Glendale Sends Out False Evacuation Alarm, Panicking Fire-Jittery Southern California

Under current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, 13 of California’s 58 counties moved today into “high” levels of Covid and are supposed to require masks in indoor public spaces. They include some of the state’s most populous counties, like Santa Clara and Sacramento as well as some of its smallest, like Del Norte and San Benito.

Matthew Morrison was fired from So You Think You Can Dance for sending “inappropriate” text messages to a female contestant, a source confirms to Us Weekly.

The Queen's pilot had no choice but to abort landing after being caught in a lightning storm, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. Her Majesty, 96, who is reportedly "embracing the idea of a wheelchair" amid her mobility issues, was travelling back to her home of Windsor following a visit to Balmoral in Aberdeen when the flight was stuck in air thanks to the electrical storm.

The Queen has returned to Windsor ahead of her four day Platinum Jubilee celebrations.The 96 year old monarch was seen returning to Windsor Castle in a green Range Rover as she prepares to celebrate 70 years on the throne, with one of her faithful corgis in the back seat.The Queen has spent the last few days at her Scottish home Balmoral, said to be one of her favourite places to visit, as staff busy themselves with preparations for the historic celebration.The four day Jubilee celebrations will begin on Thursday with a special Trooping of the Colour parade.The Epsom Derby will take place on Saturday 4 June, said to be a favourite of the Queens, although Her Majesty is not expected to attend in person as she celebrates Meghan and Harry's daughter Lilibet's first birthday. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter.

While NASA warns the celestial event may not live up to the hype, astronomers say the Earth is set to pass through the fragments of a broken comet called 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, or SW3, on Monday night and Tuesday morning. The byproducts of this will be the tau Herculids meteor shower.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorWith the release of “Top Gun: Maverick,” moviegoers everywhere are excited to revisit the San Diego area onscreen for more adventures from Tom Cruise’s Maverick. Although moviegoers won’t be getting back together with Cruise’s love interest Charlie, played by Kelly McGillis, visitors to Oceanside, Calif. can now visit the site of her cute cottage — and eat some pie while they’re there.In the original film, flight instructor Charlie lived in an adorable oceanfront Victorian known as the Graves house that was so sweet, she even stayed there during filming.

uploaded by the recipient of her rant — has amassed more than 10s of thousands of views and international headlines as of Tuesday afternoon.“Sooo this just happened @sb_boathouse, Santa Barbra needs to do better. Almost lost my s–t,” wrote Ian Soleimani, a 39-year-old African-American man who works as a DJ, in the clip’s caption.In the footage of the incident, which took place the The Boathouse at Hendry’s Beach, the unnamed woman can first be seen laying into a restaurant manager over an unpaid check. The altercation was sparked after the unidentified woman allegedly tried to pay her bill with PayPal after her credit card was declined, according to a thread on Reddit, where the video first went viral.

Let the festivities begin! Madison LeCroy and her fiancé, Brett Randle, celebrated their engagement with a sweet South Carolina bash fit for the Southern Charm star, and the bride-to-be gave Us Weekly an exclusive invite to the party.

Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.comVariety has been nominated for 72 Southern California Journalism Awards, including two for journalist of the year, three for entertainment journalist of the year and six nominations for criticism of TV, music and books.The awards, given out by the Los Angeles Press Club, honor outstanding journalism in the region across print, digital, radio and broadcast platforms.Executive editor Ramin Setoodeh and deputy music editor Jem Aswad are both up for journalist of the year. TV critic Daniel D’Addario along with chief film critic Owen Gleiberman and features editor Chris Willman are all nominated for entertainment journalist of the year.Aswad leads all Variety staffers with 14 total nominations, followed by Willman with nine nominations.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterTwo bills intended to strengthen safety on California movie sets stalled in the state legislature on Thursday, after Hollywood unions and major studios failed to agree on the best approach.Both bills — SB 829 and SB 831 — came in response to the shooting last October on the set of “Rust” in Santa Fe, N.M. Actor Alec Baldwin fired a gun that was loaded with a live round, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding the film’s director.Both bills would have established a new training requirement for film armorers. Much of the blame for the “Rust” shooting has been directed at Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the inexperienced armorer who loaded Baldwin’s gun.

A California state senator ripped the entertainment industry today after the bill he co-authored in response to last year’s fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins of the Rust set failed to get out of committee.

Who wears short shorts? A former Hollywood actress-turned-duchess of course. Meghan Markle spent the weekend soaking up the sun near her California home as she watched her husband, Prince Harry, compete in another tournament with his team. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been spotted at the Santa Barbara Polo Club, which is located near their Montecito residence.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Harry joined his friend, Nacho Figueras, on a team called Los Padres, which means the fathers, or parents, in Spanish, where they took home second place in the Folded Hills Pope Challenge.Meghan was on hand at the Santa Barbara Polo Club on two separate occasions — not far from their home in Montecito — to cheer on her husband.The first saw Meghan in blue shorts and a long-sleeve blue, button-down blouse, while the second saw the mother of two in a similar number, this time, all-white.

EXCLUSIVE: Tia Napolitano (Cruel Summer) has joined CBS’ newly picked up drama series Fire Country as executive producer and showrunner. Her hire was already in the works when the network yesterday gave an official series order to the buzzy pilot, executive produced by and starring Max Thieriot.