| | | | Afternoon headlines for Wednesday, September 16, 2020
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Bobcat Fire Victories: Firefighters Save Mt. Wilson Observatory, Broadcast Towers Valued At $1 Billion  Firefighters continued battling the 44,393-acre Bobcat Fire in the Angeles National Forest Wednesday, after successfully protecting the Mount Wilson Observatory and nearby broadcast towers valued at more than $1 billion from approaching flames. Although the fire grew to 44,393 acres and was still just 3% contained, evacuation orders were lifted for residents north of Elkins […]
  
Little Girl Molested By Clown? Suspect, 51, Arrested As Deputies Hunt For Other Victims  A 51-year-old man who worked part-time as a clown performer in the East Los Angeles area is behind bars on suspicion of sexually molesting a young child, and the sheriff’s department Wednesday circulated his photo and asked other potential alleged victims to come forward. Florentino Gonzalez Penaloza, who performs under the name “Ponponio,” was arrested […]
Woman Driving Mobility Scooter Struck, Killed On Dark Hemet Street A 66-year-old woman was killed in Hemet when her mobility scooter was hit by a sedan whose driver apparently did not see her in the middle of the dark street, authorities said Wednesday. The collision happened about 10 p.m. Tuesday on Menlo Avenue, near Glenn Way, according to the Hemet Police Department. Sgt. Dan Reinbolt […]
OC Reports 135 New COVID-19 Cases, Six More Deaths Six more people in Orange County have succumbed to COVID-19, raising the death toll to 1,111, Orange County Health Care Agency officials said Wednesday as they also reported 135 new diagnoses of coronavirus, increasing the total to 51,259 since the pandemic began. So far this week, 18 deaths have been reported since Sunday. Last week, […]
Health Director: LA County Could Advance In State’s COVID Matrix By October Downward trends in coronavirus cases and testing-positivity rates could allow Los Angeles County to move into the next tier of the state’s economic-reopening matrix by sometime in October, the public health director said Wednesday, but pending Labor Day numbers could potentially thwart that move. The county is in the most restrictive, or “purple,” level of […]
Newsom: Nothing Blocking Pac-12 From Starting Football Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday there aren’t any state coronavirus restrictions preventing the Pac-12 Conference — including USC and UCLA — from playing football, despite the conference commissioner saying teams are still prevented from holding full-contact workouts. Questions about Pac-12 football arose again Wednesday following a decision by the Big 10 Conference to begin games […]
Manhunt Continues For Suspect in Deputies’ Shooting Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Wednesday that the investigation was continuing in Saturday’s ambush shooting of two deputies as they sat in a patrol SUV at a Compton rail station, and said efforts were being made to transfer the pair from St. Francis Medical Center to a long-term care facility. “Both deputies remain […]
Construction Workers on OC Streetcar Project Find Human Remains Construction workers on the OC Streetcar project found human remains at a work site Wednesday, triggering a homicide investigation. The bones were found Wednesday morning in the 2000 block of West Fifth Street in a former scrap yard that workers were converting to a maintenance yard for the project, Santa Ana Police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna […]
Police Seeking Other Possible Victims of Sexual Assault Suspect Authorities sought public help Wednesday to find possible additional victims of a man who has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting teens he met online. Princeton Bloome, 22, was arrested June 25 on suspicion of sexual assault, and faces possible felony charges, the Los Angeles Police Department reported. “Bloome would seek out minor children […]
Health Director: LA County Could Advance In State’s COVID Matrix By October Downward trends in coronavirus cases and testing-positivity rates could allow Los Angeles County to move into the next tier of the state’s economic-reopening matrix by sometime in October, the public health director said Wednesday, but pending Labor Day numbers could potentially thwart that move. The county is in the most restrictive, or “purple,” level of […]
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