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Pedestrian Fatally Struck by Vehicle in Westlake Alleyway
WESTLAKE, LOS ANGELES, May 3 (KNN) — The Los Angeles Fire Department and Los Angeles Police Department’s Rampart Division officers responded to a vehicle versus pedestrian collision in an alley behind an address in the 400 block of South Alvarado Street in Westlake. A vehicle traveling northbound through...
CHP Raids UCLA Pro-Palestinian Encampment; Protesters Arrested
WESTWOOD, LOS ANGELES, May 2 (KNN) — After a night of violent encounters, an encampment –containing barricaded students and people in support of Palestinians in the ongoing conflict in the Middle East – was raided by the California Highway Patrol overnight as explosives sounded over the heads of an estimated several hundred people within the encampment,
Elderly woman killed, her sister seriously hurt in South LA hit-and-run crash
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A woman in her 70s was struck and killed Thursday in South Los Angeles by a vehicle whose driver fled while the woman's sister, who is in her 80s, was critically injured. Officers responded near the intersection of Adams Boulevard and Magnolia Avenue around 1:20 p.m....
Robbery Involves Shooting at Smoke Shop in Canoga Park
CANOGA PARK, LOS ANGELES, May 2 (KNN) — A smoke shop was robbed and a shooting occurred at the location of the business overnight in Canoga Park. Los Angeles police officers responded to a call of a robbery and shooting around 12:30 a.m. in the area of the 2100 block of Sherman Way.
8th grader recognized for heroic act on Glendale school bus
GLENDALE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — The Glendale middle school 8th grader who stopped a us full of students, saving them, was formally recognized on Wednesday, May 1. “Now therefore being proclaimed that Acie Holland III for his heroic actions and being further proclaimed by the mayor and the common council that the city of Glendale hereby recognize Acie Holland III for taking lifesaving efforts while riding the bus,” said Mayor Bryan Kennedy.
Captain of dive boat Conception sentenced to 4 years after fire killed 34
The captain of the dive boat Conception, which caught fire and killed all 33 of the boat's passengers and one crew member in 2019, was sentenced to four years in prison at a Los Angeles federal court Thursday. Captain Jerry Boylan, now 70, faced a maximum sentencing of 10 years in federal prison.U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada expressed his disappointment with the sentencing, though he respected the judge's decision."Certainly, four years was not what we wanted. We wanted the 10 years. We thought the appropriate sentence was 10 years in this case," Estrada said. Boylan was found guilty in 2023 of one...
Former Dodgers pitcher Julio Urías pleads no contest to misdemeanor domestic battery charge
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Julio Urías pleaded no contest to one count of misdemeanor domestic battery on Wednesday. According to court records, four other misdemeanor charges against Urías were dropped. Urias had also been facing one count of spousal battery, one count of domestic battery involving a dating relationship, one count of false imprisonment and one count of assault. All the charges stemmed from his arrest in September on suspicion of domestic violence.
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