| | | | Afternoon headlines for Monday, April 20, 2020
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Tough Budget Cuts For LA: Coronavirus Crisis Furloughs 15,000 City Workers  A day after telling Angelenos the coronavirus pandemic is wreaking more financial havoc on Los Angeles than the 2008 recession, Mayor Eric Garcetti released a proposed 2020-21 budget Monday that calls for reducing services and furloughing about 15,000 municipal workers for roughly a month. “We’ve already enacted a hiring freeze in our city government, and […]
  
It’s Worse Than We Thought! Antibody Tests Show Lots More Coronavirus  Preliminary results released Monday from an antibody testing program indicates the number of COVID-19 infections in Los Angeles County far exceeds the number of confirmed case announced to date, with potentially more than 400,000 residents having been infected at some point. Researchers said the good news from the antibody study conducted by USC and the […]
Lyft Driver Stabbed By Passenger In Glendora Sues Company And Attacker  A Lyft driver who was stabbed by a passenger in Glendora in February is suing the company, as well as his alleged assailant. Abdu Lkader Al Shikha’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit negligence, battery and failure to provide a safe place of employment. The complaint filed Friday against Lyft Inc. and the passenger, Ricky Andrew […]
Coronavirus Sick Homeless Can Stay At Laguna Hills Hotel An Orange County Superior Court judge refused Monday to issue a temporary restraining order blocking the county from using a state and federal program to house transients infected with COVID-19 at a Laguna Hills hotel. Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas Delaney ruled that the state’s emergency declaration supersedes any covenants, conditions, restrictions and reservations […]
Banks Sued in L.A. Over Payroll Protection Programs Separate class-action lawsuits have been filed in Los Angeles against four banks connected with the Paycheck Protection Program, alleging that small business owners were passed over for emergency loans because of a “rigged” process. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress passed the CARES Act, which allocated $349 billion emergency funds for the small business […]
Coronavirus Claims More Lives in L.A. County; Case Number Nears 14,000 Nineteen more deaths due to coronavirus were reported in Los Angeles County Monday, while the resolution of a backlog of testing results from one lab led to an increase of nearly 1,500 positive cases in the county. Barbara Ferrer, director of the county Department of Public Health, announced 17 new coronavirus deaths during a midday […]
OC Coronavirus Cases Rise to 1,636; Deaths Now Total 32 Another COVID-19-related fatality was reported Monday in Orange County — the 14th in just under than a week — bringing the death toll to 33. Another 41 confirmed cases were also reported, bringing the total to date to 1,676. The number of hospitalized patients dropped from 156 on Sunday to 128, with the number of […]
New Coronavirus Testing Sites Open in L.A. County More COVID-19 testing sites opened in Los Angeles County Monday as officials continue to ramp up efforts to ensure residents of lower-income areas have access to the tests, while Carson officials hailed plans to open a site on its border. According to County Supervisor Hilda Solis, new sites opened Monday in Bell, Montebello and in […]
LAUSD Facing $200 Million Emergency Costs On the day the Los Angeles Unified School District handed out its 10 millionth free meal since campuses were closed due to coronavirus, Superintendent Austin Beutner said Monday the district is facing $200 million in unanticipated costs due to the pandemic, but the long-term impacts of those costs is still unclear. The largest chunk of […]
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