| | | | Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, December 1, 2020
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Armed Carjacker Killed: He’s Shot By Intended Victim, Then Struck By Hit-And-Run Vehicle  Authorities confirmed Tuesday that a carjacking suspect who died was shot by his intended victim in Compton before being hit by a passing vehicle that kept going. The shooting was reported at 8:40 p.m. Sunday at the intersection of Compton Boulevard and Santa Fe Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Authorities withheld […]
  
Uh-Oh: LA Supervisor Sheila Kuehl Dines At Santa Monica Eatery Hours After Shutting County Restaurants  Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl was spotted dining outdoors at a restaurant in Santa Monica hours after voting to uphold a ban on outdoor dining due to a surge in COVID-19 cases. Kuehl had dinner at Il Forno Trattoria November 24, soon after voting to uphold the county’s new restrictions that were announced two […]
Oscar-Nominated ‘Juno’ Star Ellen Page Comes Out As Trans: Meet Elliot Page  Ellen Page, who was nominated for a best-actress Oscar for playing a pregnant teen in “Juno,” came out as transgender Tuesday and was reintroduced to the world as Elliot Page. “I love that I am trans,” Page wrote in a Twitter post. “And I love that I am queer. And the more I hold myself […]
Los Angeles County Restaurants Can Apply For Financial Relief Restaurants that have lost business due to coronavirus health regulations in Los Angeles County, which recently cut off in-person dining due to surging COVID cases, can apply this week to receive up to $30,000 in aid. The Keep Los Angeles County Dining Grant Program officially begins Thursday, allowing eligible eateries — excluding those in the […]
Woman Pleads Not Guilty in Deadly 2017 Hit-and-Run Crash in Whittier A woman who was extradited from Australia to face charges stemming from a deadly hit-and-run crash nearly four years ago in Whittier pleaded not guilty Tuesday to felony charges. Andrea Dorothy Chan — also known as Andrea Dorothy Reyes and Andrea Dorothy Reyes Chan — was charged in September 2017 with one count each of […]
Sex Abuse At Immigration Detention Centers? LA Times Lawsuit Demands Fed Records The Los Angeles Times Tuesday sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, seeking the release of records detailing allegations of widespread sexual abuse and harassment at immigration detention centers. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Los Angeles follows a recent Times investigation into hundreds of allegations by California detainees of violence and abuse. Few […]
Laguna Police Play Santa with Lost Amazon Packages Laguna Beach police got into the Santa spirit this week as they delivered lost Amazon packages to residents. The e-commerce retailer lost two large containers that held about 25 to 30 individual packages up in the hills on Nyes Place on Monday, said Laguna Beach police Sgt. Jim Cota. When a public works crew in […]
Driver Going Against Traffic on 215 Freeway Causes Crash A motorist possibly involved in a road rage confrontation was involved Tuesday in a crash on a freeway exit ramp in Riverside that injured at least one person. The collision happened about 10:50 a.m. on the southbound Interstate 215 off-ramp to Martin Luther King Boulevard, according to the California Highway Patrol. Moments before the collision, […]
L.A. Parents Among Those Suing State Over Remote Learning Inequities The parents of a second-grader at a Los Angeles Unified School District magnet school are among seven families suing the state of California for allegedly failing to meet its constitutional obligation to ensure “basic educational equality” during the ongoing period of remote learning stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to court papers obtained Tuesday. “These […]
Resolution Introduced To Declare It `Women Make Film Day’ In Los Angeles Councilman Mitch O’Farrell introduced a resolution Tuesday to proclaim Dec. 1 as “Women Make Film Day” to recognize female filmmakers in Los Angeles. O’Farrell said his office teamed with Turner Classic Movies to promote the work of women filmmakers in Hollywood’s signature industry to proclaim the day on their behalf. “Since its very beginnings, cinema […]
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