| | | | Afternoon headlines for Wednesday, September 22, 2021
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Trial Opens in Weight-Loss Doctor’s Alleged Bogus Billing Scheme  A prosecutor told a Los Angeles jury Wednesday that the operators of the now-defunct 1-800-GET-THIN ad campaign used fabricated sleep studies to convince insurance companies to pay out tens of millions of dollars for weight-loss surgery, but the defense countered that the defendants were innocent victims of a con man who routinely falsified test results. […]
  
Former Dodgers Usher Dies Before Sex Harassment Case Reaches Trial  An attorney for a longtime Dodgers employee who sued the team, maintaining her health was negatively affected by a backlash she suffered when she complained about alleged sexual harassment by her boss, said Wednesday that his client died from breast cancer before the case could go to trial. Lawyer Joseph Singleton said plaintiff Vickie Gutierrez’s […]
Spears Renews Call for Father’s Ouster, Wants Conservatorship Ended by Fall  Britney Spears’ attorney filed court papers Wednesday requesting that a process be started to end the 13-year conservatorship that has overseen the singer’s life, possibly by this fall, while again demanding the immediate removal of her father as conservator of her estate. Spears has long called for her father to be removed as conservator, and […]
Aircraft Operations Suspended Briefly at Hollywood Burbank Airport Aircraft operations were suspended briefly Wednesday at Hollywood Burbank Airport after an unauthorized person entered the airfield. The incident occurred about 11:50 a.m. at the airport in the 2600 block of North Hollywood Way, according to airport spokesperson Amanda Parise. The person was taken into custody by airport police within minutes of entering the airfield, […]
LAUSD Offers COVID Vaccine Clinics as Deadline Looms for Workers The Los Angeles Unified School District will be holding COVID-19 vaccination clinics Wednesday through Friday at its six local district offices, reminding district employees that they must be fully vaccinated by Oct. 15. To meet that deadline, LAUSD workers will have to get their first dose of vaccine by Friday, according to the district. The […]
Fullerton Pays Tribute to Tommy Lasorda, Honors His Wife The city of Fullerton proclaimed it “Tommy Lasorda Day” Wednesday in honor of the late Los Angeles Dodgers manager and longtime city resident, and also held a moment of silence for Jo Lasorda, the baseball legend’s widow, who died Monday at age 91. Wednesday would have been Tommy Lasorda’s 94th birthday, and the city was […]
LA Man Charged with Lying in Sex Assault Suit vs. Viacom Execs A Los Angeles man is facing federal charges for allegedly faking evidence in a $50 million lawsuit that accused Viacom executives of sexual assault, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. Rovier Carrington, 32, was arrested Tuesday and charged in a criminal complaint filed in New York with one federal count of perjury, Manhattan U.S. […]
Man Wounded in Santa Monica Shooting, Suspects At Large A man was wounded in a shooting in Santa Monica Wednesday and police were searching for two suspects. Officers were called to the area of Ocean Avenue and Pacific Street at about 3 a.m. by a man who said he had been shot in the face during a possible carjacking, according to a Santa Monica […]
Villanueva Blasts RAND Report on Deputy Gangs, Says Reforms Already in Place Sheriff Alex Villanueva Wednesday criticized a report concluding that gang-like cliques continue to exist among deputies, insisting that his administration has cracked down on such groups and that researchers never conferred with him on the issue. He also insisted the report by the Santa Monica-based think tank RAND Corporation made bold statements about the continued […]
State Health Survey Shows Decrease in Check-Ups in 2020 Due to Pandemic California reached record health insurance coverage in 2020, with 94% of people covered, but fewer people received routine check-ups primarily due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey released Wednesday by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. The 2020 California Health Interview Survey includes data from 22,661 California households, including 21,949 […]
Settlement Reached in Suit Involving Driver Run Over by Own Big Rig Relatives of a Riverside County man killed in 2017 when he was run over by his own big rig as he was examining the underside of his vehicle on a freeway near Montebello have reached a settlement with the towing company whose driver was taking the disabled vehicle back to the decedent’s workplace. Donna Lamb, […]
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