Category: Los Angeles

Apartment Owners Sue Los Angeles Over COVID-Era Rental Price Restrictions

July 24, 2023
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Apartment owners are suing the City of Los Angeles for keeping in place its emergency ban on rent increases first implemented at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a lawsuit filed July 24 in Los Angeles Superior Court, the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles is asking the court to put a stop to the city’s…

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Former USC Dean Sentenced in Mark Ridley-Thomas Bribery Case

July 24, 2023
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LOS ANGELES—Marilyn Flynn, an 84-year-old former dean of the University of Southern California’s (USC) School of Social Work—who admitted to bribing longtime Los Angeles politician Mark Ridley-Thomas while he served on the county Board of Supervisors—was sentenced on July 24 to three years probation and ordered to pay a $150,000 fine. U.S. District Judge Dale…

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Glendora Police Recover 14 Catalytic Converters After Vehicle Chase

July 22, 2023
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Two teenagers attempted to steal a catalytic converter at a movie theater in Glendora, triggering a vehicle pursuit and the eventual recovery of 14 stolen catalytic converters as well as a loaded handgun and the tools used to cut the converters from vehicles, authorities said on July 22. Officers were dispatched at about 11:50 p.m….

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Los Angeles Vigil Mourns Those Killed in China’s Persecution of Falun Gong

July 21, 2023
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Over 200 followers of the spiritual practice Falun Gong gathered in front of the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles on July 18 for a candlelight vigil to mourn fellow practitioners who had endured brutal persecution in China that has been ongoing for 24 years. Wearing yellow shirts printed with “Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance”—the core principles of…

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LA Developer Gets 6 Years in Prison for Involvement in José Huizar Bribery

July 21, 2023
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LOS ANGELES—A real estate developer was sentenced on July 21 to six years in federal prison and fined $750,000 for paying a $500,000 bribe to then-Los Angeles City Councilman José Huizar in order to “grease the wheels” for the approval of a downtown condominium project. Dae Yong “David” Lee, 58, of Bel Air, was the…

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Man Sentenced for Glendale Shooting and Killing

July 21, 2023
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A man was sentenced to 57 years to life in state prison on July 20 for a shooting at a Glendale restaurant in which a 20-year-old man was killed and a 10-year-old boy was struck in the arm by a bullet fragment. David Rodriguez, now 23, was convicted on May 30 of first-degree murder for…

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Man Gets 57 Years in Prison for Fatal Shooting in Glendale

July 21, 2023
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A man was sentenced to 57 years to life in state prison on July 20 for a shooting at a Glendale restaurant in which a 20-year-old man was killed and a 10-year-old boy was struck in the arm by a bullet fragment. David Rodriguez, now 23, was convicted on May 30 of first-degree murder for…

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Over 100 Juvey Detainees Moved to Los Padrinos Hall in Downey

July 20, 2023
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LOS ANGELES—More than 100 juvenile detainees were successfully transferred out of the troubled Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar to the renovated Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, completing a state-mandated transfer of all Los Angeles County pre-disposition detainees out of two facilities deemed unsuitable for housing, county officials said July 19. The move…

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Long Beach Man Guilty of Fatal Aliso Viejo Spa Bombing

July 20, 2023
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LOS ANGELES—A Long Beach man was found guilty on July 19 of killing his ex-girlfriend and injuring two other people by bombing an Aliso Viejo day spa in 2018. Stephen Beal, 64, was convicted at retrial of four felony counts: use of a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death, malicious destruction of a building…

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One Dead, Toddler Wounded in Granada Hills Shooting

July 20, 2023
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Police are continuing an investigation on July 20 into the circumstances surrounding a late-night shooting that killed a man in his 30s and wounded a 2-year toddler at the Granada Hills Recreation Center. Los Angeles Police Department officers were called at 11:20 p.m. on July 19 to the recreation center at Petit Avenue and Chatsworth…

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