| | | | The news for Wednesday, April 28, 2021
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Mother’s Day Dead Baby Horror: Orange County Pays $1.5 Million To Jailed Mom Whose Baby Died As She Gave Birth On Toilet  Orange County supervisors have agreed to a proposed $1.5 settlement with a woman who gave birth to a baby who died while the mother was in custody in Orange County Jail. The board voted unanimously in closed session Tuesday to approve the settlement in the lawsuit filed by Ciera Stoetling, who was jailed on May […]
  
LA County Still in Orange Tier, But Could Soon Advance to Least-Strict Yellow Los Angeles County’s daily rate of new COVID-19 cases has fallen low enough — barely — to qualify for a move to the least-restrictive yellow tier of the state’s economic-reopening blueprint, but the county must meet the threshold for another week before it can actually advance. For now, the county remains in the orange tier […]
Spooky Suspect Broke Into Santa Ana Cemetery At 3 A.M., Cradled Urn’s Ashes While In Fetal Position?  A 34-year-old man faces charges of breaking into a structure housing urns at Fairhaven Memorial Park & Mortuary in Santa Ana, according to court records. Hugo Standley Vargas broke into a columbarium, a structure that houses urns, about 3 a.m. Friday, said Santa Ana Police Department Cpl. Anthony Bertagna. “They found him in a fetal […]
Orange County Remains in Orange Tier for COVID-19 Metrics Orange County’s weekly averages for COVID-19 metrics will keep it in the orange tier of the state’s economic reopening system, although it meets two of three categories for the least-restrictive yellow tier, according to most recent figures. Numbers released Tuesday show the county’s weekly averages for adjusted daily case rate per 100,000 residents improved from […]
Deadly Crash Prompts Lane Closures on Pomona Freeway in Monterey Park  One person was killed Wednesday morning in a crash on the westbound Pomona (60) Freeway in Monterey Park. The crash occurred about 2:10 a.m. near Markland Drive, according to the California Highway Patrol. Details of what led to the deadly accident were not immediately available. A SigAlert was issued about 3 a.m. and, until further […]
Average LA County Gas Price Rises For 17th Time in 19 Days The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose Wednesday for the 17th time in 19 days, increasing four-tenths of a cent to $4.047, its highest amount since Nov. 14, 2019. The average price has increased 7.5 cents over the past 19 days, including three-tenths of a cent on […]
Riverside County’s COVID Positivity and Case Rates Down Riverside County’s COVID-19 positivity and case rates have both dropped, signaling moves toward wider virus mitigation, local health officials told the Board of Supervisors. “Our numbers have come down. For four consecutive days, they’ve been coming down,” Department of Public Health Director Kim Saruwatari said Tuesday during the supervisors’ weekly board meeting. “They’re changing incrementally.” […]
Murder Charge Expected for Bail Agent Accused in Palm Springs Shooting A murder charge is expected to be filed Wednesday against a bail agent accused of gunning down a knife-wielding fugitive in front of Palm Springs police officers. Fabian Hector Herrera, 36, was arrested Friday and booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside on suspicion of murder, where he remains held without bail. Herrera […]
South LA Women Face Sentencing in Health-Care Fraud Scheme Two former executives at a South Los Angeles company that offered substance-abuse treatment face sentencing Wednesday for defrauding Medi-Cal by billing more than $500,000 for ineligible services. Mesbel Mohamoud, 47, and her mother-in-law, Erlinda Abella, 66, each pleaded guilty in separate hearings last year to a federal health-care fraud count, under which they each face […]
Playgrounds at LA Unified Elementary Schools Set to Reopen  Playgrounds at all Los Angeles Unified elementary schools and early education centers will reopen Monday after being closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. District personnel will use electrostatic misters and approved disinfectant to regularly sanitize playground equipment, the same procedure used to clean frequently touched surfaces in a school, according to Superintendent Austin Beutner. Only […]
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