| | | | Afternoon headlines for Thursday, December 24, 2020
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COVID Grinch? Deadly Coronavirus Surge Feared After Christmas  As Los Angeles County hospitals fill rapidly with COVID-19 cases, often beyond the ability to immediately find patient beds, health officials Thursday fretfully awaited another holiday weekend that threatens to spread the virus even further, potentially leaving medical centers completely overrun. “Anyone who is willing to be honest with the facts and the timeline of […]
  
Lisa Marie Presley Gets Joint Custody Of Twins: She’s Elvis Presley’s Only Child  A Los Angeles judge awarded Lisa Marie Presley and her fourth husband joint legal and physical custody of their 12-year-old twin daughters and ordered Elvis Presley’s only child to undergo random monthly drug tests for a year from the first such test, court papers obtained Thursday show. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman also […]
Harvest Rock Church Loses Fed Appeal For Emergency Pre-Christmas Pasadena Indoor Worship Amid COVID Rules  A federal appeals court turned down Pasadena-based Harvest Rock Church and Harvest International Ministry’s bid for an emergency pre-Christmas ruling overturning Gov. Gavin Newsom’s COVID-19 guidelines on indoor worship, according to court papers obtained Thursday. The loss will have no effect on area worship services since Los Angeles County previously relaxed its guidelines for church […]
COVID Vaccination Efforts Proceeding In LA County COVID-19 vaccination efforts continued across Los Angeles County Thursday, with the effort expanding beyond health care workers and reaching residents and staff of skilled nursing facilities as well as paramedics and emergency medical technicians. Since the Pfizer vaccine was released last week, the county has received a total of 131,625 doses of the medication, county […]
Cedars-Sinai Study Finds Immune Flaws in COVID-19 Patients With Lung Failure Patients with severe COVID-19 disease who develop respiratory failure have malfunctions in their immune systems that distinguish them from other COVID-19 patients, according to a new study led by Cedars-Sinai. The findings could help doctors develop new ways to prevent and treat this life-threatening complication. The study, published Dec. 16 in the journal Cell Reports, […]
Judge Rules in Favor of Los Angeles LGBT Center in Diversity Training Suit A federal judge granted a temporary injunction to the Los Angeles LGBT Center and other gay rights organizations that claimed Donald Trump’s executive order banning some types of diversity training conducted by federal contractors violated their free speech, it was announced Thursday. The judge ruled that the plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights to conduct diversity training […]
Ex-Disney CEO’s Former Handyman Alleges Age, Disability Discrimination Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner and his wife, Jane, are being sued by a property maintenance worker who alleges he was fired this spring because of his age and disability and for taking medical leave during the coronavirus pandemic. Oscar Rene Linares’ Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit alleges wrongful discharge, disability and age discrimination, harassment, […]
Winds Diminish As Red Flag Warnings Expire; Rain Ahead? Santa Ana winds diminished across the Southland Thursday, amid cooler temperatures and even some hints of light rain in some areas, allowing a red flag warning of dangerous fire conditions to expire without incident. The red flag warning of heightened fire danger that took effect at 8 a.m. Wednesday and expired at noon Thursday. According […]
Orange County’s COVID-19 Hospitalizations Set New Record At 1,893 Orange County continued to set records Thursday for COVID-19 hospitalizations, with the number rising to 1,893, while officials also reported another 3,490 confirmed virus infections. The number of people hospitalized was a 39-patient jump from Wednesday. Of the 1,893 hospital patients, a pandemic-high 405 were being treated in intensive care. Throughout the pandemic, a total […]
Archdiocese of L.A. Christmas Masses to be Broadcast on TV and Livestream Churchgoers who traditionally attend Christmas services will be able to watch Masses live from the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels or stream the services on their digital devices amid increased COVID-19-related public safety measures. Univision Los Angeles will broadcast Christmas morning Masses in Spanish at 7 a.m. on UniMas KFTR-TV, Channel 46. ABC7 […]
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