| | | | Afternoon headlines for Thursday, June 18, 2020
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Southland Leaders Hail SCOTUS Ruling Upholding DACA  Southland community leaders and Democratic elected officials Thursday praised the U.S. Supreme Court for rejecting President Donald Trump’s effort to dismantle the Obama-era program that protects from deportation some 800,000 immigrants brought into the country illegally as children. “Today’s Supreme Court ruling on DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) delivers a powerful message: this country […]
  
Orange County Reports 132 New Cases of COVID-19, Seven More Deaths Orange County Health Care Agency officials Thursday reported seven more COVID-19 fatalities, raising the death toll to 250, with 33 this week. Since June 5, 76 people have died from the disease caused by the coronavirus in Orange County. The agency also reported 132 new cases Thursday, raising the cumulative total to 9,292. Of the […]
City, County Reach Agreement to Shelter LA Homeless Almost 7,000 homeless people living in encampments near freeways, as well as homeless seniors over 65 and others vulnerable to COVID-19, will be brought indoors over the next 18 months under a joint legal agreement signed by the county and city of Los Angeles and approved Thursday by a federal judge. Under the agreement, the […]
L.A. Metro Board Directors File Motion to Revise Agency’s Policing Policies Members of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s board of directors filed a motion Thursday for the agency to have alternative officials respond to incidents rather than armed law enforcement. The motion, co-sponsored by Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin and county supervisors Janice Hahn and Hilda Solis, urged Metro to develop policies for […]
Relief Fund Raises More Than $1 Million for Groups That Serve Black Community United Way of Greater Los Angeles announced Thursday that more than $1 million in grants through its pandemic relief fund will go toward five organizations that serve Los Angeles’ Black communities with rental assistance, food, health and student learning support. A New Way of Life, the Los Angeles Black Worker Center, Community Coalition, the Los […]
Alleged Victims: USC Should Release Report on Ex-Campus Gynecologist Two women who allege they were sexually assaulted by USC’s former longtime campus gynecologist joined their attorney Thursday in calling for the release of a report on the university’s internal investigation. “If USC wanted to tell the truth and truly hold leadership accountable, they would release the report so we could clearly see the facts,” […]
Garcetti, Airport Commission Nominate Interim CEO to Lead LAWA  Mayor Eric Garcetti Thursday nominated Justin Erbacci to serve as the next chief executive officer of Los Angeles World Airports, the city department which owns and operates Los Angeles International and Van Nuys airports. “This moment of crisis for our world and change at our airports demands a leader with a proven track record, and […]
LACSD Deputy Fatally Shoots Robert Fuller’s Half-Brother in Kern County The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Thursday investigated a gunbattle between detectives from its Major Crimes Bureau and a man accused of spousal abuse and other crimes, climaxing with the death of the suspect, who was later identified as a half brother of the young Black man found hanged from a tree in Palmdale last […]
Man, 76, Killed in Compton Shooting A 76-year-old man was shot and killed while sitting in a car in Compton, and the shooter was at large Thursday morning. Deputies responded to a call about a person who had been shot in the 600 block of South Ward Avenue, north of Alondra Boulevard, about 9:10 p.m. Wednesday and found a man unresponsive […]
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