| | | | The news for Thursday, April 29, 2021
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Shocked Cop Wounded In Wild Gunfight In Van Nuys Garage: Suspect Wore Body Armor, Had Stolen Gun  An off-duty Los Angeles Police officer was in a hospital Thursday recovering from a number of bullet wounds sustained in a Sherman Oaks apartment garage shootout with a suspect who was also hospitalized with gunshot wounds. According to police, the officer left his apartment and entered the subterranean locked parking garage of the complex in […]
  
Mars Helicopter to Fly Faster, Longer During Fourth Flight The history-making Ingenuity helicopter on Mars is scheduled to make its fourth flight Thursday, with mission managers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena vowing to push the rotorcraft’s “performance envelope.” The flight from Wright Brothers Field — the name given to the helicopter’s base on Mars — is scheduled to occur at 7:12 a.m. California […]
Ex-Con’s Failed Flee From Banning Cops: 12 Years In Prison For Trying To Drive Over Detective  A parolee will be spending a dozen years in state prison for trying to run over a Banning police officer during an attempted arrest. Jacob Victor Estrada, 27, of Banning was arrested on Aug. 25, 2018, after barricading himself inside a home for several hours. He had fled from officers who were attempting to take […]
Two Killed by Suspect Fleeing Authorities in Inglewood A man and woman were killed when a suspected impaired driver being chased by authorities crashed into their vehicle in Inglewood, authorities said Thursday morning. Officers saw a blue Dodge pickup truck speeding and running a red light on Century Boulevard near the San Diego (405) Freeway at 10:35 p.m. Wednesday, then the driver got […]
Orange County Reports Just 73 New COVID-19 Cases  Orange County has reported just 73 new COVID-19 cases and five more fatalities, most of which date back to February, as hospitalization rates inched downward. The new cases Wednesday pushed the county’s total to 253,737 since the pandemic began, while the death toll rose to 4,944. The number of COVID-19 patients in county hospitals decreased […]
County To Test Beach Evacuation Alert System In Torrance People congregating at Torrance Beach Thursday afternoon will see flashing lights and hear loud emergency alerts, but it’s only a test of a new beach-evacuation warning system. The county Department of Beaches and Harbors will be conducting the first official test of the Beach Emergency and Evacuation Lights System, or BEELS. The test is scheduled […]
Arraignment Set for Former Priest Charged With Lewd Acts on Four Boys Arraignment is set Thursday for a former Catholic priest who is charged with lewd acts on four boys at two parishes in Palmdale and Redondo Beach between the mid-1990s and 2001. Christopher John Cunningham, 58, was charged April 2 with a dozen felony counts of lewd acts on a child under the age of 14, […]
Woman Accused of Killing Thousand Palms Resident Due in Court A 30-year-old Arizona resident accused of gunning down a woman at an Indio motel is scheduled to make her initial court appearance Thursday. Carla Sharese Flores is suspected of fatally shooting 27-year-old Ashley Brito of Thousand Palms at the City Center Motel on March 31. Along with murder, Flores faces a sentence-enhancing allegation of discharging […]
Man, Woman, Suspected of Stealing Car, Arrested After Eight-Hour Standoff A man and woman who were barricaded inside an apartment in Irvine for more than eight hours following a high-speed pursuit of a stolen vehicle were in custody Thursday morning. The couple was suspected of stealing a Ford Mustang around 9 a.m. Wednesday from The Village at Irvine Spectrum apartment complex, located at 50 Prism […]
Body Found on Southbound 57 Freeway in Diamond Bar, Lanes Closed A person was found dead Thursday morning on the southbound Orange (57) Freeway in Diamond Bar. Officers responded at 1 a.m. to reports of a body in the slow lane of the freeway near Pathfinder Road, according to the California Highway Patrol. Details of what led to the person’s death were not available. All southbound […]
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