| | | | | The news for Thursday, July 30, 2020 |
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Did You Feel It? Scary Quake Jolts LA Millions of sleeping Los Angeles-area residents were awakened early Thursday by a magnitude 4.2 earthquake at 4:29 a.m. Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. While the sharp jolt may have been scary for an area always warned of an upcoming “big one,” there were no reports of damage or injuries. The temblor struck at a […]
Coronavirus Deaths, New Cases Hit Highs In LA County As Backlogs Clear Los Angeles County has announced a daily record high of 91 coronavirus deaths, along with more than 4,800 new cases, while warning parents that children can also be infected and increasingly are being hospitalized. The 91 deaths reported Wednesday included six fatalities that were actually announced Tuesday by health officials in Pasadena and Long Beach. […]
Fire Weather, Hazardous Conditions Threaten Southland A heat wave began washing over the Southland Thursday, creating an elevated danger of wildfire and prompting National Weather forecasters to urge area residents to guard against “dangerously hot conditions.” The Weather Service warned of hot, very dry conditions, with humidity levels in the single digits, and strong gusty winds. But no red flag warnings […]
Video Camera Used to Film Rodney King Beating Goes Up For Auction The Sony video camera used to record the March 3, 1991, beating of Rodney King by four Los Angeles police officers will be up for auction Thursday, with bidding set to start at $225,000. According to Nate D. Sanders Auctions, the camera comes with a notarized letter of authenticity by consignor George Holliday, who used […]
History-Making JPL-Built Mars Rover Launches to Mars A new era of Mars exploration began Thursday with the launch of the Perseverance rover, which was built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and is billed as the most technologically advanced machinery ever sent to the Red Planet. The SUV-sized rover Perseverance launched at 4:50 a.m. California time from Cape Canaveral in Florida, […]
GLAAD to Hold Annual Award Ceremony in Virtual Format GLAAD, which bills itself as the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer media advocacy organization, will hold its 31st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in a virtual format Thursday due to the coronavirus pandemic. The event will stream on Facebook and YouTube at 5 p.m., and air on Logo at 5 p.m. on Aug. […]
Brea Woman to Be Sentenced in $6M Health Care Fraud Scheme A Brea woman who played a role in a $6 million health care fraud scheme in which she and her husband billed Medicare for occupational therapy services that were not provided faces a possible federal prison term at sentencing Thursday. Grace Hong, 54, was convicted last year in Los Angeles federal court of conspiracy and […]
Spectrum Internet Out in Parts of L.A., Orange and Riverside Counties Thousands of Spectrum Internet customers in parts of Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties were affected Thursday morning by an outage that also impacted customers across the country. Reports of the widespread outage started filling Twitter and other social media at 6:40 p.m. Wednesday. Spectrum later confirmed thousands of its customers across the country were […]
Average LA County Gas Price Rises For Eighth Time in Nine Days The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose three-tenths of a cent Thursday to $3.172, the eighth increase in nine days. The average price has risen 4.3 cents over the past nine days, including two-tenths of a cent on Wednesday, to its highest amount since March 26, according […]
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