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They Cut Off His Penis In Horrific Torture Of Pot Dispensary Owner To Find $1 Million: Suspect Gets 12 Years

A growing marijuana plant. Photo from Pixabay.A 42-year-old man has  pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced to 12 years and eight months in prison for his part in the kidnapping and torture of a marijuana dispensary owner whose penis was cut off in a Mojave Desert attack. The victim was falsely believed to have stashed $1 million somewhere in the desert, […]
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Police Shooting in Long Beach Under Investigation, Suspect in Custody

A man who barricaded himself inside a home in Long Beach after he fired a gun as officers responded to reports of an assault, prompting officers to fire their weapons, was in custody Thursday morning. Officers responded about 11:05 p.m. Wednesday to the 100 block of West 52nd Street and found a man who said […]
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Illegal Sex, Heroin, Coke, Meth With Teen Girls In Aliso Viejo: Guilty Plea Gets Six Years In Prison

Heroin and drug paraphernalia.A 22-year-old man pleaded guilty Wednesday to statutory rape of a teenage girl in Aliso Viejo and feeding drugs to another teenage girl and was immediately sentenced to six years in prison. Cedric Michaelngoc Campbell pleaded guilty to a count of unlawful sexual intercourse, and two counts of providing drugs to a minor, all felonies, […]
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Orange County Records Just 11 New Cases of COVID-19

Orange County is reporting 11 new COVID-19 infections, as hospitalizations continued to decline. Hospitalizations dropped from 72 on Tuesday to 66 on Wednesday, with the number of intensive care unit patients declining from nine to eight. The new infections increased the cumulative caseload to 255,081. One more fatality, which occurred April 2, was logged, raising […]
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Suspect in Southland Freeway BB Gun Shootings Behind Bars

BB gun suspect arrestedA 34-year-old man possibly involved in a rash of attacks involving projectiles shot through vehicles’ windows on freeways in Riverside, Orange and Los Angeles counties was jailed Thursday morning in lieu of $750,000 bail, authorities said. Jesse Leal Rodriguez of Riverside was booked late Tuesday night into the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside on […]
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Vehicle Crashes into LA Gas Station, One Hurt

The driver of a vehicle that crashed into a gas station in the unincorporated Florence-Firestone area following a hit-and-run accident was hospitalized, and the second driver was at large, it was reported Thursday morning. The crash occurred about 3:30 a.m. near the intersection of Compton Avenue and Firestone Boulevard, according to Fox 11. The condition […]
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LA County: Dropping COVID Cases Among Health Workers Prove Vaccine Efficacy

While COVID-19 cases continue declining generally across Los Angeles County, health officials are pointing to plummeting infections and deaths among health care workers as evidence of vaccine effectiveness. Health care workers were the first group to become eligible for COVID-19 vaccines beginning in December, just as a winter surge in cases was taking hold. According […]
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Riverside County Reports 74 New COVID Cases, No New Deaths

Riverside County is reporting 74 newly confirmed coronavirus cases and a slight uptick in hospitalizations, but no additional deaths. The aggregate number of COVID-19 cases recorded since the public health documentation period began in March 2020 edged up to 300,550, according to numbers released Wednesday by the Riverside University Health System. The RUHS has logged […]
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Second Federal Court Hearing Set Thursday in Efforts to Shelter L.A. Homeless

Attorneys from the city and county of Los Angeles Thursday morning are expected to address what a federal judge refers to as “structural racism” that he believes created and sustains the sprawling Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles. U.S. District Judge David O. Carter wrote in April that the city and county of Los […]
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Man Charged with Shooting at Motorist on 91 Freeway Due in Court

A 32-year-old man accused of shooting at occupants of a vehicle on the Riverside (91) Freeway is due in court Thursday on various felony charges. Lorenzo Antonio Parra of Corona was arrested Sunday, several hours after the alleged attack on the westbound 91 in Riverside. Parra is charged with assault using a deadly weapon, shooting […]
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