LOS ANGELES – Attorneys for four “Rust” film producers who were sued along with Alec Baldwin by a script supervisor who claims she suffered emotional distress during the 2021 on-set fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins want a judge to force the plaintiff’s attorneys to clarify answers they gave to written questions — and to pay a $2,130 fine. The motion was brought Thursday in court papers filed with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael E. Whitaker by attorneys for Rust Movie Productions LLC, Thomasville Pictures LLC, Ryan Smith and Langley Cheney, all defendants in the suit filed by Mamie…
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BOYLE HEIGHTS – Police have taken into custody Friday a man suspected of shooting another man on a Metro Gold Line platform, then carjacking an SUV and crashing it a half a mile away. A man in his 20s was standing at the Metro Gold Line Pico/Aliso station on 1st Street near Utah Street when the suspected gunman approached him around 10 p.m. Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The victim was shot in the leg or foot and ran onto a train, according to media reports. He was later taken to a hospital and was in stable…
LOS ANGELES – A tentative settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against a vaporizer designer and manufacturer by a former employee who alleged he was wrongfully fired in 2019 from the Torrance-based company. Adam Temkin brought the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit in October 2020 against Vaporous Technologies Inc., which, according to its website, is the first-ever private label agency for the e-cigarette industry. Temkin’s attorneys filed a notice of a “conditional” settlement on Wednesday with Judge Bruce G. Iwasaki, not stating the terms but estimating that a request for dismissal will filed by April 7. On Nov. 29,…
LOS ANGELES – Mayor Karen Bass signed an executive directive Friday aiming to maximize the use of city-owned property for housing. This is the third executive directive that Bass has issued since taking office attempting to address the city’s homelessness crisis, over which she declared a state of emergency as her first official act. The directive seeks a report within 20 days of a list of all city- owned properties that are vacant, surplus or underutilized. Mercedes Marquez, the mayor’s chief of Housing and Homelessness Solutions, will then assess each site’s potential to be used as housing or shelter for…
LOS ANGELES – A suspected car thief led Los Angeles police officers on a brief chase Friday in the Sylmar area, then was taken into custody after he ran across a freeway and tried to hide. The incident began about 9 a.m., when someone reported their vehicle was stolen, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. About a half hour afterward, officers saw the vehicle and chased it to the area of Sayre Street and the Foothill (210) Freeway, where the man got out and ran across the freeway, and then ran back across it again. Officers set up a…
LOS ANGELES – A 19-year-old who was fatally shot in a stolen car that crashed in South Los Angeles was identified by the coroner’s office Friday as Keyon Hicks. Deputies from the Compton Sheriff’s Station responded at 8:22 a.m. Wednesday to the 2100 block of East Del Amo Boulevard, between Wilmington Avenue and Alameda Street, on the border of Carson and the unincorporated Rancho Dominguez area, regarding a report of a white car stolen from a business at the location, according to Deputy Armando Viera of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. Shortly after, the Carson Sheriff’s Station received a shots fired…
SANTA ANA, Calif. – An off-duty Orange County sheriff’s deputy was killed in a single-vehicle crash Thursday in Lake Elsinore. The fatal crash occurred about 5:15 a.m. in the 25000 block of Railroad Canyon Road, near Canyon Hills Road, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. Fire officials said paramedics reached the location a short time later and pronounced the victim dead at the scene. Video from the location showed a vehicle that appeared to have struck a tree in the roadway median. It was unclear what caused the crash. Orange County officials identified the deputy as Brian Haney, who…
LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles federal judge has granted class certification in a lawsuit challenging U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s alleged practice of impersonating police officers when conducting warrantless arrests of community members at their homes, two immigrant rights groups announced Thursday. “This development is monumental for the millions of undocumented people who consider the U.S. their home,” said Lizbeth Abeln, deportation defense director of the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, a plaintiff in the case. “We will continue to equip community members with knowledge of their rights while standing steadfast in our fight to end ICE’s abusive practices.…
LOS ANGELES – The state is awarding a combined $196 million to multifamily housing projects across Los Angeles County, officials announced Thursday. A permanent-supportive housing project at Imperial and Broadway has been under construction since late 2020. (Photo: 2UrbanGIrls) The funding is part of an effort by the state to overhaul the process for housing grants. The state announced more than $825 million in funding to 58 communities, which is expected to build 9,550 homes. The projects are expected to benefit around 187,500 people in total. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who was alongside California Secretary Lourdes M. Castro Ramírez…
LOS ANGELES – A woman has been charged with scamming more than a dozen immigrants by allegedly pretending to be a consultant and sometimes an attorney, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday. Nubia Esmeralda Burrier, 56, is set to be arraigned next week on 10 counts of grand theft and one count of first-degree residential burglary with a person present, according to the District Attorney’s Office. Burrier allegedly met with the victims at her office across the street from the U.S. Immigration Court and allegedly filed for political asylum on their behalf even though she knew they…