| | | | Afternoon headlines for Monday, May 3, 2021
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Killer Mom’s Death Sentence Reversed In Murder Of Her Four Little Daughters In Santa Clarita Inferno  The California Supreme Court Monday reversed a Santa Clarita woman’s death sentence for murdering her four young daughters in an arson fire at the family’s home more than two decades ago. The state’s highest court upheld Sandi Dawn Nieves’ conviction for the killings, but cited the “trial court’s misconduct” in overturning the 57-year-old woman’s […]
  
Excruciating Pain Of Victim Set On Fire By Gasoline-Throwing Homeless Woman: Five Years In Prison  A homeless woman who poured gasoline on a homeless man and set him on fire in a horrifying, excruciating attack was sentenced Monday to five years in state prison. The victim’s mother tried to speak at the sentencing hearing, but was overcome with emotion and someone else had to explain that the mother believes her […]
They’re Not Cops! Fake Officers Carjack Burbank Victims Who End Up In Handcuffs  Burbank police Monday sought public help to find two men who carjacked a vehicle at gunpoint while impersonating police officers over the weekend. The crime was reported about 1:50 a.m. Saturday in the 3000 block of North Naomi Street, said Burbank police Sgt. Emil Brimway. “Officers arrived on scene and encountered two victims who were […]
Deadly Stumbling Walk Down Santa Monica (10) Freeway On-Ramp: Vehicle Kills Disoriented Woman  A stumbling, disoriented woman was killed by a vehicle as she walked down an on-ramp to the Santa Monica (10) Freeway late at night in Santa Monica, authorities said Monday. The incident was reported at 10:33 p.m. Sunday on the Cloverfield Boulevard on-ramp to the eastbound Santa Monica Freeway, according to California Highway Patrol […]
Insanity Plea Fails For Now For Fatal Trader Joe’s Shooting Suspect: Judge Rules He’s Competent For Trial A man accused of engaging in a gunfight with police that resulted in the death of an assistant manager at a Trader Joe’s store in Silver Lake in 2018 was found competent Monday to stand trial. The suspect allegedly shot his grandmother and girlfriend before a wild police chase that ended in a televised standoff […]
Kobe Bryant Widow Battles LA County Over Deputies Crash Photos Los Angeles County attorneys contend Vanessa Bryant has no legal basis to sue four sheriff’s deputies alleged to have shared unauthorized photos taken at the site of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others, according to court papers obtained Monday. Bryant alleges in her lawsuit that deputies who responded to […]
`60 Minutes” Bill Whitaker To Debut as `Jeopardy!’ Guest Host “60 Minutes” correspondent Bill Whitaker will debut as the guest host of “Jeopardy!” Monday evening with contestant winnings during his two-week tenure matched and donated to the Media Fellowship House. The Media Fellowship House in the Philadelphia suburb of Media, Pennsylvania, focuses on creating programs, organizing coalitions and facilitating conversations that promote diversity and understanding […]
L.A. Officials Call For $20 Billion In State Funding For Homeless Crisis Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, D-Los Angeles, and two Los Angeles City Council members Monday joined a growing number of officials calling for the state to provide cities with $20 billion over five years to address the statewide homeless crisis. Calling homelessness in California “a growing dystopian nightmare of all cities,” Councilman Kevin de Leon, who represents […]
Orange County Reports 55 New COVID-19 Cases As Hospitalizations Drop Below 100 Orange County’s number of COVID-19 hospitalizations fell out of triple-digits for the first time in months Monday, while the county also reported just 55 new infections and did not log any further fatalities. “That’s amazing,” Andrew Noymer, a UC Irvine professor of population health and disease prevention, told City News Service of the hospitalization number. […]
LACo Reports No COVID Deaths Again, Although Reporting Lags Contribute Although the numbers are likely due to weekend reporting lags, Los Angeles County announced zero COVID-19 deaths for the second day in a row Monday as the public health director expressed confidence the county will move up to the least-restrictive tier of the economic-reopening blueprint this week. COVID-19 case and death numbers are traditionally low […]
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