| | | | The news for Friday, October 23, 2020
|
|
LA County and City Advancing Plans For COVID Rapid Testing Program  Local health officials next week will announce details of a pilot program that will employ an FDA-approved test and assess the feasibility of its widespread use. The announcement will come two months after Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a coordinated effort to establish wide-scale use of rapid, at-home COVID-19 tests. “There’s a lot of […]
  
1 Man Dead in Norwalk Shooting A man was shot and killed in Norwalk and the shooter was at large Friday morning. Deputies from Norwalk station responded to a call of a gunshot victim in the 11900 block of 162nd Street, near Clarkdale Avenue, about 10:10 p.m. Thursday and located the victim, who had sustained several gunshot wounds to his upper […]
Average L.A. County Gas Price Drops Slightly The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County dropped three-tenths of a cent Friday to $3.179, one day after rising one-tenth of a cent. The average price is 1 cent less than one week ago, 3.5 cents lower than one month ago and 96.1 cents cheaper than one year […]
Orange County Reports 213 New COVID-19 Cases, 11 Deaths Orange County has reported 213 new COVID-19 cases, continuing a trend this week of rising diagnoses, as well as 11 more coronavirus-related deaths. The county’s death toll and cumulative caseload now stands at 1,434 and 57,848, respectively, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency. Officials reported 262 new cases Wednesday, 302 on Tuesday, and […]
Palm Springs Aerial Tramway to Stay Open With Restrictions The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway will open Friday as scheduled, despite Riverside County moving back to the most restrictive category of the governor’s reopening plan. The Tramway’s famed rotating cars will continue ferrying passengers from the desert to the San Jacinto Mountains amid pandemic-related restrictions, although some indoor offerings will cease, according to Grey Purdy, […]
Two Coachella Valley Blood Drives Set For Friday  Two mobile blood drives are scheduled Friday in the Coachella Valley, where donors will also be screened for COVID-19 antibodies. LifeStream Blood Bank, which says it is facing a “critical” shortage of donated blood, will set up at Nitrofusions, 78010 Main St., Suite 108, in La Quinta, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., and again […]
Public Invited to Hike Trails Around Mount San Jacinto for Archiving Event Riverside County residents are invited to take part in nature hikes Friday and Saturday to snap pictures of plants and animals that will be catalogued by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which is celebrating the establishment of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument. The “BioBlitz” is scheduled between noon Friday and […]
Eastbound 210 Freeway Closing This Weekend in Sylmar Area for Paving Work Beginning Friday evening and continuing through the weekend, a stretch of the eastbound Foothill (210) Freeway in the Sylmar area will be closed for paving work. Starting at 10 p.m. and continuing through 5 a.m. Monday, the eastbound 210 will be closed between the Golden State (5) Freeway and Roxford Street, according to Caltrans. Also […]
Willowbrook Shooting Leaves One Man Dead A man was shot to death in unincorporated Willowbrook and the shooter was on the loose Friday morning. Deputies from the sheriff’s Century Station responded to a shots-fired call in the 2200 block of East 121st Street, near Avalon Boulevard, about 4:25 p.m. Thursday, where they found the victim with several gunshot wounds to his […]
Hit-And-Run Driver Strikes and Seriously Injures Pedestrian In El Sereno  A hit-and-run driver struck a pedestrian in El Sereno Thursday evening, leaving the victim with “severe injuries,” police said. The pedestrian was struck about 6 p.m. near Alhambra and Bullard avenues, according to Officer William Cooper of the Los Angeles Police Department. The male suspect is believed to be driving a 2000-2010 white Toyota Tacoma […]
|
|
| Read more news on the MyNewsLA.com website |
|
|
| |
| | |
|
