| | | | | Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, September 15, 2020 |
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Sex Pix Of Suicidal Young Teen Girls Sends Perp To Prison: Threats Forced Victims To Send Explicit Images A Koreatown man was sentenced Tuesday to 17 1/2 years in federal prison for convincing minor teenage girls to send him sexually explicit images, then coercing his victims to send more with threats of publishing the images he initially obtained. After he is released from federal prison, Francisco Sanchez will be required to register as […]
Bloody Robbery First-Degree Murder Of Cal Poly Pomona Student: Appeals Court Rejects Woman’s Bid For New Sentence A state appeals court panel Tuesday rejected a woman’s contention that she should be re-sentenced in connection with the murder of a Cal Poly Pomona student who was driven into the mountains above Azusa, where her throat was slit. The three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal found that Markeisha Nicole Dixon was […]
Jewish Man Alleges Firing Was Anti-Semitism, Disagreement Over Black Lives Matter A Jewish man is suing an electronics manufacturing company, alleging he was fired in July in retaliation for complaining about alleged discrimination, and for expressing concerns about writing a company statement soliciting funds for Black Lives Matter due to his disagreement about BLM’s views on Israel. Dani Kollin’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit against Belkin […]
Air Quality Compromised Throughout Los Angeles County As the Bobcat Fire continued to spew smoke and ash into the air from the Angeles National Forest, regulators extended a smoke advisory for another day Tuesday across Los Angeles County. The South Coast Air Quality Management District said air quality would be unhealthy through Wednesday in nearly the entire county, even the coastal areas. […]
Bobcat Fire Moves Closer To Homes, Mount Wilson Observatory Firefighters battling the Bobcat Fire suffered a setback Tuesday when the extent of the fire’s containment shrank from 6% to 3%, and they struggled to protect the infrastructure at Mt. Wilson Observatory as flames crept closer to broadcast towers valued at more than a billion dollars. On Tuesday morning, the fire’s size increased to 41,231 […]
Orange County Reports 12 more COVID-19 Deaths, 150 New Cases A dozen more people in Orange County have succumbed to COVID-19, raising the death toll to 1,105, Orange County Health Care Agency officials reported Tuesday. The county also reported 150 new coronavirus diagnoses, raising the cumulative total to 51,124. Of the fatalities reported Tuesday, five were skilled nursing facility residents. Since the pandemic began, 418 […]
Young Woman’s Conviction Upheld for USC Student’s Killing A state appeals court Tuesday upheld a young woman’s conviction for her involvement as a 16-year-old in the beating death of a USC graduate student from China, but ordered the case against her to be sent back to the trial court for re-sentencing. The three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected Alejandra […]
LA County to Spend $5.5 Million on Homeowner Loans, Foreclosure Prevention After instituting multiple programs to help renters, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday agreed to spend $5.5 million to help prevent foreclosures and connect struggling homeowners with mortgage assistance. Supervisors Janice Hahn and Hilda Solis co-authored a motion calling for $4 million in funding for deferred and forgivable homeowner loans and $1.5 million […]
Landlords Sue State, County, Local Cities Over Rent, Eviction Measures A group of apartment owners and lessors are suing the state, Los Angeles County and multiple cities, alleging they have been forced through tenant eviction protection ordinances enacted during the coronavirus pandemic to shoulder financial burdens that should be borne by the public at large. The plaintiffs in the suit filed in Los Angeles Superior […]
Sun Valley Church Appeals Judge’s Order Banning Indoor Services Grace Community Church is appealing a judge’s order banning the Sun Valley house of worship from holding indoor church services during the coronavirus. The appeal was filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, four days after Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff issued a preliminary injunction, finding that allowing worshipping inside the church created an “immediate threat […]
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