| | | | The news for Friday, December 11, 2020
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Los Angeles Shatters Another Record For COVID Cases as Hospitalizations Spar  Los Angeles County is continuing its record-setting pace of daily COVID-19 infections, with nearly 13,000 new cases reported Thursday, while hospitalizations rose again to another record peak, raising fears of a “catastrophic” situation for the county’s health-care system. The county Department of Public Health reported 12,819 new coronavirus cases, easily topping the record of 10,528 […]
  
Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister Dies at 62 In Marina Del Rey Actor Tommy “Tiny” Lister was being remembered Friday by other actors a day after he died at 62 years old of apparent natural causes in his Marina Del Rey home. Deputies were dispatched shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday to Lister’s home in the 4100 block of Via Marina, near Marina Beach and Basin D, according […]
Anaheim Shooting Suspect Arrested After Jumping from Second-Story Window A shooting suspect who barricaded himself in a second-story apartment in Anaheim for about four hours Friday morning, jumped out of a window and was taken into custody by police. Officers responded to a call of a shooting about 1 a.m. in the 1800 block of West Gramercy Avenue, near Chippewa Avenue, and found a […]
Health Official: Vaccine Distribution To Be Equitable — No Favorites As Los Angeles County health officials prepare for the massive undertaking of administering COVID-19 vaccinations to millions of residents, the county’s chief science officer insists the process will be done equitably based on health priorities, not on power or prominence. “Equity is a fundamental principle here,” Dr. Paul Simon said during an online media briefing […]
Suspected DUI Driver Crashes into Caltrans Equipment on Harbor Freeway  A suspected drunken driver was in custody Friday morning after crashing a vehicle into Caltrans equipment on the southbound Harbor Freeway in downtown Los Angeles. It happened about 2:05 a.m. near the interchange with the Santa Monica (10) Freeway, according to the California Highway Patrol. An ambulance was called to the scene, but the extent […]
SpaceX to Launch SiriusXM Satellite from Cape Canaveral Two days after making international headlines with an explosive test flight of a prototype starship, Hawthorne-based SpaceX will return to a more routine satellite deployment mission Friday with the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The rocket will be carrying the SXM-7 satellite for satellite-radio company SiriusXM. It will be […]
Free Mask Giveaways Set for Desert Hot Springs, Mecca Thousands of masks will be distributed to local child care providers Friday at two Coachella Valley locations in an attempt to curb the spread of coronavirus. The drive-up events are slated for the Desert Hot Springs Family Resource Center and the Mecca Family & Farmworker Service Center. A third event is planned for Dec. 18 […]
DUI Checkpoint Scheduled for Palm Springs Friday evening Police officers will be screening vehicles looking for intoxicated drivers Friday evening in Palm Springs. A DUI checkpoint will be operated at an undisclosed location in the city between 6 p.m. Friday and 1 a.m. Saturday, according to the Palm Springs Police Department. “The safety of our community is and always will be our mission,” […]
Average L.A. County Gas Price Rises Slightly The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose three-tenths of a cent Friday to $3.155 after changing by one-tenth of a cent or being unchanged for six consecutive days. The price is two-tenths of a cent more than one week ago but one-tenth of a penny less than […]
‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Tops Streaming Ratings for Third Consecutive Week  “The Queen’s Gambit” was the most-watched program for the third time in the three full weeks it was available among programming on the four streaming services measured in the latest weekly report from Nielsen released Thursday. Viewers watched 1.373 billion minutes of seven-episode Netflix miniseries between Nov. 9-15. The 2005-13 NBC comedy “The Office” was […]
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