| | | | The news for Wednesday, September 1, 2021
|
|
COVID Vaccine Rates Improving in Los Angeles County  Los Angeles County’s health director says there have been improvements in COVID-19 vaccination rates across the board locally, but Black and Latino residents continue to lag behind. As of Aug. 22, just 50% of Black residents in Los Angeles County have received at least one dose, with the lowest percentages among those between 12 and […]
  
LA County Fire Dept. Helps Battle California Wildfires The Los Angeles County Fire Department has joined other California fire agencies to help fight the multiple wildfires burning across the state. The department has dispatched six engine strike teams, two camp crew strike teams, a contracted Coulson Chinook helitanker, and 38 overhead personnel to the massive Dixie Fire (burning over five Northern California counties), […]
Koreatown Burglary Suspect Still at Large A burglary suspect was still at large Wednesday after he evaded a police perimeter and K-9 units for hours in Koreatown. Los Angeles Police Department officers responded just before 3 p.m. Tuesday to the 4500 block of West Second Street, near Western Avenue, on reports of a burglary after residents returned to their home and […]
Man Missing for a Week in Los Angeles Police sought the public’s help Wednesday in locating a 63-year-old man who has been missing for a week. Jose Enrique Fuentes was last seen Aug. 24 in the area of West Washington Boulevard and Highland Avenue in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Fuentes is Latino, 5-feet-7 inches tall, weighs 160 pounds and […]
Angelenos Can Apply For Additional Rental Assistance Wednesday  Beginning Wednesday, Los Angeles renters and landlords can apply for additional rental assistance through a state program that city officials say will allow checks to get to qualified applicants quicker. Starting at 7 a.m. Wednesday, those who qualify can apply at HousingIsKey.com or by calling 833-687-0967. People who already applied for the city’s program will […]
Missing Woman With Memory Loss Last Seen in Carson A 72-year-old woman who suffers from memory loss is missing and detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department are seeking the public’s help in finding her. Clara Ann Archie Norwood, a Los Angeles County resident, was last seen Monday at 7 a.m. in the 21000 block of South Prospect Avenue in Carson, said Deputy […]
Orange County’s Weekly COVID-19 Metrics Decline Orange County’s weekly COVID-19 statistics show a significant decline over last week, but hospitalizations are edging up, according to the latest weekly data. According to numbers released on Tuesdays, the county’s average daily case rate per 100,000 residents dropped from 22.2 last week to 18.6, while the test positivity rate fell from 8% to 6.8%. […]
Tarzana Couple Convicted in $18M COVID-19 Relief Fraud Go on the Run A Tarzana couple awaiting sentencing after their conviction in an $18 million COVID-19 relief fraud case allegedly cut their ankle monitoring bracelets and went on the lam, according to the FBI’s Los Angeles office. Richard Ayvazyan, 43, and Marietta Terabelian, 37, were found guilty in June of scheming to submit fraudulent loan applications under which […]
Jury Reaches Verdict in Trial of Man Charged in Police Officer’s Killing A jury’s verdict will be read Wednesday in the trial of an alleged gang member accused of killing a family member in East Los Angeles in 2017 and then opening fire on two Whittier police officers, killing one and wounding the other. After less than two hours of deliberations, jurors reached a verdict Tuesday in […]
Evacuation Orders Lifted for Chaparral Fire, Which is 50% Contained  All evacuation orders and warnings have been lifted for the 1,427-acre Chaparral Fire in Riverside and San Diego counties, which remained at 50% containment Wednesday. The fire erupted last weekend at the edge of the Cleveland National Forest in southwest Riverside County. Mandatory evacuations had been ordered for residents north of the Tenaja Truck Trail, […]
One Year Ago Today (September 1, 2020)…Republican Convention Gives Fox News Channel Second-Most Watched Week One Year Ago Today (September 1, 2020)…Fox News Channel’s coverage of the Republican National Convention drew the second-largest weekly prime-time audience of its nearly 24-year history, behind only the first week of the Iraq War, according to live-plus-same-day figures released by Nielsen. Fox News Channel averaged 5.123 million viewers for its prime-time programming between Aug. […]
|
|
| Read more news on the MyNewsLA.com website |
|
|
| |
| | |
|
