| | | | Afternoon headlines for Friday, July 9, 2021
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Garcetti Escapes LA Battles, Homeless, Sex Scandal: Soon-To-Be Ex-Mayor Named US Ambassador To India  Confirming rumors that have circulated for weeks, President Joe Biden nominated Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti Friday to become U.S. ambassador to India. “Today, the president announced that I am his nominee to serve as U.S. ambassador to India. I am honored to accept his nomination to serve in this role,” Garcetti said in a […]
  
Every Parent’s Nightmare: Suspect Charged With Child Kidnap Try In Placentia  A man was charged Friday with scooping up a 6-year-old in Placentia and attempting to run away with the child before bystanders confronted him. Michael Christopher Foley, who has no known address, was charged with a felony count of kidnapping a child younger than 14 and a misdemeanor count of child annoyance. Foley, 41, is […]
CDC Says No Masks For Vaccinated Teachers/Students, But LAUSD Requires Them  Federal health officials issued revised COVID-19 guidance Friday stating that fully vaccinated teachers and students don’t need to wear face coverings in school buildings, but masks will still be required for everyone at Los Angeles Unified and other California campuses. The guidance released Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is only […]
Body Found in Vehicle Left on Side of 605 Freeway in Hawaiian Gardens A body was discovered Friday morning in a vehicle on the side of the San Gabriel River (605) Freeway in Hawaiian Gardens. The discovery was made at 5:14 a.m. on the northbound 605 just south of Carson Street, California Highway Patrol Officer Tony Polizzi told City News Service. The cause of death was unknown, Polizzi […]
Extreme Heat to Bake Parts Of Southland Through Weekend; Flex Alert Issued More triple-digit weather will bake parts of the Southland into the weekend, with the Antelope Valley and Santa Clarita Valley likely to bear the brunt of the high-pressure system and the state urging energy conservation to prevent outages. An excessive heat warning will be in effect in the Antelope Valley through 9 p.m. Monday, with […]
Deadline Extended for Unhoused to Leave Venice Boardwalk Zone, Cleanup Begins Sanitation workers were supported by Los Angeles police officers Friday to clean a portion of the Venice Boardwalk where a large homeless encampment developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the deadline for removing unhoused residents who will not accept housing has been extended an additional week. The deadline to leave Zone 5, between Navy Street […]
He’s Got A Machete! Tense Time As Culver City Cops Negotiate It took more than three hours for police to talk a machete-wielding man off a construction scaffold in a Culver City neighborhood Friday. Police were called at 11:45 p.m. Thursday to the 700 block of Wrightcrest Drive, where a man reported a male with a machete while on his roof. The man went onto the […]
Police Seek to ID Suspects in Fatal Attack on Palm Springs Woman Palm Springs police Friday were working to identify potential suspects in the shooting death of a 19-year-old Indio woman. Alexus Franco was fatally wounded in an attack Thursday on North Granada Avenue between Rosa Parks Road and West Sunview Avenue. According to the Palm Springs Police Department, gunfire erupted at the location about 2:40 a.m., […]
Felon Accused of Killing Riverside Man over Ongoing Conflict Arraigned A probationer accused of gunning down a 24-year-old Riverside man with whom he had prior conflicts pleaded not guilty Friday to murder. David Norman Gurley, 54, of Moreno Valley was arrested last month following a Riverside Police Department investigation into the slaying of Sidney Thompson. Along with murder, Gurley is charged with sentence-enhancing gun and […]
Man, 21, Found Shot to Death in Hawthorne A 21-year-old man was shot to death inside a parked vehicle at a Hawthorne apartment building carport, police said Friday. The shooting was reported about 4:10 p.m. Thursday at 14124 S. Chadron Ave., Hawthorne police Lt. Ti Goetz told City News Service. Zerail Dijon Rivera was a Los Angeles resident, according to the coroner’s office. […]
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