| | | | The news for Tuesday, December 15, 2020
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Hospitals Bursting at Seams with COVID-19 Patients as Surge Continues  Los Angeles County’s dramatic surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations has gobbled up the availability of intensive-care unit beds and pushed emergency rooms to capacity limits. To help ease strain on hospitals, Dr. Christina Ghaly, director of the county Department of Health Services, urged residents Monday not to visit emergency rooms for non-emergency care, but […]
  
Celine Dion Seeks New Trial in Spat With Former Concert Agent Celine Dion has filed court papers asking for a new trial in a $13 million dispute with her former concert agent, whom she alleges was overpaid for a multimillion-dollar deal he negotiated for her in 2017. The 52-year-old singer’s petition was filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court. She is asking a judge to hold […]
COVID-19 Vaccinations Begin in Southland, But Virus Fight Goes On With her co-workers cheering her on Monday, an intensive-care unit nurse at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles received one of the first doses in the state of a long-awaited vaccine to prevent COVID-19. Helen Cordova sat patiently and joked with other medical personnel as she was given the Pfizer vaccine — administered with a shot in […]
LA’s Mobile COVID-19 Testing Units to Target High-Risk Areas The city’s five mobile coronavirus testing teams will deploy to locations in predominantly Black and Latino communities in the East San Fernando Valley and South Los Angeles beginning Tuesday and lasting throughout the week, in areas where COVID-19 infections nearly doubled in early December. “Angelenos must remain vigilant in the face of this surge. Part […]
Orange County Reports 3,250 New Cases of COVID-19, Record Hospitalizations Orange County set new records for coronavirus diagnoses and hospitalizations Monday, while its intensive care units reached zero capacity in the state’s “adjusted” category and sheriff’s officials wrangled with an escalating outbreak in the jails. The county logged 3,250 COVID-19 new infections, raising the cumulative case total to 105,754. Hospitalizations jumped from 1,236 Sunday to […]
Long Beach Pushes Back School Reopening Until at Least March 1  Long Beach public schools will not reopen for in-person instruction until at least March 1 due to the current surge in coronavirus cases, a setback from the originally planned date of Jan. 28. Long Beach Unified School District officials made the announcement in a video message Monday. “Given what we are currently seeing, Los Angeles […]
Trial Nears End for Felon Accused of Molesting Relative in Pinyon Pines Closing arguments are scheduled Tuesday in the trial of a 41-year-old felon accused of molesting an underage relative for more than eight years in the San Jacinto Mountain community of Pinyon Pines. Stanford James Stelle III of Pinyon Pines, who was arrested in 2015, allegedly sexually assaulted the girl from 2003, when she was 5 […]
L.A. County Gas Prices Fall Slightly The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County fell eight-tenths of a cent Tuesday to $3.147. The average price is a half-cent less than one week ago, two-tenths of a cent less than one month ago and 53.2 cents cheaper than one year ago, according to figures from the […]
ICU Bed Capacity in Riverside County Drops to 0% Amid COVID-19 Surge The number of available licensed intensive care unit beds in Riverside County has dwindled to zero under the onslaught of the recent surge in new coronavirus cases. Riverside County health officials reported 6,741 newly diagnosed coronavirus cases and 13 virus-related deaths over the weekend on Monday. “The number of ICU beds has reached capacity, however, […]
Fire Breaks Out in Olinda Landfill in Brea  A 100-foot-by-200-foot spot fire broke out Monday evening in the Olinda Alpha Landfill in Brea and burned for about 90 minutes before being extinguished by firefighters. The fire was reported at 9:10 p.m. in the area of 1942 Valencia Ave., according to Greg Barta of the Orange County Fire Authority, which issued a full response […]
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