| | | | The news for Tuesday, March 2, 2021
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Study: Gun and Knife Wounds Increasing in Southern California Amid COVID  UC Irvine researchers led a study that shows that gunshot and knife wounds increased during the COVID-19 pandemic in Southern California, but injuries from traffic crashes were down. UCI Health researchers reviewed 20,450 trauma patients who were treated at 11 hospitals across seven counties. The study, which the researchers say is the first large-scale analysis […]
  
Commercial Building Burns for 2 Hours in South Los Angeles Bright orange flames and thick black smoke rose into the sky Tuesday morning as a fire ripped through a one-story commercial building in the Central-Alameda area of South Los Angeles and burned for nearly two hours before being extinguished. Crews responded at 3:39 a.m. to 2700 block of S. Long Beach Ave., south of 24th […]
Sex Attack Victim Is 87-Year-Old Dementia Patient At Senior Living Facility In Santa Ana: Male Nurse Suspect  A nurse will return to court March 15 after he was charged with sexually assaulting an 87-year-old woman with dementia at a senior living facility in Santa Ana. He had worked at the facility for three years. Juan Sandoval, 33, of Orange, was charged Monday with one felony count each of assault with the intent […]
Jewish Community Foundation of LA Awards COVID Grants Martin Luther King Community Hospital and Venice Family Clinic are among five local recipients of $1.3 million in COVID-19 Response Grants awarded Tuesday by the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles to address urgent physical and mental health care needs arising out of the pandemic. The grants will also support small businesses struggling to stay […]
Special Election Tuesday to Fill State Senate Seat Seven candidates will appear on the ballot of Tuesday’s special election to fill the state Senate seat vacated by Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly Mitchell, seeking to represent the district stretching from downtown Los Angeles to Culver City. Mitchell has endorsed Assemblywoman Sydney Kamlager, D-Baldwin Hills, who was her district director before being elected to […]
Orange County Moving Closer to Red Tier for Reopening Economy Orange County Tuesday may find itself close to the less-restrictive red tier in the state’s program for reopening the economy. As of Sunday, the state’s case rate per 100,000 residents was 8.2, the testing positivity rate was at 4.1% and the health equity quartile positivity rate, which measures coronavirus prevalence in hot spots in low-income […]
COVID Positivity Rate, New Case Numbers Continue Falling In LA County While continuing to urge vigilance against COVID-19 spread, Los Angeles County’s public health director says the rate of people testing positive for the virus has fallen to its lowest level of the pandemic, and the effectiveness of vaccines is being proved by dramatic drops in cases among health care workers. “We are moving in the […]
Police Arrest Barricaded Domestic-Violence Suspect in Pomona  A 29-year-old domestic-violence suspect was in custody Tuesday morning after he barricaded himself inside his Pomona apartment. Officers responded about 5:30 p.m. Monday to a call of an alleged domestic-violence incident and were told by the victim the suspect was armed with a firearm, according to Sgt. Robert Scheppmann of the Pomona Police Department. The […]
Board Set to Consider First Cannabis Shop in Temescal Valley Riverside County supervisors Tuesday will consider a proposal to establish a cannabis dispensary in the Temescal Valley, in what would be a first for the unincorporated area south of Corona. River Releaf’s proposed 8,565-square-foot store and indoor cultivation facility will be the subject of a public hearing following the Board of Supervisors’ policy agenda. The […]
Pursuit Suspect Crashes Outside Walmart, Runs Inside Store Before Arrest A suspect was in custody Monday evening after he led California Highway Patrol officers on a pursuit from Riverside to Westminster, pulled into the parking lot of a Walmart, ditched the car, ran inside and was arrested a short time later. The suspect traveled at slow speeds along the westbound Riverside (91) Freeway before exiting […]
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