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L.A. teachers union OKs lifting mask mandate at LAUSD schools

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Los Angeles lecturers union members on Monday ratified an settlement to drop the indoor masking requirement on the nation’s second-largest faculty district.

College students and employees on the L.A. Unified Faculty District will be capable of shed their masks beginning Wednesday beneath the settlement.

However indoor masking will proceed for employees and college students at early schooling facilities and for packages serving solely college students 4 years outdated or youthful.

Weekly coronavirus testing will even proceed for all employees and college students by the tip of the college 12 months.

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Of the United Lecturers Los Angeles members who voted, 84% solid their votes in favor of the settlement and 16% voted in opposition to it.

UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz mentioned maintaining masks obligatory for the youngest college students who can’t get vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19 was a precedence.

“Our well being and security priorities in negotiations with the district have been two-fold: to make sure the continuation of the weekly COVID-19 testing program that has helped hold our communities secure and to guard our youngest learners in early education schemes who aren’t in a position to be vaccinated,” Myart-Cruz mentioned in an announcement. “The settlement achieves each of those vital objectives.”

LAUSD had initially known as for ending the indoor masking necessities in all college students, together with youthful ones, when it introduced plans final week to raise its mandate.

The transfer to ease masking necessities aligns the district with the L.A. County Division of Public Well being and state well being officers, who shifted to recommending masking at faculties however not requiring them as of this month.

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Although it’s not required at faculties, authorities proceed to strongly suggest that everybody masks up indoors.

Polling has additionally discovered that many mother and father help the masking requirement at faculties.

A February ballot by the Institute of Governmental Research at UC Berkeley discovered that almost two-thirds of California voters help masks and vaccine mandates in Okay-12 faculties.

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Illinois authorities identify Orange County girl killed in jet ski crash

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Illinois authorities identify Orange County girl killed in jet ski crash

Authorities in Illinois have identified the two girls killed in jet ski crash earlier this week, including a 16-year-old from Orange County.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office has identified the two girls as 16-year-old Sarina Vootkur of Lake Forest and 13-year-old Elle Kim of Long Grove, Illinois.

Results of autopsies conducted Thursday determined that the two girls died from “blunt force injuries” suffered in the crash.

According to Sheriff’s officials, on Tuesday, the two girls were riding a Yamaha WaveRunner on Lake Marie near Antioch Township, a town located in Illinois, about 70 miles north of Chicago.

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Vootkur was driving the vehicle with Kim riding on the back. Witnesses said the girls were traveling at a high rate of speed directly in the path of a speed boat driven by a 55-year-old Illinois man.

The two vehicles collided and both girls were thrown into the water and knocked unconscious. They were both wearing life vests which allowed for the occupants of the boat to pull them from the water and provide first aid until they were able to take them to shore, officials said.

The girls were taken to a nearby hospital and were pronounced deceased after they arrived, Sheriff’s officials said. No other injuries were reported in the crash.

The crash remains under investigation by the local Sheriff’s Office and Illinois Conservation Police.

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Police shuts down area outside Glendale apartment complex due to barricaded suspect

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Police shuts down area outside Glendale apartment complex due to barricaded suspect

A barricaded suspect in a Glendale apartment building prompted a large police response early Thursday morning, according to authorities.

Law enforcement officers were posted outside the area of the 1800 block of Vassar Street at an apartment complex, Glendale police confirmed at 8:24 a.m.

Police responded to a disturbance on Thursday morning, resulting in a barricaded suspect at a Glendale apartment building. (KTLA)

The extent of the situation was not immediately clear, but SWAT and fire personnel were still outside the building as of 8:30 a.m. There was no word on whether it was a hostage situation or whether a potential suspect inside the building was armed.

Police asked the public to avoid the area around 8:30 a.m., but said the situation was clear by 9:15 a.m. No additional details were immediately made available.

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Los Feliz pharmacy targeted by burglary crew using electric saw

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Los Feliz pharmacy targeted by burglary crew using electric saw

Surveillance video captured a burglary crew brazenly using an electric saw while attempting to smash their way into a pharmacy in Los Feliz.

Early Wednesday morning, three suspects approached R&D Pharmacy located on Franklin Avenue at around 4 a.m.

They were seen using an electric saw and a crowbar to shatter the store’s glass entrance before sawing into the metal gate behind it.

The pharmacy’s owner, Roselyn Roque, said this was the second time her pharmacy had been targeted in just three weeks. 

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Despite diligently locking up her store every night and protecting it with steel gates, an alarm system, motion detectors, chains and padlocks, she said the suspects don’t appear to be deterred from returning.

As a pharmacist, Roque said she unfortunately also knows what the thieves are after.

“Opiates and stimulants,” she said.”They have really high value on the streets.”

Her pharmacy has been targeted a total of three times over the past two years. Roque believes the suspects are the same people who have attempted to burglarize the shop in the past. 

During Wednesday’s incident, the suspects’ getaway car was captured clearly on security cameras.

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“There’s three of them again, but they’re using two different cars,” Roque said. “We were able to identify the plate. They’re backing up with the plates on camera. Maybe they don’t care about [being caught] anymore.”

In all three attempted burglaries, however, the suspects were scared away by blaring security alarms and fled before stealing anything inside.

Roque is very worried about her safety while operating the store.

“I’m scared that they might come back and I’m here,” she said.

Despite no merchandise being lost, Roque said the burglary crew still managed to leave a trail of destruction behind including breaking her security gate and front windows, which will be expensive to replace.

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“I’m kind of on my own,” she said. “I’ll have to do the best I can.”

Roque said she remains concerned because the suspects are still at large. She said Los Angeles police asked whether she would be pressing charges if the suspects were caught.

“I said, ‘Of course,’” Roque recalled. “If I can help another small business like mine to not go through something like this, then I’m going to do my part and keep [the suspects] off the streets.”

Anyone with information on the attempted burglary can call the LAPD at 1-877-527-3247.

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