Today’s Headlines
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By
Joe Linton
9:02 AM PDT on August 11, 2020
- 1,789 New COVID Cases In L.A. County, Increasing In Young People (LAT)
- COVID-19 Downtown Bringing Down Rent, Especially In Luxury Housing (LAT)
- Metro COVID Recovery Task Force Issues Third Report (The Source)
- Judge Says Drivers Are Lyft/Uber Employees (LAist)
- More On DTLA’s New 5th/6th Street Bus Lanes (The Source, Biking in L.A.)
- Prosecutor Says LAPD Framed Brothers As Gang Members (LAT)
- Watts Still Bears Scars From Riots (AP)
- More On Santa Clarita Sheriff Deputies Drawing Guns On Black Youth Victims (LAT)
- At Current Pace, It Would Take L.A. 20 Years To Defund Police (LAT)
- Garcetti & Martinez Open New Bridge Housing At G Line Van Nuys Station Parking Lot (Daily News)
- 18-Story 200-Apartment Tower Planned By Metro Hollywood/Western Station (Urbanize)
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