California

The coronavirus crisis nationwide is not only deepening, it is growing more deadly. The country's three biggest states — California, Florida and Texas — are reporting their largest single-day death tolls since the pandemic began.Hospitals there are struggling to keep up with an exploding number of patients. And in Arizona, where about 1 in every…

California recorded its highest single-day COVID-19 death toll Wednesday, with 149 fatalities reported, according to a Los Angeles Times county-by-county tally.The previous high was recorded on May 19, according to The Times’ California coronavirus tracker, when 132 deaths were tallied.For weeks, daily coronavirus deaths had remained steady even as the number of newly confirmed cases…

DEIRDRE: GOOD MORNING. I AM DEIRDRE FITZPATRICK. TY: I AM TY STEELE. TEO TORRES IS WORKING FROM HOME. THE SACRAMENTO KINGS HAVE CLOSED THE TRAINING FACILITY AT THE GOLDEN 1 CENTER AFTER ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE TEAM TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19. DID CALIFORNIANS HEED THE WARNINGS TO AVOID CROWDS AN WHERE I FACE MASK OVER…

A Southern California man expressed his regret late last month over attending a party where he contracted the coronavirus in a Facebook post just one day before he died.“Because of my stupidity I put my mom and sisters and my family’s health in jeopardy,” Tommy Macias of Lake Elsinore, east of Los Angeles, wrote in…

A truck driver from California penned a tragic last Facebook post tinged with regret just a day before dying from coronavirus.Tommy Macias, 51, who lived in Los Angeles, said he caught the killer virus at a party in early June as coronavirus restrictions in the state were eased.In the post he admitted he 'f***ed up'…