| | | | Afternoon headlines for Thursday, August 19, 2021
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Judge Denies Woman’s Request For Restraining Order Against Trevor Bauer  A Los Angeles judge Thursday denied a woman’s request for a five-year extension of a domestic violence temporary restraining order against Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer, ruling the woman’s claims of overly rough sex were refuted by evidence that the pitcher never went beyond boundaries the accuser herself had set. Bauer’s 27-year-old accuser, a […]
  
Inmate Dies in Cell at Downtown Riverside Jail  An autopsy was pending Thursday on an inmate discovered dead in his cell at the Robert Presley Jail in downtown Riverside. Riverside County sheriff’s Sgt. Deanna Pecoraro said the man was discovered unconscious in his cell about 4:20 a.m. Wednesday, and correctional staff attempted life-saving measures. Paramedics reached the facility 15 minutes later and pronounced […]
Attorney: Defendant Made `Extremely Poor Decisions,’ But Didn’t Commit Murder  A 39-year-old drunken driver who fatally struck a California Highway Patrol officer writing a ticket on the shoulder of Interstate 15 in Lake Elsinore made “extremely poor decisions,” but they don’t translate to murder, an attorney argued Thursday. “This case was horrific,” defense attorney Kerry Armstrong told a Murrieta jury during his closing statement in […]
Woman Pushing Cart Killed Crossing Intersection Near Riverside Airport  An investigation was underway Thursday into the death of a woman who was struck by a car while crossing an intersection near Riverside Municipal Airport. The fatality occurred about 9:15 p.m. Wednesday at Central and Wilderness avenues, just south of the airport boundary, according to the Riverside Police Department. Sgt. Emilio Angulo said the victim, […]
OC’s COVID-19 Hospitalizations Tick Up, Offering Hope of Leveling Off COVID-19 hospitalizations in Orange County ticked up Thursday by a slighter margin than recent days, offering some hope that the Delta variant-fueled surge is slowing. “I look at the positivity date of infections and those numbers seem to indicate that the larger numbers were 10 days behind us so I’m hoping that indicates we’ve plateaued […]
Irvine Police Searching for Hit-and-Ru Driver Who Seriously Injured Pedestrian The Irvine Police Department put out a call Thursday for public help in identifying a Jaguar driver who struck and seriously injured a pedestrian in a crosswalk last week. The 31-year-old victim was crossing Encanto at Molino when she was struck last Thursday at about 5:30 p.m. The woman, whose name was withheld, sustained a […]
Parolee Pleads Guilty to Stealing Humvee from Army Base in Upland A parolee pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing a military Humvee worth more than $200,000 from an Army Reserve Center in Upland and leading police on a chase. Armando Garcia, 30, of Pomona pleaded guilty to a federal charge of theft of United States government property. At the time of the offense, Garcia was on parole […]
`Staggering & Deeply Upsetting’: LA County Tops 25,000 COVID Deaths With the Delta variant of COVID-19 continuing to rage, Los Angeles County crossed the grim milestone of 25,000 virus deaths since the pandemic began, with the public health director lamenting that vaccinations makes virtually all COVID fatalities preventable. “When you think that over 18 months we’ve lost 25,000 people, it’s staggering and deeply upsetting,” Barbara […]
More Than $50K in Reimbursements Approved to Cover Bobcat Fire Damages The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services Thursday announced the approval of more than $50,000 in reimbursements to help cover damages to Arcadia and Monrovia caused by last year’s Bobcat Fire. The funding will help cover the costs of engineering and constructing a parking lot at the entrance of Canyon Park in Monrovia, and the […]
Man Shot to Death in Carson; Suspect Sought A man was shot to death in Carson Thursday and police were searching for a suspect. The shooting was reported about 12:55 p.m. in the 23600 block of South Moneta Avenue, near the Harbor (110) Freeway, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. His name was […]
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