| | | | | Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, March 2, 2021 |
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Bloody Traffic Horror As 13 Killed In SUV: Emergency Flight To Palm Springs Hospital To Save Four In Imperial County Crash Four patients were being treated Tuesday at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs after a horrific vehicle crash in Imperial County that killed at least 13 people and injured several others. A tractor-trailer struck an SUV carrying an estimated 25 people at about 6:15 a.m. on Highway 115, just north of Holtville, about 15 […]
Couple’s Mystery Death Leap From San Pedro Cliff: Victims Identified, But Was It Accident, Suicide, Murder? Authorities Tuesday identified a man and a woman who were found dead at the base of a cliff near Point Fermin Park in San Pedro. But authorities did not indicate why the man and woman fell to their deaths. The bodies were discovered about 5:20 p.m. Monday in the 500 block of West Paseo Del […]
Bad Coronavirus News For Orange County: Tough Restrictions Stay In Force, You Just Missed It Orange County is close to moving up to the less-restrictive red tier of the state’s coronavirus reopening system, but is not quite there yet and must maintain its current rates through Sunday to have a chance. The county must then hold those rates for another two weeks to qualify for a less-restrictive tier that will […]
Gory Gunshots, Bloody Slashings Increase In COVID-Era Southern California Two Riverside County hospitals participated in a UC Irvine-led study released Tuesday showing gunshot and knife wounds increased during the COVID-19 pandemic in Southern California, but injuries from traffic crashes were down. UCI Health researchers reviewed 20,450 trauma patients who were treated at 11 Level I and Level II trauma centers in hospitals across seven […]
Tragic Murder Of Beloved Convenience Store Proprietor Trying To Earn A Living In Cathedral City: Teens Held On $1 Million Bail Two 19-year-old men accused in an armed robbery-turned-shooting that killed the proprietor of a Cathedral City convenience store were behind bars Tuesday in lieu of $1 million bail. The accused shooter, Charles Lamar Campbell of Beaumont, and his alleged accomplice, Joel Ortiz-Hidalgo of Desert Hot Springs, were arrested and booked Monday into the Smith Correctional […]
What’s Wrong With LAPD Chief Moore? He’s Hospitalized, But Cops Won’t Say Why Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore was hospitalized for an undisclosed medical reason, but he is in “good spirits,” police said Tuesday. According to an LAPD Twitter post, the 60-year-old Moore “was not feeling well and transported himself” to County-USC Medical Center” on Monday. An LAPD spokesperson declined to elaborate. “He was admitted last […]
Tin Ear At Tinhorn Flats Over Pandemic Safety: Burbank Sues To Shut Down Renegade Restaurant Rejecting Rules The city of Burbank is seeking a judge’s permission to cut off the electricity of a local restaurant and padlock the doors in order to enforce its closure order to limit the spread of the coronavirus. The Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit, filed Monday, takes aim at the Tinhorn Flats Saloon & Grill on Magnolia […]
Family Murder Mayhem As One Killed, Others Injured In Alleged Slashing Attack By Male Relative In Mid-Wilshire A 28-year-old man was in custody Tuesday on suspicion of fatally stabbing a male relative and holding other family members against their will inside an apartment in the Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles. The victim, who was in his 40s, died at the scene of the attack, which occurred about 4:50 a.m. Monday in the […]
Two-Hour Crime Spree, Gas Station Worker Shot In Long Beach: Ex-Con Suspect Pleads Not Guilty An ex-con pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he shot and critically wounded a gas station employee in Long Beach amid a two-hour crime spree. Frank Joseph Porras, 34, is charged with one count each of attempted murder, second-degree robbery, attempted carjacking, attempted second-degree robbery, second-degree burglary, possession of a firearm by a felon […]
Ex-Homeland Security Agent from Murrieta Arrested on Federal Bribery Charges Federal authorities Tuesday arrested a former special agent with Homeland Security Investigations on federal bribery charges that allege the Murrieta man accepted at least $122,000 and other benefits to provide assistance to a person linked to organized crime. Felix Cisneros Jr., 46, was taken into custody without incident and is expected to be arraigned on […]
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