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Extreme wildfire rips through California Extreme wildfire rips through California 01:47 A brush fire continues to rage after scorching thousands of acres in the Angeles National Forest between Santa Clarita and Palmdale, north of Los Angeles. The blaze, dubbed the Lake Fire, has prompted evacuation orders and road closures in the Lake Hughes area, CBS…

California TodayTuesday: A top state public health official resigned as California struggles with the pandemic. Also: A swarm of earthquakes; and women’s suffrage.Aug. 11, 2020Updated 1:15 p.m. ETImageDr. Sonia Angell, the director of the California Department of Public Health, at a news conference in February. She resigned Sunday night.Credit...Randall Benton/Associated PressGood morning.In recent weeks, California’s…

A California pastor defied an emergency temporary restraining order issued Friday in which he was told to refrain from holding additional indoor worship, CBS Los Angeles reports. Pastor Rob McCoy of Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Newbury Park held indoor services Sunday in defiance of the Friday's order and other health orders that aim to slow…

A pastor in California is threatening to defy a court order barring indoor services at his church while Georgia reports that a 7-year-old has become the youngest person in the state to die from the coronavirus.Pastor Rob McCoy of the Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Newbury Park, about 45 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, said…

A California man was beaten and robbed of $200,000 he had just withdrawn from his bank. Francisco Cornejo had accumulated the hefty sum after selling his home in Huntington Park, according to local reports. On July 30, as he returned to his car following the withdrawal from a local Chase bank, Cornejo was attacked and…