| | | | Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, May 25, 2021
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Killer’s Desperate Victim On 911 As She’s Gunned Down In Covina Hills Break-In: Teen’s Murder Conviction Conditionally Reversed  A state appeals court panel Tuesday conditionally reversed the murder conviction of one of three young men convicted in the 2008 murder of a woman who was shot while calling 911 to report a break-in at her Covina Hills home. The three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal ordered the case against Christopher […]
  
Gold Bars Stolen At LAX: Cargo Handlers Arrested By FBI  Two employees who worked at Los Angeles International Airport for a cargo handling company were arrested Tuesday and charged with stealing four gold bars that were part of a larger shipment going from Australia to New York. Marlon Moody, 38, and Brian Benson, 35, both of South Los Angeles, were arrested without incident by special […]
When Will It Stop? More Vehicles Blasted By Scary Nerve-Shattering BB Gunfire On Riverside, OC Freeways  Another vehicle’s window was blown out Tuesday morning by BB or pellet gun fire in Riverside, with two more vehicles damaged in Orange County, sending the soaring vandalism tally this past month up to about 100 in the Southland. No one has been injured in the spate of unsolved window-shattering attacks on the freeways in […]
Hunt For Little Boy’s Road-Rage Freeway Killer: Orange County Supervisors OK $100,000 Reward The Orange County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved $100,000 in reward money leading to the arrest and conviction of a suspect in the road-rage fatal shooting of 6-year-old Aiden Leos on the Costa Mesa (55) Freeway in Orange. Orange County Supervisor Don Wagner offered up $50,000 from his office’s discretionary budget, and then Supervisor Katrina […]
Second Suspect Arrested In Pro-Palestinian Hate Crime Attack On Jewish Men At La Cienega Restaurant A second suspect was arrested Tuesday for allegedly taking part in an attack on Jewish diners outside a Beverly Grove-area restaurant, an assault carried out by occupants of a caravan of vehicles waving Palestinian flags. Samer Jayylusi, 35, of Whittier, was arrested about 1 a.m. Tuesday in Anaheim and was booked on suspicion of assault […]
Black Blood Taker At UCLA Suffered Discrimination, Harassment, Bullying? Lawsuit Settled A Black former phlebotomist who took blood at UCLA medical facilities in Santa Monica and Westwood settled her suit against the University of California Board of Regents, in which she alleged that her supervisors and co-workers engaged in a pattern of racially motivated discrimination, harassment and bullying. Lawyers for 40-year-old Takesha Essombe maintained that she […]
Orange County Records 22 New Cases of COVID-19 Weekly averages released Tuesday show a continued decline in COVID-19 cases in Orange County as it maintains its status in the least-restrictive yellow tier. The county also reported just 22 new COVID-19 infections, upping the cumulative caseload to 255,070. According to the weekly state data released every Tuesday, the average for the county’s daily case […]
Rallies Mark One-Year Anniversary Of George Floyd’s Death On the one-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd — a Black man who killing by Minneapolis police sparked waves of protests nationally — activists rallied outside Los Angeles City Hall Tuesday to continue their push for changes in law enforcement and major slashes in police funding. The group of about 200 people rallied […]
Alex Trebek, Larry King Are Dead, But They’re Still In Running For Daytime Emmy Awards Nominations were announced Tuesday for the 48th annual Daytime Emmy Awards, including posthumous nods for longtime “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek and talk show host Larry King. Trebek was nominated for outstanding game show host, an award he has won seven times previously, along with a 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television […]
Torrance Boy, 12, Collapsed Running Required School Laps And Later Died Despite Flu: Judge OK’s Trial A lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles Unified School District by the parents of a 12-year-old Torrance boy who collapsed while running laps in 2018 and later died can go to trial on a negligence claim, but not on the plaintiffs’ premises liability allegation, a judge ruled Tuesday. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Edward B. […]
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