| | | | The news for Tuesday, December 29, 2020
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LA’s Coronavirus Deaths Spike Amid ‘Truly Dire’ Hospital Conditions  With conference rooms, cafeterias and gift shops converted into medical-care spaces, Los Angeles County hospitals continue to be overrun with COVID-19 and other patients, while deaths from the virus have spiked sharply upward, nearing the 10,000 mark. And while it will take several weeks to determine if the Christmas holiday will lead to another surge […]
  
Orange County Closing Some Social Services Offices for COVID-19 Protection Orange County’s Social Services Agency is closing four of its public assistance lobbies beginning Tuesday as a precautionary measure to help slow the spread of COVID-19. Officials are directing the public to the agency’s website, but said SSA eligibility staff will be stationed in front of the offices in Anaheim, Garden Grove, Santa Ana and […]
Culver City Councilman Expected To Take Next Step in Special Election Culver City Councilman Daniel Lee is expected to receive the paperwork Tuesday to file to run in the March 2 special election to fill the state Senate seat vacated by Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly Mitchell. Lee has made an online pitch for supporters to sign nominating petitions, which his campaign pledged to arrange to […]
Orange County Continues to Smash COVID-19 Hospitalization Records Orange County continued its record-setting pace of COVID-19 hospitalizations with 2,031 patients as of Monday, including 453 in intensive care, as officials worry about another holiday-related surge on top of the spike related to Thanksgiving. The Orange County Health Care Agency also reported 2,144 newly diagnosed infections, raising the county’s cumulative case count to 149,607, […]
Southern California Stay-at-Home Order Expected to Be Extended  A regional stay-at-home order in effect across Southern California due to surging COVID-19 hospitalizations will be formally extended Tuesday, continuing a ban on all gatherings of people from different households, in-person dining and strict capacity limits at many businesses. The order, which covers an 11-county Southern California area, took effect at 11:59 p.m. Dec. 6 […]
Southland Gas Prices Keep Rising The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County increased a half-cent to $3.223 Tuesday, its highest amount since Sept. 14 and its 13th increase in the past 14 days. The average price is 3.7 cents more than one week ago and 6.8 cents higher than a month ago, but […]
Man Accused of Spray-Painting Hateful Graffiti Seeks Mental Health Treatment A judge is expected to decide Tuesday whether a man who allegedly spray-painted racist and anti-LGBTQ graffiti and caused other property damage to a community center in Palm Springs will undergo mental health treatment in lieu of facing criminal charges and the possibility of jail time. Charinda Godakanda, 46, of Palm Springs is accused of […]
COVID Hospitalizations Climb in Riverside County, But Recovery Rate Jumps Almost 50% Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations climbed substantially in Riverside County over the three-day holiday weekend, but the increases were offset by a significant jump in recoveries, according to county data. The aggregate number of COVID-19 cases recorded since the public health documentation period began in early March was 174,477 as of Monday, compared to 158,110 on […]
La Scala Says New Year’s Eve Party Was Only Intended if Dining Ban Was Lifted La Scala in Beverly Hills is doing some damage control regarding a note telling customers about a planned New Year’s Eve dining party inside the restaurant. Managers of the gourmet Italian eatery at 434 N. Canon Dr. now say they never intended to violate state health orders that prohibit in-person dining amid the recent surge […]
Police Search For Driver In Hit-and-Run Death of Pedestrian, 85  Police asked for help Monday finding a hit-and-run suspect accused of fatally striking an 85-year-old pedestrian in Toluca Lake. The victim was walking in a crosswalk about 5:40 p.m. Sunday on Lankershim Boulevard when she was struck by a driver in a newer black sedan at Moorpark Street, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. […]
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