January 6, 2020

Orange County

Voice of OC: Laguna Beach working with neighboring cities to share wildfire safety resources

The agreement, proposed by the Laguna Beach Wildfire Mitigation and Fire Safety Subcommittee, will authorize sharing of emergency management personnel, facilities, operational functions, and technology during significant events.

 

KCAL9: Strong wind gusts howling on SoCal Freeways, could bring down trees

A high wind warning was extended to Monday afternoon for most of the mountains, valleys and coasts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Forecasters warned that mountain areas could get wind gusts of up to 65 mph.

 

OC Register: Anaheim shelves plans to widen Lincoln Avenue east of the 5 freeway

After about three years of design and engineering and 15 years on the books, plans to widen an older section of Lincoln Avenue near Anaheim High School have been canceled for the foreseeable future.

 

California

Daily Pilot: Appeals court throws out case against four social workers in Gabriel Fernandez case

A surprising twist in the case came in 2016 when the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office charged former county Department of Children and Family Services employees with one felony count of child abuse and one felony count of falsifying public records.

 

Nation

Associated Press: Iran supreme leader weeps for general killed by US airstrike

Iran’s supreme leader wept Monday over the casket of a top general killed in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad, his prayers joining the wails of mourners who flooded the streets of Tehran demanding retaliation against America for a slaying that’s dramatically raised tensions across the Middle East.

Publication Date: January 6, 2020