| | | | Afternoon headlines for Thursday, November 19, 2020
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California Coronavirus Curfew Crackdown: Get Home By 10 p.m. Or Else!  With COVID-19 infections surging across the state, Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday issued what amounts to an overnight curfew, prohibiting all “non-essential” activities and gatherings between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. The “limited Stay At Home Order” applies to all counties in the restrictive “purple” tier of the state’s coronavirus monitoring system — which includes Los […]
  
Deadly COVID-19 Case Numbers Soar In LA: Officials Sound ‘Alarm’ Los Angeles County reported more than 5,000 new COVID-19 infections Thursday, the highest daily number since the start of the pandemic, and the county’s health officer warned that if the surge persists, a strict stay-at-home order could be in place by next week. Meanwhile, the state on Thursday imposed what amounts to an overnight curfew […]
Drone Crashes Into LAPD Copter: Operator Nabbed Special agents with the FBI arrested a 22-year-old Hollywood man Thursday on a federal charge alleging he recklessly operated a drone that crashed into a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter. Andrew Rene Hernandez was arrested on a misdemeanor count of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft, in what’s believed to be the first criminal case […]
L.A. Airport Officials Plan for COVID-19 Testing, but Urge No Holiday Travel Airport officials Thursday said they plan to increase COVID-19 testing at Los Angeles International Airport by the first week of December. COVID-19 testing at LAX began Tuesday, and LAWA Executive Director Justin Erbacci said 115 people were tested on the first day, with results confirmed within 24 hours. Erbacci said LAWA is establishing a modular […]
Judge Hears Assault/Battery Damages Claim Against Comedian Katt Williams A former personal assistant suing comedian Katt Williams for assault and battery told a judge Thursday that she has lingering physical and emotional damage from his alleged unprovoked attack on her nearly four years ago in Studio City. Yadira Torres’ Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit, which was filed in March 2017, alleges Williams punched her […]
Whittier Paralegal Pleads Guilty to Fraud A paralegal pleaded guilty Thursday to defrauding at dozens of immigration law firm clients in Southern California by depositing their payments for immigration-related application filing fees or legal services into her personal bank accounts. Tanya Garcia, 41, of Whittier, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and faces up to 20 years in federal […]
‘Black Panther’ Late Star Chadwick Boseman’s Widow Named to Administer Estate A judge Thursday appointed the widow of “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman to administer the estate of the late actor, who died without a will this summer at age 43. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lee Bogdanoff granted Simone Ledward’s petition and directed her to file a request for final distribution of assets no later […]
`Schitt’s Creek’ Tops Streaming Ratings for Third Time in Four Weeks “Schitt’s Creek” returned to the top of the streaming ratings among the four services measured after a one-week absence in the latest weekly report from Nielsen released Thursday. Viewers watched 1.058 billion minutes of the 80 episodes of the Emmy-winning comedy between Oct. 19-25 for its third first-place finish in four weeks. It finished second […]
Jury Selection Continues for Trial of Man Accused of Molesting Relative Jury selection continued Thursday for the trial of a 41-year-old man accused of molesting an underage relative for nearly a decade in the San Jacinto Mountain community of Pinyon Pines. Stanford James Stelle III was arrested in 2015 stemming from allegations he sexually assaulted the girl from 2003, when she was 5 years old, until […]
Body Found as Firefighters Extinguish Blaze in Santa Ana A burned body was found as Orange County Fire Authority firefighters responded to a brush fire along the Santa Ana riverbed trail Thursday. Firefighters responded to the call of the brusher at 3:26 a.m., according to police. After the blaze was quickly doused, the firefighters found the scorched body of a man in the brush, […]
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