| | | | | The news for Wednesday, February 16, 2022 |
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State Lifts Indoor Mask-Wearing Rule, but LA County Won’t The state of California lifted its COVID-19 indoor mask-wearing requirement for vaccinated people Wednesday, but Los Angeles County will continue enforcing its own indoor face-covering rule, despite growing dissent among the Board of Supervisors. Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger previously called on the county to align with the state and lift its indoor mask […]
OC’s COVID-19 Cases and Hospitalizations See More Declines Orange County’s COVID-19 hospitalizations and positivity rates showed more promising down trends, while death reports continued to mount for this month and last, according to recently released data. Hospitalizations declined from 453 Monday to 431 Tuesday, with the number of intensive care patients dropping from 89 to 77, according to the Orange County Health Care […]
LA County’s Outdoor Mask Requirement Lifted Days after most spectators at Super Bowl LVI were seen ignoring the face-covering requirement, Los Angeles County has lifted its COVID-19 mandate that people wear masks at outdoor mega-events and outdoors at K-12 schools and child care centers. Lax adherence to the mask requirement at SoFi Stadium was an issue throughout the recently concluded NFL […]
Man Run Over by a Car in Long Beach Identified County authorities Wednesday released the name of the man who died after he was struck by a car in Long Beach. Willie Jackson, 48, was identified by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office as the victim who was run over. Officers went to Artesia Boulevard and Orizaba Avenue about 8:30 p.m. Thursday regarding reports of […]
Woman Allegedly Attacked Deputies Prior to Being Shot A woman who was fatally shot by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies in Lancaster allegedly attacked them prior to being killed, homicide investigators said Wednesday. Deputies from the Lancaster Station were called at 5:55 p.m. Tuesday to the 25300 block of Abacus Avenue regarding a family disturbance with a possibly mentally ill person, said […]
State’s Indoor Mask Mandate Set to Lift for Vaccinated; Hospitalizations Drop Indoor mask-wearing requirements for vaccinated people will lift Wednesday in Riverside County and across much of the state amid continually decreasing COVID-positive hospitalizations. The number of COVID-positive patients in Riverside County hospitals dropped from 490 to 486 on Tuesday, according to the Riverside University Health System. Of those patients, 86 were in intensive care, down […]
Democrat Wins West San Gabriel Valley Assembly Special Election Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees member Mike Fong is scheduled to be certified as the winner of the special election to fill the vacant 49th Assembly District seat Feb. 24, allowing him to be sworn in. Fong was a landslide winner over Republican Burton Brink, receiving 68.13% of the vote to 31.87% […]
Rams to Celebrate Super Bowl Victory with Parade, Fan Rally Thousands of Los Angeles Rams fans will descend on the Exposition Park area Wednesday as players and coaches formally celebrate their Super Bowl LVI championship with a victory parade and rally. The parade will be at 11 a.m., beginning at the Shrine Auditorium and ending a relatively short distance away at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, […]
Southland Gas Prices Again Rise To Record Highs The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose Wednesday to a record high for the 12th time in 13 days while the Orange County average price set a record for the 10th time since Feb. 3. The Los Angeles County average price rose for the 16th time in […]
Downtown Fire at Medical Building Extinguished It took 70 firefighters 52 minutes to knock down a fire at a vacant medical building in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday. Fire crews arrived at 12:07 a.m. to 1888 S. Main St. where a one-story commercial building had flames coming from the exterior of the building, said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Nicholas Prange. Firefighters […]
One Year Ago Today (February 16, 2021)…Spitzer Squares Off with Gascon on Case of 6-Year-Old Boy’s Murder One Year Ago Today (February 16, 2021)…Even though a convicted sex offender is charged in Los Angeles with abducting a 6-year-old boy in Anaheim and killing him, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer announced he has also charged the defendant for the same crime. Spitzer said he charged Kenneth Kasten Rasmuson, 59, for the July […]
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