| | | | Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, November 3, 2020
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Is It Finally Over? Ballots Flood Election Officials As Trump, Biden Won’t Stop Demonstrations  More than 76,000 voters cast ballots Tuesday morning at Los Angeles polling places, adding to a record number of votes already cast through the mail and early voting. Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean C. Logan said those 76,000 votes cast in the four hours after the polls opened will be counted on top of […]
  
Orange County Voting At Near-Record Levels  Election Day has finally arrived, but voter turnout in Orange County has already matched that of the 2008, 2012 and 2016 presidential elections. In 2008, the county recorded 1.1 million ballots cast, and so far this year the county has received nearly 1 million ballots through the mail or from drop boxes, while also recording […]
UCLA: U.S. Lagging in Health Care for Those 50s and Older An international study led by UCLA researchers has found that the United States is far from the most effective health care provider for those 50 and older among the 23 countries examined, it was announced Tuesday. In terms of best practices, such as an annual doctor’s check-up, the U.S. came in at seventh place, with […]
Did She Pay $1 Million In Taxes Due To Billionaire Firm’s Bad Advice? Doesn’t Matter: She Died So Judge Ends Lawsuit Hearing A 76-year-old woman beset by health problems who sued Fisher Investments, alleging that the company founded by billionaire Ken Fisher mismanaged her trust assets and forced her to pay nearly $1 million in taxes, has died, prompting a judge to cancel a hearing in the case scheduled Tuesday. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gregory […]
Voters To Decide Heated Lacey-Gascon Race For District Attorney Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey is fighting to keep her seat for a third term despite an aggressive challenge by self-styled reformer George Gascon, a former LAPD Assistant Chief of Police, Chief of Police in Mesa, Arizona and San Francisco D.A. Lacey garnered significantly more voter support than Gascon in the March primary […]
Latest Appeal Denied for Gardena Man Convicted of Execution-Style Slaying A former Gardena resident convicted of an execution-style murder in Rancho Palos Verdes more than 13 years ago lost his latest appeal Tuesday. A three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected Daniel Isidro Nunez’s claim that he was eligible for re-sentencing under a recent change in state law. Nunez is serving a […]
Two Dead After Big Rig, Car Collide Near Lake Mathews Two people died Tuesday when a big rig and car collided near Lake Mathews. The crash was reported at about 10:30 a.m. east of Corona in the area of Cajalco Road and La Sierra Avenue, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. The two unidentified motorists died at the scene, officials said. The cause of […]
Law Enforcement On Heightened Alert For Election Day; LAPD On Tactical Alert Police across the Southland were on heightened alert Tuesday as voting wraps up in a highly contentious presidential election that has led to fears of large demonstrations — regardless of whether President Donald Trump wins or if Democrat Joe Biden unseats him. The Los Angeles Police Department issued a citywide tactical alert Tuesday afternoon as […]
Orange County Reports 306 New COVID-19 Cases, One More Death Orange County officials Tuesday reported 306 new COVID-19 diagnoses and one additional coronarvirus-related fatality, raising the cumulative case total to 60,604 and the death toll to 1,484. The rate of deaths has been trending down over the past few weeks. From Oct. 25 through last Saturday, there were 39 deaths reported, up from 35 the […]
L.A. County Reports Another 1,224 COVID-19 Cases, 23 More Deaths Los Angeles County reported 1,224 new cases of COVID-19 and 23 additional deaths Tuesday, bringing the county’s totals to 311,745 cases and 7,097 fatalities. The numbers come as public health officials continued to warn that the area’s coronavirus crisis is worsening and threatens to become even more dire during the upcoming holiday season unless behaviors […]
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