| | | | The news for Saturday, June 12, 2021
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Little Innocent Baby In Stroller Hit By SUV In North Long Beach: Hit-And-Run Suspect Nabbed  A 62-year-old Compton man was out of jail Saturday after being arrested for allegedly driving his SUV into a 7-month-old baby in a stroller being pushed by his mother in North Long Beach. The driver of the vehicle fled the scene after the crash, according to authorities. Burnett Livingston was booked into the Long Beach […]
  
Pediatric Inflammatory Cases Dwindle Along With COVID Infections In LA County As COVID-19 cases have dwindled in Los Angeles County, so have diagnoses of a virus-related pediatric inflammatory malady, with just eight new cases reported over the past two months, according to health officials. Cases of Multi-symptom Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, or MIS-C, spiked during the countywide winter COVID surge. There were 100 MIS-C cases reported […]
Grim Death Decision: Search Called Off For Desperate Screaming Passenger Overboard From Catalina Express Near Long Beach  Rescuers Saturday had all but given up hope of finding alive a desperate, screaming 24-year-old man who fell or jumped overboard from a Catalina Express vessel after the boat left Long Beach. The search was called off Friday night and an announcement was made the U.S. Coast Guard Los Angeles. “Pending further updates, the @USCG […]
Taco Bell To ‘Shell Out’ Free Tacos To Vaccinated Californians on Tuesday Being fully inoculated will pay dividends — in the form of a free seasoned beef Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos Taco — to customers who show their COVID-19 vaccination card at participating California Taco Bell locations on Tuesday. The Irvine-based brand’s offer is part of the governor’s Vax for the Win incentive program. More than 70% […]
Los Angeles Times Editorial Writer Wins Pulitzer Prize Robert Greene of the Los Angeles Times has won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for a series of editorials focused on criminal justice reform. It was the 48th Pulitzer won by The Times since 1942. The paper’s editorial page editor, Sewell Chan, responded to the news on Twitter, saying Greene “has been a […]
Orange County Reports 18 More COVID Cases, 3 More Deaths Orange County has reported just 18 new COVID-19 infections and logged three additional virus-related deaths, as hospitalization rates ticked up slightly. The new numbers, released Friday, upped the county’s cumulative case count to 255,588, while the death toll edged up to 5,095. Hospitalizations increased from 53 Thursday to 56 Friday, and the number of intensive […]
COVID Hospitalizations in Riverside County Continue to Decline  The number of COVID-positive patients hospitalized in Riverside County has dropped slightly, and one additional virus-related death was reported. According to the Riverside University Health System, 31 people countywide were hospitalized with coronavirus as of Friday, one less than Thursday, and that includes six intensive care unit patients, unchanged from a day ago. The aggregate […]
Gym Owners Drop Complaint Over Coronavirus Restrictions Citing next week’s full reopening of California’s economy, the California Fitness Alliance dropped its complaint challenging state and local restrictions placed on gym operations during the height of the coronavirus. CFA attorney Scott J. Street stated in court papers filed Tuesday with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark V. Mooney that after discussions between his […]
Three Southland Students Set To Begin Competing in National Spelling Bee The 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee begins Saturday on a virtual basis with a 13-year-old from Tarzana and two from Orange County among the reduced field of 209. Irene Thomas graduated Friday from eighth grade at the Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies, a fourth through 12th grade magnet school located in Tarzana. It kept […]
Man Threatens Suicide, Barricades Himself in Pomona Home A nearly six-hour standoff in Pomona with a 57-year-old man who was barricaded inside a house and threatened to kill himself ended when SWAT officers took him into custody and found eight guns inside the home, authorities said Saturday morning. Claremont police received a call about 12:50 p.m. Friday about a man in the middle […]
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