| | | | The news for Thursday, November 19, 2020
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USC: Trump’s Effort to Discredit Election Results Undermines Voters’ Confidence  President Donald Trump’s repeated insistence that widespread fraud undermined this month’ presidential election has left a mark on Americans’ faith in the voting process, according to a postelection USC Dornsife survey released Thursday. Using a 0-100 scale to measure their confidence that all ballots were tallied correctly, the average ranking from voters was a middling […]
  
Shopping, Dining on Again at Disney California Adventure Part of Disney California Adventure will open without rides Thursday but plenty of shopping and dining. Billed as an extension of Downtown Disney, Buena Vista Street will be gussied up for the holidays, offering socially distanced outdoor dining at favorite restaurants including Carthay Circle Lounge where Chef Andrew Sutton, culinary director of Signature Restaurants, says […]
Health Officials: LA County Facing ‘Most Dangerous Moments’ Of Pandemic Los Angeles County health officials are defending new business and social gathering restrictions, stressing that absent an immediate downturn in COVID-19 case numbers, area hospitals could be quickly overwhelmed as the county confronts “one of the most dangerous moments in this pandemic.” Dr. Christina Ghaly, the county’s director of health services, stressed Wednesday that current […]
Orange County Reports 628 New COVID-19 Cases Coronavirus cases continue to rise in Orange County with 628 new diagnoses, and hospitalizations also increased, but officials said they’re confident they can handle the surge. Two fatalities were also reported Wednesday, raising the death toll to 1,528. The cumulative case count is at 66,585. “I think it’s important to take a look at the […]
Woman Killed After Crashing into Parked Vehicle in Pomona  A woman who was driving a vehicle that struck a parked vehicle and then the front of a business in Pomona was killed Thursday morning. The crash occurred in the 700 block of East Holt Avenue about 2 a.m., according to the Pomona Police Department. The victim died at the scene, police said. The cause […]
Average L.A. County Gas Price Unchanged The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County was unchanged Thursday, remaining at $3.147 one day after dropping one-tenth of a cent. The average price is nine-tenths of a cent less than one week ago, 3.9 cents lower than one month ago and 83 cents cheaper than one year […]
Horse Racing Regulators To Weigh New License for Los Alamitos The California Horse Racing Board will meet by teleconference Thursday to consider whether to grant Los Alamitos Race Course a license to conduct quarter horse racing in the 2020-21 season, after a cluster of equine deaths led the board to place the track on probation earlier this year. Los Alamitos is currently holding nighttime quarter […]
UCLA/UCR Study Finds Most School Districts in State Ignoring Civics Education School districts throughout California are largely failing to ensure civics lessons are included in the educational programs of K-12 schools, raising concerns that kids are growing up with little or no appreciation of what it means to be a citizen of the United States, according to a report released Thursday by researchers at UCLA and […]
Jury Selection Continues for Trial of Man Accused of Molesting Relative Jury selection will continue Thursday in the trial of a 41-year- old man accused of molesting an underage relative for nearly a decade in the San Jacinto Mountain community of Pinyon Pines. Stanford James Stelle III was arrested in 2015 stemming from allegations he sexually assaulted the girl from 2003, when she was 5 years […]
Dodgers Begin Laying Off Employees as Pandemic Continues  The Los Angeles Dodgers confirmed Wednesday they have laid off employees because of the drop in revenue connected to the coronavirus pandemic. “While the Dodgers had a championship season, the organization has not been immune from the widespread economic devastation caused by the coronavirus,” the team said in a statement. “Since March, we have worked […]
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