Los Angeles County public health officials reported 326 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,232,079 as of Tuesday, April 27. Officials reported four 26 deaths linked to the coronavirus, for a total 23,801 deaths since tracking began. There were four more hospitalizations reported since Monday, bringing the official count
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LOS ANGELES — A San Fernando Valley man admitted Tuesday to participating in a document trafficking ring that created and sold counterfeit United States passport cards, Social Security cards, driver’s licenses and other documents. Carlos A. Hernandez, 44, of Granada Hills, pleaded guilty to one federal count each of conspiracy and being an illegal alien
Long Beach resident Betty Miller, 83, sat in her home and asked the critical care nurse there if it would hurt. “It’ll be over,” the nurse, Errol Barrientos, said, “before you know it.” Miller and her husband, Eugene, were some of the first SCAN Health Plan members to receive their doses of the coronavirus vaccine
The latest step in the construction of the $588 million Sixth Street Viaduct replacement will force the closure of a stretch for the Hollywood freeway for more than two days. The 101 freeway will close for 55 hours between Friday, April 30 at 10 p.m. and Monday May 3 at 5 a.m. to allow crews
Because of COVID-19, the 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday will originate from multiple venues. The Oscars primarily will broadcast from Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, as well as from the show’s traditional home at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Some attendees are expected to make their appearances from international locations. Click here for road
HOLLYWOOD — Los Angeles Police Department officers on Saturday fatally shot a man wearing body armor who drove into their patrol car in Hollywood, the department’s second shooting in two days. The shooting occurred at 2:37 p.m. at Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, said Officer Rosario Cervantes of the Media Relations Section. Officers were en
A Torrance woman has been arrested in connection with the murder of a Northern California rapper who investigators say she misidentified as the shooter who killed her boyfriend in Seal Beach last August.
A 20-year-old woman was arrested in connection with a four-vehicle crash early Saturday morning in Sherman Oaks on the eastbound 101 Freeway that killed two people — including a 15-year-old boy. The woman, identified as Bianca Lopez, 20, of Los Angeles, was hospitalized after the crash with moderate injuries and then taken into custody, the
The Royal Princess Hamilton cruise ship docked in the Port of LA in San Pedro on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. As talks continue to restart the cruise industry later this year, cruise lines are outfitting and preparing their fleets to embark on the open seas again. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG) The Royal Princess Hamilton
This story has been updated with discussion of alternative conditions that could be imposed on Poseidon. Ensuring that a desalination plant proposed for Huntington Beach adequately compensates for killing millions of small marine organisms poses the latest hurdle for Poseidon Water’s controversial project. The Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board spent most of its
A high school senior’s decorated graduation cap message. (Photo by Michael Kitada, Contributing Photographer) The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the names of high school students in Los Angeles County on April 21 who are recipients of corporate-sponsored scholarships in 2021. The corporate-sponsored awards are financed by about 140 corporations, company foundations and other business
A Southern California family said they noticed what they believe to be human waste coming out of a low-flying plane over the weekend. Nicole Comstock reports.
Donna Manfredi has been named as the new principal at Golden Oak Adult School in Santa Clarita. (Photo courtesy of William S. Hart Union High School District) Donna Manfredi, an almost 30-year educator in the William S. Hart Union High School District, has been named as principal of the Golden Oak Adult School in Santa
People watch the Raptor Encounter during the reopening of Universal Studios Hollywood, Thursday, April 15, 2021. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer) Here is a sampling of upcoming in-person and online things to do in the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles area. EVENTS Grand Park’s Our L.A. Voices – Digital Spring Arts +
Los Angeles public health officials reported 439 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,229,998 as of Wednesday, April 21. Officials reported 35 new deaths linked to the coronavirus, for a total 23,702 deaths since tracking began. There were 19 more hospitalizations reported since Tuesday, raising the official count of
LOS ANGELES — In an effort to alleviate some financial burdens on Los Angeles restaurants and reduce plastic waste, the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved an ordinance to make disposable foodware, including utensils and napkins, only available at restaurants when requested by customers. The ordinance, which was requested in a motion already
Multiple Los Angeles County Animal Control employees were caught on duty sleeping like a baby or lifting weights in the gym – all while not lifting a finger for taxpayers.
A 19-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a woman and her 8-year-old daughter in Rancho Cucamonga.
Accountability. A path to healing. For one man and his family: Justice. For the country: But one step in a larger journey toward racial justice, too long deferred. Those were the reactions from Los Angeles County’s elected officials on Tuesday, April 20, in the wake of a Hennepin County jury finding former Minneapolis police officer
Two new communities the size of Diamond Bar are on the drawing boards in Los Angeles County’s northern frontier. Both would contain more than 19,000 new homes built over the next two decades, transforming undeveloped valleys and hillsides into houses, schools, libraries and parks. Both ultimately would house more than 57,000 residents in nine new