| | | | The news for Saturday, September 19, 2020
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Strong 4.5-Magnitude Earthquake Rattles Southern California  Residents across Southern California were checking their homes and apartments Saturday morning for any damage caused by a magnitude 4.5 earthquake that struck two miles south of Rosemead and was felt across a large portion of the region, including Orange County. The quake struck at 11:38 p.m. Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It […]
  
LAUSD Police “Dramatically Diminished” Following Funding Cuts Two months after a divided Los Angeles Unified school board slashed funding for its police department by more than a third, the contours of a dramatically diminished force are emerging, a newspaper reported. Under a plan presented to the board on Tuesday, police officers would be removed from school campuses and weekend patrols meant to […]
1 Killed in Multi-Vehicle Crash in Claremont A person was killed Saturday morning in a multi-vehicle crash on the eastbound San Bernardino (10) Freeway in Claremont. The collision was reported near Indian Hill Boulevard at 1:10 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol. Officers located two vehicles blocking the middle lanes and one of the vehicles was sideways. Details of what led […]
LA County Reports 22 More Coronavirus Deaths Twenty-two more coronavirus-related deaths have been confirmed by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, while hospitalizations due to the virus continued to drop. “I appreciate the diligent efforts everyone is making to slow the spread of COVID-19 and am grateful that daily hospitalizations and deaths have continued to decline,” county public health director […]
OC Reports 247 New COVID-19 Cases, Eight More Deaths  Eight more people in Orange County have died from COVID-19, raising the death toll to 1,123, officials said as they reported another 247 newly confirmed coronavirus diagnoses, hiking the cumulative caseload to 51,646. The Orange County Health Care Agency Friday reported 30 deaths since Sunday. Last week, the OCHCA reported 42 COVID-19 fatalities. The week […]
Maya Rudolph Could Win Second Emmy, Three Days After First Maya Rudolph will have two chances to win her second career Emmy Saturday on the final day of the five-day Creative Arts Emmy Awards, two days after winning her first. Rudolph’s portrayals of California Sen. Kamala Harris on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” and the all-knowing judge found in the Neutral Zone between the Bad Place […]
Southland Leaders Eulogize Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Tributes have poured in the hours since U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lost her battle with cancer, with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and county Supervisor Janice Hahn among those hailing her as a legal pioneer who fought for women’s rights and gender equality for decades. “This is a tragedy for all those […]
4,200-Acre Brush Fire Burning near Palm Springs, Homes Threatened A brush fire sparked by a vehicle fire northwest of Palm Springs that has burned 4,200 acres, was 15% contained and threatened 450 homes Saturday morning. The “Snow Fire” was reported about 2:40 p.m. Thursday in the 15000 block of Snow Creek Road, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. Flames threatened about 450 homes […]
Bobcat Fire Grows to Over 72,000 Acres; Evacuation Orders Extended  The Bobcat Fire burning in the Angeles National Forest and Antelope Valley has scorched 72,767 acres and was 15% contained Saturday morning as additional evacuation orders and warnings were issued. Homes in Juniper Hills, Paradise Springs, Devil’s Punchbowl and other communities in the northern part of the Angeles National Forest and southern part of the […]
Pomona Prostitution Sting Nets 30 Arrests A nine-day sting operation in Pomona that concluded Friday resulted in 30 people arrested for a variety of prostitution-related offenses. The Pomona Police Department’s Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking team conducted the operation in the Holt Corridor from Sept. 10 through Friday, according to Sgt. Brad Paulson. Among those taken into custody were: — 18 arrested […]
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