LOS ANGELES – An overwhelming majority of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s more than 30,000 cafeteria workers, bus drivers, custodians, special education assistants and other essential school workers have voted to authorize a strike if necessary to resolve stalled contract negotiations, officials with Service Employees International Union Local 99 announced. Employees cast their votes from Jan 23 to Feb. 10 at hundreds of schools, special education centers, early education centers, bus yards and nutrition centers as well as online. The votes were counted Saturday with 96% authorizing a strike and related actions, if necessary, union officials said. “Workers have…
Author: City News Service
LOS ANGELES – A man in his 30s was shot dead Sunday morning by a gunman in the Westlake community of Los Angeles, authorities said. The shooting occurred at 12:16 a.m. Sunday in the area of Lucas Avenue and Ingraham Street, the Los Angeles Police Department’s Media Relations Division reported. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities said the gunman fled the location in an unknown direction. No description was immediately available.
LOS ANGELES – “Magic Mike’s Last Dance” opened to $8.2 million this weekend to top the North American box office chart, according to industry estimates released Sunday. The third in a trilogy of films starring Channing Tatum as a male stripper is screening in fewer theaters than the previous two movies, but its per-screen average of $5,467 is higher than 2012’s “Magic Mike” and 2015’s “Magic Mike XXL.” The next two spots were taken by films directed by James Cameron — 25 years apart. “Avatar: The Way of Water” was second with $6.8 million in its ninth week in theaters…
LOS ANGELES – Super Bowl Sunday continually ranks as one of the most dangerous times of the year for drunk driving deaths — so officials are urging fans planning to go out to watch Sunday’s matchup of the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles to “Drive Sober Or Game Over!” One-third of all crashes in the state are due to impaired driving, records show. According to the California Highway Patrol, during the last five Super Bowl Sundays, there were 1,363 DUI crashes that resulted in 43 fatalities and 756 injuries in California. To combat those stats, law enforcement will…
LOS ANGELES – There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery and the estimated jackpot for Monday’s drawing is expected to grow to $45 million. One ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, was sold in Pennsylvania and is worth $1 million, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced. The numbers drawn Saturday were 10, 23, 30, 54, 65 and the Powerball number was 11. The jackpot was $34 million. The drawing was the second since a ticket with all six numbers was sold. The odds…
LOS ANGELES – The number of COVID-positive patients in Los Angeles County hospitals is holding steady, rising by eight people to 697, according to the latest state figures. Of those patients hospitalized as of Saturday, 69 were being treated in intensive care, down from 70 the previous day. COVID-19 infection and hospitalization rates held steady at a relatively low rate over the past week according to the county Department of Public Health, which reported 1,482 new cases and 22 additional virus-related deaths on Friday. The county’s seven-day rate of new infections was 69 per 100,000 residents over the past week,…
DANA POINT – A person was killed Sunday when a vehicle overturned, flipping onto its roof on the San Diego (5) Freeway in Dana Point, authorities said. The crash on the northbound freeway, just south of Camino De Estrella, occurred about 2 a.m. and involved at least three other vehicles, the California Highway Patrol reported. A representative from the coroner’s office was called to the scene at 3 a.m. There was no other information available.
SAN PEDRO – An intersection in San Pedro was dedicated Saturday as NAACP Square, one day before the 114th anniversary of the founding of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. NAACP Branch President Cheyenne Bryant Mayor Karen Bass was among the speakers at the noon ceremony, calling the City Council’s 10-0 vote Nov. 22 to approve the designation of the intersection at West Third and South Mesa streets “a powerful, permanent recognition of the ongoing work to achieve racial equity.” The square is in front of Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church, the home church of Joe Gatlin, who was among…
SEAL BEACH – A crash on Pacific Coast Highway in Seal Beach Saturday evening sent five people to trauma centers. The crash was reported at 7:14 p.m. on Pacific Coast Highway at Main Street, said Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Sean Doran. All five trauma patients got out of one of the vehicles before firefighters arrived, Doran said. Ambulances from Seal Beach and Huntington Beach took the patients to trauma centers for treatment, he said.
WOODLAND HILL – A three-vehicle crash in Woodland Hills Saturday evening sent six people to hospitals. The crash was reported at 6:25 p.m. in the 5900 block of North Topanga Canyon Boulevard, near Califa Street and Warner Center Park, said the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Nicholas Prange. The crash caused airbags to be deployed in all three vehicles, Prange said. One patient was hospitalized in critical condition, one in moderate condition and four in fair condition, he said. The identities of the patients were not available, Prange said.