| | | | Afternoon headlines for Thursday, March 25, 2021
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California Expanding COVID Vaccine Access to Everyone 16 and Older on April 15  Everyone aged 16 and over in the state of California will become eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine beginning April 15, with people 50 and up eligible April 1, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday, pointing to an anticipated sharp rise in the availability of doses. The state has been receiving roughly 1.8 million doses a week, […]
  
Global Settlement Reached In Lawsuits Over Ex-USC Gynecologist George Tyndall Attorneys representing hundreds of women who claim they were sexually abused by former longtime USC campus gynecologist George Tyndall announced an $852 million settlement of lawsuits against the university Thursday, describing the resolution as the largest of its type ever reached against a university. Details of the settlement, which covers 702 plaintiffs, were announced during […]
Black Mom Files Legal Claim Over Teacher’s Allegedly Racist Zoom Rant The mother of a Black sixth-grader filed a legal claim against the Palmdale School District Thursday over an alleged racist rant directed at her son and his family by a teacher who failed to sign off Zoom following a student-teacher session. In the video, the teacher can be heard disparaging the family and referring in […]
Garcetti Announces National Association For Community-Based Safety Mayor Eric Garcetti joined Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Thursday to speak about their cities’ efforts toward community-based policing and announce the nation’s first association of community-based public safety and violence prevention programs. The Community Based Public Safety Association will consist of leaders and organizations from major U.S. cities and will work to connect efforts from […]
Echo Park Lake Closures Begin As City Looks to Clear Homeless Encampment  Los Angeles police maintained a perimeter around Echo Park Thursday following a tense overnight operation to remove a homeless encampment and make way for a $500,000 renovation effort, with Councilman Mitch O’Farrell calling the effort a “phenomenal situation that has placed 166 people in secure housing. The operation — which was continuing Thursday as more […]
Arraignment Delayed for Man Charged With Fatally Stabbing Mother, Uncle Arraignment was postponed Thursday until Monday for a man charged with fatally stabbing his mother and uncle at their Altadena home while she was on a Zoom call with colleagues from Pasadena City College — one of whom witnessed part of the attack. Robert Cotton, 32, is charged with two counts of murder for the […]
Foul Play Suspected in Lancaster Death, Sheriff’s Department Says A man whose body was found Thursday in a Lancaster apartment was the apparent victim of foul play, authorities said. Deputies sent to the 1200 block of Meadow View Lane at about 2 a.m. discovered the body of the 35-year-old man, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reported. His name was withheld, pending notification of […]
UCLA Team Receives $6M from NIH for Pancreatic Cancer Research A team of researchers from the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has been awarded two research grants totaling $6 million from the National Institutes of Health to identify new ways to treat pancreatic cancer, it was announced Thursday. Pancreatic cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality in the United States, accounting for more […]
Southland Residents Can Soon Access Funeral Expense Relief from FEMA  Beginning in early April, residents in the Southland and nationwide will be able to apply for financial help for funeral expenses through FEMA’s COVID-19 Funeral Assistance Program. To be eligible for the assistance, all the following FEMA-established conditions must be met: — the death must have occurred in the United States, including the U.S. territories, […]
Man Suspected of Stalking, Harassing Canyon Lake Girl A 51-year-old man suspected of stalking and harassing a Canyon Lake girl was out of custody Thursday, free on a $50,000 bond. Alfonso Martinez of Canyon Lake was arrested Tuesday and booked into the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta on suspicion of felony stalking and misdemeanor annoying a child by telephone or other means. He […]
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