| | | | | Afternoon headlines for Thursday, May 26, 2022 |
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UCLA Reinstates Indoor Mask Mandate Due to Rising COVID Cases Citing rising COVID-19 cases across the county and on campus, UCLA Friday will reinstate an indoor mask-wearing mandate for all students, staff and visitors at campus facilities. “Last week alone, UCLA had close to 870 new cases, which, per the UCLA COVID-19 Pivot Matrix, would place us at the `severe’ level,” according to a letter […]
`Goodfellas’ Star Ray Liotta Dies at 67 Actor Ray Liotta, best known for his leading role in Martin Scorsese’s mob classic “Goodfellas,” died in his sleep Thursday while filming a movie in the Dominican Republic. Liotta, 67, was filming a movie titled “Dangerous Waters.” There was no immediate word on a cause of death. A New Jersey native, Liotta rose to stardom […]
County Water Agencies Able to Contend with Ongoing Drought Despite the severe drought impacting the Inland Empire and most of California, prompting warnings from the governor of mandated cutbacks, a few of Riverside County’s largest water agencies say they’re well-stocked on supplies, without the need to impose drastic measures to conserve. “The Eastern Municipal Water District is very well positioned to meet the needs […]
New Restrictions Imposed at Nursing Facilities as COVID Outbreaks Rise With COVID-19 case numbers continuing to spike upward, Los Angeles County hospitals are likely to soon be strained with patients, the county health director said Thursday, noting that rising outbreaks at skilled nursing facilities have already prompted tighter infection-control measures. With 21 COVID outbreaks at skilled nursing facilities recently registered across the county, staff at […]
Metro Board Approves $8.8 Billion Budget The Metro Board of Directors Thursday approved an $8.8 billion budget for the next fiscal year. Ahead of proposing the budget, Metro staff held a series of telephone town halls and public meetings to get feedback. “We heard the public wanted a clean system, a safe system, more rail, more bus and reliable and frequent […]
Unionized LA County Nurses Reach Tentative Labor Deal Days before they were set to walk a picket line, thousands of nurses in the Los Angeles County health care system reached a tentative labor contract that will avert a strike, their union announced Thursday. Nearly 7,000 nurses represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 721 were set to conduct a three-day strike beginning […]
Janelle Monáe, Jojo Siwa to Headline WeHo Pride Parade Singer, actress and entrepreneur Janelle Monáe was named Thursday the grand marshal of next month’s WeHo Pride Parade, while social media star-turned-TV personality JoJo Siwa was named the event’s Next Gen Icon. West Hollywood Mayor Lauren Meister said Monáe and Siwa “truly reflect the core values of our city.” “Pride events give the diverse LGBTQ […]
Metro Board Ends Effort To Widen 710 Freeway The Metro Board of Directors voted Thursday to end its efforts to widen the Long Beach (710) Freeway and to use the $750 million allocated to that project instead for improvements to southeast Los Angeles communities along the freeway. “Widening this freeway and wiping out neighborhoods is not the pathway forward, and neither is the […]
Four Arrested in Timeshare Fraud Case in OC Four men were arrested Thursday on charges of timeshare fraud amounting to about $5 million in Orange County. The four were named in an indictment alleging high-pressure tactics and false promises of financial relief for elderly timeshare owners, prosecutors said. The four defendants are: — Michael McDonagh, 41, of Long Beach, the accused ringleader who […]
Judge Dismisses Wrongful COVID Death Claim vs. Child Care Group A judge Thursday dismissed claims for wrongful death and punitive damages that were part of a lawsuit brought against the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation in the COVID-related death of a 40-year-old teacher allegedly caused by the organization’s denial of accommodations to her despite her underlying health conditions. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis had […]
LASD Announces Units to Patrol Beaches Over the Summer The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Thursday announced units will patrol beaches from Playa del Rey to Malibu over the summer. The LASD Beach Patrol Mission will run from Monday through Labor Day on Sept. 5, and the units will perform high-visibility patrols to assist other agencies in the area, according to a department statement. […]
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