| | | | The news for Monday, September 7, 2020
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Power Crews Make Progress Restoring Electricity to Thousands in Southland  The holiday heat wave is taking a toll on the Southern California power grid with more than 90,000 Southern California Edison and LA Department of Water and Power customers without power early Monday and electricity for some not expected to be restored until Tuesday. The DWP reported at 9 p.m. Sunday that its crews had […]
  
Firefighters Work to Stop Spread of 1,800-Acre Brush Fire Near Azusa Efforts were underway Monday to clear vegetation around a brush fire that burned some 1,800 acres near the Cogswell Dam in the Angeles National Forest north of Azusa. The fire was reported at 12:22 p.m. Sunday near the dam and West Fork Day Use area, according to a Los Angeles County Fire Department dispatcher. The […]
LA County Reports 798 New COVID-19 Cases, Five Deaths Los Angeles County has reported 798 new cases of COVID-19 and five more deaths, bringing the county’s totals to 248,334 cases and 6,005 fatalities. Officials with the county’s Department of Public Health said Sunday the low case and deaths counts likely reflect a reporting lag due to the holiday weekend. The number of people hospitalized […]
Twelve Protesters Arrested at Demonstration in Memory of Dijon Kizzee Deputies arrested 12 protesters during a demonstration at the South Los Angeles Sheriff’s Station to protest the fatal shooting of Dijon Kizzee by deputies in the Westmont area, authorities said Monday. What was billed as an “Emergency Protest” Sunday also took deputies to task for firing chemical irritants at a 7-year-old girl after an unlawful […]
Record Heat Wave Bakes Southland as Woodland Hills Reaches 121 Degrees  Los Angeles County set an all-time record temperature record, with a high of 121 degrees at Pierce College in Woodland Hills. The Sunday reading was the highest temperature ever observed at an official recording station in the county, according to the National Weather Service. Record or near-record temperatures were felt for a second straight day […]
Search Underway for Driver Who Struck a Woman and Dog and Fled A search was underway Monday for the driver of a silver sedan who struck and killed a 72-year-old woman and her dog in a Costa Mesa intersection and then fled. The crash occurred at 6:53 a.m. Sunday in the area of Mesa Drive and Irvine Avenue, according to California Highway Patrol Officer Florentino Olivera. The […]
Lancaster Clinic Damaged by Fire An early morning fire damaged a clinic near Antelope Valley Hospital. It was reported at 2:15 a.m. in the 1300 block of West Avenue J, according to Los Angeles County Fire Department Dispatch Supervisor Martin Rangel. Smoke and fire were showing when firefighters arrived, Rangel said. Firefighters announced the fire was extinguished at 3:54 a.m., […]
Orange County Reports 223 New Cases of COVID-19, Drop in Hospitalizations Orange County has reported 223 new cases of COVID-19 and two more deaths, bringing the county’s totals to 49,732 cases and 1,053 fatalities. Hospitalizations in the county dropped from 274 on Saturday to 253 Sunday, while the number of people in intensive care declined from 83 to 77, according to the Orange County Health Care […]
Man Shot to Death in Lawndale Identified A Long Beach man was fatally shot in Lawndale, authorities said Monday. He was Derrick Williams, 53, according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. The shooting occurred at 5 p.m. Saturday in the 15900 block of Freeman Avenue, according to Deputy Maria Lucero of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. Deputies investigating a report of a […]
Suspect in Anaheim Double-Homicide Dead from Apparent Suicide  Anaheim detectives investigating a double homicide Sunday found the suspect in Santa Barbara County dead from an apparent suicide. It started about 6:15 a.m. when officers were called to an apartment in the 1800 block of South Haster Street on a report that two people had been shot, according to Anaheim police Sgt. Shane Carringer. […]
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