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Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. San Bernadino County Sheriff John McMahon said California's decision to free inmates in the name of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) will endanger the public by recycling felons back into society.In a Tuesday interview with Fox 11, McMahon claimed repeat child abusers are able to…

Los Angeles County officials on Tuesday confirmed 1,400 more coronavirus cases, 880 of which were included in a backlog from laboratories that had not previously reported results through the county’s electronic system.The county also reported 46 new coronavirus-linked deaths, bringing the toll to at least 663.More than 89,000 residents have been tested for COVID-19, and…

Some California communities have asked for permission to begin easing stay-at-home restrictions, saying they have made enough progress against the coronavirus to justify reopening their areas.The requests reflect how some smaller counties are beginning to see coronavirus cases decline more dramatically than some larger counties, raising hopes that they might be able to relax restrictions…

A crowd of protesters rallied around California's Capitol building on Monday to protest against the state's lockdown order put in place to help stop the spread of coronavirus.Hundreds of people, in and out of their vehicles, gathered outside the Capitol in Sacramento to put pressure on Governor Gavin Newsom to lift the quarantine restrictions."We are…

California corrections officials announced Sunday the first prison inmate death from complications related to COVID-19. The inmate died at a hospital after contracting the coronavirus at the California Institution for Men in Chino, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement. The agency did not immediately say when the inmate died. No…