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Outrage Over Pro-Palestinian Attack On Jewish Diners At La Cienega Restaurant: LA Mayor Garcetti Condemns ‘Organized, Anti-Semitic’ Chaos

Los Angeles Mayor Eric GarcettiLos Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti Wednesday condemned an anti-semitic attack on Jewish men at a La Cienega restaurant that police said was a possible hate crime as the intended victims were targeted by a pro-Palestinian group. The victims were confronted shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday outside Sushi Fumi in the 300 block of North La […]
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Sex Molester Continuously Attacked Two Little Sisters For Two Years? Jury Decides Thousand Palms Suspect’s Fate

Jury deliberations got underway Wednesday in the trial of a Thousand Palms man accused of molesting two of his wife’s underage relatives more than a decade ago in Cathedral City. John Clement Williams, 55, is suspected of molesting the sisters over the span of two years between 2008 and 2009, when one of the girls […]
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Five Victims Shot As Women, Girls Brawl In Chaotic Hemet Home

An automatic handgun being aimed at a target. Photo from Pixabay.Hemet police Wednesday were investigating what triggered a brawl between multiple women and girls that culminated in five people being shot. The melee was reported just before 6 p.m. Tuesday at a residence in the 1200 block of Valencia Avenue, near Elk Street. Lt. Michael Arellano of the Hemet Police Department said “a large group […]
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Bloody Horror Of Murdered Housemate, 66, Stabbed In Neck, Chest, Face, Nose: Jury Deliberates Jurupa Valley Schizophrenic Suspect Incensed Over Argument

Jurors are deliberating the fate of a felon accused of fatally stabbing his 66-year-old housemate in Jurupa Valley because he didn’t like the victim shouting at him. Kyle Lee Gallardo, 37, could face 26 years to life in state prison if convicted of first-degree murder, and a sentence-enhancing allegation of using a deadly weapon in […]
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Hunt For Hit-And-Run Driver: Two Little Kids, Both 8, In Critical Condition

Police investigating a May 9 hit-and-run that left two 8-year-old children critically injured in an unincorporated area of South Los Angeles circulated a photo Wednesday of the unidentified suspect’s vehicle. A black or maroon Chevrolet Cruze traveling southbound on Compton Avenue struck the children as they were crossing the thoroughfare just south of East 92nd […]
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Hunger Horror: Three Million Californians Didn’t Have Enough To Eat During Pandemic

More than three million people in Los Angeles, Long Beach, Anaheim and elsewhere across the state reported their households went without sufficient food in the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic, an increase of 22% from the pre-pandemic rate, UCLA researchers said Wednesday. The impact was felt widely across the state, especially among those […]
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Orange County Enters Yellow Tier Wednesday Thanks to Falling COVID-19 Rate

Orange County officially entered the least-restrictive yellow tier of the state’s COVID-19 economic reopening blueprint Wednesday, while local coronavirus trends continued in a positive vein with just 51 new infections reported. The new cases increased the county’s cumulative total from throughout the pandemic to 254,882. “I think it is definitely a welcome reprieve from COVID, […]
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Actor’s Former Flame Describes Violent Sex Incidents

A 43-year-old former girlfriend of Danny Masterson testified Wednesday that a Church of Scientology official shifted blame to her when she complained that she was the victim of violent sex by the actor. The witness, identified only as Christina B., was the second of three women scheduled to take the stand against Masterson during a […]
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BB or Pellet Guns Target More Cars on Area Freeways

Two incidents of vehicles damaged on freeways by vandals who possibly shot at them with BB or pellet guns were reported Wednesday in Los Angeles County, in addition to three vehicles damaged on the Riverside (91) Freeway between Anaheim and Corona. About 5:50 Wednesday morning, a shooting occurred on the southbound Golden State (5) Freeway […]
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Homelessness Worse, Civic Leaders Demand New Group For Solutions

A coalition of civic leaders called Wednesday for the city and county of Los Angeles to create an independent entity to address the homelessness crisis through data, measurable outcomes and greater accountability. The “We’re Not Giving Up: A Plan for Homelessness Governance in Los Angeles” report was commissioned by the Committee for Greater L.A. in […]
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