| | | | The news for Wednesday, February 17, 2021
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Coronavirus Forces Catholic Church to Alter Ash Wednesday Services  The coronavirus pandemic will force a change in the distribution of ashes for Ash Wednesday at Roman Catholic churches Wednesday. The Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments published a note describing the process needed to avoid close contact and avoid the spread of the virus. The note calls for the […]
  
LAUSD To Open COVID Vaccine Site, But Not Its Schools The Los Angeles Unified School District Wednesday will open its first school-based COVID-19 vaccination center, but shots will only be offered to people who qualify for the inoculations as health care workers or who are age 65 or over. The center will be located at Roybal Learning Center, 1200 Colton St., near downtown Los Angeles. […]
Terrified Mom Battles Alleged Kidnapper Snatching 2-Month Baby From Her Arms: Anaheim Suspect Insists ‘Not Guilty’  The alleged attempted kidnapper of a 2-month-old baby in an Anaheim park will return to court March 2 after he pleaded not guilty to charges related to a series of unprovoked attacks in Anaheim. The 21-year-old Anaheim suspect is charged with the attempted kidnapping when he alleged tried to snatch the baby from his mother’s […]
Woman Killed in Willowbrook Shooting An investigation was underway Wednesday morning into the shooting death of a woman in her 40s in the unincorporated Willowbrook area. Deputies responded about 11 p.m. to a call of a gunshot victim in the 13100 block of San Pedro Street, south of East El Segundo Boulevard, where they found the victim suffering from a […]
OCFA Firefighter Injured in Silverado Blaze Set to be Released from Hospital One of two Orange County firefighters critically injured during the Silverado Fire near Irvine in October was scheduled to be released from a hospital Wednesday. Dylan Van Iwaarden spent 114 days in the OC Burn Center at OC Global Medical Center in Santa Ana. Van Iwaarden, 26, and fellow firefighter Phi Le, 31, were critically […]
Average L.A. County Gas Price Rises to Highest Amount Since March 1 The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose three-tenths of a cent Wednesday to $3.556, its highest amount since March 1. The average price has increased 28 times in 29 days, increasing 20.8 cents, including one-tenth of a cent on Tuesday, according to figures from the AAA and […]
Crash on Foothill Freeway in Claremont Injures 3 Three people were hospitalized Wednesday morning with injuries sustained in a three-vehicle crash on the westbound Foothill (210) Freeway in Claremont. The accident was reported about 2:15 a.m. near the Towne Avenue exit, according to the California Highway Patrol. Three people were taken to a hospital for treatment of injuries sustained in the crash, the […]
LA County COVID-19 Rates Continue Declining; Health Officials Say Don’t Let Up With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continuing to decline, Los Angeles County health officials are urging residents to maintain infection-control measures such as face masks and social distancing — saying the region is in the “home stretch” but needs to reach the finish line. The urging came Tuesday, on a day the county celebrated its rate […]
Man Dies in Gramercy Park Area Shootout A man in his 30s was killed in a shootout with another person in the Gramercy Park area of Los Angeles, police said. The shooting was reported about midnight in the 8700 block of Cimarron Street, near Manchester Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The victim, who police said exchanged gunfire with another […]
Orange County’s COVID-19 Cases Continue Decline  For the first time in months, Orange County’s COVID-19 positivity rate has improved enough to qualify for the red tier in the state’s guidelines to reopen more businesses — although the county still does not meet all the metrics required to graduate from the most restrictive purple tier. The county on Tuesday reported 658 new […]
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