| | | | Afternoon headlines for Thursday, May 7, 2020
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Four Dozen Virus Deaths As Businesses Set To Reopen: Should You Be Afraid?  One day ahead of loosened rules that will allow more retail businesses to open on a limited basis, Los Angeles County confirmed four dozen more deaths due to COVID-19 Thursday, while local and state officials warned that failure to adhere to safety measures as the economy restarts could prompt a return to social restrictions. “As […]
  
Bloody Mother’s Day Horror: Son Charged With Mom’s Slashing Murder  Just a few days before Mother’s Day, a 34-year-old son was charged Thursday with stabbing his mother to death in Monterey Park. Alexander Joshua Escobar was set to be arraigned Thursday at the Alhambra courthouse on a murder charge that includes a knife allegation, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. The victim […]
Big Bucks On Bad Coronavirus Health Claims? Feds Warn Sellers  The Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday that it has sent letters to 45 marketers nationwide, including five based the South Bay and Orange County, warning them to stop making unsubstantiated claims that their products and therapies can treat or prevent COVID-19. The FTC identified the Southland companies receiving letters as: — Holtorf Medical Group, El […]
Orange County’s COVID-19 Death Toll Rises to 66 Orange County officials Thursday reported 96 more cases of COVID-19 and an additional death, raising countywide totals to 3,092 cases and 66 fatalities. Fourteen deaths from the disease have been reported since Monday. The number of patients hospitalized with the virus dropped from 192 on Wednesday to 186, with the number of patients in intensive […]
Convicted DUI Offender Arrested on Suspicion of Murder In Fatal Crash A convicted DUI offender was in custody Thursday on suspicion of murder for allegedly crashing a car while driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, killing one of his two passengers. Javan Draper, 45, of Pomona was arrested Wednesday on a warrant and booked on suspicion of murder and DUI causing death, with bail […]
DMV Reopening Offices, Including Multiple Southland Locations The California Department of Motor Vehicles will reopen 25 of its field offices Friday, including more than a half-dozen in the Southland, to assist customers with appointments and “transactions that require an in-person visit to a field office.” Local offices set to reopen are in Arleta, Los Angeles south of downtown, Fullerton, Santa Ana, Montebello, […]
Governor Says OK To Some OC Beach Openings State officials Thursday approved Orange County’s active-use plans for its 16% of shoreline, reopening all of the county’s beaches a week after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered them shut down when throngs crowded beaches in defiance of COVID-19-prompted stay-at-home orders. Orange County’s plans mirror the same hours and restrictions in each of the cities where the […]
L.A. County Parks to Remain Open on Mother’s Day With Safer At Home restrictions imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic being slowly loosened, Los Angeles County officials announced Thursday that county parks, which were going to be closed for Mother’s Day, will be remain open for “passive use.” The county had earlier announced plans to close off all of its parks on Sunday, similar […]
LAPD Releases Names of Two Officers in South L.A. Officer-Involved Shooting The Los Angeles Police Department Thursday released the names of the two officers involved in an officer-involved shooting that killed a fleeing suspect, who allegedly drew a handgun in South Los Angeles. Officers Luke Coyle and Kevin Ruiz, of the Newton Division, were in the 2200 block of Wall Street about 9:40 p.m. April 30 […]
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