| | | | Afternoon headlines for Wednesday, June 17, 2020
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‘That ’70s Show’ Actor Charged With Raping Three Women In Hollywood Hills Home  “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson has been charged with raping three women at his Hollywood Hills home between 2001 and 2003, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. The 44-year-old actor — known for appearing on “That ’70s Show” and “The Ranch” — is set to be arraigned Sept. 18 at the […]
  
Pub Owner Charged With Opening on St. Patrick’s Day During COVID-19 Lockdown The owner of a South Pasadena bar is facing a misdemeanor charge for allegedly violating the county’s coronavirus health order by opening the business on St. Patrick’s Day, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Joseph Patrick Griffin, 56, of Lake View Terrace, was charged last week with one count of violating the […]
L.A. Councilman Introduces Motion to Penalize Racially Biased 911 Calls City Councilman Curren Price introduced a motion at Wednesday’s council meeting that would make it illegal to call 911 to report false or frivolous, racially biased accusations in the city. “Calls to city 911 emergency systems are being abused due to racial bias and this results in unnecessary wasted time and expense of city resources,” […]
NTSB Releases Thousands of Documents In Kobe Bryant Helicopter Crash Probe More than 1,700 pages of documents from the federal probe of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and eight others were released Wednesday, and while they don’t identify a cause of the crash, they lend credence to the theory the pilot may have become disoriented amid foggy conditions. According to multiple documents, pilot Ara […]
Beyonce, Jay-Z Sued in LA Over `Black Effect’ Monologue Beyonce and Jay-Z face a copyright infringement lawsuit in Los Angeles for allegedly using a monologue voiced by an uncredited Jamaican choreographer for their 2018 track “Black Effect” without permission, according to court papers obtained Wednesday. In the suit, filed late Tuesday in federal court, dancer Lenora Stines alleges she spoke on tape of her […]
`Bold And The Beautiful’ Returns To Work After COVID-19 Lockdown The CBS soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful” became the first U.S. television series to return to production Wednesday, following shutdown orders issued at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Staff for the show returned to its Television City soundstage in the Fairfax District on Wednesday. No airdate has been set for new episodes, […]
Racist Letters Found on Apartment Doors of Two Black Sherman Oaks Residents Authorities Wednesday were investigating the discovery of racist letters taped to the front doors of the apartments of two Black residents in Sherman Oaks. Officers went to the building about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, said Officer Rosario Cervantes of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Media Relations office. The address was not released. Officers took a “vandalism […]
Orange County Reports 205 New Cases of COVID-19, 10 More Deaths The Orange County Health Care Agency Wednesday reported that 10 more people have succumbed to COVID-19, raising the cumulative death toll to 243, with 26 of the deaths coming this week. Since June 5, 69 people have died from the disease caused by the coronavirus in Orange County. The agency also reported 205 new cases […]
LACo Reports Record Daily Number of COVID Cases; But Key Metrics Holding Los Angeles County reported a record-high single-day number of coronavirus cases Wednesday, but health officials blamed the spike on a “dump” of test results from a single lab, while insisting that key metrics such as hospitalization and transmission rates were holding steady. The county Department of Public Health announced 2,129 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, […]
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