| | | | | The news for Thursday, December 31, 2020 |
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Beverly Hills-Based Ticketmaster to Pay $10M Fine to Resolve Hacking Charges Beverly Hills-based Ticketmaster will pay a $10 million fine to avoid prosecution and resolve criminal charges from the Department of Justice that it hacked into a rival company’s computer systems on repeated occasions. The fine is part of a deferred prosecution agreement Ticketmaster entered into with federal prosecutors in New York over five counts of […]
Truck Crashes Down Embankment in Pomona, Exit Closed A big rig crashed and went down an embankment off the westbound San Bernardino (10) Freeway in Pomona Thursday morning. Officers responded about 4:10 a.m. to a stretch of the freeway near Kellogg Drive and found the semi at the bottom of a hill, according to the California Highway Patrol. Video from the scene showed […]
Orange County Continues To Smash COVID-19 Hospitalization Records Orange County continued its daily record-setting pace of COVID-19 hospitalizations Wednesday while reporting a near-record 4,514 new coronavirus cases and 27 additional virus deaths. The number of hospitalized patients rose from 2,106 on Tuesday to 2,145, with intensive care unit patients rising from 473 to 479. The county has 40% of its ventilators available, according […]
LA County Surpasses 10,000 COVID Deaths; National Guard To Assist Coroner Los Angeles County hit another grim milestone Wednesday, announcing its highest single-day total of COVID-19 fatalities and pushing the death toll over 10,000, with the virus now responsible for nearly half of all daily deaths in the county. “The terrible reality is that the average number of people dying each day from COVID-19 illness … […]
Man Due in Court on Hit-Run Charges in Glendale Crash That Injured Cyclist A parolee who allegedly struck a bicyclist with a car that had been taken from a driveway and then crashed the vehicle into two parked cars in Glendale is set to be arraigned Thursday on assault with a deadly weapon and other charges. Sean Slade, 27, of Los Angeles is charged with one felony count […]
LAX Opens COVID Testing Facility With Lab, Producing Results In 3-5 Hours A COVID-19 rapid testing facility with an on-site lab that can produce results in 3-5 hours launches Thursday at the Los Angeles International Airport. The $125 COVID-19 tests will be administered and processed at the airport, and LAWA officials called the purpose-built on-site lab “a first-of-its-kind for airports.” The testing site and lab are located […]
AQMD Issues Advisory for New Year’s Eve and Day Due to Fireworks A South Coast Air Quality Management District special air pollution advisory will be in effect Thursday evening through Friday morning due to fireworks related to New Year celebrations. Fireworks are known to emit high levels of particulate matter as well as metal air pollutants, all of which can contribute to negative health effects, according to […]
Christian Outreach Events in Echo Park, Valencia Draw Criticism over COVID-19 Evangelical Christian Sean Feucht planned a New Year’s Eve homeless outreach at Echo Park Lake Thursday morning and a concert in a church parking lot in Valencia Thursday evening, gatherings where attendees are not required to wear masks and critics claim could be a super-spreader events for coronavirus. The happenings will take place a day […]
Pursuit of Wrong Way Driver Ends with Crash, But Suspect Escapes A pursuit that began in Hemet ended with the suspect driving the wrong way on Interstate 215 and crashing head-on into another vehicle in Menifee, briefly trapping one person in the other vehicle and the suspect running off into a nearby field. The crash was reported about 2:40 a.m. near the Scott Road exit and […]
‘Sunday Night Football,’ NBC Top TV Ratings Facing little original competition, “Sunday Night Football” drew prime-television’s largest audience since Nov. 22, despite a one-sided victory by the Green Bay Packers, helping NBC to its seventh victory in the 14-week-old 2020-21 season, according to live-plus-same-day figures released Wednesday by Nielsen. The Packers’ 40-14 victory over the Tennessee Titans averaged 18.374 million viewers, the […]
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