| | | | Afternoon headlines for Thursday, April 8, 2021
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Killer Mom Tortured, Starved 8-Year-Old Son In Palmdale: She Now Demands Release From Life Sentence  A Palmdale woman who pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of her 8-year-old son — who was routinely beaten, starved, forced to sleep in a closet and tortured until his 2013 death — has filed court papers seeking a new hearing in her case. Pearl Sinthia Fernandez, who was convicted along with her boyfriend, Isauro […]
  
Embezzling $36 Million, Hiding In Costa Rica Gets Crooked Accounting Manager from Orange 10+ Years  A former accounting manager from Orange who fled to Costa Rica to escape charges of embezzling about $36 million from his employer was sentenced Thursday to 126 months in federal prison. Paul McDaniel, 44, fled to Costa Rica in early 2017 but was arrested later that year and subsequently extradited to Los Angeles, according to […]
Rattlesnake Bite Horror: Victim Airlifted From Desert Center For Emergency Hospital Treatment  A rattlesnake-bite victim in Desert Center was airlifted to an area hospital for treatment Thursday. The bite was reported at 11:06 a.m. at the Lake Tamarisk Desert Resort, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. The unidentified victim entered the fire department at 43880 Tamarisk Drive, complaining of a snakebite. Firefighters tended to the victim […]
Mom Murdered In Deadly Argument With Riverside Son? Alleged Slasher Pleads ‘Not Guilty’  A Riverside man accused of fatally stabbing his 62-year-old mother pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder. Otis James Porter, 38, was arrested immediately after the alleged March 21 late afternoon attack on Linda Coleman at her apartment in the 4200 block of Monroe Street, near California Avenue. Along with murder, Porter is charged with using […]
Families Fractured In Grim Toll: At least 37,000 Innocent US Kids Have Lost A Parent To COVID-19 Between 37,000 and 43,000 children in the United States have lost at least one parent to COVID-19, a “staggering” 20% increase in parental loss over a typical year, according to a USC study released Thursday. The scope of deaths “is forever imprinting the lives of tens of thousands of young Americans,” said study co-author Emily […]
Bloody Murder At Airbnb Rental: Mystery Motive In Cathedral City Business Meeting A Las Vegas man who stabbed his co-worker several times inside an Airbnb rental in Cathedral City was awaiting transfer to state prison Thursday to serve out a seven-year sentence after striking a deal with prosecutors. Francisco Michael Fisher, 21, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of assault with a deadly weapon and a sentence-enhancing […]
Too Many Suicides On Metrolink Tracks: Feds Fund Effort To Halt Horrible Deaths Metrolink announced Thursday it has received a $59,000 federal grant to fund a campaign aimed at deterring people from committing suicide on its train tracks. Metrolink officials said suicides accounted for 40% of all incidents of trains striking pedestrians between 2017 and 2019. The grant from the Federal Railroad Administration will fund an outreach campaign […]
She’s Already Convicted Of An Earlier DUI, But Now She’s Accused Of DUI Killing: Trial! A probationer accused of killing a 53-year-old pedestrian while driving under the influence in Perris must stand trial on a second-degree murder charge, a judge ruled Thursday. Lizbet Diaz, 29, of Riverside is accused of running over Rogelio Merlan of Moreno Valley on the night of Nov. 9, 2019. Following a preliminary hearing at the […]
Ex-NCAA Wrestler Convicted of Assaulting Two Women Sentenced to 2 Years A onetime NCAA champion wrestler convicted of beating up one woman and sexually assaulting another at his Coachella Valley ranch was handed a two-year state prison sentence Thursday. Wayne Eric Boyd, 74, of Sky Valley was convicted in August 2019 of criminal threats and assault with the intent to commit mayhem, rape, sodomy or oral […]
CSULA Vaccine Site Overrun Following News Of No-Appointment Shots Hundreds of people lined up early at Cal State Los Angeles’ mass vaccination site Thursday after word spread that COVID-19 shots were available without an appointment, but by mid-morning site managers were turning people away, citing a surge that gobbled up available doses. The governor’s Office of Emergency Services said Wednesday that many appointments for […]
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