| | | | Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, April 20, 2021
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Justice Served, No One Above The Law, Victory For Justice: Southland Leaders On George Floyd Murder Verdict  Southland leaders reacted quickly Tuesday to the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, while law enforcement agencies remained on heightened alert in response to possible rallies or protests. “Justice has been served! I think we can breathe a sigh of relief,” Assemblyman Mike Gipson, D-Gardena, wrote on […]
  
Anti-Asian Hate Crime Horror: Homeless Man Charged In Attack On Korean-Descent Couple, 79 And 80  A 26-year-old transient was charged Tuesday with anti-Asian hate crimes in an attack on an elderly couple in a park in Orange. Michael Orlando Vivona, 26, was charged with two counts of inflicting injury on an elder adult and two counts of violation of a civil rights with violent injury, all felonies. He also faces […]
Wrong-Way DUI Tustin Cop Chase Murder Charge: Innocent 62-Year-Old Killed In Head-On Crash  A Diamond Bar man previously convicted of driving under the influence in Riverside was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder for allegedly triggering a fatal wrong-way crash on the border of Irvine and Tustin while eluding police. Pedro Pantoja Jr., 29, was also charged with driving under the influence of a drug causing injury, unlawful taking […]
Bad News For Ex-Rep. Katie Hill In Revenge Porn Lawsuit Over Nude Pix  A judge is poised to deal Katie Hill another legal blow by issuing a tentative ruling Tuesday dismissing Salem Media Group as a defendant in the former congresswoman’s revenge porn lawsuit alleging nude photos of her were published without her permission. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Yolanda Orozco wrote that Salem Media, owner of the […]
Brush Fire in Lincoln Heights Area Spreads to Structures; Evacuations Ordered A brush fire spread to at least two structures Tuesday in the Lincoln Heights area of Los Angeles and triggered evacuations. Firefighters were sent to the 2800 block of North Sierra Street about 1:25 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The fire had spread to about three to four acres by 2 p.m., […]
Poor Baby Gray Whale Tangled In Fishing Lines Spotted Near San Clemente: Life-And-Death Rescue Race Whale watchers up and down the coast of Southern California Tuesday were on the lookout for an entangled baby gray whale first spotted near the San Clemente Pier. Efforts to disentangle what appeared to be fishing lines wrapped around the calf’s head were unsuccessful Monday as rescuers on an inflatable and two support boats attempted […]
Black Couple’s Descendants Could Get Manhattan Beach’s Bruce’s Beach Back After Government ‘Injustice’ The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to return a scenic and valuable parcel of Manhattan Beach land to the descendants of a Black couple who once operated a beach resort there — before the city condemned and seized the site to force them out of business. Acting on a motion by […]
LA County Daily COVID Infections Drop, But Yellow Tier Still Out Of Reach Los Angeles County’s average daily rate of new COVID-19 cases fell again Tuesday, but still remained too high to allow a move to the least-restrictive yellow tier of the state’s economic reopening blueprint. To advance to the yellow tier of the Blueprint for a Safer Economy, the county would need a seven-day average new case […]
Attorneys Urge Former Patients of UCLA Gynecologist to Opt Out of Settlement Attorneys representing former UCLA students who allege they were sexually abused by disgraced ex-campus gynecologist/oncologist James Heaps urged other former patients to opt out of a $73 million federal class-action settlement before the May 6 deadline. A federal judge in January gave preliminary approval of the settlement in which the University of California system agreed […]
Vehicle Crashes Into Pomona Apartment Building: Gas Leak, Trapped Victim, Evacuation  A vehicle crashed into an apartment building in Pomona Tuesday, injuring one trapped person as a natural gas leak endangered residents who were immediately evacuated. The crash was reported about 8:45 a.m. in the 1600 block of South Garey Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The injured person, who was freed from […]
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