| | | | Afternoon headlines for Friday, March 26, 2021
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Why Would Ex-Con Murder Innocent Woman, Shoot Her Dog In Koreatown? Mystery Motive As Suspect Pleads Not Guilty  A 28-year-old ex-con pleaded not guilty Friday to charges stemming from the shooting death of a woman and the wounding of her dog in Koreatown. Police have not announced a motive for the deadly attack. Lamont Deshon Dorsey is charged with murder for the killing of Katherine McNally, who was shot about 1:10 a.m. Jan. […]
  
Echo Park Lake Homeless Battle Ends Amid Cops Controversy: Final Two Residents Arrested  The last two residents of an Echo Park Lake homeless encampment were arrested and removed from the park Friday, concluding a relocation operation that prompted two nights of contentious protests and raised questions about police tactics against protesters and journalists. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, 182 people were arrested for failure to disperse […]
Cute Kitten Horror: Suspect Arrested As Sweet Little Cat With Two Broken Legs Dumped In Lawndale Trash Bin  A man arrested in connection with the discovery of a kitten with two broken legs in a trash bin at a Lawndale apartment building is facing criminal charges, and the feline has recovered and is in need of a home. Investigators linked Lawndale resident Darion K. Hackett, 29, to the Calico kitten named Bow — […]
Coast Guard Crackdown On Scary, Unsafe Passenger Boats Forces Two Vessels From Operating In Wake Of Deadly Conception Blaze The United States Coast Guard Friday announced it has temporarily prevented two passenger vessels — one in Long Beach and the other in San Diego — from operating in commercial service after discovering inadequate safety issues aboard the boats. Coast Guard personnel inspected a 1965 wood-built passenger vessel in San Diego on Feb. 25 and […]
More Than 200,000 COVID Vaccinations At Cal State Los Angeles So Far, But Feds, State End Effort April 11 After administering more than 200,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, the large-scale vaccination site at Cal State Los Angeles will cease operations on April 11, federal and state officials managing the location announced Friday. But discussions are under way with local officials for possible continued use of the location when the Federal Emergency Management Agency and […]
Riverside County Reports Another Drop in COVID Hospitalizations, 34 New Deaths The number of coronavirus patients in Riverside County hospitals dipped again Friday, though the number in intensive care units rose slightly, according to health officials, who also reported 34 newly logged virus-related deaths. According to the Riverside University Health System, COVID-positive patients in hospitals countywide numbered 136 on Friday, down seven from Thursday. That figure […]
Good News – Sort Of – As Unemployment Rate Dips In LA County In February Los Angeles County’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dipped to 11.5% in February, down from a revised 12.6% in January, according to figures released Friday by the state Employment Development Department. The 11.5% rate was still well above the pre-pandemic rate of 5% in February 2020. In Orange County, where seasonally adjusted numbers were not available, […]
Six-Hour Slow-Speed Chase Overnight In Stolen U-Haul Truck A man in a stolen U-Haul box truck who led officers on a slow-speed pursuit in the Mid-City area of Los Angeles Friday surrendered after about six hours. The man was taken into custody shortly after 6 a.m. near Sixth Street and La Brea Avenue. His name was not immediately available. Officers began following the […]
Free Press Controversy As Four Journalists Detained by LAPD While Covering Echo Park Protest: They’re Now Released Los Angeles police insisted Friday they acted quickly to identify and release members of the media who were detained while covering another night of protests outside Echo Park, where the city has been working to clear a homeless encampment to make way for a renovation project. At least four reporters were detained following a police […]
Orange County Continues Encouraging COVID-19 Trends Orange County’s COVID-19 daily statistics Friday continued the county on its path to move up from the red to the orange tier in the state’s program to reopen the economy. The county reported 156 COVID-19 cases, upping its cumulative to 250,095. The county also logged 19 more COVID-19 fatalities, upping the overall death toll to […]
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