| | | | Afternoon headlines for Thursday, June 10, 2021
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Horror Of Ex-Boyfriend Shooting Sleeping Palm Springs Woman In Leg Through Bedroom Window: Jury Selection, Alleged Attempted Murder  Jury selection got underway Thursday for the trial of a Desert Hot Springs man accused of shooting his ex-girlfriend in the leg through a window as she slept in her Palm Springs apartment. Sergio Juan Marques, 41, was arrested about 6 1/2 months after the June 8, 2019, shooting at the Palos Verdes Villas apartment […]
  
Innocent Dead Driver ID In Fiery High-Speed Street Racing Crash In Palmdale  Authorities Thursday identified a driver who died along with his passenger in a fiery collision when a Dodge Challenger involved in an illegal street race hit their car from behind, causing it to slam into a light pole and burst into flames. Paramedics pronounced both victims dead at the scene of the crash about 12:30 […]
CA Workplace Mask Rules In Limbo; Business Owners Protest In Santa Ana  A small group of business owners gathered outside a state occupational-safety office in Santa Ana Thursday, decrying potential regulations on workplace mask-wearing that they said would be onerous for employers and workers. The gathering came hours after a late-night decision Wednesday by the state Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to rescind those proposed regulations, […]
Man Suspected of Pretending to Be Cop, Stopping Woman Driving near Murrieta A 45-year-old man suspected of pretending to be a law enforcement officer and making a traffic stop near Murrieta was free Thursday on a $35,000 bond. Ryan Lee Meeker of San Jacinto was arrested and booked into the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta Wednesday on suspicion of impersonating a peace officer and child endangerment. He […]
Woman Sued by Justin Bieber for Defamation Represents Self at Hearing One of two women sued by Justin Bieber for defamation after they accused him in social media posts of sexual assault took part in a brief court hearing in the case Thursday and acted as her own attorney. Khadidja Djibrine Khadi appeared before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry A. Green, who referred the case […]
California Appeals Federal Judge’s Ruling Overturning Assault Weapon Ban State leaders announced Thursday that an appeal has been filed in response to a San Diego federal judge’s ruling that overturned California’s three-decade old ban on assault weapons. In addition to appealing U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez’s order that found the ban unconstitutional, California will ask the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to […]
Riverside Man Allegedly Caught with Two Pounds of Meth A 64-year-old Riverside man was allegedly caught with two pounds of methamphetamine that he intended to sell, police reported Thursday. George Lewis was booked Wednesday into the Robert Presley Jail on suspicion of possession of controlled substances and possession of controlled substances for distribution or sale, with bail set at $150,000. According to Riverside police […]
Port of LA Breaks Hemisphere’s Record With 10 Millionth Container in One Year The Port of Los Angeles, which has experienced record volume amid an online buying surge during the COVID-19 pandemic, became the first port in the Western Hemisphere Thursday to process 10 million container units in a one-year period. “The port is the beating heart of our economy, the backbone of our region’s prosperity, and the […]
Hyatt Hotels Corp. to Take Over Andaz Palm Springs Project Construction of an unfinished downtown Palm Springs hotel at the center of planned legal action lodged by the city will resume later this year under a new name, the developer announced Thursday. Formally known as the Andaz Hotel, the project located at 400 N. Palm Canyon Drive is slated to be rebranded as Thompson Palm […]
`Delta’ Variant Of COVID-19 Present In LACo, But Still In Small Numbers The so-called “Delta” variant of COVID-19 that is blamed for massive infection rates in India and case spikes in parts of the United Kingdom has been detected in Los Angeles County since early April, but the public health director said numbers have remained low thanks to the overall plunge in virus transmission rates. Barbara Ferrer […]
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