| | | | Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, March 9, 2021
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LAPD Cop’s House Party Turns Violent As He Fires Gun In 4:30 AM ‘Physical Altercation’ With Guest: Chief Outraged  A Los Angeles Police Department officer’s police powers were temporarily suspended pending an investigation after he allegedly fired a gun during a 4:30 a.m. “physical altercation” with a guest at a party at his house in the Harbor area of Los Angeles, Chief Michel Moore disclosed Tuesday. The weapon was fired in the pre-dawn hours […]
  
Shoelaces Homeless Man’s Deadly Weapon Strangling ‘Vulnerable’ 78-Year-Old Alhambra Woman: ‘Overwhelming’ Evidence’  A state appeals court panel Tuesday upheld a “hungry and homeless” man’s conviction for strangling a 78-year-old woman in broad daylight with shoelaces on the patio of her Alhambra condominium. In a 28-page ruling, a three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal found “overwhelming” circumstantial evidence of Milton Chavez’s guilt in the Feb. […]
Women, Gays, Lesbians Targeted For ‘Incredibly Disturbing’ Sex Harassment At Metropolitan Water District?  The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday in support of a state audit of sexual harassment allegations leveled at the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Supervisor Janice Hahn authored a motion recommending an audit of the water district’s treatment of women and LGBTQ workers. “Last month, the L.A. Times wrote a […]
You’re Right, Hollywood And San Diego Freeways Are Among Nation’s Worst: LA Number Five Most Congested US City  Even with a reduction in driving caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Los Angeles had two of the worst traffic corridors in the nation last year and is ranked as the fifth most congested city in the United States, according to an annual study released Tuesday. Drivers on the Hollywood (101) Freeway to the Harbor (110) […]
‘Mank,’ “Minari,’ ‘Chicago 7,’ ‘Nomadland,’ ‘Promising Young Woman’ Directors Guild Nominees: Winner To Be Oscar Favorite The directors of “Minari,” “Promising Young Woman,” “Mank,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and “Nomadland” were nominated Tuesday for the Directors Guild of America Award for feature films. Since 1948, there have only been eight times that the winner of the DGA award for feature film directing has not gone on to win the […]
Fake Bible Scholar, Fake Navy SEAL, Fake Love, Fake Trust: Eight Years In Prison For Con Man’s $387,000 Fake Investments  A Santa Monica man who impersonated a Navy SEAL and a Bible scholar to con an actress and three other women he dated into investing in his sham companies was sentenced Tuesday to eight years behind bars. One of his victims, an actress who appeared in “Black-ish,” told the court that “not a day goes […]
Mouse Roars In Late April! Disneyland Ready To Go, Furloughed Workers Recalled With the state clearing a path for theme parks to reopen at limited capacity, Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Chapek announced Tuesday the company plans to reopen the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim by late April, and thousands of furloughed workers will be recalled to be trained on new safety standards. “Here in California, we’re encouraged […]
COVID-19 Case Numbers Drop, LA May See New Reopenings: But Dining Indoors? Don’t Be So Sure Los Angeles County’s COVID-19 case numbers continued dropping Tuesday, officially meeting the criteria to escape the most restrictive tier of the state’s economic-reopening blueprint, which could happen by the weekend and authorize the county to reopen more businesses. But with the county’s public health director continuing to warn of a potential new surge in COVID […]
Disney+ Streaming Service Tops 100 Million Subscribers Perhaps it was “The Mandalorian.” Or maybe it was “WandaVision.” Whatever the reason, Disney+ reached a major milestone Tuesday, with The Walt Disney Co. announcing that the streaming service has topped 100 million global subscribers. “The enormous success of Disney+ — which has now surpassed 100 million subscribers — has inspired us to be even […]
Orange County Continues March Toward Reopening More Businesses Orange County’s chief health officer told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday that the county has a “very high probability” of graduating to the less-restrictive red tier in the state’s coronavirus reopening system next week. The county has one week of credit for meeting the metrics for the red tier, but must maintain those levels through […]
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