| | | | Afternoon headlines for Wednesday, October 7, 2020
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Yikes! Coronavirus Case Numbers Soar In LA County Just As Indoor Malls Finally OK To Reopen  On a day that indoor shopping malls were permitted to reopen at limited capacity, Los Angeles County Wednesday reported its greatest daily number of new coronavirus cases in six weeks. Public health director Barbara Ferrer said the one-day spike — 1,645 new cases — should not immediately sound alarms. The number is the highest daily […]
  
Cruel Thief Steals Red Urn With Mom’s Ashes From Distraught Daughter’s Burbank Vehicle  An urn containing a woman’s mother’s ashes was stolen from her vehicle in Burbank, police said Wednesday. The urn, along with several other personal items, was taken about 12:05 p.m. Tuesday while the vehicle was parked in the 4400 block of Sarah Street, near the Ventura (134) Freeway, according to Sgt. Derek Green. The urn […]
Cops Stop, Arrest Blacks Three Times As Often As Whites, Latinos: USC Study Of LA County  A report released Wednesday by USC found that people of color across all Los Angeles County neighborhoods were stopped by police at higher rates than other groups, and that Black people were stopped and arrested three times as often as whites and Latinos. The report found that police-initiated contacts decreased drastically at the beginning of […]
Catholic Priest Sues To End Coronavirus Restrictions On Places Of Worship: ‘Causing Far More Harm Than Good’ A Catholic priest who oversees churches in four California counties, including Los Angeles, is suing Gov. Gavin Newsom and 19 other state, county and municipal officials, alleging COVID-19 restrictions on places of worship are unconstitutional. Father Trevor Burfitt contends in his court papers that public health guidelines restricting worship activities are “no longer warranted” and […]
Immigration Enforcement Nets More than 125 Arrests, Nearly 100 in L.A. Area The Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Wednesday that a statewide enforcement operation that wrapped up last weekend resulted in the arrests of more than 125 “at-large aliens” across California, nearly 100 of them in the Los Angeles area. The enforcement effort, dubbed “Operation Rise,” took place from Sept. 18 […]
Early SoCal COVID-19 Cases Linked to New York, According to Study Most COVID-19 patients in Southern California during the early months of the pandemic appear to have been infected by a variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus introduced to the region from New York state via Europe, not directly from China, where the virus was first detected, according to a study released Wednesday by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. […]
Big Rig, SUV Collide near Cemetery, Killing Man A big rig and an SUV collided near the entrance to Riverside National Cemetery Wednesday, killing one driver and injuring the other. The collision happened about 7:30 a.m. at the intersection of Meridian Parkway and Van Buren Boulevard, according to the California Highway Patrol. The circumstances behind the crash were under investigation, but according to […]
Riverside County’s COVID-19 Hospitalizations Continue Downward Trend Riverside County reported 266 newly confirmed coronavirus cases and three additional virus-related deaths Wednesday, while the number of hospitalizations fell. The total number of COVID-19 infections recorded since the public health documentation period began in early March stands at 61,133, with the number of virus-linked deaths at 1,247, according to the Riverside University Health System. […]
Watermelon Mess: Big Rig Hauling 80,000 Pounds Of Fruit Catches Fire on I-10 East of Indio A trucker escaped injury Wednesday when a big rig hauling 80,000 pounds of watermelon caught fire on Interstate 10 about 30 miles east of Indio. The fire was reported at 4:14 a.m. in the westbound direction near Chiriaco Summit, according to the California Highway Patrol. Photos posted by Caltrans on social media show that the […]
Orange County Reports 144 New COVID-19 Cases, Three Deaths Three more people have succumbed to COVID-19 in Orange County, hiking the death toll to 1,292, but the county continued its trend of keeping new daily diagnoses below 200 as hospitalizations ticked up. The Orange County Health Care Agency reported 144 new cases of the coronavirus Wednesday, raising the cumulative total to 55,042. Since Sunday, […]
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