| | | | Afternoon headlines for Wednesday, September 2, 2020
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Happy Hair Day! Indoor Salons, Barbershops Reopen In LA County  Hair salons and barbershops will be allowed to reopen for limited indoor service in Los Angeles County, with the county announcing Wednesday it will bring those businesses in line with recently amended state coronavirus reopening guidelines. The county will also allow some in-person instruction to resume for students in kindergarten through 12th grade, but only […]
  
Kiddie Porn Crackdown Nabs Suspect In Azusa  A 26-year-old Azusa man was arrested Wednesday for alleged possession of child pornography, police said. Daniel Carreon was taken into custody at his home about 7:30 a.m. after detectives served a warrant, according to Azusa police Lt. Robert Chivas. Carreon’s arrest was the result of a joint investigation between Azusa police and the Internet Crimes […]
Don’t Drive Drunk Or CHP Will Get You This Labor Day Weekend  California Highway Patrol officers will be ramping up operations on highways and roads throughout Los Angeles, Riverside and other Southern California counties starting Friday to catch drunken and drug-impaired drivers, as well as other traffic violators, as part of a Labor Day weekend enforcement campaign. The CHP’s “maximum enforcement period” will begin at 6 p.m. […]
Five Mountain Lion Dens Found Within Three-Month Period National Park Service biologists reported Wednesday that five mountain lion dens containing 13 kittens have been discovered in the Santa Monica Mountains and Simi Hills, marking the first time that many dens have been found within such a short time during an 18-year study of the species. “This level of reproduction is a great thing […]
Waters Calls For Probe Of Sheriff’s Department Following Fatal Shooting Two days after deputies fatally shot a Black bicyclist during a confrontation in the Westmont area, Rep. Maxine Waters called Wednesday on the state Attorney General’s Office to investigate what she called a “pattern of abuses” by the sheriff’s department and an attorney for the man’s family said he was “executed” while running away. “Whatever […]
Suit Alleges Teacher Abused Boy Because He Was Black, Disabled A lawsuit filed against Los Angeles Unified on behalf of a Black boy with a speech and language impairment alleges he was verbally and physically abused by his white preschool teacher in 2019 and that the principal did nothing about it. The boy is identified only as K.D. in the Santa Monica Superior Court lawsuit […]
Orange County Continues Improving Most COVID-19 Trends Nineteen more people have succumbed to COVID-19, hiking the death toll over over 1,000, as officials Wednesday also reported 317 more diagnoses of coronavirus, raising the cumulative to 49,142. The county’s death toll now stands at 1,007. Of the deaths reported Wednesday, seven were skilled nursing facility residents. Since the pandemic began, COVID-19 has claimed […]
Culver City Sues Gym School Over Alleged Indoor Operations The city of Culver City is suing a gymnastics school and its owner-operator for allegedly offering indoor sessions in violation of health orders aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus, which the defendant denies. The lawsuit was brought Tuesday in Santa Monica Superior Court against the Los Angeles School of Gymnastics and owner Tanya […]
Sheriff’s Department Received First Shipment of Body-Worn Cameras The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department received its first shipment of body-worn cameras Wednesday, one day after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to transfer $25.5 million to the sheriff’s department to fund the rollout of body-worn cameras to patrol deputies over the next year. The department says the cameras will be deployed […]
L.A. Council Declares Fiscal Emergency; Approves Furlough and Buyout Plans The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to declare a fiscal emergency and approved plans to furlough more than 15,000 city employees and carry out early retirement buyouts for another 1,280 employees to try to recoup as much anticipated lost revenue as possible due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Revenues for the 2021 fiscal year are […]
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