This winter, hospitals throughout Southern California are on watch: the Omicron variant of the enduring coronavirus outbreak, combined with an influx of Delta and “traditional” flu cases, could culminate in a worst-case scenario for regional hospitals if preventative measures are not taken, officials warn. The region’s medical leaders doctors and care squads have learned much
California
Meteorologist Alex Biston tracks the rain as it moves through the Southern California region.
Los Angeles Police are investigating a reported shooting from an apartment building across from a place where people were gathered to remember singer Vicente Fernández on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
All California State University students, faculty and staff that will be on campus must get the COVID-19 booster before the spring semester, CSU officials announced Wednesday, Dec. 22. The spring semester starts in January and the CSU will require students to get the booster by Feb. 28, 2022 or six months after a the final
Young children facing forward have a greater chance of injuring their spines and even breaking their necks in a crash, according to experts. Kristine Lazar reports.
Los Angeles County public health officials reported 3,052 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,570,230, as of Tuesday, Dec. 21. The total number of cases represents 15.4% of Los Angeles County’s population. Officials reported 25 more deaths linked to the coronavirus since, for a total of 27,473 deaths since
To honor one of their own, the Ethiopian and Eritrean community celebrated the life of the man most know as Nipsey Hussle. To dozens of people gathered at a vigil in Baldwin Hills Friday night, Hussle was their brother, Ermias Asghedom.
United States Coast Guard search crews are attempting to find a woman who fell overboard a Carnival Cruise ship in Ensenada, Mexico early Saturday morning.
A hand-carved Italian Nativity scene on display at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, Wednesday, December 23, 2020. The Nativity, with figures of the baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph and animals inside a stable, was donated to the Los Angeles Archdiocese in 2013 by the family of Bob and Dolores Hope.
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, the first Mexican American woman ever elected to Congress, will not seek reelection, continuing an exodus of longtime Democrats ahead of the 2022 midterms — but also clearing a path for a rising member of her party. Roybal-Allard, chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee on homeland security, announced her retirement on
San Fernando Valley Audubon Society meets for a bird walk on Dec. 21 at O’Melveny Park in Granada Hills. In the photo, hikers head into the gloom at the park, Friday, June 21, 2019. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Community meetings bring people together for exchange of ideas and memorable shared experiences.
The Korean boy band kicks off their North American tour at Staples Center tonight. Jasmine Viel reports.
Kandiss Crone reports from Venice where cellphone video captured a brawl Wednesday between what appears to be three homeless men.
As the new omicron variant continues to spread throughout the United States, vaccinated people who are older or sicker are at greatest risk of hospitalization from a COVID-19 breakthrough infection, according to a new analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation. But the shots continue to offer some protection, because these breakthrough illnesses are shorter and milder
The three men were arrested by the LAPD-FBI Fugitive Task Force Wednesday. Thirty-seven-year-old David Pearce was taken into custody on suspicion of manslaughter, while 47-year-old Michael Ansbach and 42-year-old Brandt Osborn were both arrested on a suspicion of being an accessory to manslaughter, police said.
Confronted by a pandemic, we suddenly couldn’t find what we needed: Hospitals ran short of N95s and ventilators, auto manufacturers didn’t have crucial components and store shelves suddenly emptied of everything from sneakers to sofas. Kostas Bimpikis, an associate professor of operations, information and technology at Stanford Graduate School of Business, talked with this news
Shepherd Church location in Porter Ranch has a Christmas Eve service on Dec. 23, and also three services on Dec. 24. The church’s locations in Woodland Hills and Agua Dulce have services on Dec. 24. Photo, on Monday, August 17, 2020. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Here is a sampling of religion
Ownership of Bruce’s Beach is getting closer to the family whose ancestors founded the Black seaside resort. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will vote on Tuesday, Dec. 22, to accept from the state the amended land deed for Bruce’s Beach so that it can legally transfer the property to the Bruce family. Senate
Harry Horak of Arcadia is 100 years old today. A second lieutenant in the Air Corps during World War II, Horak, at right, poses with his physician son David, chief of pulmonary/critical care medicine at City of Hope in Duarte. (Photo courtesy of Carol Saunders) Harry Horak met his bride Vivian in Colorado. “She said
“The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.” – “The Night Before Christmas,” a.k.a. “A Visit From St. Nicholas.” Growing up back east, Marsha DiFatta, nee Bolinsky, and her three siblings could always count on one present at the bottom of their stockings hanging from