conditions for staying safe amid the pandemic are not ideal, Chavarria said, explaining that co-workers were not given protective equipment, and many did not wear masks because it made communicating with dispatchers difficult. No one wanted to talk about his brother’s hospitalization.“We do the best we can to protect ourselves,...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Six months after California lost its , the state has recorded more than 10,000 deaths — occurring in Los Angeles County.Officials recorded 53 additional deaths in the county — bringing the total to 4,918 — and 3,116 new infections Friday, according to the public health department. L.A. County’s total case count now stands at . The high number of new cases is due in part to a backlog of test results received from one lab.Officials caution that ongoing technical problems with the used for gathering test results means that the county’s...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Six months after California lost its , the state has recorded more than 10,000 deaths — occurring in Los Angeles County.Officials recorded 53 additional deaths in the county — bringing the total to 4,918 — and 3,116 new infections Friday, according to the public health department. L.A. County’s total case count now stands at . The high number of new cases is due in part to a backlog of test results received from one lab.Officials caution that ongoing technical problems with the used for gathering test results means that the county’s...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement As California rapidly reopens its economy, health officials have made clear the only way to avoid a wave of new coronavirus infections is with strict safety rules, including social distancing, limits on the capacity of businesses and wearing face coverings when around other people.But a mask rebellion is underway in some parts of the state, with residents pushing back on mandatory face-covering rules even with coronavirus cases on the rise and as more businesses open their doors and some people yearn to return to old routines.The...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement As California rapidly reopens its economy, health officials have made clear the only way to avoid a wave of new coronavirus infections is with strict safety rules, including social distancing, limits on the capacity of businesses and wearing face coverings when around other people.But a mask rebellion is underway in some parts of the state, with residents pushing back on mandatory face-covering rules even with coronavirus cases on the rise and as more businesses open their doors and some people yearn to return to old routines.The...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The California dream has been fading for a long time, and people have been voting with their feet.In the last few years, the exodus has accelerated, with tens of thousands more people leaving than moving in.The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted even more people to give up on the state, experts say. Some have retreated to their hometowns elsewhere because they lost their livelihoods. Others are taking advantage of working remotely to escape the state’s high housing prices and long commutes.AdvertisementIn the fiscal year that ended in...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The California dream has been fading for a long time, and people have been voting with their feet.In the last few years, the exodus has accelerated, with tens of thousands more people leaving than moving in.The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted even more people to give up on the state, experts say. Some have retreated to their hometowns elsewhere because they lost their livelihoods. Others are taking advantage of working remotely to escape the state’s high housing prices and long commutes.AdvertisementIn the fiscal year that ended in...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement California’s first coronavirus lockdown order, in the spring, produced benefits within a month. By April, Gov. Gavin Newsom was able to crow that the state had on infections.It has been two weeks since a second stay-at-home order was issued, and no such flattening has occurred across most of California. This may be because restrictions are looser than those in the spring, and because many Californians are so fatigued by public health orders — or militantly resistant to them — that they are mixing with people from outside their...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement California’s first coronavirus lockdown order, in the spring, produced benefits within a month. By April, Gov. Gavin Newsom was able to crow that the state had on infections.It has been two weeks since a second stay-at-home order was issued, and no such flattening has occurred across most of California. This may be because restrictions are looser than those in the spring, and because many Californians are so fatigued by public health orders — or militantly resistant to them — that they are mixing with people from outside their...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement For weeks the CA-25 congressional race looked like anyone’s game. Democratic candidate Christy Smith and Republican incumbent Rep. Mike Garcia took turns in the lead, separated by a hair of a margin. After days of trailing Garcia, Smith conceded the race to the current officer holder Monday evening, marking another GOP win in the state. Garcia maintained a slim lead over Smith by 333 votes as of Monday evening, according to the Los Angeles and Ventura county registrars’ office. Garcia had an early lead in the district, but Smith took...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement For weeks the CA-25 congressional race looked like anyone’s game. Democratic candidate Christy Smith and Republican incumbent Rep. Mike Garcia took turns in the lead, separated by a hair of a margin. After days of trailing Garcia, Smith conceded the race to the current officer holder Monday evening, marking another GOP win in the state. Garcia maintained a slim lead over Smith by 333 votes as of Monday evening, according to the Los Angeles and Ventura county registrars’ office. Garcia had an early lead in the district, but Smith took...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Republican candidate Young Kim has won a congressional seat in Orange County, marking the second race in the county in which the GOP took back a district it had lost to Democrats during the 2018 “blue wave.”Kim defeated incumbent Democrat Gil Cisneros in the 39th Congressional District, which spans Anaheim Hills to Buena Park and includes parts of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties. Kim, who has secured Orange County’s final congressional seat that had yet to be called, will be among the first Korean American women to serve in...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Republican candidate Young Kim has won a congressional seat in Orange County, marking the second race in the county in which the GOP took back a district it had lost to Democrats during the 2018 “blue wave.”Kim defeated incumbent Democrat Gil Cisneros in the 39th Congressional District, which spans Anaheim Hills to Buena Park and includes parts of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties. Kim, who has secured Orange County’s final congressional seat that had yet to be called, will be among the first Korean American women to serve in...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement For years, Republicans across the country have decried the use of so-called “ballot harvesting,” arguing that laws that allow a third party to collect voters’ completed ballots serve as a breeding ground for election fraud. In California, the state’s Republican Party has taken Gov. Gavin Newsom and other officials to court over the practice.Now, California’s GOP is defending its use of the very ballot collection law it once sued over. In recent weeks, gray metal containers labeled as ballot drop boxes have been placed at various...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement For years, Republicans across the country have decried the use of so-called “ballot harvesting,” arguing that laws that allow a third party to collect voters’ completed ballots serve as a breeding ground for election fraud. In California, the state’s Republican Party has taken Gov. Gavin Newsom and other officials to court over the practice.Now, California’s GOP is defending its use of the very ballot collection law it once sued over. In recent weeks, gray metal containers labeled as ballot drop boxes have been placed at various...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement California’s attorney general and chief elections officer on Monday sent a to Republican Party officials demanding that they immediately stop using private ballot collection containers marked as “official” drop boxes, saying that the do-it-yourself containers that have appeared in several communities across the state are illegal.Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra and Secretary of State Alex Padilla also demanded that GOP officials provide by Thursday a list of all voters whose ballots have been collected using the boxes to ensure the...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement California’s attorney general and chief elections officer on Monday sent a to Republican Party officials demanding that they immediately stop using private ballot collection containers marked as “official” drop boxes, saying that the do-it-yourself containers that have appeared in several communities across the state are illegal.Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra and Secretary of State Alex Padilla also demanded that GOP officials provide by Thursday a list of all voters whose ballots have been collected using the boxes to ensure the...WW…