| | | | The news for Tuesday, April 28, 2020
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LAUSD Unable to Reopen Without Widespread Testing, Contact Tracing  The nation’s second-largest school district will not reopen campuses without widespread coronavirus testing and contact tracing for students and employees, according to Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner. Monday’s edict came six weeks after the district closed all of its nearly 600 schools and launched remote learning and food aid distribution in hopes […]
  
Southland Heat Wave Persists with 90-Degree Highs The Southland’s first heat wave of 2020 is almost a week old Tuesday, and highs in several communities will again climb into the 90s, as they did Friday, forecasters said. Tuesday’s temperatures will generally be 10-15 degrees above normal, said National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Hall. He said the one somewhat unusual aspect of the […]
Average L.A. County Gas Price Drops For 58th Consecutive Day The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County dropped Tuesday for the 58th consecutive day, decreasing a half-cent to $2.839, its lowest amount since Jan. 27, 2017. The average price has dropped 71.8 cents during the streak, including four-tenths of a cent on Monday, according to figures from the […]
High Temperatures To Soar Well into Triple Digits in Coachella Valley Temperatures will soar well into the triple digits Tuesday in the Coachella Valley amid a heat wave that will keep highs past the century mark through Friday, according to the National Weather Service. High pressure will strengthen over the next two days, making Tuesday and Wednesday the hottest days of the week, forecasters said. A […]
Riverside County Reports 23 More Coronavirus Deaths  Riverside County health officials have announced 23 more coronavirus-related deaths, the largest single-day jump in reported fatalities since the pandemic began, bringing the total to 141. The latest reported fatalities occurred as far back as April 21, according to Riverside University Health System spokesman Jose Arballo. “On Monday we usually have our largest numbers,” Arballo […]
Orange County Coronavirus Cases Surpass 2,000; Death Toll Unchanged at 39 Orange County officials havey reported 54 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 2,126, but the death toll remained unchanged at 39. The number of hospitalized patients increased from 148 on Sunday to 157 on Monday, with those being treated in intensive care units jumping from 55 to 62, according to the Orange County […]
Coronavirus Cases Top 20,000 in L.A. County; Death Toll Rises COVID-19 cases have surged past 20,000 in Los Angeles County, with another 900 cases announced along with more than two dozen additional deaths, increasing the death toll to 948. On the day testing was ramped up at nursing homes in hopes of slowing spread of the coronavirus, Los Angeles County announced another 29 fatalities Monday, […]
Amoeba Music To Not Reopen Iconic Sunset Boulevard Location Amoeba Music will not reopen its iconic Sunset Boulevard location due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but management of the Hollywood record store said Monday it hopes to open its new Hollywood Boulevard location earlier than expected in the fall. “This is heartbreaking for us,” Amoeba’s management said in a statement on its website. “We never […]
Officials Seek Public Help To Identify Suspect and Victim of Egg Attack  Authorities Monday circulated a video of a man or teenage boy throwing an egg at a masked vendor in the unincorporated Florence area near South Los Angeles. The video of the attack, which occurred near Florence and Central avenues, appears to have been taken by the car’s driver, and it shows the passenger call over […]
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