| | | | Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, March 23, 2021
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DA Gascón Targets Bad Cops As LA Supervisors OK Hiring Special Prosecutor  The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved District Attorney George Gascón’s request to appoint a special prosecutor to assist with cases of alleged police misconduct. The supervisors offered no comment before voting on the matter. Gascón plans to appoint former federal prosecutor Lawrence Middleton for a four-year term at a cost of no […]
  
Son Murders Mom, Uncle In Bloody Stabbing Attack? Altadena Suspect Jailed  A 32-year-old Altadena man accused of the bloody stabbing murders of his mother and uncle in their Altadena home was jailed Tuesday on $2 million bail. Robert Cotton was booked on suspicion of the murders of Kenneth Wayne Preston, 69, and Carol Anne Brown, 67, who both died at the scene of the Monday afternoon […]
Racial Firebombing Of Black Family Apartments By Hispanic Gang Member: 16 Years In Prison  A gang member was sentenced Tuesday to 16 years in federal prison for orchestrating a racially motivated firebombing attack on Black families living in a Los Angeles housing project. Carlos “Rider” Hernandez, 36, pleaded guilty two years ago to five felonies, including using fire and carrying explosives to commit a federal felony and conspiracy to […]
Echo Park Battle Over City Closure: Homeless Encampments To Be Cleared Activists plan to gather at Echo Park Lake Wednesday morning ahead of the city’s plans to close the park where well more than a hundred people have taken up residence. Los Angeles City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell’s communications director Tony Arranaga told City News Service that the city is closing the park to repair more than […]
Five Shootings – Two Fatal – By LAPD In Four Days: Chief Moore Insists Cop Gunfire Reduced Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said Tuesday investigations are being carried out into a spate of five shootings, two of them fatal, by Los Angeles police officers in a four-day span last week, more than the total number of shootings by officers during the first eight weeks of the year. Moore insisted, however, that […]
Mars Helicopter Historic Flight On Red Planet Set For April The historic first flight of a helicopter on Mars is expected in early April, assuming there are no glitches in a complex, coordinated series of preparatory events that will detach the small aircraft from the Perseverance rover on the planet’s surface, officials at Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Tuesday. If successful, the flight of the helicopter […]
More Than $110,000 in Counterfeit US Currency Seized at LAX Federal agents seized more than $110,000 in counterfeit U.S. currency at Los Angeles International Airport in a shipment originating from Hong Kong with a destination in Northern California, officials said Tuesday. Authorities discovered the counterfeit notes in a package on Friday, said Jaime Ruiz of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. “Inside the package, officers found […]
`Pride Lifeguard Tower’ Burned in Long Beach A fire gutted the Pride Lifeguard Tower Tuesday in Long Beach, in what the city’s mayor called “an act of hate.” “Early this morning, fire resources responded to the Pride Lifeguard Tower fully engulfed,” the Long Beach Fire Department said in a statement on Twitter. “LGBTQ members of the Marine Safety Division painted the tower […]
Babies Pay More Attention To Baby Talk: It’s True In Any Language! Babies will pay more attention to baby talk than regular speech, regardless of which languages they’re used to hearing, according to a study released Tuesday by UCLA’s Language Acquisition Lab and 16 other labs around the globe. The study found that babies who were exposed to two languages had a greater interest in infant-directed speech […]
LACo COVID Numbers Drop To Orange Tier Level; Move Possible In Early April As expected, Los Angeles County’s COVID-19 case rate continued to fall Tuesday, putting the county on pace to move into an even less-restrictive tier of the state’s economic-reopening blueprint by early April, which would allow for higher capacity at many businesses. According to the state’s weekly update of county-by-county COVID figures, Los Angeles County’s average […]
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