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Sparks flew Wednesday evening as Mayor Karen Bass and City Councilwoman Nithya Raman sparred over homelessness, housing and public safety, and attempted to persuade voters to support their respective bids to lead the second-largest city in the nation. During the 90-minute debate conducted by the Sherman Oaks Neighborhood Council and Sherman Oaks/Encino Chamber of Commerce, […]
A 38-year-old man was driving with methamphetamine and heroin in his system when he lost control of his car in Irvine and crashed, killing his 18-year-old niece, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday, while the defendant’s attorney said his client should not be convicted of murder. Jim Christopher Rosado is charged with second-degree murder and driving […]
A 37-year-old man previously convicted of an unprovoked attack on a cellmate in Garden Grove’s jail pleaded guilty Wednesday to attacking a driver in Anaheim with a metal pole and was sentenced to six years in prison. Nikolas Robert Poole attacked a 69-year-old man in a car, who was stopped at a traffic light near […]
A 34-year-old Aliso Viejo man was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison for shooting a young woman in Mission Viejo. Michael Nathan French pleaded guilty Aug. 3 to shooting at a car with a sentencing enhancement for inflicting great bodily injury on the victim. French shot the 21-year-old victim, whose name was withheld, about […]
A 41-year-old woman with a previous DUI conviction was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years to life in prison for the alcohol-fueled crash that killed a pedestrian in Stanton. Cristina Gaudalupe Gonzales was convicted July 29 of second-degree murder in the March 21, 2021, crash that killed 31-year-old Desiree Robles. She has 833 days credit for […]
A possibly armed suspect on a dirt bike led law enforcement officers on a pursuit Wednesday evening before being taken into custody in South Los Angeles. The pursuit began around 6 p.m. Wednesday as the suspect traveled near Figueroa Street in South Los Angeles, then went to Watts and the unincorporated Florence-Firestone area near Huntington […]
Orange County Health Care Agency officials Wednesday reported an adult exposed to measles visited multiple businesses in Anaheim and Orange while infected. The adult was infected “from a known exposure,” health care officials said. The infected person was at the Anaheim Packing District from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Aug. 11, Fire and Ice restaurant […]
A 68-year-old man was convicted Wednesday of molesting five girls in Anaheim. Tomas Cruz was convicted of nine felony sex charges involving the girls dating back to 2011, according to court records. Cruz lived with the victims in a multifamily home with 16 relatives, police testified at his preliminary hearing. One of the girls said […]
An Amber Alert was activated Wednesday after a 4-year-old boy was reported abducted from South Los Angeles. Selah Tillary was last seen around 11 a.m. Wednesday with suspect Donnel Paige near West Manchester Avenue and Hoover Street, according to the California Highway Patrol, which activated the alert on behalf of the Los Angeles Police Department. […]
A fundraiser to help the family of a young woman killed in a crash on Interstate 215 in Perris was underway Wednesday, with the goal of gathering enough donations to pay the victim’s funeral and other expenses. Valerie Martinez, 24, of Moreno Valley, was fatally injured in the crash just after midnight Sunday on northbound […]
