Tag: Southern California

San Diego Basketball Star Mikey Williams Pleads Not Guilty in Shooting Case

EL CAJON, Calif.—San Ysidro High School basketball star Mikey Williams pleaded not guilty April 20 to felony counts of assault with a firearm and shooting at an occupied vehicle stemming from a shooting that happened outside his home in Jamul. Williams, an 18-year-old social media star with a multimillion-dollar endorsement portfolio who committed to play…


Larry Elder Announces 2024 Presidential Run

Republican conservative radio host Larry Elder announced he will run for President of the United States. “I’m announcing that I’m running for the presidency of the United States,” he broke the news on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News on April 20. “I have a moral, religious, and patriotic duty to get back to a…


Man Sought in Robbery, Suspected Beating of His Ex-Girlfriend in Laguna Beach

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.—Police were asking for the public’s help April 20 to find a man suspected of robbing and assaulting his ex-girlfriend at her Laguna Beach home, leaving her with significant injuries. Police said a residential burglary Tuesday evening was allegedly carried out by Charles Thomas Kelley IV, who hours later allegedly attacked the victim….


Knott’s Berry Farm to Reinstate Chaperone Policy

BUENA PARK, Calif.—Knott’s Berry Farm will reinstate a chaperone policy this weekend, requiring visitors aged 15 and younger to be accompanied by an adult. The park imposed a chaperone policy last summer in response to a melee that erupted among teens at the park in July. That policy, which applied to people aged 17 and…


California Bill Considering Release for Murderers Sentenced to Death Advances

California legislators will continue to consider a bill that allows for the potential release of former death-row inmates convicted of murder, after it passed its first hurdle in the Senate Public Safety Committee April 11 on a 4–1 vote. Authored by state Senator Dave Cortese (D-San Jose), and co-authored by a list of Democratic senators,…


Los Angeles Bans Overnight Parking for RVs in Venice

A new ban limiting vehicle dwellers from parking overnight, approved by the Los Angeles City Council unanimously last week, has begun in Venice after previous city laws were rolled back to accommodate the COVID-19 pandemic-era shelter-in-place orders for the homeless nearly three years ago. Los Angeles Councilmember Traci Park of the 11th District—largely representing the…


Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, Dead at 92

LOS ANGELES—Funeral services were pending April 20 for Richard Riordan, the venture capitalist who was Los Angeles’s mayor from 1993–2001 and faced the challenges of rebuilding the city—first from the Rodney King riots, then the Northridge earthquake. Riordan “passed peacefully this evening at his home in Brentwood, surrounded by his wife Elizabeth, family, friends, and…


One Killed, One Wounded in Shooting in North Hollywood

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—A person was fatally wounded and another person was expected to survive injuries suffered during a shooting in North Hollywood, authorities said April 20. Detectives responded to the 7000 block of Vineland Avenue, near Hollywood Burbank Airport, at around 8:40 p.m. Wednesday to reports of a shooting, according to the Los Angeles Police…


Update: World Not Following California on Decarbonization

Commentary California keeps barreling ahead—in an electric vehicle, of course—pushing “decarbonization.” The Sacramento Bee headlined April 19, “Climate bills on fossil fuel divestment, emissions disclosure make headway.” But what’s the rest of the world doing? Everybody knows it’s dangerous to depend on Communist China for all those lithium batteries powering the decarbonized economy. Bloomberg reported…


SoCal Man Convicted of Sex Attacks on Girl for 12 Years

SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 51-year-old man was convicted April 19 of sexual assaults on a girl he was related to from when she was 5 to 17 years old in Santa Ana, Anaheim, and Lake Elsinore. Pablo Amaya Posada was convicted of two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child with a foreign object, two…