| | | | Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, August 25, 2020
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Son Charged with Stabbing Neighbor in San Clemente  The 28-year-old son of Hall of Fame basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is facing felony assault charges for allegedly stabbed a San Clemente neighbor multiple times over a dispute about trash cans, prosecutors said Tuesday. Adam Abdul-Jabbar is scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 9 at the Harbor Justice Center in Newport Beach on three counts of […]
  
Norwalk Woman Reported Missing in 2019 Is Found  A Norwalk woman who went missing more than a year ago in San Bernardino County has been found, authorities said Tuesday. Ericka Guerrero, then 29, was last seen at a party on July 20, 2019, and authorities sought public help to find her. On Tuesday morning, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reported that she […]
Helicopter Company In Fatal Kobe Bryant Crash Sues Air Traffic Controllers The company that operated the helicopter that crashed in Calabasas in January, killing Laker legend Kobe Bryant and eight others, is fighting back against lawsuits over the tragedy, filing a suit of its own contending air-traffic controllers are to blame for the crash. The suit, filed last week as a cross-complaint to litigation against Island […]
Roman Polanski Denied Oscar Academy Reinstatement: Famed Director Kicked Out Same Times As Imprisoned Bill Cosby  A judge Tuesday denied Roman Polanski’s bid for reinstatement to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, finding the Oscar-winning director was not denied due process when he was expelled in 2018 along with Bill Cosby. Polanski fled the United States in 1978 after being charged in Los Angeles with statutory rape of a […]
Orange County Reports 15 More COVID-19 Deaths Fifteen more people have succumbed to COVID-19 in Orange County, hiking the death toll to 912, and officials also reported 335 new cases of coronavirus Tuesday, raising the cumulative total to 46,642. Of the deaths reported Tuesday, three were skilled nursing facility residents and two lived in assisted living facilities. Of the total death toll, […]
Judge Denies LA County’s Fourth Bid For TRO Against Church A judge Tuesday denied Los Angeles County’s fourth bid for a temporary restraining order directing a Sun Valley church to refrain from holding indoor church services, finding that the court had no authority to issue such a directive. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff found that a 2nd District Court of Appeal decision on […]
SoFi Stadium To Hold NFL Games Without Fans for Now Rams and Chargers games at the brand-new SoFi Stadium in Inglewood will be held without fans until further notice due to the coronavirus pandemic, a widely expected move announced Tuesday in joint statement from the teams and stadium officials. The statement said the decision was made after careful consideration and discussion with state and local […]
LA Council Votes To Initiate Process of Making Juneteenth City Holiday The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to initiate the process of making Juneteenth an official city holiday to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States. Councilmen Curren Price, Herb Wesson and Marqueece Harris-Dawson filed the initial motion to have the city holiday established. “For myself and nearly a half million Black […]
`West Wing’ Cast, Sorkin Will Stage Classic Episode of NBC Show for Benefit The original cast of the long-running, Emmy-winning series “The West Wing” will stage and stream a theatrical performance of one of the show’s episodes to benefit the nonprofit organization When We All Vote. Show creator Aaron Sorkin will executive produce alongside Thomas Schlamme — who will also direct — and producer Casey Patterson. The performance […]
Lobbyist Agrees to Plead Guilty in LA City Hall Bribery Scheme A longtime Los Angeles City Hall lobbyist and close associate of suspended Councilman Jose Huizar was charged Tuesday with acting as the middleman in a bribery scheme in which a developer client agreed to give $50,000 in political donations in exchange for Huizar’s support of the businessman’s Arts District project. In a plea agreement also […]
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