| | | | Afternoon headlines for Monday, August 10, 2020
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Double Coronavirus Horror For Long Beach Mayor: Stepdad, Mom Both Die Of Covid-19  Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia announced Monday that his stepfather died due to complications from COVID-19, one day after the family held a memorial service for the mayor’s mother. “We are incredibly saddened to share that my stepfather, Greg O’Donnell, has passed away due to complications from COVID-19,” Garcia said in a statement. “It’s a […]
  
Cops Don’t Want To Order Power Shut To Dangerous Giant Party Houses Amid Coronavirus Pandemic  The Los Angeles Police Department officers’ union is pushing back against the potential use of officers in Mayor Eric Garcetti’s efforts to shut off utility service at homes hosting large parties. Garcetti announced the plan last week in response to two headline-grabbing house parties that attracted huge crowds despite a prohibition on such large gatherings […]
Simon Cowell Recovering from Back Surgery After Bike Spill: ‘Read The Manual’  Music mogul and “America’s Got Talent” personality Simon Cowell is recovering Monday from back surgery after breaking his back in several places in a fall at his Malibu home while trying out a new electric bicycle without first, he said, reading the instruction manual. The 60-year-old Cowell was in surgery for about six hours Saturday […]
Motorist Injured in Rollover Crash at Downtown Riverside Freeway Interchange A motorist was injured Monday when his sedan collided with another vehicle and overturned on Interstate 215 in downtown Riverside. The rollover crash happened about 11:50 a.m. on northbound I-215 at the transition to the westbound Riverside (91) Freeway, according to the California Highway Patrol. A Toyota Scion and a Toyota Corolla collided at the […]
Big Surprise? People Aren’t Traveling During Dangerous Pandemic Southern California has seen a significant decline in vehicle traffic, transit use and air travel since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study released Monday on the coronavirus’ impact on planes, trains and automobiles in the region. The study, conducted by the Southern California Association of Governments, analyzed roadway, rail and air […]
Cal Supreme Court Affirms Death Sentence of Man Who Murdered Family of Four The California Supreme Court Monday upheld a death sentence handed down in 2005 for a man who murdered a neighboring family of four, including a young girl and an elderly woman, at a home in unincorporated Whittier. Alfonso Ignacio Morales was convicted on April 19, 2005, of fatally stabbing three adults, then sexually assaulting and […]
California Supreme Court Lowers Passing Score for Bar Exam The California Supreme Court Monday issued an order to permanently lower the passing score for the state’s bar exam by 50 points and administer the test online in October as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The order confirms plans announced last month, and makes clear that the lower score will not be retroactive. “The […]
More `Cautious Optimism’ In LA County As Coronavirus Trends Improve With the county representing smaller shares of the state’s coronavirus cases and deaths, Los Angeles County’s public health director Monday again expressed cautious optimism about efforts to slow the spread of the virus, but said she’s awaiting an influx of backlogged testing results from the state. “I have to emphasize the word `cautiously’ because although […]
Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Against Uber, Lyft, Regarding AB 5 In a ruling stemming from a lawsuit brought the city attorneys of Los Angeles and two other cities and the state, a federal judge Monday granted a preliminary injunction against ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft, requiring them to classify their drivers as employees rather than independent contractors in accordance with a new state law. San […]
UCLA: Undocumented Residents During COVID-19 Excluded from Relief Efforts A UCLA study published Monday found that the exclusion of undocumented residents and their families from the $1,200 given to taxpayers as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an estimated loss of $10 billion in potential economic output. The study, Essential Undocumented Workers But Disposable Mixed-Status Families: Modeling COVID-19 Economic Impacts and Government […]
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