Tony Saavedra

'Wherever there is standing water, that's where the mosquitoes will be, and we have to be smarter than them,' said one vector control official

The two counties combined account for at least 63% of the 378 human infections reported this year by the California Department of Public Health , making the region a hotbed for the

LOS ANGELES — More people are contracting mosquito-borne West Nile virus and dying in Los Angeles and Orange counties than anywhere else in California, pushing state levels to a five-year high.

LOS ANGELES — More people are contracting mosquito-borne West Nile virus and dying in Los Angeles and Orange counties than anywhere else in California, pushing state levels to a five-year high.

‘Wherever there is standing water, that's where the mosquitoes will be, and we have to be smarter than them,' said one vector control official

'No violations were found, and the matter is now closed,' said a spokesman for the Department of Health Care Services

The Resolutions Living facility in Santa Monica is not providing or advertising treatment services that require a state license, health officials say.

District Attorney Todd Spitzer called the move 'a heartbreaking loss to the victims whose justice may be delayed' because of changes in the program

'The President and the Attorney General have every right to select supervisors within the Justice Department," said Essayli, a former assemblyman

Bill Essayli, the chief federal prosecutor for the Central District of California, was found by a judge Tuesday to be illegally serving as a “de facto” U.S. attorney and thus should be disqualified from two cases.