| | | | Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, July 13, 2021
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COVID Cases Continue Rise In LA County; Supervisors Lament Vaccine Resistance  With local COVID-19 infection numbers surging upward, topping 1,000 new cases for the fifth straight day, Los Angeles County supervisors Tuesday lamented continued resistance to vaccines while health officials announced an outreach effort to bring shots to people’s doors. The county reported 1,103 new COVID cases on Tuesday, lifting the cumulative total from throughout the […]
  
Indictments Unsealed in Heroin Dealing Conspiracy in OC  Federal indictments were unsealed against 19 defendants accused in a heroin distribution and money laundering conspiracy in Orange County, 12 of whom were arrested Tuesday. The other defendants in Operation Horse Caller who were charged in the grand jury indictment are fugitives, officials said. Julio Cesar Martinez of Riverside, 43, and his brother Victor Martinez […]
`The Crown,’ `The Mandalorian’ Lead With 24 Emmy Nominations  Netflix’s “The Crown” and Disney+’s “The Mandalorian” each scored a leading 24 nominations Tuesday for the 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards, with both landing among the nominees for outstanding drama series. Also vying for the prize of best TV drama will be Prime Video’s “The Boys,” Netflix’s “Bridgerton,” Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” HBO’s “Lovecraft Country,” […]
El Segundo and Dockweiler Beaches Remain Closed Following Sewage Spill Beaches from El Segundo to the southern end of Playa del Rey remained closed to swimmers Tuesday due to a 17-million-gallon sewage spill, though a preliminary test showed non-hazardous levels of bacteria. Los Angeles County Health Officer Dr. Muntu Davis told the Board of Supervisors that two such tests are required within a 24-hour period […]
OC Firefighters Work to Free Trapped Woman in Santa Ana Firefighters were working Tuesday to free a woman who somehow got stuck between two buildings in Santa Ana. Firefighters were dispatched at 2:05 p.m. to 1020 N. Harbor Blvd. where the woman somehow got “in between two walls of two commercial businesses,” according to Capt. Thanh Nguyen of the Orange County Fire Authority. “She’s wedged […]
OC Sees Jump in COVID-19 Cases and Hospitalizations If the state still had its blueprint for reopening the economy system in place, Orange County would have had to move up from the least-restrictive yellow tier to the orange tier, the chief health officer and director of the county’s Health Care Agency told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday. According to state data released every […]
Man, 80, Reported Missing in Los Angeles Los Angeles police Tuesday circulated a photo of an 80-year-old man who went missing last week. Investigators also disseminated a photo of Jackson Mohler’s car and asked the public to be on the lookout for him. Mohler was last seen at about 5:30 p.m. July 5 near the 1400 block of Edgemont Avenue, in the […]
Jury Selection Begins in Trial of West Hollywood Political Donor Ed Buck Jury selection started Tuesday in the federal criminal trial of former political donor Ed Buck, who is accused of providing methamphetamine to two men who overdosed and died in his West Hollywood apartment. An initial pool of 25 prospective panelists was called into the eighth-floor courtroom of U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder in downtown Los […]
GM Building $71 Million Design Center in Pasadena General Motors announced Tuesday an investment of more than $71 million to establish a new design and technology campus in Pasadena. GM is relocating from its existing Advanced Design Center operations in North Hollywood to a nearly 149,000-square-foot campus at Rosemead Boulevard and Sierra Madre Villa Avenue. The automotive giant recently purchased The Sierra, an […]
Man’s Conviction Upheld for Fatally Stabbing Acquaintance During Fight A state appeals court panel Tuesday upheld a man’s conviction for fatally stabbing an acquaintance during a fight outside a South Los Angeles fast-food restaurant The three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected the defense’s contention that there was insufficient evidence to support David Carrillo’s second-degree murder conviction for the Feb. 10, […]
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