| | | | The news for Wednesday, November 18, 2020
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LA County Imposing Business Restrictions Due to Virus Surge; Curfew Still Possible  Los Angeles County has announced tightened restrictions in response to a COVID-19 surge, requiring restaurants, wineries, breweries and non-essential retail businesses to close at 10 p.m. and limiting their capacity, as well as the capacity of indoor retail shops. While short of a full-on lockdown, county officials warned Tuesday that if case numbers and hospitalizations […]
  
Building near Industry Goes Up in Flames Firefighters battled a fire Wednesday morning that ripped through an industrial building in an unincorporated area near Industry and burned for about three hours. The fire was reported about 11 p.m. Tuesday near the intersection of Valley Boulevard and Orange Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The first firefighters to arrive on […]
LAPD Bars Use of Unauthorized Facial Recognition Platforms The Los Angeles Police Department has barred officers and detectives from using outside facial recognition platforms in their investigations after uncovering a handful of detectives had used a powerful commercial software platform known as Clearview AI without permission, it was reported Wednesday. In a Nov. 13 directive sent to the entire agency, Deputy Chief John […]
Orange County Slips Back Into Purple Tier of State’s COVID-19 System The Orange County Board of Supervisors has approved a grant program to help restaurants serve customers outdoors now that the county has been put back into the most-restrictive purple tier, which prohibits indoor dining. The supervisors also approved $5 million in CARES Act funding for childcare providers. The county previously allocated $5 million for the […]
Firefighters Put Out Brush Fire Near Hansen Dam; One Acre Burned A brush fire broke out in the Hansen Dam area of Lake View Terrace Wednesday morning and scorched an acre of vegetation. The fire was first reported in the 12000 block of Osborne Street about 3:30 a.m. and had already burned a quarter-acre by the time firefighters arrived, said Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles […]
Garcia Leads Smith By 422 Votes in 25th Congressional District Race  Republican Rep. Mike Garcia leads Democratic challenger Assemblywoman Christy Smith by 422 votes Wednesday in the race for a northern Los Angeles County congressional seat. Garcia added 318 votes to lead his lead in Tuesday’s count. He has 168,017 votes, or 50.1%, while Smith has 167,595, or 49.9%, according to figures released by the Secretary […]
Little Change to Average Southland Gas Prices The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County dropped one-tenth of a cent Wednesday to $3.147, one day after decreasing three-tenths of a cent. The average price is nine-tenths of a cent less than one week ago, 4.3 cents lower than one month ago and 84.5 cents cheaper than […]
Rams Player Tests Positive For COVID-19 A Los Angeles Rams player is in self-quarantine Wednesday after testing positive for the coronavirus, prompting the team to conduct nearly all football activities remotely. The only exception will be select players with assigned rehab, the team said in a statement released Tuesday night. “Out of an abundance of caution we are entering intensive protocol” […]
Supervisor Questions ‘Surge’ Data As County’s COVID Numbers Climb Riverside County health officials say area hospitals are prepared for what appears to be a second-wave surge in cases of coronavirus. “We are surpassing our previous statewide surge” in July, county Department of Public Health Director Kim Saruwatari said Tuesday. “It’s consistent with what’s happening in the nation.” She said the county now has a […]
Sheriff’s Department Investigating Suspicious Death Of 23-Year-Old Woman  Authorities Tuesday were investigating what they called the “suspicious” death of a 23-year-old woman found in a Palmdale motel room. Detectives were sent about 8:20 a.m. to the motel in the 200 block of West Palmdale Boulevard, near the Antelope Valley (14) Freeway, for a report of an unresponsive woman, according to Deputy Trina Schrader […]
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