| | | | The news for Saturday, February 13, 2021
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LA County Will Again Prioritize Second Doses of COVID Vaccine Next Week  With vaccine supplies still limited, Los Angeles County will again reserve the majority of its available vaccinations next week to provide second doses for those ready to receive them, with county-operated large-scale sites exclusively administering second doses, health officials announced. “Next week the majority of appointments at our vaccinations sites will continue to be for […]
  
LAPD Investigating After Nearly 40 Officers Photographed Without Masks The Los Angeles Police Department has opened an investigation regarding a photo showing nearly 40 mostly unmasked officers gathered downtown, officials announced. The photo taken Wednesday afternoon by photojournalist Brian Feinzimer, a contributor to the L.A. Taco website, shows the LAPD officers congregating near Union Station and the C. Erwin Piper Technical Center. The officers […]
Lewd Act With A Child, Prostitution, Oral Copulation With A Minor: Probe Of 15-Year-Old Sex Slave Nabs La Puente Suspect  A 29-year-old La Puente man was being held Saturday on $100,000 bail in a human trafficking investigation, accused of paying a 15-year-old girl to perform a sex act. John Ward Herrera was taken into custody about 12:30 p.m. Friday on suspicion of a lewd act with a child, prostitution and oral copulation with a minor, […]
OC Reaches Milestones As COVID-19 Numbers Decline Orange County has reached a few encouraging COVID-19 milestones — with hospitalizations falling under 1,000 and the adjusted rate of hospital capacity rising above zero. Health officials did not release updated statistics on Friday because the office was closed for the Presidents Day holiday weekend. On Thursday, the county received 779 new cases, raising the […]
Vaccine Supply: Shortage Closes LA City Vax Sites, Including Dodger Stadium With its supply of first-dose Moderna COVID-19 vaccines exhausted, the city of Los Angeles has closed the mass-vaccination sites it runs at Dodger Stadium and four other locations Saturday, a move the mayor lamented as an “enormous hurdle.” The sites will reopen when the city receives more vaccines, possibly Tuesday or Wednesday, Mayor Eric Garcetti […]
Angelenos Can Track Status of School Reopenings On California Interactive Map With debate continuing to rage locally and statewide about reopening schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic, California health officials have released an interactive map that allows Angelenos and others across the state to track the status of campus reopenings. The Safe Schools Reopening Map provides data on the status of reopening and safety planning for school […]
Man Killed in Paramount Shooting  An investigation was underway Saturday morning into the shooting death of a man in Paramount. Deputies responded at 11 p.m. Friday to the 7300 block of Richfield Street, near Garfield Avenue, and found the victim, who was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to Deputy Alejandra Parra of the Los Angeles […]
Inmate Who Walked Away From Los Angeles Reentry Program Facility Sought A 36-year-old convicted auto thief who walked away from a Male Community Reentry Program facility in Los Angeles was being sought by authorities Saturday morning. At 9:15 p.m. Friday, officials determined Richard Ledesma had left without authorization and agents from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Office of Correctional Safety were dispatched to locate […]
Jane Seymour, Joe Lando to Appear at Benefit for Paramount Ranch Restoration Actress Jane Seymour and actor Joe Lando will return Saturday evening to Paramount Ranch — the location where their TV show “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” was filmed — for a sold-out, drive-in screening of “L.A. Story” to raise money for a restoration project to repair damage from the 2018 Woolsey Fire. More than 400 community […]
Founder of Crenshaw Christian Center, Rev. Dr. Frederick Price, Dies at 89 Funeral and memorial service arrangements were pending Saturday morning for the Rev. Dr. Frederick Price, the founder of the Crenshaw Christian Center, who has died at the age of 89. Price died Friday, according to an Instagram post on the account of his son, Fred Price Jr. “Our Husband, Father and your Apostle has gone […]
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