Downey homes evacuated over gas leak emergency cellphone alert sent across LA area

Evacuations were only ordered for anyone within a 300-feet radius, but an emergency alert was sent to cellphones as far away as Hollywood. The public was asked to avoid the area.

The University of California and California State University announced Thursday that they intend to require COVID-19 vaccinations for all students, faculty and staff on campus properties this fall once the Food and Drug Administration gives formal approval to the vaccines and supplies are sufficiently available.

The directive is the largest of its kind in U.S. higher education, affecting more than 1 million members of the two public university systems. More than three dozen colleges nationwide have already announced they will require vaccination for enrollment this fall, including Claremont McKenna and Harvey Mudd in Claremont.

Authorities have finally identified the bodies of two homicide victims who were found buried in the Southern California desert in 1980 and linked to a man imprisoned for murder in Mississippi. the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said.

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