| | | | | Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, February 13, 2024 |
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Council Adopts Ordinance to Support San Fernando Water Treatment Facility The Los Angeles City Council adopted an ordinance Tuesday that will allow the city to move forward with a delivery option for a project intended to support a water treatment facility in the San Fernando Valley. Council members voted 12-0 to authorize L.A. Sanitation and Environment to use a quicker delivery process for design plans […]
Supervisors Approve New Short-Term Rental Regulations The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a suite of new regulations on short-term rentals located in unincorporated areas. The board voted unanimously to amend the county code regarding businesses licenses, which regulates short-term rentals. Under the new rules, hosts with Airbnb or Vacation Rentals By Owner, VRBO, will be required to register […]
DeShaun Foster Replaces Chip Kelly as UCLA Football Coach DeShaun Foster was introduced as UCLA’s new football coach Tuesday, one day after the school completed a surprisingly swift search and announced that its running backs coach and former backfield star will replace Chip Kelly. “I’ve always dreamed about being a head coach, and being at UCLA and being the head coach here at UCLA,” […]
2 Gang Members Arrested for LA Shootings Two alleged gang members were in custody Tuesday in connection with a string of four fatal Southland shootings that occurred within hours and a few miles of each other in what investigators believe were completely random attacks. “It appears this was a random murder spree, however, homicide investigators have not ruled anything out,” Los Angeles […]
Fire Fatality at Red-Tagged House in Del Rey A fire in a red-tagged house in the Del Rey area of Los Angeles left one person dead and another person injured Tuesday, authorities said. Firefighters sent to the single-story residence in the 4900 block of South Sycamore Drive at 6:14 a.m. Tuesday extinguished the flames in 41 minutes, according to Nicholas Prange of the […]
City Council Asks for Lifecycle Food Labels The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday called for a report back on the feasibility of requiring labels informing consumers on the “lifecycle” of food packaging and other products. Council members voted 12-0 to support the motion introduced by members Monica Rodriguez and Katy Yaroslavsky in September 2023. Rodriguez and Yaroslavsky are seeking to add packaging […]
AIDS Healthcare Foundation Sues USPS AIDS Healthcare Foundation is suing the U.S. Postal Service, alleging in Los Angeles federal court that the agency discriminates against Black residents of single-room-occupancy buildings in downtown’s Skid Row area by refusing to deliver mail to their individual mailboxes, according to court papers obtained Tuesday. AHF’s lawsuit asserts that USPS’ delivery practices involving non-white SRO […]
42-Year-Old Man Identified in Cannabis Operation Fire A 42-year-old man who was found dead after firefighters searched a burned building in the Green Meadows neighborhood of South Los Angeles that authorities say housed a cannabis operation was identified Tuesday. Fire crews were called Saturday at 1:17 a.m. to 832 E. Manchester Ave., between Wadsworth Avenue and South McKinley Place, where they found […]
Deputy Sues City for Officer Boyfriend Tracking Her A Los Angeles police officer is suing the city, alleging her command staff did not do enough to protect her when she reported that a high-ranking former boyfriend within the department secretly tracked her after she ended the relationship in 2023. Officer Dawn Silva’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit alleges gender discrimination and harassment, retaliation […]
Rebecca Grossman’s Husband Testifies at Murder Trial Called to the stand as the defense’s first witness, the director of the Grossman Burn Centers testified Tuesday that he had been in a vehicle hundreds of times when his wife, Rebecca, was behind the wheel but that he didn’t recall whether she drove over the speed limit. Rebecca Grossman is charged with two counts […]
2 Shot in Watts, Suspect Arrested Two people were shot within blocks of each other in Watts Tuesday, and a suspect was taken into custody, but it was unclear if the attacks were related. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers responded to the 1200 block of East 114th Street around 2:40 p.m. Tuesday on a report of shots fired, […]
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