| | | | Afternoon headlines for Friday, January 29, 2021
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Innocent 6-Year-Old Crash Victim In Critical Condition: He’s Forced To Ride With Alleged Drunken-Driving Relative From Moreno Valley  A Moreno Valley man suspected of slamming his vehicle into a utility pole while drunk at the wheel and seriously injuring a 6-year-old relative riding with him was being held Friday in lieu of $90,000 bail. Salvador Joseph Barnes, 44, was arrested and booked into the Robert Presley Jail in Riverside on suspicion of driving […]
  
Son’s Bloody Baseball-Bat Bashing Murders Of Dad, Uncle And Alarm Tech: Killer Departs Mental Health Facility Before Attack, Gets Life, No Parole  An ex-minor league baseball player who killed his father, uncle and an alarm company technician with a bat in Corona was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A Riverside jury in November convicted 27-year-old Brandon Willie Martin of three counts of first-degree murder and found true a special- circumstance allegation […]
Attack On Trump’s Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame – Twice? Suspect Faces Felony Vandalism  A man accused of vandalizing Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame twice within a 28-day span in October is set to be arraigned Monday on felony vandalism charges. James Lambert Otis, 57, previously pleaded no contest to felony vandalism for using a pick axe and a sledgehammer to damage Trump’s star in […]
You Won’t Be Allowed To Watch The Super Bowl On A Restaurant Patio  After a two-month shutdown due to surging COVID-19 cases, patio dining returned to Los Angeles County Friday but with a new restriction forcing restaurants to turn off or remove all televisions from customer seating areas — a clear effort to prevent gatherings of sports fans. If you hoped to cheer the Chiefs or Tampa Bay […]
Felon Accused of Attempting to Kidnap Boy in Palm Springs Pleads Not Guilty A felon accused of trying to kidnap an 8-year-old boy, whose father came to his son’s rescue at a Palm Springs hotel, pleaded not guilty Friday to felony and misdemeanor charges. Joseph Ryan Harvey, 30, of Bermuda Dunes was taken into custody about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 400 block of South Indian Canyon Drive, […]
Winter Storm Brings Heavy Rain to Region, Mudslides to Fire Burn Areas Showers continued falling in parts of the Southland Friday following a night that saw steady downpours saturate roadways and hillsides, prompting mudslides from Azusa to Orange County, but the rain is expected to taper off as the day wears on. According to the National Weather Service, more than 2 inches of rain had fallen in […]
Metro Train Operator Shot and Wounded at Metro L Line Station in East LA A Metro train operator was shot Friday at the Indiana Station in East Los Angeles and was hospitalized in stable condition. The shooting occurred about 4:10 a.m. on the platform of the station, which handles the Metro L Line (formerly Gold Line) trains, according to Dave Sotero of Metro. The suspect fled and was being […]
Beverly Hills Doc Gets 3 Years Probation, Community Service in Fraud Case A 73-year-old physician — the last of 19 defendants in a $154 million medical insurance fraud scheme dating back more than two decades — was sentenced Friday to three years of formal probation, 1,000 hours of community service and ordered to pay $2.9 million in restitution. Dr. Mario Rosenberg, was indicted along with a dozen […]
Big Rig Overturns, Catches Fire, Hangs Off Edge of Freeway in Downtown L.A. A big rig rolled over, caught fire and came to rest partially hanging over the edge of the eastbound Santa Monica (10) Freeway in downtown Los Angeles early Friday amid a rainstorm, blocking lanes for several hours. The crash occurred about 3:35 a.m. near the Santa Fe Avenue exit, according to the California Highway Patrol. […]
Black Woman to Arbitrate Claim Race Played Role In Her Firing From Ad Agency A Black former director for a digital marketing agency in Los Angeles has agreed to arbitrate her claims she was fired last May for complaining about disparate treatment and inappropriate comments in the workplace. Lamees Barnett’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit against MuteSix Group Inc. was filed Aug. 25. She alleges racial discrimination and harassment, […]
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