| | | | Afternoon headlines for Thursday, September 10, 2020
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Lewd Acts With ‘Special Needs’ Little Girl Gets School Bus Driver Probation  A former Coachella Valley school bus driver who inappropriately touched an 11-year-old girl with special needs over the course of several months while on the job was sentenced Thursday to a 12-year probationary term and ordered to complete a sex offender treatment program. Superior Court Judge Bonnie M. Dumanis warned Samuel Raul Ortega that if […]
  
If Coronavirus Doesn’t Get You, Wildfire Ash And Smoke May Endanger Your Lungs  A lung specialist at Cedars-Sinai warned the public Thursday to stay indoors as much as possible to limit exposure to ash and smoke from area wildfires that are causing gloomy skies throughout Southern California. Dr. Zab Mosenifar, medical director of the Women’s Guild Lung Institute at the Los Angeles hospital, said he has detected a […]
Sheriff Probe of Dijon Kizzee Fatal Shooting Nears End: Villanueva Says All Info To Be Public Amid Wave Of Protests, Arrests  An internal investigation into the controversial fatal shooting of 29-year-old Dijon Kizzee by sheriff’s deputies in Westmont is nearing completion, Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Thursday, and he vowed to quickly make public “all the information we have.” The shooting has sparked a number of nights of protests resulting in arrests and law enforcement declaring gatherings […]
Orange County Reports Four Deaths, 281 New Cases of COVID-19 Orange County Thursday reported four more deaths from COVID-19 and 281 new cases. The county’s overall coronavirus totals are 50,471 cases and 1,069 fatalities, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency. Hospitalizations in the county ticked up from 234 Wednesday to 239 Thursday, while the number of intensive care unit patients inched up from […]
Yikes! COVID-19 May Have Been Circulating In LA in December UCLA researchers and colleagues have found that there was a significant increase in patients with coughs and acute respiratory failure at UCLA Health hospitals and clinics beginning in late December, suggesting that COVID-19 may have been circulating in the area months before the first definitive cases in the U.S. were identified, it was announced Thursday. […]
Los Angeles Begins Installing Vote by Mail Drop Boxes Throughout City Los Angeles municipal workers have begun installing 123 Vote by Mail drop boxes around the city for the 2020 general election. The city is assisting the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk with the ballot box installations, which are intended to give people a safe and easy option to vote amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “StreetsLA is […]
Bobcat Fire Roars Across 24,000 Acres: No Containment, Evacuation Orders Could Come At Any Moment  The Bobcat Fire burning in the Angeles National Forest had blackened 23,890 acres as of Thursday and was 0% contained, with seven San Gabriel Valley foothill communities remaining under an evacuation warning. The U.S. Forest Service estimates that the fire — which broke out at midday Sunday near the Cogswell Dam and West Fork Day […]
SoCalGas Increasing Enegy-Efficient Appliance Rebates by 50% SoCalGas announced Thursday that the company is increasing rebates by an additional 50% on all energy-efficient appliances offered through its rebate program now through the end of the year. This means customers can get an additional 50% cash back on energy-efficient products that will help conserve energy and reduce their SoCalGas bill, the utility said. […]
CSU To Continue Virtual Instruction For Classes Beginning In January The Long Beach-based California State University system, which is holding primarily virtual courses during the fall term, will continue with predominantly online instruction for the academic term beginning in January, Chancellor Timothy White announced Thursday. In a message to the university community, White said he wanted to make the announcement early so students and staff […]
L.A. County Closes Six COVID-19 Testing Sites Due to Unhealthy Air Quality Due to safety concerns from the unhealthy air quality throughout the region, Los Angeles County is closing six of its COVID-19 testing sites Thursday and Friday. The sites that are closed are: — College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita; — East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park; — Pomona Fairplex Gate 17; — San […]
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