| | | | Afternoon headlines for Monday, December 14, 2020
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Vaccine Victory: Kaiser ICU Nurse First To Get COVID-19 Shot In LA As ‘Help Is On The Way’ With her co-workers cheering her on, an intensive-care unit nurse at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Monday received one of the first doses in the state of a long-awaited vaccine to prevent COVID-19. Helen Cordova sat patiently and joked with other medical personnel as she was given the Pfizer vaccine — administered with a shot in […]
  
Deadly Security Bars, No Smoke Alarms As House Fire Horror Kills Woman In El Sereno  A woman in her 60s died at the scene of a house fire in the El Sereno area Monday morning and a man was hospitalized, authorities said. Firefighters sent to the 2400 block of North Eastern Avenue at 8:41 a.m. extinguished the flames in the single-story house in 13 minutes and found the woman […]
Get Your COVID-19 At A School Near You: Beutner Says Local Campus Ideal  Los Angeles Unified School District campuses would be an ideal setting for administering COVID-19 vaccines to students and their families, Superintendent Austin Beutner said Monday, while again imploring elected officials to provide financial support for schools to prepare for an eventual return to in-person instruction. Noting that more than 230,000 COVID-19 tests have been conducted […]
Nightclub Shootings Bad Enough, But Now Club Violated COVID-19 Closure Orders! LA Lawsuit City Attorney Mike Feuer announced Monday his office has filed a lawsuit to shut down a nightclub that was allegedly operating illegally out of a storefront in the Fashion District in downtown Los Angeles amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Feuer alleged the club has been the site of shootings, assaults and other criminal activity while operating […]
USC Study: Young Republicans Reject COVID Safety Precautions Young Californians who identify themselves as Republicans are less likely to follow social distancing guidelines that prevent coronavirus transmission than those who identify as Democrats or Independents, according to USC study published Monday. The findings among 18- to 25-year-olds mirror what many have observed about America’s politicized response to COVID-19 and are a source of […]
USC’s Pac-12 Football Title Opponent Changes Due To COVID The USC Trojans will be playing in Friday’s Pac-12 Football Championship Game, but they won’t be playing the team they expected. The conference’s North Division winner, the Washington Huskies, have been pulled from the game due to COVID-19 cases that left the team without enough eligible players to compete, the conference announced Monday. So now […]
Woman Killed in Traffic Crash on 14 Freeway Near Palmdale A woman found Monday in a crashed vehicle on the southbound Antelope Valley (14) Freeway, south of Palmdale, was pronounced dead at the scene. The wreckage was found by a Caltrans crew about 10 a.m. near Vista Point, according to the California Highway Patrol. It was unclear when the crash occurred. Information on the identity […]
Bad News For LA Sheriff: Watchdog Agency Slams Department: Secret ‘Unlawful Acts’ Against Oversight The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department consistently obstructs investigations into its conduct and fails to follow the law, according to a report released Monday by the watchdog agency that oversees the department. In a report that breaks little new ground, Inspector General Max Huntsman details an impressively long list of complaints and potential violations ranging […]
Big Rig Overturns, Goes Partially Down Embankment In Cerritos A big rig partially went over an embankment and overturned in Cerritos Monday afternoon, but no serious injuries were reported. The crash occurred about 1:30 p.m. at the northbound San Gabriel River (605) Freeway transition to the eastbound Artesia (91) Freeway, according to the California Highway Patrol. Los Angeles County Fire Department crews arrived on […]
Residents Impacted By Bobcat Fire Have Until Wednesday To Apply For FEMA Aid Residents impacted by the Bobcat Fire have until Wednesday to register for financial support from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA gives eligible wildfire survivors financial support to help pay for needs such as rent, home repairs, medical/dental costs, funeral expenses and other disaster-related expenses. Also, FEMA may be able to help with disaster-caused damage […]
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