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Thousands of New Year's revelers ignore stay-at-home orders in Los Angeles County Kevin Rector © (LAPD) LAPD officers break up a large underground party in downtown L.A. on New Year's Eve. (LAPD) Thousands of New Year's revelers were dispersed, detained or arrested in Los Angeles County through the weekend as large celebrations and parties occurred across the region, despite surging COVID-19 infections and a regional stay-at-home order barring such gatherings. LAPD officials said they broke up at least eight New Year's Eve gatherings involving more than 2,000 people downtow...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California started the new year by reporting a record 585...

Brian Melley And Stefanie Dazio December 31, 2020 - 10:29 PM LOS ANGELES - California hospitals ended the year on “the brink of catastrophe," a health official said as the pandemic pushed deaths and sickness to staggering levels and some medical centres scrambled to provide oxygen for the critically ill. Meanwhile, fervent pleas to stay away from large gatherings — warnings backed by patrolling police and threats of large fines — replaced the usual public holiday calls to avoid drinking and driving or shooting off guns to celebrate the new year. Offi...

The county also ended the year by announcing a grim new death toll of 62, the single highest one-day figure since the pandemic began. Hospitals, particularly in Southern California and the agricultural San Joaquin Valley in the middle of the state, have been overrun with virus patients and don’t have any more intensive care unit beds for COVID-19 patients. “We’re exhausted and it’s the calm before the storm,” said Jahmaal Willis, a nurse and emergency room leader at Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley. “It’s like we’re fighting a war, a never-ending war, and we�...

The county also ended the year by announcing a grim new death toll of 62, the single highest one-day figure since the pandemic began. Hospitals, particularly in Southern California and the agricultural San Joaquin Valley in the middle of the state, have been overrun with virus patients and don’t have any more intensive care unit beds for COVID-19 patients. “We’re exhausted and it’s the calm before the storm,” said Jahmaal Willis, a nurse and emergency room leader at Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley. “It’s like we’re fighting a war, a never-ending war, and we�...