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SAN DIEGO — It was August of 2014 inside a crowded Sunset Boulevard nightclub in Los Angeles. Megan Hawkins, now 29, remembers being invited to celebrate a friend’s birthday at the packed nightclub. Rapper Chris Brown was on stage and producer Suge Knight was in the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd.
How a survivor of a notorious crime is working to save one of LA's most storied cemeteries
Broken gates, shattered headstones and desecrated grave sites are just the most recent troubles at Compton's storied cemetery, Woodlawn Celestial Gardens."It's a huge historical landmark," Compton City Councilman Jonathan Bowers said. "A lot of American history laid to rest here, dating back to the 1800s."Among the 26,000 buried here is a baby named Jennie, who died in 1871. Another is Antonia Ruiz, who was born in 1797 and lived through three centuries before dying in 1903 at 112 years old. The historic cemetery also has 17 soldiers who served in the Civil War buried on the hallowed grounds. "This is an...
450 lbs of pig waste illegally dumped at site in Gardena
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office is taking action as a major illegal dumping site in Gardena continues to grow. The department is planning to install cameras in the area of 133rd and Broadway to deter illegal dumpers. Recently someone dumped 450 lbs of dead pigs at the site. This is the third time meat has been dumped in the area.
Police break up UCLA protests; hundreds arrested on U.S. campuses
Police removed barricades and began dismantling a fortified encampment of pro-Palestinian demonstrators early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles after hundreds of protesters defied police orders to leave and about 24 hours after counter-protesters attacked the tent encampment on the campus. Over 130 people were arrested at UCLA, the California HIghway Patrol said early Thursday.Officers in riot gear spent hours threatening arrests over loud speakers if people didn't disperse. Hundreds of people had gathered on campus, both inside a barricaded tent encampment and outside of it in support. As police helicopters hovered overhead, the sound of flash-bangs, which...
Captain sentenced to 4 years for criminal negligence in fiery deaths of 34 aboard scuba boat
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge in Los Angeles on Thursday sentenced a scuba dive boat captain to four years in prison and three years supervised release for criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel. The Sept. 2, 2019, blaze was the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history, and prompted changes to maritime regulations, congressional reform and several ongoing lawsuits. Captain Jerry Boylan was found guilty of one count of misconduct or neglect of ship officer last year. The charge is a pre-Civil War statute colloquially known as seaman’s manslaughter. It was designed to hold steamboat captains and crew responsible for maritime disasters. Family members pleaded with U.S. District Judge George Wu to give Boylan the maximum 10-year sentence in an impassioned hearing. Many cried, and Robert Kurtz, father of the sole deckhand killed, Alexandra Kurtz, brought a small container with him up to the lectern to address Boylan and the court.
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