🌱 RIP Leslie Jordan + Encourage A Children’s Hospital Patient

Hello again, everybody, and happy World Pasta Day! It's Sylvia, your host of the Los Angeles Daily. Here are all the most important things to know about what's happening in town today, including:

• 🚓 A shooting at San Pedro and 62nd
• 😠 Anti-Semites are active in L.A.
• 🏥 Injured hiker airlifted off the El Escorpion Trail

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Mostly sunny and pleasant. High: 76 Low: 56.

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🎃 Halloween Poll!
Will you celebrate Halloween this year? Tell us your plans! So far, 50.6% are turning off their porch lights, 37.3% will hand out candy, 4.8% are attending a party, and another 7.2% will accompany children to go trick-or-treating.

📰 Here are the top stories today in Los Angeles:

1) Actor and comedian Leslie Jordan died Monday morning in a car crash. He “suffered some type of medical emergency” while behind the wheel of his vehicle. The car crashed into a building at Cahuenga Boulevard and Romaine Street. Jordan was 67. (KTLA)

2) Three people were victims in a shooting at San Pedro and 62nd streets. The shooting occurred on Sunday morning at around 2 a.m. One victim was able to run “inside a liquor store for help.” The police have not released suspect information. (ABC)

3) Anti-Semites unfurled a banner across the 405 Freeway on Saturday. It rallied support for Ye and was accompanied by the Nazi salute. The group quoted several Bible verses out of context to support its message. (CNN)

4) A hiker required assistance just before noon on Sunday. They were hiking in Bell Canyon Park on the El Escorpion Trail when they fell. The LAFD airlifted the hiker to the hospital by helicopter. (Patch)

5) You have an opportunity to partner with the Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles to make a young patient’s Halloween a little more fun. Send the kids a card! Select a design, type in a fun message, and “team members will hand-deliver it along with a goody bag and other Halloween treats” to the patient. (CHLA)

📆 Today in Los Angeles:

• LA Saves at the Ascot Branch Library (2 PM)
• FREE Dia de Los Muertos Festival on Olvera Street (6 PM)
• Young Storytellers Presents The Biggest Show 2022 at The Theatre at Ace Hotel (7 PM)
• Rotten Rollin Halloween Emo Night Costume Party at the Rainbow Bar & Grill (11 PM)
• Midnight Madness Comedy Show at Third Wheel Live (11:59 PM)

📓 From my notebook:

• "Join LA County Parks this Halloween season for games, free candy, live concerts, costume contests, pumpkin carving, movie nights and more! View a list of events: parks.lacounty.gov/halloween." (County of Los Angeles via Instagram)
• "Los Angeles Unified’s NAEP Scores Increase as District Intervention Methods Proving Successful. To read the full release, please visit our Newsroom at achieve.lausd.net/newsroom." (Los Angeles Unified via Instagram)
• "The Los Angeles Fire Department rescued three pet cats from a smoke-charged Mid-City apartment Wednesday evening, as they battled the flames of a kitchen fire." (Los Angeles Fire Department via Facebook)
• Our Bel Air Hills neighbor says, "LOST DOG ON HIKE MOUNTAINGATE HIKE TRAIL, TIMID NAME IS BELLA. - PLEASE CALL TASHA (213) 359-3106. Got scared on hiking trail and ran off about 5 hours ago. Been looking since" (Nextdoor)

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Events:

• May Contain Nuts! A Night of Comedy featuring Jay Leno, Alonzo Bodden, Wendy Liebman and Brian Kiley (October 25)
• The Gray Divorce – Vesta Beverly Hills/South Bay, CA Hub (October 28)
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• Curative surplus assets: Global online auction to be conducted by SVD (November 7)
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You're officially in the loop for today! See you tomorrow morning for your next update.

— Sylvia Cochran

About me: Sylvia Cochran works out of sunny Southern California and has been freelance writing full-time since 2005. She loves dogs, cats, books, plays Best Fiends (don't judge), embraces social justice, and tries to live out Micah 6:8.

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