| | | | Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, August 11, 2020
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`Tragic Milestone’ Of 5,000 Coronavirus Deaths In LA County  Even as health officials hail downward trends in coronavirus hospitalizations and fatalities, Los Angeles County crossed another grim milestone Tuesday, passing the 5,000 mark in the number of deaths due to COVID-19. County public health director Barbara Ferrer called it a “tragic milestone” to reach. “This is heartbreaking and reminds us of the human toll […]
  
LA Rep. Karen Bass Loses To Kamala Harris In Biden VP Race  California Sen. Kamala Harris was chosen Tuesday as presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s vice presidential running mate, a selection that quickly earned rave reviews among Southland Democrats. “I have the great honor to announce that I’ve picked (Harris) — a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants […]
Sex Molestation Of A Corpse By LAPD Cop? Dead Woman’s Mom Sues Over Videotaped ‘Nightmare’  The family of a woman whose corpse was allegedly molested by a Los Angeles policeman in 2019 sued the city and the officer Tuesday. The mother of Elizabeth Baggett brought the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against the city and Officer David Rojas, who is criminally charged with a felony count of having sexual […]
UCLA, USC Football Season Canceled: Another Pandemic Victim The Pac-12 Conference canceled the fall sports season Tuesday due to health concerns from the coronavirus pandemic. The decision leaves USC and UCLA football fans in the lurch for now, but officials said that when conditions improve, they would consider a return to competition for impacted sports after Jan. 1, 2021, raising the possibility that […]
OC Reports 1,051 New COVID-19 Cases and 10 More Deaths Ten more people have succumbed to COVID-19 in Orange County, raising the death toll to 734, local health officials said Tuesday as they reported 1,051 new coronavirus diagnoses to hike the cumulative case total to 41,578. Case counts have steadily risen since Sunday, which officials attribute to the state catching up on a backlog created […]
ACLU Says ICE Secretly Bans COVID-19 Testing of Adelanto Detainees Civil rights attorneys allege that although about 1,900 COVID-19 test kits were sent to the immigrant detention center in Adelanto, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials refused to allow the vast majority of them to be used, according to Los Angeles court documents obtained Tuesday. In a filing late Monday in Los Angeles federal court, […]
Five Wounded in Warehouse Giant Party Shooting: Coronavirus Rules Ignored Five people were wounded early Tuesday in a shooting at a party in a warehouse in the Harbor Gateway area of Los Angeles. The shooting was reported at 12:39 a.m. at 22904 Lockness Ave., according to Officer A. Delatorre at the Los Angeles Police Department Operations Center. The victims “were attending a large party at […]
Vandalism At Iranian-American Jewish Center in West Hollywood? Authorities Tuesday were trying to determine who scrawled anti-Semitic graffiti on the Hollywood Temple Beth El/Iranian-American Jewish Center in West Hollywood. The vandalism was discovered about 8 a.m. Monday at the facility in the 1300 block of Crescent Heights Boulevard. The markings are believed to have been made some time between Friday and Monday morning, […]
Police Chase Beverly Hills Robbery Suspects into Westlake Area Several suspects in an SUV who were wanted for armed robberies in Beverly Hills were chased by police Tuesday to the Westlake area of Los Angeles, where they got out of the vehicle and briefly barricaded themselves inside a house. The SUV was wanted in connection with a series of robberies that occurred on Monday, […]
Feds Arrest Owner of LA Investment Firm That Managed Over $1B in Assets The founder and former CEO of an investment firm that specializes in debt instruments was arrested Tuesday on federal charges alleging he falsified financial records to fraudulently inflate the value of the funds he managed, allowing him to charge investors millions of dollars in unauthorized fees. Brendan Ross, 47, of La Canada Flintridge, who founded […]
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