| | | | Afternoon headlines for Friday, December 11, 2020
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Sex Abuse, Bedbugs, Rats, Stinking Toilets For Trapped Orange County Homeless? ACLU Lawsuit Demands Shelter Rescue  The American Civil Liberties Union has sued Orange County and Anaheim alleging Dickensian conditions in the county’s homeless shelters that include sex abuse, bedbugs and stinking, overflowing toilets. The lawsuit also alleges that the shelters are too congested and plagued with rodent infestations and extreme temperatures. “The sexual harassment at the Courtyard was so bad […]
  
Will It Never End? Another Grim Record For LA COVID-19: ‘Catastrophic Suffering’ Ahead  For the second time in two days and third time this week, Los Angeles County set a new record Friday for daily COVID-19 infections, reporting nearly 14,000 new cases and pushing the county over the cumulative half-million mark. The county reported 13,815 new cases on Friday, above the record set Thursday of 12,819 and well […]
He Bought A Maserati With Unemployment Insurance COVID Relief Money?  A Pasadena man is facing federal charges alleging he used stolen identities to fraudulently obtain unemployment insurance benefits under the coronavirus federal relief act, which he later used to purchase a Maserati luxury SUV. Robert Sloan Mateer, 30, is scheduled to be arraigned Dec. 17 on a five-count indictment charging him with possession of at […]
Atari, Chuck E. Cheese Honcho, Family, Sued For Alleged Sleepover Sex By Son On Girl, 15 The pioneer businessman who co-founded Atari Inc. and established the Chuck E. Cheese’s chain is being sued, along with his wife and one of their sons, by a woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted at age 15 by the son during a sleepover at the family’s Agoura Hills home in 1999. The woman brought […]
Parents of Nurse Sue Memory Care Facility Over Daughter’s COVID Death The parents of a 32-year-old nurse who worked at a Fairfax nursing home are suing the facility, alleging management failed to properly screen a new resident who passed the coronavirus on to their daughter and caused her death this spring. Craig Ringo and Kim Bruner-Ringo, the father and mother of the late Brittany C. Ringo, […]
Man Ordered to be Re-Sentenced for Attacking Ex-Girlfriend’s Family Members A state appeals court panel Friday ordered a new sentencing hearing for a Pacoima man convicted of stabbing his ex-girlfriend’s mother, 11-month-old sister and aunt at their Panorama City home and then leading police on a chase that ended with a four-hour standoff in Glendale. The three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal […]
Hospitalization Records Set Again For Orange County COVID-19 Victims Orange County continued setting new daily COVID-19 hospitalization records Friday, and public health officials also reported 22 additional fatalities. The number of coronavirus patients hospitalized jumped from 1,025 Thursday to 1,122 Friday, including an increase of intensive care unit patients from 257 to 265. The previous record for ICU patients was 245 in mid-July, and […]
Woman Lying On Roadway Killed By LA Sheriff’s Department Vehicle A woman who apparently was lying on a roadway was struck by a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department vehicle and killed Friday in the south Los Angeles area, authorities said. The woman, about 40-50 years old, was hit by the westbound vehicle about 6:35 a.m. on Imperial Highway near Success Avenue, according to the Los […]
Inglewood Man’s Conviction Upheld for Rapper Kid Cali’s Murder A state appeals court panel Friday upheld an Inglewood man’s conviction for the August 2016 shooting death of rapper Kid Cali at a pool party in Granada Hills. The three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected the defense’s contention that the trial court erred by admitting evidence that Kenny Birdine had a […]
Forget CVS, Walgreens: LA County Nursing Homes Staff Will Do Vaccinations Themselves In what’s being dubbed a time-saving measure, skilled nursing homes in Los Angeles County will directly receive allotments of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine and administer them to staff and residents, instead of relying on a previously announced pact with CVS and Walgreens, the county’s public health director confirmed Friday. Staff and residents of nursing facilities […]
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