| | | | Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, December 7, 2021
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LA Community College Students Can Use Metro for Free Starting Through 2022  Students enrolled in the Los Angeles Community College District can take Metro and other participating transit agencies for free under a pilot program that will last through Dec. 31, 2022, the district announced Tuesday. The GoPass program went into effect Dec. 1 and followed the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors’ vote […]
  
Judge Refuses to Dismiss Grand Jury Indictment Against Harvey Weinstein  A judge Tuesday denied a defense motion seeking the dismissal of the grand jury indictment against disgraced former film producer Harvey Weinstein, who was extradited from New York to Los Angeles in connection with sex-related counts involving five women. Superior Court Judge Lisa B. Lenchy said she found “sufficient evidence” to “support the charges in […]
Arraignment Postponed for Man Charged With Killing Music Executive’s Wife  Arraignment was postponed until Wednesday for the man charged with murder and other counts in the shooting death of Jacqueline Avant, the wife of music executive Clarence Avant, during a robbery at the couple’s Trousdale Estates home in Beverly Hills. Aariel Maynor, 29, of Los Angeles, was originally scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday, but the […]
Supervisors Mandate Vaccination for LA County Contractors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved a COVID-19 vaccine mandate covering county contractors working in person with the public or with county employees. Supervisor Janice Hahn recommended expanding an existing mandate covering county employees to include outside contractors. “Given the importance of vaccinations in our fight against COVID-19 and the expansive […]
Long Beach Confirms Case of Omicron COVID Variant Long Beach health officials confirmed that city’s first known case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 Tuesday, one day after Los Angeles County reported its second and third cases of the variant that was first detected in South Africa. According to Long Beach officials, the patient is fully vaccinated and is not showing any symptoms […]
Father Cites Religious Grounds in Objecting to LAUSD Student Vaccine Mandate The father of a freshman student at Granada Hills Charter has brought a legal action against the school, the Los Angeles Unified School District and Interim Superintendent Megan Reilly on behalf of his daughter, alleging the district’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate discriminates against the girl on religious grounds. The Los Angeles Superior Court petition filed Friday […]
Orange County’s Weekly COVID-19 Averages Show Increase Orange County’s weekly COVID-19 infection rates ticked up while hospitalizations inched down, according to data released Tuesday by the Orange County Health Care Agency. The county’s weekly COVID-19 case rate per 100,000 residents increased from 6.1 to 6.4, while the rate of people testing positive for the virus increased from to 2.4% to 3.3%. The […]
Authorities Investigating Two Fatal Shootings in Compton A man was fatally shot Tuesday as he was allegedly attempting to rob someone at knifepoint in Compton, the second fatal shooting in as many days in that city. Deputies were sent to the 1500 block of West 156th Street at about 6:15 a.m. Tuesday on a report of an attempted robbery and a shooting, […]
Kobe Bryant’s Widow Urges Judge to Allow Crash Photos Suit to Go Forward Vanessa Bryant says she felt “sick” and “extreme sadness and anger” when learning that Los Angeles County sheriff’s and fire department personnel had allegedly snapped and shared gruesome photos of the bodies of her late husband and the couple’s 13-year-old daughter at the scene of the helicopter crash that killed nine people, according to court […]
Thieves Make Off With $100,000 in Jewelry From Downtown Hotel Guest Police were looking for a pair of armed robbers who stole jewelry valued at $100,000 from three people early Tuesday in downtown Los Angeles. Officers were called to the InterContinental Hotel at 900 Wilshire Blvd. at 12:58 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Authorities said two men about 5-feet-6 inches to 5-feet-8 inches […]
LA County Considers Funding Healthcare for Contracted Workers The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to consider providing fully subsidized health care coverage to county contracted employees. Supervisors Hilda Solis and Janice Hahn, who co-authored the motion, pointed to the essential role that more than 2,000 security, janitorial, environmental and food service workers play in county-run hospitals, clinics, juvenile halls […]
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