Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Los Angeles County will close its beaches Friday and ban fireworks displays in anticipation of the Fourth of July holiday, a move health officials say is necessary in light of an alarming spike in coronavirus cases.Although it was a “difficult decision to make,” the closures are crucial because so many people gather to celebrate, “a recipe for increased transmission of COVID-19,” county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said in a statement.“We all need to take this virus more seriously and residents and business owners must do...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Los Angeles County will close its beaches Friday and ban fireworks displays in anticipation of the Fourth of July holiday, a move health officials say is necessary in light of an alarming spike in coronavirus cases.Although it was a “difficult decision to make,” the closures are crucial because so many people gather to celebrate, “a recipe for increased transmission of COVID-19,” county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said in a statement.“We all need to take this virus more seriously and residents and business owners must do...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement The young man flanked the shattered entry of a ransacked CVS in Santa Monica, where people had swept the shelves clean of everything from diapers to detergent. The man, who did not cover his face, admitted he was a looter. He did not apologize.“We’ve got no other way of showing people how angry we are,” he said. Out of the store ran another young man, this one holding a carton of eggs. He grabbed a friend and started scanning the street for targets: police cars. “We’re doing it because we can,” he...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement The young man flanked the shattered entry of a ransacked CVS in Santa Monica, where people had swept the shelves clean of everything from diapers to detergent. The man, who did not cover his face, admitted he was a looter. He did not apologize.“We’ve got no other way of showing people how angry we are,” he said. Out of the store ran another young man, this one holding a carton of eggs. He grabbed a friend and started scanning the street for targets: police cars. “We’re doing it because we can,” he...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The young man flanked the shattered entry of a ransacked CVS in Santa Monica, where people had swept the shelves clean of everything from diapers to detergent. The man, who did not cover his face, admitted he was a looter. He did not apologize.“We’ve got no other way of showing people how angry we are,” he said. Out of the store ran another young man, this one holding a carton of eggs. He grabbed a friend and started scanning the street for targets: police cars. “We’re doing it because we can,” he said.AdvertisementOver in Van Nuys,...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The young man flanked the shattered entry of a ransacked CVS in Santa Monica, where people had swept the shelves clean of everything from diapers to detergent. The man, who did not cover his face, admitted he was a looter. He did not apologize.“We’ve got no other way of showing people how angry we are,” he said. Out of the store ran another young man, this one holding a carton of eggs. He grabbed a friend and started scanning the street for targets: police cars. “We’re doing it because we can,” he said.AdvertisementOver in Van Nuys,...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A custody assistant with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has been charged with engaging in sexual activity with two detainees being held at a women’s jail in Lynwood, prosecutors said. Roy’ce Bass, 29, surrendered to investigators Tuesday after an investigation by the Sheriff Department’s Internal Criminal Investigations Bureau. Bass, who worked at the Century Regional Detention Facility, was released after posting $100,000 bail. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said Wednesday that Bass was charged with...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A custody assistant with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has been charged with engaging in sexual activity with two detainees being held at a women’s jail in Lynwood, prosecutors said. Roy’ce Bass, 29, surrendered to investigators Tuesday after an investigation by the Sheriff Department’s Internal Criminal Investigations Bureau. Bass, who worked at the Century Regional Detention Facility, was released after posting $100,000 bail. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said Wednesday that Bass was charged with...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Los Angeles has been touted for implementing a swift stay-at-home order to combat the coronavirus, but those efforts have not come without consequence, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti saidIn his final daily evening briefing Friday, Garcetti said the unemployment rate in Los Angeles has risen from 4.7% in February to more than 24% now. has lost 20.5 million jobs in April, sending the nation’s unemployment rate to 14.7%, the highest since at least the 1940s.“Those aren’t just numbers,” he said. “Those are lives and livelihoods. These...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Los Angeles has been touted for implementing a swift stay-at-home order to combat the coronavirus, but those efforts have not come without consequence, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti saidIn his final daily evening briefing Friday, Garcetti said the unemployment rate in Los Angeles has risen from 4.7% in February to more than 24% now. has lost 20.5 million jobs in April, sending the nation’s unemployment rate to 14.7%, the highest since at least the 1940s.“Those aren’t just numbers,” he said. “Those are lives and livelihoods. These...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced a mandatory overnight stay-at-home order that will be instituted throughout most of California to combat a surge in new coronavirus cases, a measure that comes just days after the governor enacted a dramatic rollback of reopening in much of the state. issued by the California Department of Public Health will prohibit most nonessential activity outside the home from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. in counties in the strictest tier of the state’s reopening road map — the purple tier. The restriction goes into place on...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced a mandatory overnight stay-at-home order that will be instituted throughout most of California to combat a surge in new coronavirus cases, a measure that comes just days after the governor enacted a dramatic rollback of reopening in much of the state. issued by the California Department of Public Health will prohibit most nonessential activity outside the home from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. in counties in the strictest tier of the state’s reopening road map — the purple tier. The restriction goes into place on...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement /A protester dances on top of Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during a demonstration by members of Refuse Fascism who are calling an end to the Trump administration on June 20, 2020.  /Deborah Jay Winams cries after singing a song at a Black Lives Matter Los Angeles rally to call for justice in the fatal shooting of Kenneth Ross Jr. by Gardena police in 2018.   /People participate in the All Black Lives Matter march in West Hollywood on Sunday, June 14. Thousands of demonstrators marched for racial justice...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement /A protester dances on top of Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during a demonstration by members of Refuse Fascism who are calling an end to the Trump administration on June 20, 2020.  /Deborah Jay Winams cries after singing a song at a Black Lives Matter Los Angeles rally to call for justice in the fatal shooting of Kenneth Ross Jr. by Gardena police in 2018.   /People participate in the All Black Lives Matter march in West Hollywood on Sunday, June 14. Thousands of demonstrators marched for racial justice...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The tension was palpable Sunday in Santa Monica.What started as a peaceful protest along Ocean Avenue devolved into chaos around 1 p.m., as looters smashed storefronts in the Santa Monica Place mall and other downtown businesses. Police said they made hundreds of arrests and that the National Guard had arrived to help.Couples sitting and enjoying meals at recently opened restaurants looked stunned as cars dropped off people, many of them wearing masks and hoodies, who then broke into a pharmacy on 7th and Broadway. Several looters...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The tension was palpable Sunday in Santa Monica.What started as a peaceful protest along Ocean Avenue devolved into chaos around 1 p.m., as looters smashed storefronts in the Santa Monica Place mall and other downtown businesses. Police said they made hundreds of arrests and that the National Guard had arrived to help.Couples sitting and enjoying meals at recently opened restaurants looked stunned as cars dropped off people, many of them wearing masks and hoodies, who then broke into a pharmacy on 7th and Broadway. Several looters...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement They are frontline workers with top-priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine, but they are refusing to take it. At St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Tehama County, fewer than half of the 700 hospital workers eligible for the vaccine were willing to take the shot when it was first offered. At Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, one in five frontline nurses and doctors have declined the shot. Roughly 20% to 40% of frontline workers who were offered the vaccine did the same, according to county public health...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement They are frontline workers with top-priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine, but they are refusing to take it. At St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Tehama County, fewer than half of the 700 hospital workers eligible for the vaccine were willing to take the shot when it was first offered. At Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, one in five frontline nurses and doctors have declined the shot. Roughly 20% to 40% of frontline workers who were offered the vaccine did the same, according to county public health...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement At Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, the breaking point came Sunday night.There was not one available bed for at least 30 patients who needed intensive or intermediate levels of care, and the hospital had to shut its doors to all ambulance traffic for 12 hours. Some patients, including the very sick who required intensive oxygen, experienced wait times as long as 18 hours to get into the intensive care unit.The front entrance of Community Hospital of Huntington Park was closed to the public Monday; the back of the building saw a...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement At Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, the breaking point came Sunday night.There was not one available bed for at least 30 patients who needed intensive or intermediate levels of care, and the hospital had to shut its doors to all ambulance traffic for 12 hours. Some patients, including the very sick who required intensive oxygen, experienced wait times as long as 18 hours to get into the intensive care unit.The front entrance of Community Hospital of Huntington Park was closed to the public Monday; the back of the building saw a...WW…