Coronavirus: L.A. County reported 1,407 new cases, 91 new deaths and 76 fewer hospitalizations as of March 2 - L.A. Focus News
Los Angeles public health officials reported 1,407 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,194,242 as of Tuesday, March 2. Officials said there were 91 new deaths linked to the coronavirus, for a total 21,554 deaths since tracking began. According to official
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Election Day nears for LA County’s state Senate District 30 seat - L.A. Focus News
When former state Sen. Holly Mitchell won a seat on the Board of Supervisors last November, it opened the political gates in a district that Mitchell had dominated since 2013. For a diverse L.A. landscape that spans from Inglewood to Century City, it was a chance for a new leader to take the
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Rams’ Sean McVay says goodbye to Jared Goff with a ‘smile’ - L.A. Focus News
Sean McVay bluntly criticized Jared Goff during the season, let him twist in the wind during the playoffs, then urged the Rams' front office to trade him away. But when it came time for the coach to explain his breakup with the quarterback, McVay softened his tone and chose to recall 'a lot of
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Rams trading defensive end Michael Brockers to Lions - L.A. Focus News
A trade sending Rams defensive end Michael Brockers to the Detroit Lions was in the works Tuesday night. Brockers, 30, a 2012 first-round draft choice who was the dean of the Rams’ defense, had five sacks in 2020, his most since 2013. He was one of the Rams’ team captains and a vocal leader of
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High school football scores and photos from games Friday, March 12 - L.A. Focus News
The scores and photos from the high school football games on Friday, March 12. FOOTBALL SCORES Edison 55, Trabuco Hills 7 La Habra 35, Chaminade 16 Los Alamitos 59, Millikan 0 Corona del Mar 38, Palos Verdes 21 Servite 42, Damien 6 Crean Lutheran 10, Sonora 9 Mayfair vs. Santa Margarita Antelope
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Schiff hikes the Rim of the Valley all the way back up to the top - L.A. Focus News
Tuesday morning I had the good fortune to talk with my congressman, and, boy howdy, it was another one of those times you just thank the good Lord you don’t live in Georgia CD 14. Because what if you were given the chance to visit with your representative in the House and she started spouting
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LeBron James drafts Giannis Antetokounmpo, Steph Curry for All-Star roster - L.A. Focus News
If there’s one thing LeBron James has proved throughout his career: He knows how to pick teammates. Aside from how that has played out with his championship teams in Miami, Cleveland and now with the Lakers, it’s been a theme in the annual All-Star Game too: Ever since the NBA transitioned to
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5 Freeway in Grapevine area closed in both directions due to ice and snow - L.A. Focus News
The 5 Freeway in the Grapevine area was closed in both directions due to snow and ice on Monday evening, officials said. As of 8:54 p.m., the 5  was closed northbound at Parker Road in Castaic and southbound at Grapevine Road in Kern County, Caltrans said. The California Highway Patrol was
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La Habra tops Chaminade in successful impromptu football game  - L.A. Focus News
Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now. WEST HILLS - It had been 477 days since La Habra High played a football game. The Highlanders were preparing to play Mission Viejo on Friday night in a highly anticipated contest to welcome high school football
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House OKs Dems’ immigration bills for Dreamers, farm workers - L.A. Focus News
By ALAN FRAM WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted Thursday to unlatch a gateway to citizenship for young Dreamers, migrant farm workers and immigrants who've fled war or natural disasters, giving Democrats wins in the year's first votes on an issue that faces an uphill climb in the Senate. On a near
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As a Hornets rookie, LaMelo Ball has found stability and success - L.A. Focus News
Selected with the No. 3 pick in November's NBA Draft, Charlotte Hornets guard LaMelo Ball leads all rookies in points (15.8 points), assists (6.3), rebounds (6.0) and steals (1.6) per game and seems to have found stability after several stints playing overseas. (Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty
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Academic Decathlon team from El Camino Real Charter HS win independent regional competition again - L.A. Focus News
The Academic Decathlon team, 2020-2021, from El Camino Real Charter High School in Woodland Hills. (Photo collage by Stephanie Franklin) The Academic Decathlon team from El Camino Real Charter High School in Woodland Hills won the Southern California Independent Charter Academic Decathlon
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Former USC WR Keyshawn Johnson announces death of daughter Maia - L.A. Focus News
Maia Johnson, the first-born daughter of former USC wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson, has died, her father announced on Twitter on Monday. “Maia, as my first born child, has been the joy of my, and her Mother Shikiri’s, life,” Keyshawn Johnson wrote. “She came into our lives just as we were both
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Golden Globes 2021: ‘Borat,’ ‘The Crown,’ and ‘Nomadland’ are big winners - L.A. Focus News
In this strangest of years for Hollywood - movie theaters gone dark, productions shut down - the 78th annual Golden Globes made multiple winners on Sunday of the lonely wanderers in 'Nomadland,' a clueless clod in 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, and the British royal family in 'The Crown.' And while
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Harvard-Westlake football has a new coach, Aaron Huerta, and new feel - L.A. Focus News
Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now. STUDIO CITY - The cross country team was running around the track. Other athletes were doing conditioning workouts on the stadium stairs. Coaches were yelling instructions. It was a sliver of normalcy Monday
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Tiger Woods returns to Florida to recover from car crash - L.A. Focus News
By DOUG FERGUSON Tiger Woods is back at home in Florida to resume his recovery from career-threatening leg injuries he suffered when his SUV ran off a road and down a hill in Rancho Palos Verdes suburbs last month. “Happy to report that I am back home and continuing my recovery,” Woods said in
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Kings’ Alex Turcotte will join Ducks’ Trevor Zegras in NHL – just not yet - L.A. Focus News
As the Kings and Ducks square off for their second and third meetings of the year, fans are getting a preview of five late-season showdowns, including four in a row, in one of the budding rivalries in the NHL. What they won’t see is a nose-to-nose battle between two franchise cornerstones in the
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Annenberg Foundation teams up with community groups to provide vaccines in Koreatown - L.A. Focus News
Registered nurse Nili Steiner gives the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccination to older adults outside the Karsh Family Social Service Center in Los Angeles’ Koreatown neighborhood on Thursday, March 18, 2021. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) A COVID-19 vaccination clinic
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The Latest: Vegas benefits as Nevada eases some virus rules - L.A. Focus News
By The Associated Press LAS VEGAS - Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak has signed an emergency order adjusting the minimum distance between performers and audience members that previously challenged the return of productions in Las Vegas. The tourist destination built for excess and known for bright
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CDC guidelines for fully vaccinated could set stage for easing of some local rules - L.A. Focus News
After almost a year of quarantining, the children of Marina Bunce got to hug their grandparents for the first time in what seemed like forever. It was a long embrace - about two minutes. After all, they had a lot of postponed hugging to make up for. 'It was very special,' the Redondo Beach native
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UCLA gymnastics team finds Cal too much to overcome - L.A. Focus News
UCLA gymnastics began its meet against Cal on a high. Uneven bars went smoothly, and vault had the Bruins energized. But the meet gradually derailed through the final two events. Cal handed UCLA its second loss of the season, 198.050-196.925, on Saturday afternoon at Haas Pavilion in
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Unions blast District Attorney George Gascón’s hiring of controversial prosecutor - L.A. Focus News
Unions representing Los Angeles County prosecutors and law enforcement officers are blasting District Attorney George Gascón's hiring of controversial Deputy Public Defender Tiffiny Blacknell, a political supporter who has described police officers as 'barbarians' and advocated abolishing
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LA City Council sends new ‘reimagine safety’ plan back to Garcetti; original plan was vetoed - L.A. Focus News
Two months ago, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti vetoed an $88 million spending plan approved by the Los Angeles City Council aimed at re-directing funding initially proposed for the police department budget into other uses in the community. The mayor said that it fell short and needed to be
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Dodgers giving Gavin Lux chance to hit re-set button this spring - L.A. Focus News
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Gavin Lux is getting a do-over. The top prospect in baseball according to many rankings heading into last spring, the former first-round pick had torn up Triple-A and made his big-league debut in September 2019. The stage was set for him to take over as the Dodgers’ second baseman
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Some LAUSD parents welcome elementary reopening pact, but others criticize middle/high school plan - L.A. Focus News
LAUSD Board President Kelly Gonez, LAUSD Supt. Austin Beutner and UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz watch a janitor change a MERV 13 HAVAC filter at Panorama High School in Panorama City on Wednesday, March 10, 2021 after a LAUSD-UTLA tentative agreement to reopen schools almost a year after closing
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Angels’ Jose Quintana continues early spring success in win against Mariners - L.A. Focus News
THE GAME: The Angels beat the Mariners, 7-4, in a game that lasted seven innings before an announced crowd of 1,897 on Wednesday night at Peoria Stadium. PITCHING REPORT: Jose Quintana did not allow a run over 3-2/3 innings, extending his scoreless innings streak to 8-2/3 over four Cactus League
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With audits cancelled, El Sereno residents tied to ‘Reclaimer’ movement conduct own homeless count - L.A. Focus News
The El Sereno Reclaimers, several community organizations and volunteers conduct a community-led homeless count along Huntington Drive in El Sereno on Saturday, February 27, 2021. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer) Vicente Gonzalez-Reyes, Roselyn Alcaraz, and Draco
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Prosecutor: Riot suspect was a well-known Nazi sympathizer - L.A. Focus News
By Marshall Cohen | CNN An Army reservist charged with storming the US Capitol was a well-known White supremacist and Nazi sympathizer at the Navy base where he worked as a contractor, and was even rebuked for sporting a distinctive 'Hitler mustache,' prosecutors said in new court filings. Federal
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Alleged ghost gun maker arrested in Van Nuys, weapons seized in Hollywood - L.A. Focus News
Detectives in Van Nuys tracked a man suspected of making and selling ghost guns to gang members and arrested him on Friday, serving a search warrant that yielded a cache of weapons and weapon manufacturing equipment. Los Angeles Police Department officials said they arrested 30-year-old Dalton
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D.A. Gascón requests Brady list of officers accused of misconduct from every L.A. County law enforcement agency - L.A. Focus News
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has asked for a list of police officers and deputies from law enforcement agencies around the county who have been accused of lying, tampering with evidence, violence and other types of misconduct that could lead to their testimony in criminal
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