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A jury has awarded $1.2 million to a former nurse at a Palms nursing home who said she was forced to resign in 2019 because she could no longer tolerate working conditions after witnessing alleged irregularities in the handling of some Medicare patients.

Los Angeles County will accelerate the implementation of a statewide program intending to assist people suffering from severe mental illness, officials announced Friday.

The already saturated Southland will have to endure more rain over the coming days, with forecasters anticipating off-and-on precipitation possibly beginning late Friday evening and continuing through Monday.

A vigil is set Saturday evening in memory of  Keenan Anderson, the cousin of Black Lives Matters co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who went into cardiac arrest and died Jan. 3 after Los Angeles police tased and shackled him  following a traffic crash at Venice and Lincoln boulevards in Venice.

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As of Friday, 257 people were hospitalized in Orange County with a COVID-related infection with 28 being treated in intensive care, according to the latest state data.

Mayor Karen Bass declared a state of local emergency in Los Angeles Friday, as the city recovers from a series of strong storms and prepares for more rain and wind in the coming days.

Los Angeles County reported more than 1,500 new COVID-19 infections Friday, along with 25 additional virus-related deaths.

Black Lives Matter demonstrators confronted at gunpoint by the late husband of former Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey in 2020 who want a second deposition of the county's former top prosecutor did not receive an immediate ruling from a judge Friday.

Two racehorses died in the past week after suffering injuries while training at Los Alamitos Race Course, state horse racing officials said.