| | | | The news for Saturday, December 12, 2020
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Children’s Rights Groups Sue LAUSD to Restart In-Person Instruction  Children’s rights organizations have filed suit in the California Supreme Court to force the Los Angeles Unified School District to resume in-person instruction for special needs students following the suspension of all such learning amid soaring COVID-19 case numbers. In the petition, Los Angeles nonprofits Alliance for Children’s Rights and Learning Rights Law Center contend […]
  
Man Killed in Bassett Park Shooting An investigation was underway Saturday morning into the shooting death of a man in Bassett Park in the unincorporated West Valinda area near Industry. Deputies responded at 11:20 p.m. Friday to a call of gunshots heard in the park, located in the 500 block of North Vineland Avenue, where they located the victim, who had […]
LA County Nursing Homes to Directly Handle Staff, Resident COVID Vaccinations In what’s being dubbed a time-saving measure, skilled nursing homes in Los Angeles County will directly receive allotments of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine and administer them to staff and residents, instead of relying on a previously announced pact with CVS and Walgreens, the county’s public health director announced. Staff and residents of nursing facilities and […]
2 Deputies Involved In Guardado’s Death Suspended for Unrelated Reasons Two deputies involved in the killing of Andres Guardado have been temporarily “relieved of duty in response to an unrelated investigation,” the sheriff’s department has announced. Sheriff Alex Villanueva suspended the deputies on Monday, according to Deputy Shawn Du Busky of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. “When you’re relieved of duty, they usually take […]
LA County Continues Record-Setting COVID Case Counts  For the second time in two days and third time this week, Los Angeles County has set a new record Saturday for daily COVID-19 infections, reporting nearly 14,000 new cases and pushing the county over the cumulative half-million mark. The county reported 13,815 new cases on Friday, above the record set Thursday of 12,819 and […]
Fourth Hallmark Channel Hanukkah Movie Premieres Saturday evening The fourth Hallmark Channel “Countdown to Christmas” Hanukkah movie, “Love, Lights, Hanukkah!” premieres at 8 p.m. Saturday evening. “Love, Lights, Hanukkah!” stars Mia Kirshner as Christina Rossi, the chef and owner of an Italian restaurant in Cleveland she has taken over from her late mother, who learns from a DNA test that she is Jewish […]
Cold Weather Alert Extended through Tuesday for Antelope Valley A Cold Weather Alert for the Antelope Valley was extended Saturday through Tuesday after below-freezing temperatures with wind-chill factored in was forecast. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is urging people in the area to: — wear layers of warm clothing if they plan to be outdoors; — wear a hat, scarf, gloves […]
Service to Be Interrupted This Weekend on Part of Metro L Line Planned utility work near parts of the Metro L, formerly Gold, Line will necessitate an interruption in rail service from Saturday evening through early Monday morning between the APU/Citrus College Station and the Duarte/City of Hope Station. Southern California Edison will conduct the work starting at 5 p.m. Saturday, according to Metro, which reported that […]
Garcetti Set to Speak at Virtual Global Climate Conference  Mayor Eric Garcetti is scheduled to be joined by Pope Francis, Chinese President Xi Jinping, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in speaking at the virtual Climate Ambition Summit Saturday. Garcetti will speak in his role as Chair of C40 Cities, which bills itself as a […]
Airport Fire in Corona 100% Contained The Airport Fire in Corona was 100% contained Friday evening after burning about 1,100 acres. The wildfire erupted shortly after 1 p.m. Dec. 2 within the Prado Reservoir, bordering Riverside and San Bernardino counties, on the north side of Corona Municipal Airport, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. The flames quickly charred 50 acres […]
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