| | | | Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, July 20, 2021
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Harvey Weinstein Extradited to Los Angeles  Disgraced former film producer Harvey Weinstein was extradited from New York to Los Angeles Tuesday, where he is charged with sex-related counts involving five women between 2004 and 2013. “Today Harvey Weinstein was brought to LA stemming from an extradition warrant that was issued for several felony sexual assault charges,” the Los Angeles Police Department […]
  
Trump Inaugural Chairman Indicted For Alleged Lobbying On Behalf Of UAE  Thomas Barrack, who chaired President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, was arrested Tuesday in the Los Angeles area in connection with a federal indictment accusing him and two others of unlawfully lobbying on behalf of the United Arab Emirates during the 2016 presidential campaign and beyond. Barrack, 74, of Santa Monica, was named in a seven-count […]
‘Jeffersons’ Actress Marla Gibbs Overcome As She Receives Walk Of Fame Star  Five-time Emmy-nominated actress Marla Gibbs, best known for portraying sassy maid Florence Johnston on “The Jeffersons,” received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Tuesday in a ceremony that was abbreviated when Gibbs appeared to suffer a bout of heat exhaustion. Gibbs, 90, was just beginning to speak at the Hollywood Boulevard ceremony when […]
Man Fatally Shot in Watts A young man was fatally shot in Watts, and authorities Tuesday were looking for the suspect or suspects involved in the crime. The victim, who was in his 20s, was shot at about 4:25 a.m. Monday near 115th and Grape streets and died at the scene, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. His name […]
Hundreds of Baby Birds in Danger of Drowning in Long Beach  A rescue effort to save some baby birds from drowning in Long Beach Harbor continued Tuesday, with around 500 chicks saved so far. According to officials at Aquarium of the Pacific, the Elegant Terns formed a colony on two barges in the harbor, but the chicks keep falling into the water. Because they have not […]
Ex-Con Charged in Killing of Woman in Long Beach An ex-con was charged Tuesday in the shooting death of a woman in Long Beach. Nathaniel Mathias Ford, 45, is set to be arraigned Aug. 19 on one felony count each of murder, possession of a firearm by a felon and unlawful possession of ammunition, along with two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic […]
BLM, Others Call For Firing of LAPD Chief Over South LA Explosion Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles and several people who phoned in to the Los Angeles Police Commission meeting Tuesday called for Police Chief Michel Moore to be fired and for the city to pay reparations to residents affected by a destructive fireworks explosion set off by an LAPD bomb squad. The June 30 blast in South […]
Man Fatally Shot in Paramount; Shooter Still At Large A 19-year-old man was fatally shot Tuesday in Paramount, and the suspect or suspects involved in the crime were being sought. Deputies went to the 8200 block of Somerset Boulevard at about 12:55 a.m. on a report of a shooting, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. “When the deputies arrived, they found a […]
Kevin De León Is Third LA Council Member Targeted For Recall Los Angeles Councilman Kevin de León was served a recall notice Tuesday, making him the third L.A. City Council member to be targeted for a recall from constituents upset with their handling of the city’s homelessness crisis. “They’re basically citing the fact that he’s building the tiny homes project both in Highland Park and presumably […]
Man Arrested in Kidnapping of Elderly Woman at VA Center in West LA A New York man was scheduled to appear in federal court Tuesday afternoon on a kidnapping charge stemming from his alleged abduction of a 68-year-old woman with dementia at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Johnny Ray Gasca, 51, of Bronx, New York, was charged in a federal criminal complaint filed Tuesday with […]
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