| | | | Afternoon headlines for Friday, May 28, 2021
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Terror Of Freeway BB Gun Attacks Ends? Anaheim Suspect Charged With Attempted Murder For Blasting Speeding Vehicle Windows  An Anaheim man accused of using a BB gun to blow out the windows on a Tesla in Norco, and possibly targeting other vehicles in a weeks-long series of similar attacks on Southern California freeways, was charged Friday with three counts of attempted murder. “Shooting at moving vehicles with a BB or pellet gun while […]
  
Bad Day For Trains Crashing Into Vehicles On Tracks In Pacoima and Montebello: Numerous Metrolink Passengers Injured  It was a bad day for trains hitting vehicles Friday as a Metrolink train slammed into an unoccupied vehicle in Pacoima and a Union Pacific Freight train crashed into another unoccupied vehicle in Montebello. Seven passengers on the Metrolink train in Pacoima suffered fair-to-moderate injuries and three others complained of pain but declined treatment, according […]
Oscars Theater Tragedy As Man Leaps To Death From Roof Despite Massive Rescue Try: Traffic Jammed Throughout Hollywood  A man jumped about 60 feet to his death from atop the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland shopping and entertainment complex Friday after an hours-long effort to try to get him to safety. The theater is known worldwide as the site of the annual Academy Awards Oscars ceremony. Traffic was jammed throughout the […]
Homeless Horror As Five Transients Killed In Westlake Building Blaze: Homeless Murderer Won’t Get Out As Appeal Rejected  A state appeals court panel Friday upheld a transient’s murder conviction for intentionally setting a fire that killed five people in a vacant Westlake district commercial building where a group of other homeless people were living. The three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected the defense’s contention that there were errors in […]
Man Shot to Death in Compton Intersection Identified Authorities Friday released the name of a man shot to death in a Compton intersection. Oscar Lopez, 39, of Compton, was shot about 10:40 p.m. Sunday at Laurel Street and Holly Avenue, according to Deputy Tracy Koerner of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau and the coroner’s office. No additional details were available from homicide detectives, who […]
Man Pleads Not Guilty in Deadly Hit-and-Run Crash A man pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and other charges stemming from a hit-and-run crash in Palmdale that killed a teenage boy and an 18-year-old. William Alexander Marquez, now 35, was charged Feb. 25 with two felony counts each of murder, vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and hit-and-run driving resulting in death or serious […]
Remember Michael Avenatti? One-Time Trump Sex Payoff Foe Denied Bail, But Will Get Chance to Visit With Attorney Convicted attorney Michael Avenatti failed Friday to convince a federal judge to release him on bail in an Orange County fraud case, but his home confinement in a friend’s home in Venice will be relaxed enough so the defendant can visit his lawyer in Orange County to prepare for his trial in July. Avenatti’s attorney, […]
Orange County Records 55 New Cases of COVID-19 Orange County Friday reported 55 new COVID-19 infections, as hospitalization rates maintain some of the lowest numbers since the first couple of months of the pandemic. Hospitalizations inched up from 61 on Thursday to 62 on Friday, but the number of intensive care unit patients decreased from 18 to 14. “The numbers are generally looking […]
Nearly 600 Migrant Children Leave Long Beach Shelter Nearly 600 migrant children who were housed at an intake center at the Long Beach Convention Center have been reunited with family or sponsors in the United States, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which operates the site, reported Friday. The release of the 584 children leaves 152 migrant children remaining in the […]
Woman Sues L.A. County and Deputies Alleging Injury at September Protest A woman who alleges she was shot repeatedly with non-lethal projectiles by law enforcement officers during a protest in South Los Angeles last September sued the county and unidentified sheriff’s deputies Friday. According to her civil rights suit filed in federal court in Los Angeles, Gabrielle Bynum attended the Sept. 7 demonstration in the vicinity […]
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