| | | | | The news for Tuesday, February 8, 2022 |
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State to Ease Indoor Mask Requirement, But LA County Still Requires Them The state of California will lift its COVID-19 indoor mask-wearing requirement for vaccinated people next week, but the move won’t have any immediate impact in Los Angeles County, which has its own mandate for indoor face coverings in place. State officials announced Monday the indoor mask wearing requirement for vaccinated people will expire at the […]
Orange County’s COVID January Death Toll Surpasses Delta Wave Months Orange County’s COVID-19 hospitalizations and case rates continued a downward trend, but January’s death toll has eclipsed the worst months of last summer’s surge, according to Orange County Health Care Agency’s latest data. The county reported 28 more COVID-19-related fatalities since Friday, with 24 of them occurring last month. That hiked January’s death toll to […]
Man Wounded in South Los Angeles Shooting A man is hospitalized Tuesday after a shooting in South Los Angeles. Police responded at 11:25 p.m. Monday to Vernon Avenue and Wall Street where a man was found suffering from gunshot wounds, said LAPD Officer Drake Madison. Officers learned during their investigation that the victim was approached by a man and an argument ensued […]
DUI Suspect Collides with Police Car A man suspected of driving under the influence is in police custody Tuesday after crashing into a police car in South Los Angeles. Police arrested the driver of a Toyota Prius near Vermont Avenue and 79th Street at 4 a.m. after he led police on an early morning chase, said Los Angeles Police Officer Drake […]
Woman Loses Control of Motorcycle, Falls from Parking Garage A woman who lost control of a motorcycle is dead Tuesday after falling from a parking garage in Santa Clarita. Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were called late Monday evening to the Westfield Valencia Town Center in the 24000 block of Town Center Drive where they found a woman had fallen from […]
Teenage Girl Missing in East Los Angeles Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department investigators are asking for the public’s help Tuesday in locating a missing 15-year-old girl in East Los Angeles. Stephanie Saavedra was last seen at approximately 6 p.m. Saturday on the 400 block of Woods Avenue, said Deputy Tracy Koerner of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. Stephanie is Latina, 4 feet, 9 […]
Murder Suspect Sought by Homicide Detectives Sheriff’s homicide detectives Tuesday are searching for an armed and dangerous murder suspect in Palmdale. Detectives are looking for Rudy Rodriguez Jr., who they allege shot and killed Frank Fuentes, 34, at 10:03 a.m. on Jan. 21 on the 4100 block of East Avenue Q-14, said Deputy Tracy Koerner of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. Authorities […]
LA County Looks to Enforce COVID Vaccine Mandate in Sheriff’s Department With Sheriff Alex Villanueva declining to enforce the county’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate among his deputies, the Board of Supervisors Tuesday will consider a proposal that would give the county personnel director overriding authority to discipline any employees who fail to comply with the requirement. Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Holly Mitchell introduced the motion, saying countywide […]
Average LA, Orange County Gas Prices Again Rise to Record Highs The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose to a record high Tuesday for the fourth time in five days while the Orange County average price set a record for the fifth time in six days. The Los Angeles County average price rose a half-cent to $4.745, breaking […]
Oscar Nominations Due Out Early Tuesday Amid Wide Open Best Picture Race In a year without a clear-cut front-runner for best picture, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce nominations Tuesday for the 94th Oscars, with the visually striking “Dune” and the musical remake “West Side Story” likely to be among the top nominees. Both films are likely to land among the 10 nominees […]
One Year Ago Today (February 8, 2021)…Man Gets Five Years for Using Online `Bait Ads’ to Extort Southland Men One Year Ago Today (February 8, 2021)…A 29-year-old man was sentenced to five years behind bars for using the internet to extort at least $150,000 from men in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and elsewhere who responded to online bait ads” offering gay sex services. Over a period of six years, Tyler Buchanan purchased ads on […]
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