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LBPD Officer Suspended for Allegedly Making `Biased and Prejudiced Remarks’

A Long Beach Police Department officer has been suspended for allegedly making “biased and prejudiced remarks in electronic communications,” and authorities are reviewing his past use of force incidents and arrest reports, police said today. Officer Maxwell Schroeder, a five-year veteran of the department, was suspended Thursday.

LA County’s COVID Hospitalizations Fall Below 600

The number of coronavirus patients in Los Angeles County hospitals fell back below 600, declining from 610 on Saturday to 595, according to the latest state figures. Of those patients, 146 were in intensive care Sunday, unchanged from the day before.

Man Charged With Killing Music Executive’s Wife

 A Los Angeles man was charged today with murder and other counts stemming from the shooting of Jacqueline Avant, the wife of music executive Clarence Avant, during a robbery at the couple’s Trousdale Estates home in Beverly Hills.

Air regulators issue violation notices for LA-area stench

 A stench that emanated from a flood-control channel in a Los Angeles suburb and triggered thousands of complaints resulted from chemicals that flowed from a storage yard during a fire and caused vegetation to decay, air regulators said Friday.