| | | | Afternoon headlines for Wednesday, October 20, 2021
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LA City Council Enforces City’s New Anti-Camping Law at 54 Locations  The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday voted to enforce its new anti-camping law at 54 locations, but two council members voted against it, noting that the city’s newly adopted street engagement framework process was not conducted. “Why did we pass the street engagement framework if we weren’t going to stick to it?” Councilwoman Nithya Raman […]
  
Report: Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Rise 76% in LA County  Anti-Asian hate crimes in Los Angeles County increased by 76% in 2020 compared to 2019 — from 25 to 44, the largest number of such crimes reported since 2001, according to a county report released Wednesday. The Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations special report collected data from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, […]
Ridley-Thomas Suspended from LA Council, Hours Before Not Guilty Plea  City Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas was suspended from office by a divided Los Angeles City Council Wednesday, hours before he entered a not-guilty plea to federal bribery and conspiracy charges stemming from his time serving on the county Board of Supervisors. Ridley-Thomas did not attend the downtown Los Angeles arraignment hearing in person, but entered his […]
County Schools, Businesses, Government Agencies to Partake in Quake Drill People in government offices, businesses and schools throughout Riverside County will stop everything for a minute Thursday to “drop, cover and hold on” during a statewide earthquake preparedness drill, now in its 13th year. The Great California ShakeOut of 2021 is scheduled for 10:21 a.m. Thursday. “What we do to prepare now, before the next […]
Woman, 75, Reported Missing in Azusa Found A 75-year-old woman who was reported missing in Azusa Wednesday has been found. Conchita Villarta had last been seen at about 9 p.m. Tuesday near South Citrus Avenue and Arrow Highway, and the California Highway Patrol issued a Silver Alert on behalf of the Azusa Police Department. The CHP announced just before 3 p.m. that […]
LBPD Announces Arrest of Two Suspects in 2020 Homicide Police Wednesday announced the arrest of two suspects in the killing of a homeless man in February 2020 in Long Beach. Both suspects are accused in the shooting death of 33-year-old Joseph Roque, the Long Beach Police Department reported. One suspect, 29-year-old Buchantha Suon of Long Beach, was taken into custody on Feb. 11 near […]
Netflix Workers, Supporters Stage Walkout Over Dave Chappelle Special Hundreds of Netflix employees and their supporters staged a walkout Wednesday in protest of the streaming service’s distribution of a Dave Chappelle comedy special in which the comedian makes a series of trans-phobic remarks. “We’re here to speak directly to Netflix,” transgender activist Ashlee Marie Preston told reporters at the rally. “We tried to speak […]
Garcetti: LA Employees Not Vaxed By Dec. 18 `Should Be Prepared’ To Lose Jobs Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday that any city employee who refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec. 18 “should be prepared to lose their job.” The deadline was initially Wednesday for Los Angeles’ mandate that all city employees be vaccinated. However, under a proposal submitted Tuesday by the city administrative officer, pending City Council […]
LA Fire Commissioner Calls For Chief To Be Replaced A Los Angeles fire commissioner called on Mayor Eric Garcetti to remove Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Ralph Terrazas for allegedly ignoring allegations of racism, sexism, retaliation and abuse endured by women at the department, according to a letter obtained Wednesday by City News Service. Commissioner Rebecca Ninburg said in the letter sent Tuesday: “I […]
LASD Employee Association Challenges Vaccine Registration Mandate A group representing about 1,850 sworn and non-sworn members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has filed a legal action challenging a requirement that they register their coronavirus vaccination status with a genetics laboratory or face possible discipline. The Los Angeles Sheriffs’ Professional Association brought the petition Tuesday against Los Angeles County, Sheriff Alex […]
Probe Continues into Canoga Park Fire that Killed 2, Injured 2 Others An investigation was continuing Wednesday into the cause of a fire that raged through a Canoga Park commercial building containing a drug-processing operation, killing two people and leaving two others hospitalized with burns. Firefighters sent to the 8400 block of North Canoga Avenue about 12:20 p.m. Monday extinguished the flames in an hour and 15 […]
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