LOS ANGELES – Caltrans will receive more than $7 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation for its Southern California Mobility Wallet project in Los Angeles County, it was announced Thursday. It is part of $52 million in grants from the Federal Highway Administration from the Advanced Transportation Technology and Innovation (ATTAIN) program. The Mobility Wallet project is to create open-loop payments technology to offer seamless payment to highway and transit services. The $7,722,948 project will provide services in areas of persistent poverty and disadvantaged communities. “Your ZIP code shouldn’t determine whether you have access to safe, affordable transportation,” U.S.…
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LOS ANGELES – A former administrative assistant for a private school attended over the years by the children of many celebrities has settled her lawsuit against her former employer in which she alleged she was wrongfully fired in 2022 because she is Black, female and had health problems. Attorneys for plaintiff Christina McCrary filed court papers on Wednesday with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William F. Fahey stating that her case against Wildwood School was resolved the day before. No terms were divulged. Some of Steven Spielberg’s, two of Dustin Hoffman’s and all of Demi Moore’s children went to Wildwood…
LOS ANGELES – A 31-year-old woman who was shot and killed in the Vermont Knolls neighborhood of South Los Angeles was identified by county authorities Thursday. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office identified the victim as Jennifer Gomez. Gomez was pronounced dead at the scene. Los Angeles Police Department officers responded at around 11:50 p.m. Tuesday to the 8700 block of Vermont Avenue regarding an assault with a deadly weapon call and found the victim suffering from gunshot wounds, an LAPD spokesman told City News Service. A man described by police as a neighbor was taken into custody, LAPD Officer…
LOS ANGELES – There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery and the estimated jackpot for Saturday’s drawing will be $211 million. There were also no tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced. The numbers drawn Wednesday were 12, 21, 44, 50, 58 and the Powerball number was 26. The jackpot was $190 million. The drawing was the 15th since a ticket with all six numbers was sold. The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball…
SANTA ANA – Attorneys for a 19-year-old killer who has escaped custody twice filed a motion to recuse the Orange County District Attorney’s Office from prosecuting him based on multiple news releases and public comments that the defendant is “extremely dangerous and violent,” according to court records obtained Tuesday. Ike Souzer was indicted in December on single felony counts each of possession of a deadly weapon by a prisoner and a prisoner manufacturing a deadly weapon. A hearing on the motion is set for June 2 in the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana. Souzer could face up to four…
LOS ANGELES – Homicide detectives Tuesday sought the public’s help to generate clues in their investigation into the “suspicious” death of a woman at a residence in the south Los Angeles area. Officers were sent to the 400 block of East 46th Street about 9:20 p.m. on May 13 on a “call for service,” according to the Los Angeles Police Department. “Upon arrival, officers located the victim, later identified as 26- year-old Los Angeles resident Lesly Morales, who was being medically evaluated by Los Angeles Fire Department personnel,” the LAPD said in a statement. “Morales was subsequently declared deceased at…
CULVER CITY – Police sought the public’s help Tuesday to find three armed robbery suspects who assaulted a victim before stealing his belongings outside the Westfield Culver City mall. Officers responded around 8 p.m. Friday to the parking lot of the mall in the 6000 block of Sepulveda Boulevard, according to the Culver City Police Department. Police said three suspects approached the victim after he left Sheikh Shoes, then asked where he was from while one of them brandishing a handgun. The victim tried to walk away but was punched several times by the suspects until he fell to the…
LOS ANGELES – Jurors wrapped up an abbreviated day of deliberations Tuesday without reaching a verdict in the retrial of “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson, who is charged with raping three women at his Hollywood Hills home between 2001 and 2003. The downtown Los Angeles jury — which has spent just under 4 1/2 days discussing the case — is due back in court Thursday to resume its deliberations after a day off on Wednesday. Jurors were handed the case last Wednesday after slightly more than a day of closing arguments by attorneys. Superior Court Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo…
LONG BEACH – A motorist was killed in a single-vehicle crash in Long Beach, authorities said Tuesday. The crash occurred about 10 p.m. Monday on Anaheim Street near Santa Fe Avenue, the Long Beach Police Department reported. Paramedics pronounced the 42-year-old Long Beach man dead at the scene, police said. His name was withheld, pending notification of relatives. According to police, the man was driving a 1967 AMC Rambler west on Anaheim Street when the car “veered off the roadway and struck a power pole.” “It is unknown at this time why the driver lost control of the vehicle,” police…
LOS ANGELES – A state regulatory board Tuesday declared Los Angeles County’s Barry J. Nidorf and Central juvenile halls unsuitable to house pre-disposition youth and ordered the county to relocate such detainees out of the facilities within 60 days. Members of the Board of State and Community Corrections said they felt they had no alternative other than to make the declaration, citing a protracted history of shortcomings at the facilities, which were found in recent inspections to still be out of compliance with numerous state standards. Board members called the county’s recently approved “aggressive” plans for an overhaul of its…