| | | | | The news for Saturday, January 8, 2022 |
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Orange County COVID-19 Hospitalizations Keep Climbing Orange County’s COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to climb, adding more than 50 patients in a day, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency. On Thursday, hospitalizations exceeded the peak of the first COVID infection wave in July 2020, and officials reported a child younger than 5 had died from the disease, the county’s third pediatric […]
Groundbreaking, Oscar-Winning Actor Sidney Poitier Dies at 94 As waves of tributes continued to flow across social and legacy media honoring legendary actor Sidney Poitier, who broke color barriers when he became the first Black performer to win an Oscar for a leading role and paved the way for generations of Black actors who followed, his family added their personal remembrance . “There […]
LA County Sets Yet Another Record As Daily Infection Number Tops 43,000 For the third time in a week and second time in two days, Los Angeles County has set a record for new COVID-19 infections, reporting more than 43,000 new cases and 28 virus-related fatalities. The 43,712 infections reported Friday is the highest daily total of the entire pandemic, breaking the record set Thursday, when 37,215 […]
COVID-19 Testing Site Opens In Santa Monica Sunday With 1,920 Capacity A new COVID-19 testing site in Santa Monica with initial capacity to test up to 1,920 people daily will open Saturday as Los Angeles County reaches record-high COVID-19 cases. The site — in the former Sears building at 302 Colorado Ave., near Fourth Street — will be open every day starting Saturday from 6 a.m. […]
City Of Long Beach Offers COVID-19 Tests For LBUSD Students And Staff As COVID-19 cases climb to record highs, Long Beach Health Department officials have announced the opening of a new testing clinic dedicated to Long Beach Unified School District students, faculty and staff. The new clinic set to open Monday at Cabrillo High School (2001 Santa Fe Ave.) can serve 5,000 people per week and will […]
Long Beach Opens Expanded COVID-19 Testing Clinic Due to increased cases of COVID-19, Long Beach Health Department officials Saturday announced an expanded drive-thru and walk-up testing site for residents to open Monday. With the capacity to test 3,000 people a day, the public testing clinic will be located in the former Boeing parking lot, near 3590 E. Wardlow Road. The Boeing site […]
One Dead in 710 Freeway Crash One person died in Long Beach Saturday in an apparent solo vehicle traffic collision. Officers responded at 1:46 a.m. to the connector road of the Artesia (91) Freeway and the northbound Long Beach (710) Freeway where they found the victim and the crash scene, said the California Highway Patrol. According to CHP, the vehicle in […]
Coroner Identifies Man Killed on Freeway Transition Road County authorities Saturday identified the person who was killed on a freeway transition road in Diamond Bar. Kevin Flores, 31, was identified by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office. Officers from the California Highway Patrol were called to the scene at approximately 1:07 a.m. Thursday to the eastbound Pomona (60) Freeway and the northbound Orange […]
Average Riverside County Gas Price Drop Wipes Out Friday’s Increase The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Riverside County dropped a half-cent Saturday to $4.604, one day after rising four-tenths of a cent. The average price is three-tenths of a cent less than one week ago and nine-tenths of a cent lower than one month ago but $1.397 higher than one […]
Mater Dei High School Announces New President Mater Dei High School will welcome a new president beginning Feb. 1, Diocese of Orange officials announced. Michael P. Brennan will take over for Fr. Walter Jenkins, who was hired last year but has decided to return to South Bend, Indiana, to work with his religious order, the Congregation of Holy Cross. Brennan has been […]
One Year Ago Today (January 8, 2021)…Walnut Valley District Responds to Lawsuit’s Sex Abuse Allegations One Year Ago Today (January 8, 2021)…Walnut Valley Unified, responding to a negligence and racial discrimination lawsuit filed this week on behalf of a Black girl who was allegedly sexually abused more than 50 times at school by fellow students, did not directly address the claims but said the safety of everyone is the district’s […]
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