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Authorities Believe Driver Who Crashed Into Flower Shop May Have Been Asleep at the Wheel
2+ hour, 48+ min ago (219+ words) A driver whose wife said he was cut off by another motorist, which forced him to cross into opposing traffic for a half-block-long stretch before crashing outside a busy downtown flower shop, may have fallen asleep at the wheel, according…...
Marietta Authorities Believe Pair Allegedly Was Financially Motivated to Murder Local
3+ week, 1+ day ago (301+ words) Felony charges are expected to be filed Tuesday against a woman accused of killing her ex-boyfriend " with the help of another man " at the victim's Murrieta apartment in what authorities suspect was a financially motivated conspiracy. Ignacia Cadaos Perkins, 40, of…...
South LA Shooting Leaves Three Wounded
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (131+ words) South LA Shooting Leaves Three Wounded'MyNewsLA.com Three men are hospitalized Tuesday after they were attacked in South Los Angeles in what police believe is a gang-related shooting. Los Angeles Police Department officers responded at approximately 11:35 p.m. Monday to Central Avenue…...
Memorial Service Later This Month for Fallen Firefighter
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (380+ words) A memorial service honoring a Riverside County Fire Department firefighter who collapsed and died while on duty will be held two weeks from Tuesday in Temecula, where family and associates will gather in person, and the public is invited to…...
Los Angeles Man Pulled From Floodwaters Arrested on Intoxication Charges
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (151+ words) A Los Angeles man rescued after his vehicle became submerged in a flooded Palm Springs roadway was in custody Friday on suspicion of public intoxication and other charges. Diego Daniel Garcia, 35, was arrested Thursday and booked into the Benoit Detention…...
Mom of Man Fatally Shot by Officers Alleges He Had Pellet Gun
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (281+ words) A man who was shot and killed by Los Angeles police after barricading himself in Boyle Heights was holding an Airsoft gun that shoots plastic pellets but was not a deadly weapon, the decedent's mother contends in a new wrongful…...
Dentist Sentenced on Sex-Related Charges Involving Female Patients
5+ mon, 6+ day ago (348+ words) A dentist who was convicted of sex-related counts involving five female patients at his Koreatown office, along with charges involving a young extern at a dental office in Panorama City, was sentenced Friday to 75 years to life in state prison....
Pastor Convicted of Molesting 3 Girls in OC, Riverside
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (336+ words) A Santa Ana pastor was convicted Monday of sexually assaulting three girls he met through churches in Riverside, Garden Grove and Santa Ana. Carlos Ramirez Valdez, 61, was convicted of seven counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a minor younger…...
Mom Gets Year in Jail for Intentionally Hitting Teen with SUV
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (345+ words) A 49-year-old woman was sentenced to a year in jail Friday for intentionally hitting a 13-year-od boy with a car, breaking his leg, in retaliation for her son getting a bloody nose in an after-school scuffle in La Habra. Norma…...
Fountain Valley Authorities Accuse Mom of Suffocating 10-Year-Old
7+ mon, 4+ day ago (1229+ words) A Fountain Valley woman wanted to kill her daughter by suffocating her with a plastic bag when she was 10 and repeatedly sexually abused her son, starting when he was 6, a prosecutor argued Monday, while the defendant's attorney said her ex-husband…...