| | | | Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, September 24, 2024
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OC Judge Accused of Killing Wife Has Bail Revoked, Taken into Custody An Orange County Superior Court judge charged with fatally shooting his wife was ordered to be taken into custody Tuesday for violating the terms of his release last year on $1 million bond. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Eleanor J. Hunter doubled Jeffrey Malcolm Ferguson’s bail to $2 million and said he can’t go to […]
  
City of LA Moves to Strengthen Tenant Anti-Harassment Laws In a significant win for renters across Los Angeles, the City Council Tuesday moved forward a package of changes to its tenant anti-harassment ordinance with the goal of strengthening protections for tenants against abusive landlords. In a 12-0 vote, council members instructed the City Attorney’s Office to amend what is known as the TAHO ordinance, […]
LACo Advances Development of Year-Round Emergency Homeless Shelters  The Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved the development of year-round emergency homelessness shelters operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Under a motion by Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Lindsey Horvath, the board directed the county CEO to report back with a strategy to establish eight round-the-clock shelters, one in each of the […]
Containment of Bridge Fire Grows to 81%  Containment of the Bridge Fire in the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument rose to 81% Tuesday as crews continued efforts to extinguish hot spots and extend lines of cleared vegetation around the burn area. The fire in the Sheep Mountain Wilderness has burned 54,878 acres and threatened 4,409 structures. It has destroyed 81 structures and […]
Pedestrian Struck and Killed by Fire Truck Outside Long Beach Firehouse  A fire truck responding to a call for service struck and killed a man in the Belmont Shore area of Long Beach early Tuesday, authorities said. The collision was reported around 12:40 a.m. in the 5300 block of East Second Street, according to the Long Beach Police Department. “The preliminary investigation indicates LBFD personnel were […]
Man Struck and Killed by Bus in Hacienda Heights Area of LA County  Authorities Tuesday identified a man who was struck and killed by a Foothill Transit bus in the unincorporated Hacienda Heights area of Los Angeles County. Officers responded near the intersection of Azusa Avenue and Pepper Brook Way around 5:45 p.m. Monday regarding a collision involving an unresponsive pedestrian, according to the California Highway Patrol. On […]
Fire Knocked Down at West LA Commercial Building  Firefighters have concluded a defensive, hours-long battle against a “stubborn” fire at a vacant two-story commercial building in West Los Angeles that featured a controlled demolition, authorities said Tuesday. Crews were sent to the 2000 block of South Bundy Drive, near Olympic Boulevard, at about 6:15 a.m. Monday, the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Brian Humphrey […]
Woman Suing Northrop Grumman for Harassment Ordered to Undergo Deposition  A woman suing Northrop Grumman for sexual harassment must submit to a deposition by company attorneys in a judge’s courtroom in the near future, the judge has ruled. In her Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit, Elizabeth Ann Green alleges that after she complained about being sexually harassed by a manager, she was marginalized, her hours […]
Diddy Faces New Rape Allegation  Sean “Diddy” Combs, already jailed in connection with a federal indictment alleging racketeering and sex trafficking, was hit with a new rape allegation Tuesday by a woman who contends in a lawsuit the music mogul and another man sexually assaulted her at a New York music studio two decades ago. Speaking at a Los Angeles […]
Man Charged with Molesting 4 Girls in Santa Ana A 48-year-old man was charged Tuesday with sexually assaulting four girls in Santa Ana. Emiliano Salomon Bautista was charged with five felony counts of lewd acts with a child younger than 14, a count of lewd or lascivious act with a minor and a count of forcible lewd act on a child. The criminal complaint […]
Second Mansion in Hollywood Hills Vandalized Another abandoned multimillion-dollar mansion in the Hollywood Hills has been covered with graffiti, bringing to two the number of eyesore homes in the area owned by the same person. The latest four-story home targeted by vandals sits on Sunset Plaza Drive and has been abandoned for years, neighbor Jorgen Christiansson told KTLA5. “It’s just such […]
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