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Police Fatally Shoot Girl, 14, in SoCal Burlington Store Dressing Room While Firing at Suspect
A 14-year-old girl in a dressing room was one of two people killed in a violent and chaotic confrontation that ended with a police shooting Thursday at a Burlington store in North Hollywood.
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LA Restaurants Soon Will Require Proof of Vaccination, So What Will SoCal In-n-Out Restaurants Do?
A week from Monday, restaurants in the City of Los Angeles will be required to check indoor diners for proof of COVID vaccination — a situation in the Bay Area that has caused controversy after an In-N-Out burger location took a stand against the mandate.
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Family Returns Home to Sylmar to Find Mother Dead in Apparent Homicide
A mother of three was found dead in Sylmar late Tuesday night, prompting police to investigate what they believe may be a homicide.
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‘Don't Do This to Your Family:' After Brother's COVID Death, Man Asks Others to Get Vaccinated
Danny and Tony Damian of Baldwin Park were both active in the community. After putting off vaccination, Tony died due to COVID-19. Now Danny is advocating for others to get vaccinated.
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Nurses Bring Ceremony to Hospitalized High School Senior Missing Graduation
An 18-year-old South Torrance High student had to be hospitalized shortly before his graduation. When it became clear he would not be discharged in time, his nurses arranged a ceremony for him inside Little Company of Mary.
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Adding a Cinematic Twist to ‘Magic Mushrooms' as Medical Treatment
It will come as a surprise to some that a clinical trial at a major metropolitan hospital is testing a treatment for alcohol use disorder that involves psilocybin, better known as the “magic mushroom.”
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Upland Woman Gives Birth in Coma After Getting COVID-19, Meets Her Baby Via FaceTime
It is a situation that sometimes does not end well: an expectant mother coming down with COVID-19. In the case of an Upland mother to be, her COVID-19 worsened so much that two lives were imperiled, and two emergency procedures were required.
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Pharmacist Perseveres Vaccinating Thousands of Seniors Despite COVID Claiming Grandparents
A pharmacist who took on the challenge of overseeing the vaccinations of literally thousands of seniors at hundreds of long-term care facilities persevered, even after losing her own grandparents to COVID-19.
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In Some COVID-19 Patients, Body Produces Weapons Against Itself
The clues were there early on in the pandemic: seemingly moderate COVID-19
cases abruptly going critical. By spring it was becoming apparent that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was in some cases triggering immune response, a “Cytokine storm”, so severe it caused more damage than the infection itself. -
Extract of Sea Squirt Shows Promise as COVID-19 Treatment
An extract from a rare undersea creature will soon be put to the test in clinical trials after initial studies showed effectiveness in stopping COVID-19 infections, according to a pharmaceutical company and a California-based researcher who has been studying it.
