LOS ANGELES – A former USC football player was arrested Wednesday for allegedly raping two college students from USC and UCLA, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said. Joshua Fred James Jackson Jr., 21, is charged with three felony counts of forcible rape and one felony count of forcible sexual penetration, according to a statement released by the District Attorney’s Office. He allegedly raped a USC classmate at her apartment in March and a UCLA student at his apartment sometime between June 1 and Sept. 1, 2020, according to the District Attorney’s Office. He is set to be arraigned…
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Wednesday posthumously honoring slain rapper Tupac Shakur for a five-year career in which he sold more than 75 million records and received six Grammy nominations. Shakur was selected for the honor in 2013, but according to a spokesperson for the Walk of Fame they had to wait for the family to set the date. Allen Hughes, director of the FX docuseries “Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur,” and Jamal Joseph, author of the 2006 biography “Tupac Shakur Legacy” and a producer of `Dear Mama:…
LOS ANGELES – Former Dodger Steve Garvey is pondering a possible run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Dianne Feinstein, it was reported Thursday. Sources within the state Republican Party told the Los Angeles Times Garvey has been meeting with GOP donors and leaders to discuss the possibility of a run. Republican strategist Andy Gharakhani told the paper he is advising Garvey, who has been contacted by leaders of both political parties about becoming a candidate, “and he’s seriously considering it.” “We should have a decision made here in the next few weeks,” Gharakhani told the paper. If…
LOS ANGELES – A new Inside Safe operation is underway in Harbor City to bring people inside from tents and encampments, and to prevent encampments from returning, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced Thursday. Inside Safe is a citywide strategy to address the city’s homelessness crisis with the aim of reducing homeless encampments. Bass in a statement thanked Councilman Tim McOsker and L.A. County partners for working with her office to bring the program to Harbor City. “We are brining Inside Safe to more and more communities to save lives and restore neighborhoods,” Bass said in a statement. “This initiative…
By: Steven Herbert LOS ANGELES – Cable telecasts of NBA conference finals games accounted for the top two prime-time programs and three of top four in the latest prime-time weekly ratings, which mixed the final three days of the official television season with the first four days of television’s summer season. TNT’s coverage of Game 6 of the Eastern Conference was the week’s most- watched prime-time program, with the Boston Celtics’ buzzer-beating 104-103 victory over the Miami Heat Saturday averaging 8.711 million viewers, the most for a Game 6 of an Eastern Conference finals on TNT and the most on…
LOS ANGELES – The director of Animal Care Services in Long Beach was nominated Thursday to become the new head of the Los Angeles Animal Services department, which has had a vacancy in leadership since April 2021. Staycee Dains was chosen by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to fill the position, replacing former LAAS General Manager Brenda Barnette, who retired. Dains will build the department into a “model for humane and compassionate animal care and constituent services,” the mayor said in a statement. Bass and the City Council recently approved an 18% increase to the department’s budget that will be…
SANTA ANA – A 44-year-old Laguna Niguel man was arrested Thursday on federal charges of bilking at least $1.8 million from 11 investors. Amadou Kane Diallo, a Senegalese national, was expected to make his initial appearance in federal court in Santa Ana Thursday afternoon. His attorney, John Littrell, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Diallo’s 21-count indictment, which was unsealed Thursday, alleges he told would-be investors from 2015 through January of 2020 that he was a “self- made millionaire and successful entrepreneur who had become wealthy working in e-commerce, information technology and other industries.” Diallo “flaunted his…
POMONA – Authorities Thursday identified a man who was killed in a two-vehicle crash in Pomona. The collision occurred about 5:05 a.m. Tuesday in the 4100 block of West Valley Boulevard, at the terminal point of the Long Beach (710) Freeway, the Pomona Police Department reported. Antonio Garcia, 62, of Bell, who was a passenger in one of the vehicles, was fatally injured, according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office and Pomona police. The driver of the vehicle in which Garcia was riding was taken to a hospital for treatment of “moderate” injuries, police said. The other driver was…
LOS ANGELES – A man was fatally struck by a vehicle on the Golden State (5) Freeway near Griffith Park, and the investigation was continuing Thursday. Paramedics sent to the southbound 5 Freeway near Zoo Drive about 11:15 p.m. Wednesday pronounced the man dead at the scene, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Information on his identity was not immediately available. According to reports from the scene, the man was a tow truck driver who was hit by a vehicle. The circumstances of the crash were under investigation by the California Highway Patrol.
LOS ANGELES – A former Playboy Playmate filed court papers against comedian Bill Cosby Thursday, alleging he drugged and raped her in 1969 in his office, which was decorated with framed posters of himself from his role in the NBC television series “I Spy.” The plaintiff Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit — which was submitted to the court but not yet officially filed — is Victoria Valentino, also known as Victoria Carbe-Chen. She seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages in her proposed complaint, which alleges sexual assault and battery. “This case is about a prominent actor and comedian who used…