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Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Will LA Restaurants Reopen? Judge Tentatively Rules Against County Closures

A casual multi-restaurant dining hall. Photo from Pixabay.Los Angeles County health officials acted “arbitrarily” and without a proper “risk-benefit” analysis when they banned outdoor dining as a coronavirus-control measure, a judge tentatively ruled Tuesday, but even if the decision is finalized, it won’t immediately restore in-person dining. In a 53-page tentative ruling, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Chalfant said the county […]
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Vaccines In LA Next Week: If You’re Not A Health Worker, Forget It Amid Grim COVID-19 New Numbers

COVID-19 warning signLos Angeles County could receive its initial allocation of roughly 84,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses as early as next week, with initial priority given to health care workers, the county’s public heath director said Tuesday. The news came on a day the county confirmed another 8,547 cases of the coronavirus, along with another 64 deaths — […]
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Daddy Charged In Decapitation Murder Of Daughter, 13, Son, 12: Lancaster Bloody Horror

Picture of a knife, not the one in story.A father was charged Tuesday with murdering his 12-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter — who were decapitated — in Lancaster last week. Maurice Jewel Taylor Sr., a 34-year-old personal trainer, was ordered to be held in lieu of $4.2 million bail while awaiting arraignment Dec. 21 in a Lancaster courtroom on two felony counts each […]
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Ex-Con Charged in Costa Mesa Collision That Killed 12-Year-Old Bicyclist

A convicted bank robber was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder for a DUI collision in Costa Mesa that killed a 12-year-old autistic boy who was riding his bike alongside his father. Richard David Lavalle of Long Beach was scheduled to be arraigned sometime Tuesday in the jail courtroom in Santa Ana. He’s being held without […]
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Spray-painted ‘All Life Matters Fools,’ Anti-Gay Graffiti May Send Man For Mental Health Help

A judge is expected to decide at a Dec. 29 hearing whether a man who allegedly spray-painted racist and anti-LGBTQ graffiti and caused other property damage to a community center in Palm Springs will avoid jail time and instead undergo mental health treatment. Charinda Godakanda, 46, of Palm Springs is accused of vandalizing the James […]
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Layoffs On Table As L.A. Council Seeks Cost Cuts

The City Council voted Tuesday to move forward with a set of recommendations to try to pull Los Angeles out of a potential $675 million budget shortfall this year, and layoffs of city employees are still on the table. Although the council’s action Tuesday did not initiate layoffs, it keeps them under consideration and instructs […]
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Canadians Charged with Running Telemarketing Scam Targeting SoCal Elderly

Five Canadian men have been indicted on federal fraud charges alleging they ran a million-dollar telemarketing scam that deceived elderly Southern California residents and others into paying off non-existent debts they purportedly owed from magazine subscriptions, it was announced Tuesday. A 10-count indictment returned Friday by a Los Angeles federal grand jury alleges that the […]
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Bad News For Hollywood: Filming Permit Numbers Drop

The number of applications filed for filming permits in Los Angeles decreased 7.6% from October to November, the first month-to-month drop since production resumed this summer amid the COVID-19 pandemic, FilmLA reported Tuesday. Applications totaled 813 in November, compared to 880 in October, according to the nonprofit agency. FilmLA said analysts have cited some overlapping […]
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Orange County Reports 1,671 New COVID-19 Cases, 946 In Hospitals

COVID-19 hospitalizations continued to jump up Tuesday in Orange County with 69 more patients since Monday’s report for a new record of 946, including 235 in intensive care, which is just 10 short of a mid-July peak. The Orange County Health Care Agency also reported 1,671 new diagnoses of coronavirus, hiking the cumulative up to […]
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Sheriff’s Department Raids Palmdale House Party; 158 Arrested

Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Tuesday a weekend raid of “a massive underground party” at a vacant Palmdale residence — despite health restrictions against large gatherings and a statewide curfew in place due to the coronavirus pandemic — led to 158 arrests and the rescue of a 17-year-old human trafficking victim. The Saturday night party in […]
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