| | | | Afternoon headlines for Wednesday, January 6, 2021
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SoCal Congress Members Hide Out But Safe As Trump Rioters Invade Capitol  Members of the Southland congressional delegation found themselves barricaded in their offices and other locations Wednesday as supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol as Congress prepared to certify the results of the Nov. 3 election. “I am in a secure location,” Rep Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, wrote on her Twitter page as […]
  
Ready ‘To Kick Some Ass’: Santa Ana Rep. Correa Says Dems, GOP Joined Hands During Capitol Riot Amid Tear Gas  Rep. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, was on the House floor Wednesday when the mob that stormed the Capitol tried to barge in, but he said many of his Republican and Democratic colleagues joined together “ready to kick some ass.” Correa told City News Service it was like “just like a movie.” He said he dropped […]
Sex Attack On Little Girl For Years By Fellow Students? Lawsuit!  A lawsuit filed against the Walnut Valley Unified School District on behalf of a girl, now 11 years old, alleges she was sexually abused more than 50 times at school by fellow students and that the district subjected her to disparate treatment because she is Black. The plaintiff is identified only as L.C. in the […]
Rep. Michelle Steel Infected with COVID-19; Condemns Violence at Capitol Rep. Michelle Steel, R-Huntington Beach, who was sworn into office on Sunday, announced Wednesday that she has tested positive for COVID-19. The former Orange County supervisor said she found out Wednesday morning that she had been exposed to someone infected with coronavirus, prompting her to get tested. “This morning I learned I had been in […]
Local Congressman `Safe’ as Trump Supporters Plan to Rally in Palm Desert Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Palm Desert, was safe at an undisclosed location following Wednesday’s storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump as Congress was preparing to certify the results of the Nov. 3 presidential election. Ruiz is “safe and following safety protocols,” said Hernan Quintas, Ruiz’s spokesman. The announcement came as local […]
Trump Rioters In DC As Trump Backers Demonstrate In LA: Four Arrested Downtown While supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., backers of the incumbent rallied in downtown Los Angeles in what was a mostly peaceful demonstration until clashes erupted with counter-protesters, leading to four arrests. Dozens of Trump supporters gathered at 9 a.m. for the rally outside Los Angeles City Hall. Holding […]
Garcetti: Attack On U.S. Capitol a `Dark Day For America’ Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who served as a national co-chair of President-elect Joe Biden’s campaign, condemned Wednesday’s attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump seeking to block Congress from affirming Biden’s victory. “This is a dark day for America,” Garcetti said in a statement posted on his Twitter account. “The […]
Coronavirus Hospitalizations Surpass 8,000 in L.A. County as Deaths Mount The coronavirus pandemic continues to produce soaring hospitalization numbers in Los Angeles County, with COVID-19 patients surpassing the 8,000 mark, and medical centers contending with limited staffing and difficulties discharging less critically ill patients to free up beds. Meanwhile, the county reported another 224 coronavirus-related deaths on Tuesday, one of the highest single-day numbers of […]
Man Crossing Street in Anaheim Killed by Suspected Drunken Driver A man in a security guard uniform was struck and killed early Wednesday by a suspected drunken driver who was hospitalized with serious injuries, Anaheim police said. Officers responded to the intersection of Harbor Boulevard and Katella Avenue about 1:15 a.m. They found the victim down in a marked crosswalk and the suspect’s vehicle, a […]
Man Sentenced for Defrauding Airline to Fly At No Cost In and Out of LAX A former Mesa Airlines employee was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in federal prison for conspiring to fraudulently obtain nearly 2,000 free flights in and out of Los Angeles International Airport and elsewhere for himself and others on Spirit Airlines and to manufacture counterfeit Mesa employee identification badges. Hubbard Bell, 32, of Houston, Texas, was […]
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