| | | | Afternoon headlines for Monday, September 21, 2020
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LA County Concerned Over Uptick In Virus Cases Following Labor Day  Following an unsettling four-day increase in daily coronavirus case numbers, Los Angeles County’s public health director said Monday officials will be closely monitoring data this week to see if the region is beginning to see a feared post-Labor Day spike. Daily numbers reported over the last four days of last week showed a rise in […]
  
Bobcat Fire Grows to More Than 100,000 Acres, Continues to Threaten Homes The Bobcat Fire in the Angeles National Forest has grown 105,345 acres, with just 15% containment, and officials warned Monday that the flames would continue to spread from the Antelope Valley foothills into the communities of Juniper Hills, Valyermo and Big Pine. Fire officials said that while the fire also continues to burn below the […]
OC Reports 138 New COVID-19 Cases, Fewer Hospitalizations Orange County Monday reported 138 newly diagnosed coronavirus cases, raising the cumulative total to 52,201, but the number of deaths was unchanged at 1,128. Last week, the county reported 34 fatalities, down from 42 the week prior. Since Sunday, only one fatality has been reported. Meanwhile, hospitalizations in the county dropped from 194 Sunday to […]
USC: MIddle-Aged Americans Report More Pain Than Elderly A USC/Princeton study released Monday found that middle-aged Americans are now reporting more pain than the elderly — and it has to do with their level of education and that pain is rising more quickly in younger people. Using survey responses from more than 2.5 million adults in the United States and the European Union, […]
Emmys Set Record Low For Sixth Consecutive Year  Viewership for the Primetime Emmy Awards set a record low for the sixth consecutive year, averaging 6.1 million viewers, erasing the previous low of 6.949 million set last year when the ceremony aired on Fox, according to preliminary figures released by Nielsen Monday. Viewership for most forms of programming is down compared to the past […]
Alaska Man Charged with Making Telephone Threat to LA Synagogue Federal charges have been filed in Alaska against a 49-year-old man accused of phoning in a threat to a Los Angeles synagogue, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday. A federal grand jury in Alaska returned the indictment Friday charging William Alexander with threatening to kill the congregants of a California synagogue, the DOJ reported. […]
Free Spectrum Internet Offer for Education Extended 60 Days, Company Says Charter Communications Inc. announced Monday it will extend its offer to provide free Spectrum internet service for another 60 days for households with students and educators. The internet service has speeds of up to 200 megabits per second and is available to customers who live in a Spectrum market and do not currently have the […]
Police Announce Death of 23-Year-Old Victim of Pacoima Drive-By Shooting A 23-year-old man who was wounded in a Pacoima drive-by shooting died at a hospital three days later, and the killer remains at large, police reported Monday. Rony Jovel was shot about 5:30 a.m. Sept 13 in the 12500 block of De Garmo Avenue, the Los Angeles Police Department reported. Investigators say Jovel was waiting […]
Shots Fired At Culver City Park; No Suspects or Victims Found Shots were fired early Monday in Culver City Park, but no victim was found, police reported. The shooting occurred about 1:15 a.m. near a baseball field in the park at 9910 Jefferson Blvd., according to the Culver City Police Department. Officers set up a containment and conducted an extensive search, but they did not find […]
LA County Jail Population Is Back Up Above State Overcrowding Limits  Following a COVID-19-related push to drop Los Angeles County’s jail population by roughly 5,000 inmates to prevent the spread of the virus, the number of prisoners has grown by nearly 15%, according to a report posted to the county’s website. As of Aug. 27, the countywide jail population was 13,280, up from a low of […]
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