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Empty desks in a classroom at Burbank Middle School on Friday, Aug. 7, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. | Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
The parents of a second-grader at a LAUSD magnet school are among seven families suing the state of California for allegedly failing to meet its constitutional obligation to ensure “basic educational equality” during this period of remote learning.
Homeless neighbors living in tents along Homewood Avenue in Hollywood on Nov. 24, 2020. Covid-19 restrictions has created challenges for homeless people seeking indoor spaces where they used to find respite. | Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority announced Wednesday that its staff has conducted about 36,000 wellness checks among unhoused people since April by using a mobile app, in an effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
A pedestrian wearing her facemask and holding a cup of coffee walks past a Closed sign hanging on the door of a small business in Los Angeles, California on November 30, 2020. | FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images
Citing rising coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths over the past month, Gov. Gavin Newsom today announced plans for a “regional stay-at-home order” that will be implemented in areas running low on ICU beds and force some businesses closures. 
A healthcare worker tends to a COVID-19 patient. | iStock via Getty Images
Riverside County health officials today reported 6,741 newly diagnosed coronavirus cases and 13 virus-related deaths since Friday, as the number of available licensed intensive care unit beds countywide dwindled to zero.
Governor Gavin Newsom looks on, far right, as ICU nurse Helen Cordova receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles, California on December 14, 2020. | JAE HONG/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
With her co-workers cheering her on, an intensive-care unit nurse at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles today received one of the first doses in the state of a long-awaited vaccine to prevent COVID-19.
Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
Here's what we know about the COVID-19 vaccines and how they are being distributed in L.A. County.
Iron gate in a jail. | Flickr/Sergey Kochkarev/Creative Commons/Public Domain
El virus está aumentando en las cárceles superpobladas de California a medida que se ralentizan las primeras liberaciones. Y las cárceles del condado están luchando con una acumulación de reclusos que esperan ser transferidos a instalaciones estatales.
A customer orders at Love Hour's parking lot pop-up. | Chava Sanchez/LAist
As 2020 draws to a close, small businesses have persevered despite it all ... not only because of SoCal’s innovative culture, but because they’ve figured out how to serve new markets. Meet four business people who have managed to figure it all out.
Susana Braxton prays along with other worshippers during the National Day of Prayer for Religious Liberty in front of the County Administration Center in downtown San Diego on August 8, 2020. | Sandy Huffaker/CalMatters
From the pandemic's start, religious leaders have been trying and failing to convince judges to strike down California’s restrictions on mass gatherings as unconstitutional violations of religious freedom. Supreme Court decisions could change that.
A health worker vaccinates a person. | iStock / Getty Images
Los Angeles County could receive its initial allocation of roughly 84,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses as early as next week, with initial priority given to health care workers.
A healthcare worker holds a patient's hand. | iStock via Getty Images
The massive surge in coronavirus cases has left hospitals scrambling to handle the increasing number of patients showing up at their doors. It's threatening to push Southern California's entire health care system to the breaking point. 
People line up for COVID-19 testing outside of Maywood City Hall. | Chava Sanchez/LAist
SoCal COVID-19 relief was supposed to come from California's allocation of federal CARES Act money. But the mayors of 60 cities are complaining that the way the money was divided meant their communities didn't receive a fair share.
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