| | | | | Afternoon headlines for Monday, September 14, 2020 |
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Intense Hunt For Gunman Who Almost Killed Two LA Deputies: If You Know Anything, Reward Is Now $175,000 A manhunt continued Monday for the gunman who brazenly shot two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies as they sat in a patrol SUV at a Compton rail station, with a reward for information leading to the suspect increasing to $175,000. The deputies, members of the Transit Services Bureau, remained hospitalized in critical condition, but Sheriff […]
Bobcat Blaze Roars: Evacuations, Unhealthy Air As Smoke Covers Skies Nearly 900 firefighters backed up by nine water- and retardant-dropping aircraft were battling the 36,366-acre Bobcat Fire Monday, working to protect communities in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, including Arcadia and Sierra Madre where some residents were evacuated as flames burned downhill toward their homes. With the fire only 6% contained, residents of […]
Appeals Court Allows Trump To End Temporary Protected Status For Immigrants A Los Angeles civil rights group blasted a federal appeals court ruling Monday that allows the Trump administration to end the temporary protected status of at least 300,000 immigrants who live and work in the United States. A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco vacated a preliminary […]
Girlfriend Of Richest Man Jeff Bezos Won’t Be Deposed: Judge Rules In Defamation Lawsuit Against Amazon Founder A judge ruled Monday that Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend cannot be deposed as part of her brother’s defamation lawsuit against the Amazon founder and his security consultant, finding that it would present hearsay issues. Michael Sanchez, a Hollywood talent manager and the brother of Lauren Sanchez, alleges in his lawsuit filed Jan. 31 in Los Angeles […]
UCLA Joins Clinical Trial To Study COVID-19 In People With Cancer UCLA Health and the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have joined in a National Cancer Institute study to help better understand the impact and outcomes of COVID-19 in people undergoing cancer treatment. UCLA Health’s diverse patient community will be able to provide information about COVID-19’s impact on cancer patients from a variety of different backgrounds, […]
California Settles Emissions Control Violations in Mercedes for $285.6M German automaker Daimler AG has agreed to pay $285.6 million to the state of California for illegally bypassing vehicle emissions controls — violations identified by a testing facility in El Monte, the California Air Resources Board announced Monday. “Californians live with some of the worst air in the country, air that adversely impacts public health […]
UCLA Tops Public University Rankings For 4th Straight Year UCLA was named the top public university in the nation for the fourth year in a row, according to rankings released Monday by U.S. News and World Report, while UC Irvine and UC San Diego tied for eighth with the Georgia Institute of Technology. For overall national universities, Caltech placed ninth in the magazine’s annual […]
Sheriff’s Deputy Arrested and Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was charged Monday with workers’ compensation fraud for allegedly filing a fake claim for disability benefits. Kevin Adams, 47, of Covina, is set to be arraigned Jan. 11 on one felony count of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. He was arrested Monday morning and released in less than two hours […]
Orange County Reports 44 New Cases of COVID-19, No Deaths Orange County Monday reported just 44 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, and, for the second day in a row, no new deaths. The county’s cumulative coronavirus case total increased to 50,974, while the death toll stands at 1,093. Last week, the Orange County Health Care Agency reported 42 COVID-19 fatalities. The week before saw 76 deaths […]
Health Official: No Reductions In COVID Restrictions Until End Of September Los Angeles County won’t authorize any more business reopenings until at least the end of the month so officials can determine if the recent Labor Day weekend will cause the same spike in COVID-19 cases seen after Fourth of July and Memorial Day, the county’s public health director said Monday. But while no more businesses […]
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