| | | | | Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, August 18, 2020 |
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Intense Heatwave Could Mean You’ll Be In The Dark Without Air Conditioning With the heat again baking the Southland and much of the state, residents were being urged again Tuesday to conserve energy wherever possible to avoid strain on the power grid and possible rolling blackouts. A statewide Flex Alert issued by the California Independent System Operator, which manages the state power grid, will be in effect […]
Hubby, 83, Slashed By Wife In Murder Dozen Years Ago: She’ll Be Sentenced After First Trial Prosecutor Misconduct Sentencing was rescheduled Tuesday to Sept. 18 for a woman who fatally stabbed her 83-year-old husband at their Rancho Mirage home a dozen years ago. In 2012, an Indio jury found Marsha Kay Esswein, now 74, guilty of first-degree murder in the Aug. 8, 2008, death of her husband, Richard Esswein, at their home in […]
LA County Reports Another 64 Coronavirus Deaths Los Angeles County reported another 64 deaths due to the coronavirus Tuesday, but a lack of results from a large lab resulted in an unusually low number of 1,003 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19. The 64 fatalities, along with five reported by health officials in Long Beach, lifted the countywide total since the start of […]
Horrified Victims’ Relatives Confront Serial Murderer ‘Golden State Killer’ Before Sentencing The Golden State Killer began hearing victim impact statements Tuesday from women he raped, with testimonies scheduled to continue through Thursday, when Orange County’s victims will have their say. The victim impact statements preceding the sentencing of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., 74, began with some of the many victims he raped when he was known […]
Man’s Latest Appeal Denied for Crash That Killed 13-Month-Old in Long Beach A state appellate court has rejected the latest appeal from a man convicted of second-degree murder and other charges for driving drunk and hitting a 13-month-old girl who was being pulled by her father in a wagon in a crosswalk in Long Beach more than a decade ago. Neely Le’jon Dinkins — who is serving […]
OC Reports 287 New COVID-19 Cases; Hospitalizations Dropping Orange County reported 287 new cases of COVID-19 and five more deaths Tuesday, raising the county’s totals to 44,212 cases and 815 fatalities since the pandemic began. Of the five deaths reported Tuesday, two were skilled nursing facility residents and two were assisted living facility residents. The number of people hospitalized for COVID-19 in the […]
L.A. Joins Lawsuit to Block Census Bureau from Changing Response Deadline City Attorney Mike Feuer announced Tuesday that Los Angeles has joined other cities and national organizations in filing a lawsuit to block the shortening of the U.S. Census response deadline, now set for the end of September. In April, when the COVID-19 pandemic was fairly new and stay-at-home orders had been issued in certain regions […]
Charges Expected Against Man Suspected of Killing Wife, Wounding Son Murder and other charges are expected to be filed Wednesday against a 39-year-old San Bernardino man suspected of gunning down his wife and wounding his teenage son in Eastvale. Rahman Leon Hunter was arrested Sunday and was being held without bail at the Smith Correctional Facility in Banning. According to Riverside County sheriff’s Sgt. Steve […]
SpaceX Sets Rocket-Reuse Milestone With Satellite Launch Hawthorne-based SpaceX set a record Tuesday for the reuse of its workhorse Falcon 9 rockets when it launched another batch of internet satellites into orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket that was used in Tuesday morning’s launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida has been used in five previous missions. It became the first to be successfully […]
Homeless Man Charged With Starting Azusa Wildfire A homeless man who allegedly set a brush fire that has charred at least 3,900 acres and forced evacuations of some homes last week in Azusa was charged Tuesday with two felony arson counts. Osmin Palencia, who lives in a tent near the Mountain Cave community, allegedly started the blaze during an argument last Thursday, […]
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