With the 72nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards underway on Sunday, September 20, winner Regina King used her acceptance speech to spread a message for the audience and nominees watching at home.

Related: Photos from the coronavirus-affected at-home event

After winning the award for outstanding lead actress in a limited series or movie for her role in HBO’s “Watchmen,” the actress wore a shirt with the face of Breonna Taylor, the EMT whose killing by police helped spark protests across the country.

The actress’s speech encouraged people to vote, to “be a good human” and a special dedication to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday. People on social media were celebrating King’s win and this what they have to say:

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Jimmy Kimmel walked on stage to open the 2020 Emmys at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday and the celebrities that packed the arena burst into raucous cheers and applause.

“Welcome to the Pand-Emmys!” Kimmel said. “Wow, it’s great to finally see people again.”

Of course, almost no one was there with Kimmel. The people were being seen were clips from previous years, and then it was revealed that the audience was mainly cardboard cutouts. And Jason Bateman — but more on him later.

The 2020 Emmys are taking place in virtual fashion with live feeds to more than 100 hundred locations where nominees waited — home alone or in small groups — to find out whether they’d won an award in this most unusual year.

“You know what they say, you can’t have a virus without a host,” K...

Boy Scouts in the organization’s Long Beach council are relying on bits of information, such as a video of a quick drive-through, to assure them that their mile-square Camp Tahquitz near the El Dorado fire is still standing, a group leader said Sunday.

And there was good news Sunday afternoon: “Due to the heroic efforts of the fire crews, it appears that camp has been spared thus far!” the Long Beach Area Boy Scouts Council’s Facebook page posted.

LOS ANGELES – The parent company of Vons stores is seeking a court order banning people who have been soliciting signatures in front of the Inglewood location from continuing to do so there or at any other of their markets statewide.

The defendants are identified only as John Does 1-60 in the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit filed Thursday, which alleges that the signature gatherers are trespassing and creating a nuisance. Attached to the suit is a photo of two of the solicitors sitting at a table outside the store in the 500 block of Manchester Boulevard with two handwritten signs saying, “Stop Gentrification, All Life Matter.”

The signature gatherers began appearing in front of the Inglewood store Sept. 10, the suit states...

Los Angeles County reported 991 new cases of COVID-19 and 23 more deaths on Sunday, Sept. 20, bringing the county’s totals to 260,797 cases and 6,353 fatalities.

The number of people hospitalized, however, increased from 732 Saturday to 765, with 30% of those people in intensive care units.

The relatively low number of new cases likely reflects a weekend lag in reporting, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

The update did not include Sunday totals from Pasadena and Long Beach, which operate their own health departments. Pasadena reported 11 new cases, for a total of 2,522, but its death toll remained at 121. Long Beach did not update Sunday; its totals remained at 11,440 cases and 237 deaths.

Countywide, daily case rates had risen over the prior four days, ...

The nature center at the Devil’s Punchbowl Natural Area was destroyed by the Bobcat fire, which grew to 99,428 acres by Sunday morning and remained at 15% containment as fire officials warned it will continue from the Antelope Valley foothills into the communities of Juniper Hills, Valyermo and Big Pine.

Approaching 100,000 acres, the fire grew 5,586 acres overnight.

The Bobcat Fire started Sept. 6 near the Cogswell Dam and West Fork Day Use area northeast of Mount Wilson, inside the Angeles National Forest. Cause remains under investigation.

Structures have been damaged in the Antelope Valley and losses were expected, according to Vince Pena, unified incident commander with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The number of homes affected was not available Sunday morning.

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Of the many propositions that voters must decide this November, one of the most contentious is Proposition 15, also known as the split roll initiative. One of the arguments advanced by the proponents is that it won’t have any impact on homeowners because it just raises property taxes on commercial and industrial properties. Can the proponents be believed? Not likely.

On its face, Proposition 15 appears to exempt property that is used for “residential” purposes. But homeowners have good reason to feel threatened.

Without question, the most immediate impact that homeowners would see if Proposition 15 passes would be an increase in the cost of living. California has the second highest cost of living in the nation behind only Hawaii...

California’s new daily COVID-19 cases have been decreasing steadily since mid-August, as a second round of lockdowns was imposed to combat the spike in cases we saw mid-summer. The hot spots have also been shifting, and this map shows you how.

To see where the virus is spreading, we calculate the rate of new cases in each county, the number of cases reported in the previous 14 days per 10,000 residents, then track that data over time. The animated map shows how — and when — the coronavirus spread around California from April 1 through Sept. 18.

In early April, the virus was most prevalent in Bay Area and Southern California counties, then became more concentrated in Los Angeles and Imperial counties toward the end of the month, spurred by widespread community transmission...

Congratulations California, you’ve done it again.

The Census Bureau has once again found that California has the highest real-world poverty rate of any state, 17.2 percent over the previous three years and much higher than the national rate.

The “supplemental” poverty rate includes factors ignored by the outdated “official” poverty rate, such as living costs. And our sky-high living costs, particularly for housing, impoverish at least 7 million Californians.

We topped the poverty charts even as California’s overall economy was booming in the 2017-19 period. The state now is mired in its worst recession since the Great Depression, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, and poverty has surely increased.

A new report from the California Policy Lab at the University of California revea...

The El Dorado fire, which claimed the life of one firefighter since it was started Sept. 5 by a smoke bomb set off during a gender-revel photo stunt, grew 418 acres overnight as fire crews Sunday faced another day of high temperatures and southerly winds.

The fire’s footprint was at 22,489 acres and containment remained at 59% Sunday morning. Containment is when firefighters create and hold a fire break around the perimeter of a wildfire.

The firefighter who died on Thursday has not yet been publicly identified by authorities. Thirteen people have been injured in the fire, and two homes destroyed. There are 1,190 fire personnel at the El Dorado fire, with resources stretched thin throughout the western United States.

The fire’s most active area continued to be near the community of Ang...