April 2, 2021 Media Brief
Orange County
Voice of OC: County residents 50 and older now qualify for virus vaccines
Orange County residents 50 and older are now eligible for the coronavirus vaccine, regardless of medical conditions, as county officials, hospitals and local health clinics are ramping up efforts to get more shots into the community.
OC Register: Orange County reported 18 fewer hospitalizations, 90 new cases and 6 new deaths, April 2
The OC Health Care Agency reported 81 new cases of the coronavirus on Friday, April 2, increasing the cumulative total in the county to 250,854 cases since tracking began.
OC Register: Suspect in Orange shooting charged with 4 murders, 3 attempted murders
A 44-year-old man accused of going on a shooting spree at a business complex in Orange earlier this week was charged Friday, April 2, with four counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder, prosecutors said on Friday, April 2.
Daily Pilot: Orange County Water District works to clean polluted groundwater from decades of manufacturing
More than 70% of the water served in Orange County is from groundwater. But some of that water has become contaminated from industrial manufacturing when harmful chemicals that weren’t properly disposed of seeped down into the ground.
OC Register: Huntington Beach firefighters save seven ducklings from 30-foot deep storm drain
After unsuccessful attempts to corral the babies by the firefighters on scene, the Urban Search & Rescue team was called to gear up and go down into the drain to scoop the ducklings to safety.
Labor
OC Register: Irvine gymnastics business fined $1.3 million for wage theft
South Coast is a USA Gymnastics member club where gymnasts train to compete in national tournaments. The violations were discovered when investigators from the California Labor Commissioner’s office visited the facility, at 17850 Sky Park Circle, on Nov. 16 as part of a COVID-19 compliance inspection.
California
KTLA: State returning to drought conditions after 2nd parched winter
Drought is returning to California as a second, consecutive parched winter draws to a close in the usually wet north, leaving the state’s major reservoirs half empty.
KTLA: Train service from LA to Vegas possible under Biden’s infrastructure program
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure improvement program would include restoring Amtrak intercity rail passenger service to Phoenix and Las Vegas after previously being cut from service in the late 1990’s.
Nation
CNN: Officer killed in attack near US Capitol
A car rammed a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday afternoon, injuring two Capitol Police officers and leading to the driver being shot. Suspect Noah Green, the suspect who law enforcement sources say rammed his car into two US Capitol Police officers on Friday, posted on social media in the weeks before the attack that he had lost his job and suffered medical ailments, and said he believed the federal government was targeting him with "mind control."
Publication Date: April 2, 2021
