| | | | Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, December 15, 2020
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Morgues Running Out Of Room In Riverside County: Coronavirus Surge  Riverside County’s hospitals are straining to meet demand amid the current coronavirus surge and other patient needs, with intensive care units at their limit and medical facilities’ morgues now beginning to run out of space, the director of the Emergency Management Department told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday. “There are surge plans in place, so […]
  
Sorry Eric: Biden Ignores Mayor Garcetti, Taps Buttigieg For Transportation  Chances for Mayor Eric Garcetti to be part of President-elect Joe Biden’s cabinet may have slimmed Tuesday, as former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg was tapped to be the secretary of transportation, a position for which the Los Angeles mayor was speculated to be a contender. Media outlets had reported that if Garcetti was […]
Riverside County’s COVID-19 Vaccines Total About 25,000 In Two Shipments Riverside County will receive over 25,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine over the next two weeks, and front line health care workers will be first to receive them, with shots available to the general public likely after the start of the New Year, officials told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday. “A handful of hospitals […]
Santa Ana Cop To Plead Guilty to Bribery Charge A Santa Ana police officer agreed Tuesday to plead guilty to accepting $128,000 in bribes from a crime figure who was seeking to thwart law enforcement activities against his illegally operating businesses, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Steven Lopez, 28, of Chino, is charged with bribery in a single-count information filed in United States District […]
L.A. City Councilman Has Had Enough Of Racist, Sexist Remarks At Meetings In his first City Council meeting since the 2000s, Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas Tuesday chastised racist and sexist remarks by public speakers, which he said the governing body has had to hear for years. Ridley-Thomas was a councilman between 1991 and 2002, but legal disputes in recent years have ended decidedly in favor of the speakers, […]
Study: COVID-19 Pandemic Disproportionately Affecting Women Primary responsibility for child care, unemployment and psychological distress remain higher among women than their male partners amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study released Tuesday by researchers from USC. “Women continue to disproportionately suffer the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Gema Zamarro, the study’s author and adjunct senior economist for the USC […]
Third TV Version of `Fantasy Island’ To Air on Fox This Summer Fox announced Tuesday it has given a straight-to-series order for the third television version of “Fantasy Island,” set to premiere this summer with 10 episodes. Fox describes the latest version as “a modern semi-anthology series that delves into the `what if’ questions, both big and small, that keep us awake at night,” with each episode […]
One Killed, Another Critically Injured In Fairfax District Shooting A man was killed and another was left in critical condition Tuesday afternoon during a shooting in a popular shopping area of the Fairfax District. The shooting occurred shortly before 1 p.m. near Melrose Avenue and Stanley Avenue, according to Officer Rosario Cervantes of the Los Angeles Police Department. The circumstances of the shooting were […]
DA’s Office: Fatal Officer-Involved Shooting at Trader Joe’s Was Justified Two Los Angeles police officers who engaged in a 2018 gunfight with a suspect outside a Trader Joe’s store in Silver Lake, with a police bullet striking and killing an assistant store manager, acted lawfully and will not be charged with a crime, according to a report released Tuesday by the Los Angeles County District […]
Hospitals Bursting At Seams With COVID-19 Patients As Surge Continues Los Angeles County’s dramatic surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continued gobbling up the availability of intensive-care unit beds Tuesday, with the number of patients across the county predicted to exceed 5,000 by week’s end. To help ease strain on hospitals, Dr. Christina Ghaly, director of the county Department of Health Services, urged residents Monday […]
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