| | | | | The news for Wednesday, August 26, 2020 |
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LA School Board Approves Ethnic Studies Requirement for Graduation The Los Angeles Board of Education has voted to expand Ethnic Studies courses to all students in the Los Angeles Unified School District and establish the completion of one Ethnic Studies course as a high school graduation requirement. “Culturally meaningful and relevant curricula lead students to become more personally engaged and more likely to graduate,” […]
SWAT Team Serves Warrant at North Hills Hotel, Suspect Arrested A police SWAT team served a search warrant at a hotel in North Hills Wednesday morning and took a wanted suspect into custody. Detectives learned a wanted suspect was at a hotel in the 9400 block of Sepulveda Boulevard and had a search warrant drawn up and executed by a SWAT team about midnight, according […]
LAFD Firefighter Missing in Mexico, FBI Assisting in Investigation FBI agents are helping investigate the disappearance of a Los Angeles Fire Department firefighter in Mexico. Francisco Aguilar traveled to his condo near Rosarito last week and his family last heard from him Thursday. Relatives later traveled to Mexico to check on him and found the condo ransacked and his Jeep and a dirt bike […]
Wounded Man Found Near Store in Palmdale A man with a gunshot wound was found near a liquor store in Palmdale and treated at a hospital for his injury, authorities said Wednesday morning. Deputies responded to the area of 10th Street East and Avenue R and found a man who had been shot in the foot, but was being uncooperative about the […]
Orange County Reports 15 More COVID-19 Deaths Fifteen more people have succumbed to COVID-19 in Orange County, hiking the death toll to 912, and officials also reported 335 new cases of coronavirus, raising the cumulative total to 46,642. Of the deaths reported Tuesday, three were skilled nursing facility residents and two lived in assisted living facilities. Of the total death toll, 347 […]
LA County Still Sees Falling Coronavirus Case Numbers, But Will It Last? The number of daily coronavirus infections is continuing to drop, having fallen below the 1,000 mark for the first time since early June and potentially opening the door for the county to grant waivers for some children to return to school classrooms. Although case numbers are typically lower on Mondays and Tuesdays due to more […]
Mobile Blood Drive Set For Cathedral City LifeStream Blood Bank will hold a mobile blood drive Wednesday in Cathedral City, where donors also will be screened for COVID-19 antibodies. The drive is set for Henry’s Bar and Grill at 68955 Ramon Road in Cathedral City from 1 to 6 p.m. Another one is scheduled for Thursday at Desert Regional Medical Center in […]
Azusa Wildfire 96% Contained, 4,237 Acres Burned, Stretch of Highway 39 Open The Ranch2 Fire burning near Azusa was 96% contained Wednesday morning after scorching 4,237 acres and was not expected to grow. “There has been no growth over the past four days and this is the final fire size,” the U.S. Forest Service said in a statement Tuesday. “Firefighters were able to complete the fire line […]
Riverside County’s COVID-19 Patient Count at ‘Lowest Point’ Since Early June Confirmed coronavirus cases in Riverside County have climbed by 456, and six more deaths attributed to complications stemming from the virus were reported, but a county official said the patient count in hospitals is the lowest it’s been since early June. The aggregate number of COVID-19 infections recorded since the public health documentation period began […]
Protest in Downtown Los Angeles Over Recent Police Shootings Protesters marched through downtown Los Angeles for a second night Tuesday evening, rallying against police brutality and two police shootings in the past 10 days. A small group of protesters rallied on the north side of First Street, across the street from Los Angeles Police Department headquarters, about 10 p.m. with officers in riot gear […]
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