| | | | Afternoon headlines for Wednesday, August 5, 2020
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Bloody Body of Hubby, 83, Surrounded By Crosses, Crucifixes: Plea Deal For Killer Wife In Decade-Old Rancho Mirage Murder  A woman who fatally stabbed her 83-year-old husband at their Rancho Mirage home more than 10 years ago is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 18 after striking a plea deal that averts a second trial in the case, prosecutors announced Wednesday. The victim’s bloody body with dozens of stab wounds was found with crosses, crucifixes […]
  
Hope For Pancreatic Cancer Patients: One Of Most Deadly Cancers  Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian announced Wednesday it has been selected to conduct a Phase 2 clinical trial of a new combination therapy that researchers hope will prove effective for treatment of pancreatic cancer. “Hoag will be the first in Orange County to offer cell therapy for solid tumors, and was exclusively selected as the only […]
What Are You Kids Thinking? Officials Warn Giant Parties Super Danger For Coronavirus  On the heels of two highly publicized parties, one of which ended in a fatal shooting, Los Angeles County’s public health director warned again Wednesday that such gatherings are forbidden under coronavirus-prevention orders, and attending them endangers the public at large. Barbara Ferrer, director of the county Department of Public Health, said infection rates among […]
Massive Brawl Breaks Out at Anaheim Hotel, Up To 100 People Involved A massive brawl broke out Wednesday at the Cambria Hotel & Suites in Anaheim involving as many as 100 people, police said. Two people were arrested and two people were taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to the Anaheim Police Department. Officers were sent to the hotel at 101 E. Katella Ave., […]
Suspect Arrested in Killing of Girlfriend in East L.A. A man was charged Wednesday with murdering his live-in girlfriend at their East Los Angeles home. Anthony McGeisey, 23, was booked on suspicion of murder in Monday’s shooting death of Sharleyne Conde, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Deputies went to the couple’s residence in the 700 block of South Hillview Avenue regarding […]
Orange County Reports 65 New COVID-19 Cases, 12 More Deaths The Orange County Health Care Agency Wednesday reported a dozen COVID-19 fatalities, raising the coronavirus death toll to 665. The number of patients being treated for COVID-19 in county hospitals dropped from 539 Tuesday to 536, while the number of patients in intensive care inched up from 167 to 172, according to the HCA. The […]
FBI Raids Calabasas Home of YouTube Star Jake Paul A federal warrant was served Wednesday at YouTube star Jake Paul’s home in Calabasas. The warrant was in connection to Paul’s alleged participation in a riot at Scottsdale Fashion Square on May 30, according to the FBI’s Phoenix office, which said a search warrant was also executed for the same case Wednesday in Las Vegas. […]
Crystal Geyser Bottler Ordered to Pay $5M In Arsenic Wasstewater Case: Officials Say Water Is Still Safe The family-owned business that bottles Crystal Geyser Alpine Spring Water was sentenced Wednesday in Los Angeles to three years of probation and ordered to pay a $5 million criminal fine for storing and transporting hazardous waste containing arsenic. Officials, however, said the case didn’t involve any drinking water supplied to the public, and the product […]
Fire Scorches Two Acres in Hollywood Hills Firefighters were working to fully extinguish a “largely static” two-acre brush fire Wednesday in the Hollywood Hills that resulted in one firefighter being taken to a hospital. The fire was reported at about 10:30 a.m. near the 2500 block of Cahuenga Boulevard East, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Within about 45 minutes, firefighters […]
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