| | | | | Afternoon headlines for Friday, August 21, 2020 |
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‘So Brutal, So Heinous, So Sadistic:’ Golden State Killer Gets Life, No Parole For ‘Pure Evil’ The Golden State Killer, who sat stoically through three days of victim impact statements, apologized to his victims Friday before a judge handed down 11 consecutive life-without-parole prison sentences for a string of rapes and murders the former police officer committed from the Sacramento area to Orange and Ventura counties in the 1970s and ’80s. […]
Did You Forget Cash At LAX Security? Too Bad, As TSA Kept Almost $1 Million Nationwide Last Year Travelers left behind more than $926,000 in unclaimed money at airport security checkpoints nationwide during the 2019 fiscal year, including nearly $33,000 at Los Angeles International Airport, the Transportation Security Administration announced Friday. The TSA, which released figures regarding cash collected at airports during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2019, said in most […]
‘Full House’ TV Star Lori Loughlin Goes To Federal Prison For Two Months For College Admissions Scandal TV actress Lori Loughlin was sentenced Friday to two months behind bars — hours after her husband was handed a five-month term — for paying $500,000 in bribes to get their daughters admitted to USC as crew team recruits, even though neither girl played the sport. Loughlin was also ordered to pay a $150,000 fine […]
Sean Penn, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston: `Fast Times at Ridgemont High’ Ain’t Happening Sorry, Mr. Hand. Friday evening’s fundraising table-read with Sean Penn, Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts of the 1982 movie classic “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” has been postponed. The online live reading of the film was set to feature star Penn — albeit not in his original role of stoner Jeff Spicoli — and benefit […]
Judge Denies Motion by Pilot in Kobe Bryant Suit to Move Case to OC A judge has denied a motion by the estate of the pilot in the Jan. 26 helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and eight others to move a lawsuit brought by Bryant’s widow to Orange County to ensure a fair trial. Vanessa Bryant brought the case on Feb. 24 in Los Angeles Superior Court on […]
Coronavirus Trends Are Positive In LA County, But Will Labor Day Spoil Gains? While L.A. County coronavirus numbers are trending in the right direction, the county’s public health director reminded residents Friday that the Memorial Day and Fourth of July weekends resulted in major case spikes and should serve as a warning against holding parties or large gatherings for Labor Day. Taking part in an ABC7 online question-and-answer […]
24 Orange County Elementary Schools Receive Permission to Reopen Twenty-six more people have succumbed to COVID-19 in Orange County, raising the death toll to 882, officials reported Friday as they added 372 new diagnoses of coronavirus, hiking the cumulative to 45,308. Since Sunday, the county has reported 73 COVID-19 fatalities, a week after reporting 89 deaths. Still, other trends regarding case counts and hospitalizations […]
Live-Action/CGI `The One and Only Ivan’ Begins Streaming Friday on Disney+ A hybrid live-action and CGI adaptation of the award-winning children’s book “The One and Only Ivan” starring Bryan Cranston began streaming on Disney+ Friday. The film was scheduled to be released to theaters last Friday but was shifted to Disney+ because of the theater closures prompted by coronavirus pandemic. “What makes this book and this […]
More Than 300 Criminal Charges Filed Over Blaze That Injured 12 Firefighters More than 300 criminal charges have been filed against the owners and operators of four downtown Los Angeles buildings and three businesses for alleged fire code and safety violations following a massive fire and explosion in the Toy District that injured a dozen firefighters, City Attorney Mike Feuer announced Friday. “The fire and explosion that […]
Motorist Killed in Fiery Freeway Crash in Azusa A San Bernardino County woman was killed Friday when the SUV she was driving went off the side of the eastbound Foothill (210) Freeway in Azusa, rolled down an embankment, hit a tree and caught fire. The crash occurred about 2:15 a.m. near Azusa Avenue, according to the California Highway Patrol. The 24-year-old woman, from […]
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