| | | | | Afternoon headlines for Friday, May 29, 2020 |
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Wanna Eat Inside Your Favorite LA Restaurant? It’s OK! Hair Salons Are Opening Too Los Angeles County restaurants could soon reopen for limited dine-in service, as could hair salons, with the state Friday approving the county’s request to move deeper into California’s roadmap for restarting the economy. Los Angeles — home to roughly half of the state’s coronavirus cases and deaths — had been one of only about a […]
Nursing Home Horror: Widow, Daughters Sue Hollywood Facility Over COVID-19 Death The widow and daughters of an 84-year-old man who died of the coronavirus at a Hollywood nursing home are suing the facility. Emma Martin’s husband, Vincent, died in early April at the Hollywood Premier Healthcare Center, according to their Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit filed May 21, alleging wrongful death, negligence, fraud and elder abuse. […]
Freight Train Kills Two Men In Lancaster Crash Two men were killed Friday when the vehicle they were in was struck by a freight train in the Lancaster area. Paramedics sent to Avenue I and Sierra Highway at 5:14 a.m. pronounced the vehicle’s occupants dead at the scene, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Information was not immediately available on the […]
OC Up to 5,923 COVID-19 Cases Orange County officials Friday reported three new COVID-19-related fatalities, hiking up the death toll to 145. The Orange County Health Care Agency also reported 185 new coronavirus cases, raising the cumulative total to 5,923 since the pandemic began. Officials say 60 of the fatalities were skilled nursing home residents. As of Wednesday, 735 skilled nursing […]
Attorneys Compare Anaheim In-Custody Death to George Floyd Incident Attorneys for the mother of a 35-year-old man who died following a struggle with Anaheim police officers two years ago say there are parallels to the in-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which has sparked protests in that city and several others, including Los Angeles. The attorneys had planned a news conference in front […]
USC Journalism Professor Proposes Limits on Broadcast, Posting of Black Deaths While video of black men killed at the hands of law enforcement can shine a light on racism and support justice, these violent images are also exploitative, a USC journalism professor said Friday as she called for limiting their use. Images of George Floyd dying while pinned to the ground under the knee of Minneapolis […]
`Ford v Ferrari’ Memorabilia To Be Auctioned to Support First Responders Memorabilia from the Oscar-nominated race film “Ford v Ferrari” — some of it autographed by co-stars Christian Bale and Matt Damon — will be auctioned off to benefit families of first responders battling COVID-19, two nonprofit foundations announced Friday. The Carroll Shelby Foundation, founded by the late automotive designer and racing driver, said the proceeds […]
COVID-19 Kills an L.A. County Deputy Public Defender A Los Angeles County deputy public defender died this week a few days after testing positive for COVID-19. “Any death is tragic, but this one hits close to home,” according to a statement from the Association of Deputy District Attorneys. “We are heartbroken to learn of the first death of a justice system employee related […]
Avenatti Trial Expected to be Delayed in OC The Santa Ana federal trial of convicted attorney Michael Avenatti, currently set to begin Aug. 17, will be delayed due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to records obtained Friday. Avenatti’s attorney, in a lengthy brief filed this week, said prosecutors have deluged the defendant with evidence, much of which is difficult to access […]
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