| | | | | Afternoon headlines for Wednesday, February 2, 2022 |
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LA City Council Seeks Crackdown on Contracted Companies Underpaying Workers Citing an instance in which a company contracted by the city failed to pay its workers overtime, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a motion Wednesday aimed at strengthening enforcement of its prevailing wage laws. According to the motion, the Bureau of Contract Administration discovered a large contractor with more than 33,000 employees that […]
LACo COVID Hospitalizations Fall Again; Another 102 Deaths Reported While daily case numbers, hospitalizations and testing-positivity rates have been steadily falling, the number of COVID-19-related deaths remained elevated Wednesday, with Los Angeles County reporting another 102 fatalities. The deaths pushed the county’s cumulative number of fatalities from throughout the pandemic across the 29,000 mark, reaching 29,099. The county reported another 15,664 COVID infections Wednesday, […]
Mission Springs Water District to Resume Shutoffs in April The Mission Springs Water District will resume water disconnections due to unpaid bills in April, it was announced Wednesday. The water district, which serves Desert Hot Springs and surrounding areas, had suspended disconnections for past-due accounts since the start of the coronavirus pandemic due to a state moratorium on shutoffs. Although the moratorium was lifted […]
Parents Plead Not Guilty in Decapitation of Two Children The parents of a 12-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl who were decapitated in Lancaster pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murder and child abuse charges. The children’s father, Maurice Jewel Taylor Sr., now 35, was arrested in December 2020 and charged with two counts of murder involving his 12-year-old son Maurice Jr. and 13-year-old daughter […]
Santa Ana Winds Whip Up Again in Southland Strong Santa Ana winds again blasted parts of the Southland Wednesday, and they will likely persist into Thursday morning — with the most severe being experienced in the L.A. County Mountains. The National Weather Service issued a high wind warning for the affected areas of the L.A. mountains, and it will be in effect through […]
Slain LAPD Officer Fernando Arroyos Laid To Rest Hundreds of mourners gathered Wednesday for the funeral service of Los Angeles Police Department Officer Fernando Arroyos, who was shot to death last month while off duty. The service at Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills began at about 10 a.m. at the Hall of Liberty Mosaic Deck, where the flag-draped coffin was brought to the front of […]
Agency Responds to Suit Alleging Assault of Child by Former Worker Azusa-based California Pediatric & Family Services responded Wednesday to a lawsuit alleging one of its former employees assaulted a special needs child and that some of his misconduct was recorded on video, saying management was “shocked and appalled” by what the images showed. The Los Angeles County Superior Court lawsuit, filed Tuesday, alleges that the […]
Lawndale Man Pleads No Contest to Animal Cruelty Involving Kitten A man pleaded no contest Wednesday to a felony animal cruelty charge stemming from the discovery of a kitten with two broken legs in a trash bin at a Lawndale apartment building in October 2020. The charge against Darion K. Hackett, now 30, of Lawndale, will be reduced to a misdemeanor in August 2023 if […]
LA City Council Passes Motion Aimed at Fixing LA’s Sidewalk Repair Program The Los Angeles City Council approved a motion Wednesday aimed at improving Los Angeles’ system for repairing sidewalks, adopting recommendations from a report by Controller Ron Galperin that found the city’s program was broken like many of the sidewalks themselves. The motion — which was introduced by Councilmen Bob Blumenfield and Mike Bonin on Dec. […]
Man Found Dead in Claremont Identified Authorities Wednesday publicly identified a 53-year-old man who was found dead inside a vehicle in Claremont. Claremont Police Department officers were called to the 1400 block of Claremont Boulevard, near the California Botanic Garden, just after 6:05 a.m. Monday on reports of a suspicious vehicle and found James Lowe III of Santa Ana dead inside, […]
Woman Found Shot in Leg in Elevator at Woodland Hills Apartment Complex A woman was found shot in a leg in an elevator in Woodland Hills Wednesday. Los Angeles Police Department officers responded just before 3 a.m. to the 22000 block of Victory Boulevard after a caller found the woman inside the elevator at an apartment complex, police said. The woman was taken to a hospital in […]
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