| | | | Afternoon headlines for Friday, April 24, 2020
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Beach Outing Could Kill You: Weekend Heatwave Amid Coronavirus  The heat wave cooking the Southland Friday and this weekend would ordinarily mean packed beaches, but the coronavirus crisis is putting a damper on those plans, and county and city authorities are warning people that the coastline remains off-limits and social-distancing orders remain in effect. “We all have to remember that coronavirus means we must […]
  
Drinking Disinfectant To Fight Coronavirus? LA Health Chief Warns Trump Suggestion ‘Extraordinarily Dangerous’  Los Angeles County’s public health director Friday added her voice to those dispelling the suggestion that ingesting or injecting disinfectant cleaning products could potentially counter COVID-19, even though President Donald Trump insisted he was being “sarcastic” when he made the remark. “Please, don’t inject, ingest or even put on your body any disinfectants that you’re […]
Sex Star Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Avenatti Out Of Jail, Headed Back Here Convicted attorney Michael Avenatti was released from a Manhattan jail Friday and was due to arrive in the Southland Friday evening to begin serving 90 days of house arrest under a unique judicial order stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, his attorney said. Avenatti — who was convicted in New York in February of trying to […]
Newsom Announces Program For Eateries To Prepare, Deliver Meals To Seniors In a move he said will help restaurants in the Southland and across the state re-hire workers while also generating sales tax revenue for local governments, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a partnership with the federal government Friday to provide three meals a day to needy seniors. The partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the […]
More Than 50 New Coronavirus Deaths Reported in L.A. County More than 50 new deaths from COVID-19 were reported in Los Angeles County Friday, and with 43% of the county’s fatalities occurring in skilled nursing homes, new restrictions were imposed on all such long-term care facilities to bar visitors and ban communal activities inside. Another 52 deaths from the coronavirus were reported Friday by Barbara […]
Fan Sues Dodgers Over 2019 Parking Lot Beating A Dodgers fan who was hospitalized with a serious brain injury after being attacked in one of the stadium parking lots after a 2019 home game is suing the team, alleging the lighting was poor and security was lacking. Rafael Reyna’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit alleges negligence, premises liability, assault, battery and intentional infliction […]
Orange County Reports 33 New Cases, No Deaths Orange County reported 33 new coronavirus cases Friday, bringing the total to 1,845, with the death toll remaining at 36. The number of hospitalized patients decreased from 158 on Thursday to 150 Friday, with the number of patients in intensive care increasing from 59 to 63, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency. Overall, […]
City, County of Los Angeles Open Cooling Centers in Wake of Heat Wave The Los Angeles city Department of Recreation and Parks and the county’s Office of Emergency Management announced Friday that 10 cooling centers have been activated to help people cope with high temperatures forecast to continue through the weekend. Although the Safer at Home orders are still in place during the coronavirus pandemic, Recreation and Parks […]
L.A. County Sued Over Danger to Jail Inmates from COVID-19 A coalition of prisoner rights organizations Friday sued Los Angeles County and its sheriff’s department for allegedly failing to protect jail inmates from the threat of the coronavirus. The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed by JusticeLA in federal court, seeks to require the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to comply with guidelines issued by public health […]
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