| | | | Afternoon headlines for Wednesday, December 2, 2020
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Health Honchos Better Have Medical Evidence For Restaurant Shutdowns: Judge Demands Numbers  Los Angeles County’s ban on in-person dining will remain for at least another week, but while a judge declined to issue an order lifting the restriction, he directed county attorneys Wednesday to provide medical evidence about COVID-19 transmission being used to justify the ban. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Chalfant appeared sympathetic to legal […]
  
Scary Hospital News: LA County Could Be Maxed Out Of ICU Beds By Christmas  Left unabated, the surge of COVID-19 cases ravaging Los Angeles County could threaten the availability of intensive-care unit beds by Christmas, health officials warned Wednesday as they again pleaded for public adherence to infection-control measures. “Based on current modeling, unless there has been and continues to be changes in community transmission, we do anticipate that […]
Worst Mom Of The Year? Child Cruelty, Substance Abuse Charges As Toddlers Dumped In Car For Hours Felony charges are expected to be filed Thursday against a 29-year-old transient suspected of leaving her two toddler children unattended in a car parked for several hours outside a San Jacinto store, where they were found suffering heat-related illnesses. Sarah Maria Casciato was arrested Sunday on suspicion of willful child cruelty, child endangerment, being under […]
You May Get $30,000 If You Own A Small Restaurant In LA County: Shutdown Help For Desperate Eateries  Starting at midnight Wednesday evening, Los Angeles County will offer $30,000 grants to owners of small restaurants to make ends meet during a pandemic that has now shut down outdoor dining. Applications will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. Sunday or when 2,500 applications are received, whichever comes first, and will be funded on a first- […]
Olympic Gold Medalist, UCLA Legend Rafer Johnson Dead at 86 Olympic decathlon gold medalist Rafer Johnson, who lit the torch at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to open the 1984 Summer Games, died Wednesday at his home in Sherman Oaks. He was 86. Beyond his decorated athletic career, Johnson gained fame for helping to capture assassin Sirhan Sirhan after the shooting of Robert F. Kennedy at […]
Saddest Of Sad Year: LA. County Ceremony for 1,547 Unclaimed Dead in Mass Grave Los Angeles County will hold an online ceremony Thursday to mark the burial of 1,547 people who died in 2017 but whose remains went unclaimed by relatives or loved ones. The Department of Decedent Affairs said in a statement that it deeply regrets that it cannot hold a public ceremony this year, but made the […]
Woman Shot to Death Near Venice Beach Boardwalk; Suspects Sought A woman was killed in a possibly gang-related shooting near the Venice Beach Boardwalk, and three male suspects remained at large Wednesday morning. The shooting occurred at about 5:25 p.m. Tuesday in the area of Ocean Front Walk and 17th Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The woman was taken to a hospital, […]
Rosemead Doctor Arraigned on 10 Counts of Illegally Prescribing Drugs A Rosemead doctor charged with 10 counts of unlawfully prescribing sedatives and muscle relaxants entered a not guilty plea Wednesday. Dr. Po Long Lew was ordered to return to court on Feb. 18, when a date is expected to be set for a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to proceed to […]
Two People Dead Following Apparent Liquid Nitrogen Leak At Vernon Food Plant Two people at a Vernon food processing plant lost consciousness and died following an apparent liquid nitrogen leak, authorities said Wednesday. Crews were dispatched shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday to the plant at 4401 S. Downey Ave., according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The man and woman who died were not immediately identified. […]
Hospitalizations and COVID-19 Case Rates Continue to Climb in OC Coronavirus patients continue to stream into Orange County’s hospitals, with health officials Wednesday reporting 41 more patients than the previous day, including an increase of 13 admitted to intensive care units, a trend that is close to matching peak rates in July. The Orange County Health Care Agency also reported 1,208 new COVID-19 diagnoses and […]
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