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At the Loma Verde Recreation Center south of San Diego, demolition work is underway on a $24 million project that will rebuild the facility from the ground up, complete with a new pool. An hour’s drive to the north, the iconic bridge to the Oceanside pier is deteriorating because the city lacks the money for a roughly $25 million rehabilitation. A reason one project is moving ahead and the other isn’t revolves around the American Rescue Plan — the sweeping COVID-19 relief law championed by President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats that is pumping billions of dollars to states and local governments. Under rules developed by the U.S. Treasury Department, some governments have more flexibility than others to spend their share of the money as they want. That’s why the new swimming pool is a go, and the rehabbed pier — at least for now — is a no. Similar disparities among cities across the country have prompted a pushback from local officials, who want Treasury to loosen its rules before the program progresses much further. “Otherwise, they are penalizing cities for the pandemic, not…

Bill Clinton was released Sunday from the Southern California hospital where he had been treated for an infection and will head to New York to continue his recovery, a spokesman said. The former president left the University of California Irvine Medical Center around 8 a.m. with Hilary Clinton on his arm. Dressed in jeans and a sports coat and wearing a face mask, he made his way out of the hospital slowly and stopped to shake hands with doctors and nurses lined up on the sidewalk. He gave a thumbs-up when a reporter asked how he was feeling. He and Hilary then boarded a black SUV and departed in a motorcade escorted by the California Highway Patrol. Clinton’s “fever and white blood cell count are normalized, and he will return home to New York to finish his course of antibiotics,” Dr. Alpesh N. Amin said in a statement shared on Twitter by a Clinton spokesman. Clinton, 75, was admitted Tuesday to the hospital southeast of Los Angeles with an infection unrelated to COVID-19, officials said. Spokesman Angel Ureña had said Saturday that Clinton would remain…

Clinton, 75, was treated for a urological infection that spread to his blood.

ORANGE (CBSLA) — Former president Bill Clinton was released Sunday from the Southern California hospital where he was recovering from an infection. Clinton has spent five nights at the University of California Irvine Medical Center in Orange where he had received IV antibiotics, his spokesperson Angel Urena said in a statement. As of Sunday around 8 a.m., Clinton left the hospital. He was escorted by the Secret Service, the CHP, and local officers. Clinton was admitted on Tuesday. He was put on a broad spectrum of antibiotics. But a decision was made on Friday to switch him to an oral antibiotic. He remained in the hospital for an additional day for observation. Clinton is expected to be OK.

Share this article:Robert Durst. Photo Courtesy of HBO New York real estate heir Robert Durst, who was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for killing a longtime friend in her Benedict Canyon home over two decades ago, has contracted COVID-19 and is on a ventilator, according to media reports. Dick DeGuerin, the lead attorney for the 78-year-old Durst, told the Los Angeles Times his client had been hospitalized, and had been in bad shape during his sentencing hearing. “He was having difficulty breathing and he was having difficulty communicating,” DeGuerin told the newspaper. “He looked worse than I’ve ever seen him and I was very worried about him.” It was not clear when or where Durst was hospitalized. Attempts to reach DeGuerin and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for further details were not successful. Durst, who often appeared frail during his lengthy murder trial, was held in a wing of County/USC Medical Center during the proceedings. He sat quietly in a wheelchair Thursday as Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark Windham sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole. DeGuerin…

A group of 17 missionaries including children was kidnapped by a gang in Haiti on Saturday, according to a voice message sent to various religious missions by an organization with direct knowledge of the incident. The missionaries were on their way home from building an orphanage, according to a message from Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries. “This is a special prayer alert,” the one-minute message said. “Pray that the gang members would come to repentance.” The message says the mission’s field director is working with the U.S. Embassy, and that the field director’s family and one other unidentified man stayed at the ministry’s base while everyone else visited the orphanage. No other details were immediately available. A U.S. government spokesperson said they were aware of the reports on the kidnapping. “The welfare and safety of U.S. citizens abroad is one of the highest priorities of the Department of State,” the spokesperson said, declining further comment. Meanwhile, a senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States is in touch with Haitian authorities to try to resolve the case. Haiti is once again struggling…

The nonprofit Fix’n Fidos, founded by KTLA’s Kacey Montoya, kicked off its inaugural golf tournament and fundraiser event Sunday to help low-income pet owners pay for pet food, supplies and veterinary care.  The event, which takes place at the Industry Hills Golf Club at Pacific Palms Resort in the City of Industry, includes a golf tournament, dinner and silent auction. There will also be a dog parade and costume contest judged by Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva and his wife, Vivian.  Prizes for the golf tournament include a new car, a $10,000 prize, and a year-long supply of Omaha Steaks. More information about the event can be found here. Christina Pascucci reports for the KTLA 5 Morning News on Oct. 16, 2021.