| | | | Afternoon headlines for Thursday, February 18, 2021
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Got A Vaccine Appointment Friday At LA City Site? Forget About It – Deliveries Delayed Due to Winter Storms  Friday’s COVID-19 vaccination appointments at Los Angeles city-run sites were postponed due to supply delays caused by winter storms throughout the country, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Thursday. “Severe weather across the country has disrupted travel and shipping nationwide, including delaying the delivery of our vaccines,” Garcetti said. “Our city is ready to administer COVID-19 vaccines […]
  
Two Little Girls Molested For Nine Years? Felony Sex Assault Charges For Suspect, 40, In Wildomar, Lake Elsinore  Multiple felony charges were filed Thursday against a 40- year-old man accused of sexually assaulting two Wildomar girls multiple times over a nine-year span. Jose Luis Rodriguez of Lake Elsinore was arrested last week following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation into the defendant’s alleged encounters with the victims, identified in court documents only as […]
Deadly Mystery Plunge From San Pedro Cliff: Officials ID Body, But Was It Accident, Suicide Or Murder?  Authorities Thursday identified the body found at the base of a cliff in the San Pedro area, but the cause of the deadly plunge remained a mystery. Montebello resident Andres Marquez, 27, was found dead about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 800 block of West Paseo del Mar, according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s […]
Cancer Doc Loses Round In Lost Job Lawsuit Against USC: Was It Retaliation For Patient Interference Complaint?  A former Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center doctor who sued USC, alleging he lost his job in 2019 in retaliation for complaining that his supervisor was interfering with patient care, lost a round in court Tuesday as a judge ruled he must take his case before an arbitrator rather than a jury. The complicated lawsuit includes […]
Big Bucks Trump Money Guy Of Arcadia Gets 12 Years For Obstructing Fed Probe Of Inaugural Committee Funds A Los Angeles-area businessman and political fundraiser who obstructed a federal investigation into donations to former President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee was sentenced Thursday to 12 years behind bars. Imaad Zuberi, 50, of Arcadia also was ordered to pay nearly $16 million in restitution and a $1.75 million fine. He is to report to prison […]
Three People Hurt in Apartment Building Fire in Northridge Area Three people were injured Thursday in a fire in an apartment building in the Northridge area. Nearly 100 firefighters were sent to the 60,000-square-foot, three-story building in the 9800 block of North Reseda Boulevard at 11:44 a.m. and extinguished the blaze in 33 minutes, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Three civilians were evaluated […]
Prosecutors Outraged That Their Own LA DA Won’t Seek Death Penalty For Accused Cop Killer Over the objection of the two prosecutors assigned to the case, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office dropped its bid Thursday to seek the death penalty for an admitted gang member accused of killing a family member in East Los Angeles and then opening fire on two Whittier police officers, killing one and wounding […]
Orange County Forced To Suspend Disneyland Site Due To Vaccine Shortage Winter storms on the East Coast, which have delayed delivery of COVID-19 vaccines, forced the closure of Orange County’s Disneyland Super POD site Thursday until at least Monday. It has also delayed the opening of another new distribution point at the Anaheim Convention Center, which was scheduled to open on Wednesday. The Moderna vaccines were […]
Sofia Coppola to Be Honored By American Society of Cinematographers The American Society of Cinematographers Thursday announced that writer-producer-director Sofia Coppola will receive the organization’s Board of Governors Award for “significant and indelible contributions to cinema.” The only ASC Award not given to a cinematographer “is reserved for industry stalwarts who have been champions for directors of photography and the visual art form,” according to […]
Beach Boys Strike Partnership with Irving Azoff-Led Company The Beach Boys have struck an agreement with entertainment executive Irving Azoff’s new Los Angeles-based venture, Iconic Artists Group, to promote and market their songs and image online, it was announced Thursday. As part of the deal, Iconic has purchased a controlling interest in the Beach Boys’ intellectual property, including their recordings, brand, select compositions […]
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