| | | | | The news for Wednesday, February 26, 2020 |
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Explosion Sparks Fire at Giant Marathon Oil Refinery in Carson Firefighters made progress Wednesday morning in reducing the size of a fire at the Marathon Petroleum Refinery in Carson that was sparked by an explosion in a cooling tower. “The fire is nearly out,” Los Angeles County Fire Department Inspector Sean Ferguson told NBC4 just after 4 a.m. “We have a little bit of residual […]
Hot Spell, Strong Santa Anas Persist in Southland Warm Santa Ana winds persisted across the Southland Wednesday, and temperatures will once again soar into the eighties. In fact, some communities are expected to get even hotter than Tuesday thanks to the warm offshore winds and a ridge of high pressure aloft. On Wednesday, the high in Anaheim erased the previous record for Feb. […]
Deadly Crash Shuts Stretch of North 605 Freeway in Irwindale One person was killed Wednesday morning when a vehicle overturned in the center divider of the northbound San Gabriel River (605) Freeway in Irwindale prompting a closure of three northbound lanes of the freeway until further notice. The accident was reported just south of Lower Azusa Road about 2:10 a.m., according to the California Highway […]
Suspect Killed, Officer Hurt in Officer-Involved Shooting in Garden Grove A suspect was killed in an officer-involved shooting Wednesday morning in Garden Grove and the officer was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries. The shooting occurred after officers arrived at the scene of a traffic crash near Harbor Boulevard and Trask Avenue about 1:25 a.m., according to Lt. Ray Bex of the Garden Grove Police Department. […]
Man Falls into Flood Control Channel in Woodland Hills, Sustains Leg Injuries A man who fell approximately 20 feet down the mostly dry Calabasas Creek flood control channel in Woodland Hills was rescued, then hospitalized Wednesday morning in serious condition with leg injuries he sustained in the fall. A Los Angeles Fire Department Urban Search and Rescue team was sent to the 23400 block of Los Encinos […]
Plans for 3rd Coachella Pot Dispensary Call For Art Display, Office Space A push by city officials to resuscitate Coachella’s downtown corridor could get an additional boost from a proposed marijuana dispensary planned for Sixth Street near Grapefruit Boulevard. The Coachella City Council will consider a rezoning effort at Wednesday’s council meeting, along with a conditional use permit application that calls for a nearly 3,000-square-foot dispensary, 4,500-square-foot […]
Sentencing Wednesday for L.A. Pharmacy Owners in Fraud Scheme Sentencing is scheduled Wednesday for two Los Angeles pharmacy owners who were convicted of participating in a multi-million dollar health care fraud and money laundering scheme to bill Medicare for medications that were never provided and to launder the illicit proceeds. Aleksandr Suris, 51, and Maxim Sverdlov, 45, both of Sherman Oaks, were convicted in […]
No Tickets Sold With All Six Mega Millions Lottery Numbers There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery and the estimated jackpot for Friday’s drawing will grow to $60 million. There were also no tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced. The […]
Las Vegas Debate Drew Record Viewership, Giving CBS a Win in Network Race The Democratic presidential debate from Las Vegas was both last week’s most-watched broadcast program and first among cable programs, according to live-plus-same-day figures released Tuesday by Nielsen. An average of 12.111 million viewers watched the debate on NBC last Wednesday while the MSNBC telecast averaged 7.671 million. The combined viewership of 19.782 million was the […]
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