| | | | Afternoon headlines for Friday, January 15, 2021
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COVID Vaccinations Now At Dodger Stadium, But Maybe Not For You  Dodger Stadium reopened Friday as a COVID-19 mass-vaccination center, with Mayor Eric Garcetti saying it will eventually have the capacity to vaccinate 12,000 people a day, but for now it will cater only to health care workers. “This site will move us closer to a day we can’t wait to wake up and hear about. […]
  
More Bad COVID News: Additional Businesses Could Be Ordered Closed As Case Numbers Soar  With a continued surge in COVID-19 cases that has flooded hospitals with patients and led to deaths roughly every six minutes, Los Angeles County could face more business closures in an effort to slow the virus spread. The nonprofit online publication Capital & Main, citing unnamed county sources, reported Thursday night that the county Board […]
Natalie Wood Death Coverup? LA Sheriff Targeted In Legal Demand For Info Release  A man writing a book about the 1981 drowning death of Natalie Wood has filed a legal action in a bid to obtain Los Angeles County sheriff’s records into the death of the actress, which he says the department to date has refused to turn over. Samuel A. Perroni, a retired federal prosecutor and Arkansas […]
Motorcyclist Killed in Irvine Crash An 18-year-old motorcyclist was killed Friday in a collision in Irvine. Garrett Ryder Wade, a Concordia University student who lived in Orange, collided with a Toyota Camry at Walnut Avenue and Kazan Street about 8:15 a.m., according to Irvine police Sgt. Karie Davies. Wade was rushed to OC Global Medical Center, where he was pronounced […]
O.C. Man Who Was Chased by Police With Cocaine in Car Pleads Guilty An Orange County man who led officers on a high-speed car chase after they attempted to pull him over with about 75 pounds of cocaine in his vehicle pleaded guilty Friday to a federal narcotics charge. Anthony Martinez, 40, of La Habra, pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine. In […]
DC Inauguration Violence Forces Post Office To Remove Some Southland Mailboxes The United States Postal Service Friday announced plans to temporarily remove more than a dozen collection mailboxes in the Southland for security reasons amid threats of potential violence in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere surrounding next week’s inauguration of President-Elect Joe Biden. “Postal customers in the Greater Los Angeles area, will see some changes as the […]
Threats Of Violence Cancel LA City Council Meeting on DC Inauguration Day Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez Friday canceled Wednesday’s City Council meeting and urged City Hall staff to work remotely amid threats of violence surrounding the inauguration of President-Elect Joe Biden. “After the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, and the subsequent reports that armed protests are planned at state capitols […]
Settlement Reached in Suit Alleging Manhandling of Woman by LBPD A mentally incapacitated 23-year-old woman would receive $47,000 under a tentative settlement reached with the city of Long Beach over a confrontation with police in 2019 in which she suffered a broken arm that required surgery. The settlement of Maquoyia Rodgers’ case, outlined in court papers filed by the plantiff’s attorneys, is subject to approval […]
Orange County Reports 82 More COVID-19 Deaths, 3,158 Cases Orange County Friday reported 82 more COVID-19 fatalities, a record for a daily batch, and 3,158 new cases as hospitalizations continued a trend downward. Since Sunday, the county has reported 236 deaths. Last week, the county logged 140 deaths. The death reports are staggered and sometimes take weeks to be logged, but December was the […]
Home Chef Agrees to Pay $450,000 to Settle Civil Lawsuit Filed by DA’s Office Home Chef has agreed to pay $450,000 to settle a civil lawsuit that accused the online home-cooked meal delivery company of charging customers for ongoing subscriptions without their express consent, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday. The settlement, approved this week by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge, requires the Chicago-based company […]
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