LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced two appointments to the Board of Police Commissioners Tuesday, along with a deputy mayor of public safety. Brian K. Williams, currently the executive director of the Los Angeles County Sheriff Oversight Commission, will serve as deputy mayor of public safety, overseeing agencies that include the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles Fire Department. Bass last week had named Guillermo Cespedes, head of the Department of Violence Prevention for the city of Oakland, to the position. But the Los Angeles Times reported that Cespedes withdrew his name from consideration. Karren Lane,…
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LOS ANGELES – Following the recent rash of fatal mass shootings throughout the state, members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a series of new laws tightening regulations on the sale and possession of guns in unincorporated areas. “We know that blame for the gun violence epidemic lies with the failure of congressional leaders to pass even the most basic federal gun laws,” board Chair Janice Hahn said in a statement following the vote. “Because they have not acted, we have found actions we can take at the county level to protect lives.” Hahn proposed many…
LOS ANGELES – UCLA students were urged to be on alert Tuesday as police continued searching for a suspect who tried to rob and possibly kidnap three students in campus parking garages. According to UCLA police, the first attack occurred around 4:30 p.m. Sunday near Parking Structure 1. The man demanded money, attempted to kidnap the victim, held her hands together, and refused to let go. The suspect claimed he had a gun, but the victim did not actually see a weapon, police said. That victim managed to elude the suspect, who approached two other people around 6:45 p.m. Sunday…
LONG BEACH, Calif. – Authorities Tuesday identified a 90-year-old woman who was fatally injured when the car she was driving crashed in a Long Beach parking lot, damaging four other vehicles and injuring two pedestrians. Officers were dispatched at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday to Spring Street and Palo Verde Avenue, the Long Beach Police Department reported. Jenny Zavatsky died at a hospital, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office reported. According to police, Zavatsky was behind the wheel of a 2007 Lincoln Continental that sped through a parking lot in the 6400 block of East Spring Street, striking four parked vehicles,…
LOS ANGELES – A City Council committee recommended eliminating the COVID-19 testing requirement for unvaccinated Los Angeles city employees Tuesday. Currently, city employees who are not vaccinated against the virus must receive an exemption and undergo weekly testing. Under a resolution recommended by the committee, the testing requirement would end, but the vaccination mandate would remain unchanged. City staff, however, told the committee that the city was in the process of granting exemptions for unvaccinated employees to return to work. The proposed resolution would also reimburse city employees for time and money spent adhering to the testing requirements. “Effective immediately,…
LOS ANGELES – A Black man who alleges he was subjected to ongoing discrimination after leasing a room in San Diego County and that his landlord told him, “Your people are always making trouble,” is seeking to directly participate as a party in a lawsuit previously brought on his behalf by the California Civil Rights Dept. In court papers filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court by the Legal Aid Society of San Diego Inc., Abdifatah Abdullahi seeks to intervene in the CRD complaint brought on Oct. 31 against the Peter F. DeLuke trust, which seeks injunctive relief prohibiting future…
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Janet Jackson will open the Hollywood Bowl’s summer season, which will also include appearances by The Beach Boys, They Might Be Giants, Kool & The Gang and Village People, along with an array of jazz, R&B, soul and classical performances, the Los Angeles Philharmonic announced Tuesday. “As we look to the next hundred years at the Hollywood Bowl, I am honored and excited to share a season which, to me, speaks of a beautiful future ahead,” LA Phil Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel said in a statement. “From timeless music by Mendelssohn, de Falla and Verdi,…
LOS ANGELES – A ticket with all six numbers in Monday evening’s multi- state Powerball lottery was sold in Washington state and the player has the choice between receiving the $754.6 million jackpot in 30 graduated payments over 29 years or a lump sum payment of $407.2 million. The jackpot was the ninth-largest U.S. lottery jackpot.. The numbers drawn Monday were 5, 11, 22, 23, 69 and the Powerball number was 7. The drawing was the 33rd since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold on Nov. 19. There were six tickets sold with five numbers,…
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James enters Tuesday evening’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder at Crypto.com Arena needing 36 points to surpass Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the NBA’s career scoring leader. Although it is likelier James will set the record in Thursday’s game against the Milwaukee Bucks at Crypto.com Arena, he could set the record Tuesday evening. He has scored 36 or more points in seven of his 43 games, including six times in his 16 games since Dec. 30, his 38th birthday. James has scored 38,352 points in 1,409 games over 20 seasons. Abdul- Jabbar…