| | | | The news for Thursday, February 18, 2021
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‘Seven Minutes of Terror’ as JPL-Built Rover Set to Land on Mars  They call it “seven minutes of terror,” those treacherous final moments of a 292-million-mile journey from Earth to Mars that will culminate Thursday when the Perseverance rover built at Jet Propulsion Laboratory enters the Martian atmosphere and touches down on the planet’s surface. It’s a terrifying stretch, worsened by the helplessness of mission managers who […]
  
LA County Health Officer Issues Cold Weather Alert for Antelope Valley A cold weather alert has been issued for the Antelope Valley after the National Weather Service forecast that wind chill temperatures would go below freezing through the weekend. The weather service forecasted lows under 30 degrees near Lancaster on Wednesday and Thursday nights, and a wind chill as low as 20 degrees early Thursday. After […]
Mice Ears Cut Off For No Reason, Pigs’ Necks Slashed, Mice Overdose Deaths: USC Animal Cruelty?  USC is being accused of animal cruelty after unauthorized staff members allegedly amputated the ears of multiple mice in acts that were not connected to scientific experiments, overdosed other mice with painkillers leading to their deaths, and inflicted excessive stab sounds in the necks of pigs during surgeries, a watchdog group said Wednesday. The group […]
Orange County’s COVID-19 Cases Continue Decline As Orange County officials opened a new COVID-19 vaccine distribution point at Santa Ana College, they received good news regarding a continuing trend of declining cases and hospitalizations. The county on Wednesday reported just 166 new cases of COVID-19, raising the cumulative total to 243,329, but also logged 27 more fatalities, hiking the death toll […]
LA County COVID-19 Rates Continue Declining; Health Officials Say Don’t Let Up With millions more people becoming eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations in the coming weeks but supplies still limited, the Southland is facing a “difficult month” meeting demand in March, the county’s public health director said — though she predicted rosier conditions by April. Barbara Ferrer on Wednesday shared figures showing that vaccination sites in the county […]
Metro Construction to Close Lanes in Baldwin Hills Lanes closures will be in effect beginning Thursday through Saturday night along two streets in the Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw area due to construction related to the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project. The work will take place from 6 a.m. Thursday to 7 p.m. Saturday on Crenshaw and Obama boulevards and will include grinding of the existing road, construction […]
Abandoned Building Burns in Vernon, No Injuries Fire damaged an abandoned building in Vernon Thursday morning. The fire in a two-story building was reported in the 5600 block of South Alcoa Avenue, north of Slauson Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It was unclear what time the blaze started. A total of 40 firefighters were able to contain the […]
One Killed in Car Fire near Malibu One person was killed Thursday morning in a car fire in the unincorporated Topanga area near Malibu. Firefighters responded about 12:30 a.m. to Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. One person in the vehicle was killed, but the age, gender and name of the victim were […]
Sentencing Due for LA-Area Man Who Obstructed Probe into Trump Donations A Los Angeles venture capitalist who obstructed a federal investigation into donations to former President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee faces sentencing Thursday. Imaad Zuberi, 51, of Arcadia pleaded guilty two years ago to separate charges brought by Los Angeles prosecutors arising from earlier campaign donations, federal lobbying and tax violations. He pleaded guilty in June […]
Azusa Pacific University Evacuates Campuses Following Threats, Nothing Found  Azusa Pacific University students living in on campus housing were allowed to return home Wednesday evening, about five hours after all the school’s campuses were evacuated in response to “suspicious messages of a threatening nature,” including a bomb threat, university officials said. The university issued an emergency alert announcing the evacuations about 5:40 p.m., and […]
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