| | | | Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, July 14, 2020
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Are You Ready For New Coronavirus Stay-At-Home Orders? LA County Hits New Virus Record  Potentially moving the region closer to renewed stay-at-home orders, Los Angeles County reported a single-day record number of coronavirus cases Tuesday, while the volume of people hospitalized due to the virus reached its highest point of the pandemic. The county Department of Public Health announced another 4,244 cases of the coronavirus, raising the cumulative total […]
  
Demi Moore’s Stolen ‘No Limit’ Amex Card: ID Thief Get’s 14 Months In Halfway House  An identity thief was sentenced to 14 months in a halfway house Tuesday for helping a co-defendant use actress Demi Moore’s stolen no-limit American Express card to run up almost $170,000 in fraudulent purchases at high end stores in Los Angeles. Marc Higley, 37, of Los Angeles was also ordered by U.S. District Judge David […]
Trump Administration Backs Down On Kicking Online Foreign Students Out Of Country The federal government, facing lawsuits filed by USC, Harvard and other colleges and universities throughout the country, Tuesday dropped a new visa policy requiring that international students take at least one in-person class or face deportation to their home countries during the coronavirus pandemic. The decision was announced during a Boston federal court hearing on […]
Orange County Reports 865 New Coronavirus Cases, 9 Deaths The Orange County Health Care Agency Tuesday reported nine COVID-19 fatalities and 865 additional coronavirus infections, bringing the death toll to 433 and the case load since the pandemic began past the 26,000 mark. Three of the deaths reported on Tuesday were skilled nursing facility residents and one was an assisted living facility resident. The […]
More Area School Districts Announce Plans To Stick With Online Classes More Southland school districts announced Tuesday they will begin the upcoming school year with online classes due to the worsening coronavirus pandemic. “During these challenging times, the safety of our school community continues to be our top priority. While we hope at some point to have our students attend our schools alongside their classmates and […]
Supervisors Back Resolution Seeking Changes to Law Enforcement Policies Riverside County supervisors Tuesday approved a resolution supporting crossover investigations of lethal force incidents involving sheriff’s deputies — ensuring the Sheriff’s Department doesn’t investigate itself — as well as backing a different approach to handling mentally ill individuals in an effort to prevent deadly confrontations. “There is no one who wants to change the reputation […]
OC Announces New Testing Site in Anaheim Starting Wednesday, Orange County residents will be able to get tested at no cost for COVID-19 at the Anaheim Convention Center. Orange County officials unveiled some details of the testing program at Tuesday’s Orange County Board of Supervisors meeting. The testing will be offered 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays — by appointment […]
Ex-Rehab Center Operator Sentenced for Sexually Assaulting Patients The former owner and operator of more than a dozen Southland drug treatment and rehabilitation centers was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 53 years in state prison for sexually assaulting or exploiting seven patients and offering controlled substances. Christopher Bathum — who owned and operated Community Recovery of Los Angeles and other entities in Southern California […]
Official: County Preparing for `Surge’ of Inmates Slated for Early Release Riverside County could receive up to 500 of the 8,000 inmates due to be released early from state prisons under the governor’s penal system coronavirus mitigation plan, and the “surge” of additional parolees will be difficult to handle, the county’s chief probation officer told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday. “We’ve got things to work on […]
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