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LA County officials have harsh words for coronavirus vaccine inequity – and line-jumping cheatersFebruary 23, 2021 at 6:25 PM Just one week away from expanding eligibility for the coronavirus vaccine by up to 1.8 million people, Los Angeles County officials are worried the online system required by the state to book appointments will continue to pose challenges in communities hit hardest by the pandemic.
Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Hilda Solis said on Tuesday, Feb. 23, that she was “not surprised,” but nonetheless “disgusted” by certain people using any means necessary to obtain vaccine doses.
“I can tell you I was...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, Government, Los Angeles, Sport, Dhs, Soccer, Community, County, Los Angeles County, Southland, Ferrer, Board of Supervisors, LA County 30 people like this. Like LA County’s legal costs jump, fueled by settlements and feesFebruary 23, 2021 at 4:09 PM Los Angeles County’s legal bills ticked upward last fiscal year, jumping from $148.5 million to $151.9 million, fueled by an increase in the amount paid out to settle lawsuits. Costs and fees to outside law firms working on the county’s litigation helped drive up the number, officials said on Tuesday, Feb. 23.
All told, attorneys fees and costs totaled $64.3 million, while the county paid out $87.6 million in judgments and settlements, according to County Counsel Rodrigo A. Castrol-Silva’s repor...Tags: News, White House, Sport, Soccer, Parks and Recreation, States, Disneyland, Garcia, Los Angeles County, LA County, Public Works, Palmdale, Boyle Heights, Disney Vacation Club, Armando Garcia, Child and Family Services 146 people like this. Like Newsom touts new Southern California vaccine pop-ups as counties transition to Blue Shield networkFebruary 21, 2021 at 9:31 PM Gov. Gavin Newsom visited two federally funded pop-up coronavirus vaccination sites in Southern California on Sunday, Feb. 21, part of a statewide tour of such spots aimed at immunizing the state’s hardest-hit communities. The visit coincided with the launch of the transition to a new centralized system — which will include Riverside County in its first wave — to manage the state’s thus-far bumpy rollout of the badly needed vaccine.
Newsom, flanked by several local elected leaders, said the mobi...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, Government, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sport, Public Health, Soccer, Associated Press, Pfizer, Blue Shield, Orange County, Riverside County 134 people like this. Like LAUSD officials call for vaccines to be prioritized for school employeesFebruary 17, 2021 at 10:05 PM Prioritizing school employees for vaccines was the theme of the day on Wednesday, Feb. 17, as Los Angeles Unified School District officials and representatives from some of their labor employee groups gathered at the Roybal Learning Center near downtown LA to mark the opening of the district’s first vaccination center.
District officials also used the occasion to announce plans to run a second, much larger vaccination center at SoFi Stadium, in partnership with the Los Angeles Rams, Hollywood Pa...Tags: Health, School, Business, News, Education, California, La, Government, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Community, Lausd, Orange County, Bay Area, Hillsborough 64 people like this. Like Chargers fan declines Super Bowl invitation to help COVID-19 patientsFebruary 10, 2021 at 11:30 AM Edwin Mejia received a message last month from fellow Chargers fan Josh Albrektson, but the talking point wasn’t about quarterback Justin Herbert nor new head coach Brandon Staley.
Mejia was the subject of this Twitter conversation involving the team he’s loved since Doug Flutie started 16 games for them and threw passes to Curtis Conway and Tim Dwight nearly 20 years ago.
Albrektson told Mejia he needed to answer the phone call he was about to get because it was coming from the Chargers.
“I can...Tags: Facebook, Florida, New York, Texas, California, Sports, NFL, Sport, Soccer, United States, Super Bowl, Chargers, Tom Brady, El Salvador, Johnson, Tampa 77 people like this. Like Not all of the I-5 will get widened, at least for nowFebruary 5, 2021 at 9:01 AM Q. Hi Honk: Thank you for the recent update on the I-5 Freeway! Do you know if there is a plan to widen the I-5 from the I-605 to the East L.A. Interchange? Once the section from the Orange County line to the I-605 is done, the section north of it will be the pinch point with only three lanes.
– Rich Schaefer, North Tustin
A. Well, Rich, for years and years Honk has dreamed of a hot tub for his back yard, and he even has a nifty spot picked out for it. Yet, no such paradise exists.
Likewise, the...Tags: News, California, Sport, Soccer, DMV, Driving, CalTrans, Orange County, Folsom State Prison, Rich, Anaheim, Los Angeles County, Department of Motor Vehicles, Nguyen, Orange County Fire Authority, Kruse 34 people like this. Like Coronavirus death toll overwhelms ‘last responders’ in funeral home industryJanuary 25, 2021 at 8:00 AM For weeks now, Los Angeles County has been overwhelmed by the onslaught of death.
COVID-19 patients are dying at such an alarming rate — 1,500 over the past week alone, close to 2,000 the week prior — that hospitals, morgues and funeral homes are buckling under the volume of bodies. The pandemic has doubled the number of decedents they normally handle, and COVID-19 now accounts for more deaths than all other causes combined.
Vidal Herrera, founder of 1-800-Autopsy, poses for a photo inside his...Tags: California, Los Angeles, Sport, Dhs, Soccer, Environmental Defense Fund, County, Aliso Canyon, San Bernardino, Los Angeles County, Clippers, National Guard, Montague, Department of Public Health, Hawkins, LA County 60 people like this. Like Garcetti’s plea to U.S. leaders: Coronavirus-rocked L.A. needs more resourcesJanuary 7, 2021 at 9:49 PM Mayor Eric Garcetti on Thursday, Jan. 7, urged U.S. leaders to throw a lifeline to coronavirus-rocked Los Angeles in the form of additional vaccines, more trained medical professionals and other resources.
Just after the mayor’s plea, L.A. County public health officials announced more grim statistics: 218 new deaths — the third straight day over 200 — and 19,719 more cases, lifting the county’s totals to 11,545 and 871,404, respectively, since the outbreak began.
Brooke Barker, 22, a mental ...Tags: Health, Business, News, California, La, Government, New York City, US, Los Angeles, Sport, Public Health, Soccer, Long Beach, Community, Fda, Pasadena 68 people like this. Like As 258 more COVID deaths are posted, LA County urges people to wait their turns for vaccinesJanuary 6, 2021 at 8:41 PM As Los Angeles County lost another 258 lives to coronavirus — one of the highest single-day totals of the pandemic — health officials pleaded on Wednesday, Jan. 6, with residents not to sign up for a vaccine appointment meant for healthcare workers.
“Please do not sign up for an appointment if you’re not an eligible frontline healthcare worker,” said Barbara Ferrer, the public health director, acknowledging that some people have been inoculated inappropriately because they were not asked for ver...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, La, Government, Sacramento, Walmart, Sport, Soccer, Long Beach, Pasadena, Paramount, Gavin Newsom, Southern California 26 people like this. Like 4 new COVID-19 vaccination sites for health-care workers open in San Fernando Valley and LA’s EastsideJanuary 6, 2021 at 7:11 PM LOS ANGELES — Four additional vaccination sites for health-care workers opened Wednesday in the San Fernando Valley and Eastside of Los Angeles, bringing city sites’ collective capacity up to about 2,000 vaccinations per day.
The new locations — at the Ritchie Valens Recreation Center in Pacoima, the Balboa Sports Complex in Encino, the Hazard Recreation Center in Boyle Heights and the El Sereno Recreation Center — will be able to provide 300 vaccinations per day, Garcetti said.
On Dec. 30, the ...Tags: News, La, China, California News, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Vaccinations, Kim, Times, Local News, Los Angeles Times, Parks, Los Angeles County, South Los Angeles, Rodriguez 17 people like this. Like As coronavirus claims another 91 LA County lives, a ‘wicked’ surge hits Skid RowJanuary 3, 2021 at 7:37 PM The New Year’s weekend coronavirus toll in Los Angeles County wound down ominously on Sunday, Jan. 3, as the scope of the latest and most deadly surge claimed another 91 lives.
And with 12,488 new cases, not only were hospitals buckling, but the region’s unhoused began the year amid the worst conditions yet, particularly in L.A.’s Skid Row.
The latest death toll brings the county’s total lives lost to 10,773, and total cases to 818,639, according to the county’s Sunday update. All this while hos...Tags: News, California, Medical, Los Angeles, Sport, Public Health, Soccer, Army, Long Beach, Kaiser, San Jose, Pasadena, Eric Garcetti, Larry King, Southern California, Los Angeles County 52 people like this. Like No more ICU beds at LAC+USC Medical Center, staff seeks ways to expand to meet coronavirus crisisDecember 18, 2020 at 2:26 PM A nurse in the intensive care unit waits inside a patient’s room for medicine to be brought to her to avoid having to remove her personal protective gear. (Heidi de Marco/California Healthline)
Registered nurse Yvonne Yaory puts on her personal protective gear before entering a coronavirus patient’s room. (Heidi de Marco/California Healthline)
Sound The gallery will resume in seconds Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center is a 600-bed hospital located in the Boyle Heights neighbo...Tags: Health, Business, New York, News, Education, California, France, Government, Disney, Los Angeles, Sport, Karen, Soccer, Italy, Mexico City, Healthcare 68 people like this. Like Los Angeles County mourns more than 1,500 unclaimed dead in annual ceremonyDecember 3, 2020 at 6:47 PM Los Angeles County officials and interfaith leaders honored and buried the county’s unclaimed dead this year despite the coronavirus pandemic, prohibiting in-person attendance but allowing people to view the ceremony on a live broadcast.
Unlike overcast or wet weather the past two years, the sun was out as the remains of 1,547 people who died in Los Angeles County in 2017 were honored Thursday, Dec. 3 during the annual ceremony at the Los Angeles County Crematory and Cemetery in Boyle Heights.
F...Tags: Crime, News, California, Sport, Soccer, Biden, Los Angeles County, GSA, San Bernardino County, Gardena, Andres Guardado, Boyle Heights, USC Medical Center, John O Donohue, Top Stories LADN, Top Stories Breeze 37 people like this. Like Ex-L.A. deputy mayor among 5 new defendants in former Councilman Jose Huizar’s corruption caseNovember 30, 2020 at 7:34 PM LOS ANGELES — Former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan and four others have been added to the criminal case alleging a widespread corruption scheme led by former City Councilman Jose Huizar, bringing to nine the number of defendants charged as a result of the federal investigation, according to the updated indictment unsealed Monday.
The racketeering case lodged in Los Angeles federal court accuses Huizar and close associates of illegally obtaining financial benefits from developers who, in ...Tags: News, Mississippi, Government, China, Los Angeles, Sport, Fbi, Soccer, United States, Las Vegas, Kim, City Council, San Marino, Palm Springs, City Hall, Lee 18 people like this. Like 2-year-old killed in crash east of Lake Los Angeles, and a suspect is arrested after Barstow searchNovember 16, 2020 at 11:38 AM LAKE LOS ANGELES — A 2-year-old boy was killed in a crash at an intersection east of Lake Los Angeles, and a suspect was arrested early Monday after a search in the Barstow area.
The crash was reported at 9:11 p.m. Sunday at 240th Street East and East Avenue P, according to the California Highway Patrol.
People were trapped inside a vehicle, and a child was not breathing when firefighters and paramedics arrived, said Los Angeles County Fire Department Dispatch Supervisor Michael Pittman.
The chi...Tags: News, California, Sport, Crash, Soccer, CHP, Barstow, Civil Air Patrol, Boyle Heights, Pacoima, PITTMAN, West Hills, Michael Pittman, East Avenue, Whiteman Airport, Top Stories LADN 10 people like this. Like 1 gravely injured, 4 seriously hurt in Pacoima crashNovember 15, 2020 at 6:44 PM A two-car crash in Pacoima late Saturday left one person with life-threatening injuries and four others seriously hurt, Los Angeles firefighters said.
The crash occurred at Van Nuys and Glenoaks boulevards, a busy intersection that often sees violent crashes; the Los Angeles Police Department installed a traffic camera there a few years ago due to the frequency of crashes.
At around 9 p.m. a white, older model SUV and a black sedan collided at the intersection. The crash aftermath showed the SUV...Tags: News, La, Los Angeles, Sport, Crash, Soccer, Lapd, Los Angeles Police Department, San Fernando Valley, Van Nuys, Boyle Heights, Pacoima, West Hills, Whiteman Airport, Prange, Top Stories LADN 36 people like this. Like Pilot dies in plane crash near Whiteman Airport in PacoimaNovember 12, 2020 at 3:34 PM A small airplane crashed into a neighborhood just short of Whiteman Airport in Pacoima on Thursday, Nov. 12, killing the pilot with the aircraft bursting into flames and setting several cars ablaze.
Few recognizable plane parts were visible.
The unidentified crashed on approach to the airport, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said.
#PlaneCrash @LAFD on scene of small plane crash right off the runway in Pacoima, unknown how many souls on board. Fire engulfed several parked ca...Tags: News, La, Sport, Crash, Soccer, Federal Aviation Administration, Ian Gregor, Boyle Heights, Pacoima, West Hills, Whiteman Airport, Top Stories LADN, Kevin Takumi, Crime and Public Safety 4 people like this. Like SUV crashes into West Hills martial arts studioNovember 11, 2020 at 5:58 PM WEST HILLS — A man driving an SUV escaped injury along with nearby bystanders when his vehicle crashed into the front of a martial arts studio Wednesday in West Hills, officials said.
The crash took place about 1:30 p.m. on the 22800 block of Roscoe Boulevard at Fallbrook Avenue, according to spokesman Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
One person was treated at the scene, but there was no word on the person’s condition.
The crash was being investigated by Los Angeles police.
R...Tags: News, La, Los Angeles, Sport, Crash, Soccer, Local News, Boyle Heights, West Hills, LAFD, Top Stories LADN, Brian Humphrey, Roscoe Boulevard, Fallbrook Avenue, Crime and Public Safety 33 people like this. Like LAPD officer arrested for allegedly stealing vehicle in OrangeNovember 10, 2020 at 12:20 PM A Los Angeles Police Department officer was arrested Monday evening, Nov. 9, for allegedly stealing a vehicle from a used car lot in Orange more than a year ago, authorities said.
Officer Matthew Calleros, 45, was booked on suspicion of auto theft and possession of a stolen vehicle, Orange Lt. Jennifer Amat said.
The vehicle was reported stolen on Oct. 25, 2019, from a dealership in the 1100 block of West Chapman Avenue, Amat said.
“Detectives from the Orange Police Department developed an inves...Tags: News, Sport, Soccer, Chatsworth, Orange, Lapd, Southern California, Santa Clarita, Moore, San Fernando, Los Angeles Police Department, Boyle Heights, Orange Police Department, Hollenbeck, Top Stories LADN, Top Stories OCR 16 people like this. Like One person injured on 101 Freeway in Boyle Heights crash, SigAlert issuedNovember 9, 2020 at 9:16 AM One person was taken to a hospital with an apparent head injury and two lanes of the southbound 101 Freeway in Boyle Heights were shut down this morning when a big rig and vehicle collided.
The crash was reported just before 5 a.m. near the Seventh Street off-ramp, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The CHP issued a SigAlert at 5:16 a.m. for lanes 2 and 3 of the southbound Hollywood Freeway to remove the vehicle from underneath the big rig.
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(Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)...Tags: Health, News, La, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Pennsylvania, Community, Pomona, Arizona Utah, Los Angeles Daily News, David Crane, Boyle Heights, Fairplex, Top Stories LADN, Top Stories IVDB 102 people like this. Like Helicopter transporting organ crashes on Keck Hospital helipadNovember 6, 2020 at 7:35 PM LOS ANGELES — A helicopter that was transporting a donated organ crashed this afternoon on the Keck Hospital of USC helipad, and the pilot had minor injuries, authorities said.
Emergency personnel were dispatched about 3:20 p.m. to the hospital in the 1500 block of North San Pablo Street in Boyle Heights, according to Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department. The private air ambulance was stable on its side near the helipad’s edge by 3:40 p.m., with no fire, and it did not appear to h...Tags: News, La, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Public Safety, Southern California, Stewart, San Pablo, Soto, Boyle Heights, Norfolk Street, LAFD, Top Stories LADN, Top Stories OCR, Top Stories Breeze 46 people like this. Like 12 places to see classic Southern California roadside architectureNovember 6, 2020 at 10:33 AM Buildings shaped like unusual objects are part of the Southern California experience.
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Jose Luis Garcia, 42, of Dallas, was arrested in September in the death of Gladys Arellano, whose partially clothed body was discovered at the bottom of a ravine in the Topanga Canyon area of Malibu on Jan. 30, 1996, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva planned a news conferen...Tags: Texas, News, California, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Dallas, Homicide, Local News, Malibu, Garcia, U S Marshals Service, Van Nuys, Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department, Boyle Heights, Pacoima 9 people like this. Like Arcadia subsidiary of Chinese company to pay $1 million fine in LA City Hall bribery scandalOctober 7, 2020 at 5:27 PM LOS ANGELES — A Chinese company’s Arcadia subsidiary has agreed to pay more than $1 million to resolve allegations that it bribed city officials, including former Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar, with campaign contributions, foreign travel and Katy Perry concert tickets to ensure support for its downtown building projects, it was announced Wednesday.
The non-prosecution agreement with Jia Yuan USA Co. Inc. is the latest development in the ongoing investigation into a wide-ranging pay-to-...Tags: Politics, News, China, California News, Los Angeles, Sport, Fbi, Soccer, Katy Perry, Los Angeles City Council, Arcadia, Los Angeles City, NPA, Boyle Heights, Chiang, Huizar 36 people like this. Like Travel: Ready to return to Vegas? Here’s what’s newSeptember 25, 2020 at 1:00 PM If what happens in Vegas really stays in Vegas, then there’d be no worry of bringing COVID-19 back home after your southern Nevada getaway. Alas, the famous slogan doesn’t apply to contagious diseases.
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A federal judge on Wednesday, Aug. 19, set a June 22 trial date for suspended Los Angeles City Councilman José Huizar on corruption charges, and prosecutors indicated that additional defendants and charges are possible in the City Hall development scandal.
Lawyers for both sides recommended the continuance from the tentative Sept. 29 trial date due to the voluminous amount of evidence and the fact that the government anticipates the grand jury will “consider ad...Tags: Crime, News, Government, Los Angeles, Sport, Fbi, Soccer, Courts, Kim, Los Angeles City Council, Walter, Southern California, City Hall, Los Angeles City, City News Service, Boyle Heights 29 people like this. Like LA Councilman Jose Huizar’s trial to begin in September; he could get more than 100 years in prisonAugust 5, 2020 at 1:43 PM LOS ANGELES — A Sept. 29 trial date was set Wednesday for suspended Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar, who faces federal charges alleging he ran a $1.5 million pay-to-play scheme in which developers were shaken down for cash bribes and campaign donations in exchange for his support of downtown-area development projects.
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