| | | | Afternoon headlines for Friday, February 26, 2021
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Rape Of 87-Year-Old Dementia Victim At Santa Ana Senior Living Facility: Male Nurse Arrested  A male nurse is behind bars on suspicion of raping an 87-year-old woman with dementia at a senior living facility in Santa Ana, where he had worked for three years, police reported Friday. Juan Sandoval, 33, of Orange, was booked on suspicion of rape, elder abuse and kidnapping with the intent to commit rape, with […]
  
Lady Gaga’s ‘Heart Is Sick’ Over Dognappings, ‘Praying My Family Will Be Whole Again’: Wounded Dogwalker ‘Forever A Hero’  Pop star and actress Lady Gaga made a public plea Friday for the return of her French bulldogs that were stolen during a shooting in Hollywood, and she praised the dog walker who was shot during the crime. In her first public statement since the Wednesday night crime, Lady Gaga took to social media, posting […]
Innocent 3-Year-Old Was Shootout Shield When Murdered In Compton: Ex-Cons Sentenced To 103 Years To Life  Calling the case “tragic,” a judge Friday sentenced two ex-cons to potential life prison terms for the murder of a 3-year-old boy who was struck by gunfire during a shootout in the parking lot of a Compton liquor store just over three years ago. Superior Court Judge Pat Connolly imposed the longest term — 103 […]
Fatal Fentanyl Kills Teen Girl: Suspected Supplier Recovers From Own Drug Coma But Faces Murder Accusation A man suspected of supplying a lethal dose of fentanyl to an 18-year-old French Valley girl was being held without bail Friday. Raymond Gene Tyrrell of French Valley was arrested and booked Thursday into the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta on suspicion of murder. According to Riverside County sheriff’s Sgt. Rick Espinoza, Tyrrell allegedly provided […]
LA County Preps For Monday Expansion Of COVID Vaccine Effort, Urges Patience Los Angeles County’s COVID-19 vaccination effort will expand vastly Monday when doses are offered to many essential workers, but health officials said Friday those workers will have to be patient as vaccine supplies remain limited and staff are trained to ensure only eligible people receive shots. Vaccinations will be made available starting Monday to workers […]
Hunt For Killer In Bloody Slashing In Anaheim Hotel A transient was fatally stabbed in the courtyard of an Anaheim hotel Friday. The victim, whose name was not immediately released, was in his 30s, said Anaheim police Sgt. Steve Pena. About 12:10 a.m., a caller told police there was a fight that led to a stabbing, Pena said. Police found the victim, who had […]
Mobile COVID Vaccine Clinic Targets Essential Workers In South L.A. Hundreds of eligible “essential workers” were administered COVID-19 vaccines Friday at a mobile clinic in South Los Angeles, an effort to reach out to Black and Latino communities that have lagged behind in the vaccination effort. The mobile vaccination clinic at a Service Employees International Union hall just south of downtown was operated by the […]
Member of Trio Accused of Abducting, Killing Anza Man to be Arraigned One of three men accused of abducting, severely beating and fatally shooting an Anza man because they believed he might betray their trust concerning a series of marijuana farm thefts is slated to be arraigned a week from Friday. Joe Anthony Serna, 35, of Anza is charged with first-degree murder, assault and a special-circumstance allegation […]
One LAX Arrival Runway To Temporarily Close For $17.3 Million Overhaul A runway and two taxiways on the south side of the LAX airfield are scheduled to undergo a $17.3 million renovation Friday beginning Friday, but travelers are not expected to be impacted. Crews with Sully-Miller Contracting Co. will remove about 6,000 feet of the runway’s asphalt surface, as well as Taxiways H6 and H7. They […]
OC Congressional Reps Ask FEMA for Mass Vaccination Site in Anaheim Reps. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, and Young Kim, R-Placentia, Friday asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to bring a large COVID-19 vaccination site to Anaheim, which came as welcome news to Orange County officials as they have been able to provide more inoculations with delayed doses arriving this week. “I would welcome any help we […]
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