| | | | Afternoon headlines for Thursday, January 21, 2021
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Good News Amid COVID Death, Misery: LA County Case Numbers, Hospitalizations Ease, But Don’t Celebrate Yet  There’s cautious optimism Thursday that stabilizing COVID-19 case numbers, positivity rates and hospital admissions in Los Angeles County are signaling a reversal of a virus surge, but health officials warn the numbers are still dangerously elevated and virus transmission remains widespread. “While it’s too soon to tell if we’re actually seeing a significant decline in […]
  
Sex Molester Of 6-Year-Old Had Help From Little Girl’s Mom! 24 Years In Prison  A Lake Forest man who pleaded guilty to federal charges of child pornography and traveling out of state to engage in sex acts with children in which the mom of a 6-year-old victim helped in the attack was sentenced Thursday to more than 24 years in prison. Daniel Seibert, 29, pleaded guilty March 11 to […]
Biden Demands Life-Saving Masks, But USC Finds Half of US Adults Ignore Masks During Close Contact  On the day that President Biden launched a national drive to get people to wear life-saving masks to battle the coronavirus, a USC study showed three out of 10 Los Angeles County residents and nearly half of adults in the U.S. don’t wear protective face masks. The study released Thursday focused on the lack of […]
Sheriff Insists Inmates In LA County Jails Safer than Everyone Outside Sheriff Alex Villanueva told a watchdog agency Thursday that inmates in county jails are more safely protected from the coronavirus than members of the general public. “Overwhelmingly, it’s far more dangerous outside,” Villanueva told the Civilian Oversight Commission. “We’re kind of an island of relatively low infection rates compared with the community at large.” The […]
USC: Deaths Among ICE Detainees Reach Record High Nearly three dozen people have died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since April 2018, with a seven-fold increase in deaths even as the average daily ICE detainee population decreased by nearly a third between 2019 and 2020, a USC study released Thursday shows. “Potentially preventable causes of death — including COVID-19 […]
Tough Time In Riverside County Getting Vaccine: More Added, But Appointments Scarce Riverside County residents were allowed Thursday to sign up to receive one of 3,900 COVID-19 vaccine doses to be administered at a series of county-run clinics, and all appointments were quickly taken. The reservation window opened at noon, and according to the Riverside University Health System, all of the available slots were filled by early […]
Disneyland Vaccine Site Reopens Following Wind Closures After two days of closures due to high winds, the COVID-19 vaccination site at Disneyland reopened, and county officials plan to open another large-scale location to administer doses this weekend. The Disneyland “Super POD” — point of distribution — site was closed Tuesday and Wednesday as Santa Ana winds battered much of the Southland. There […]
Women Allege Harassment by Director of Museum Honoring Black Achievement One former and one current employee of the California African-American Museum in Exposition Park are suing the institution, alleging the executive director sexually harassed them and said he preferred to date uneducated women during the pandemic because the smarter ones would not visit with him. Charlene Powell and Kennedy Mims brought the suit in Los […]
CHRB Extends License for Los Alamitos Race Track Another 6 Months State regulators, in a reversal of a decision made last month, Thursday extended an operating license by six months for quarter horse racing at Los Alamitos Race Course, where two horses died last weekend while training at the Cypress track. The California Horse Racing Board voted 4-3 to extend the license for Los Alamitos through […]
County Launches Small Business Loan Program Starting Jan. 28 The Los Angeles County Development Authority announced Thursday it will launch a small business loan program on Jan. 28 to help prevent job losses and business closures amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Small Business Stabilization Loan Program is funded with $10 million from the U.S. Economic Development Administration through a federal COVID-19 relief act, according […]
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