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Shirtless smash-and-grab suspect identified by police

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:13 GMT

A would-be smash-and-grab suspect who got more than he bargained for when he attempted to rob a family-owned jewelry store in the San Gabriel Valley last week, has been identified, authorities announced on Thursday.  Surveillance cameras captured the suspect, now identified as 36-year-old Joshua Lee Simmons, as he was walking down Main Street in El Monte on Sept. 2 dressed in all black with a face mask and a cardboard box in hand. As the 36-year-old approaches Meza’s Jewelry store, he’s seen spraying bear repellent in the face of a 70-year-old man, one of the store’s owners, who was sitting just outside the shop.  That didn’t stop the 70-year-old from running inside his family’s jewelry store to fight back, his brother, niece and nephews all coming to his defense, struggling to restrain the intruder as he smashed the display case and attempted to grab whatever precious merchandise he could get his hands on.    Jewelry store owners speak out after wild smas...

Agustina Cano-De Arambula Killed in Two-Vehicle Collision on Manning Avenue [Fresno, CA]

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:13 GMT

Two-Car Crash on Adams Avenue Left Agustina Cano-De Arambula DeadFRESNO, CA (September 8, 2023) – Wednesday evening, a two-vehicle crash on Manning Avenue left Agustina Cano-De Arambula dead and two individuals hospitalized.Officers responded to the fatal collision on August 23rd at around 9:20 p.m. along Manning Avenue and Adams Avenue.According to reports, a 32-year-old man driving a Freightliner truck, that was transporting grapes from a neighboring vineyard, when he took a left turn out of a field onto Manning Avenue. He subsequently traveled into the path of a Honda CRV.The Honda driver crashed into the axle part of the back trailer of the semi-truck.Emergency crews arrived shortly afterward and transported the 72-year-old Honda driver, and his passenger to a local hospital for treatment.Later, at the hospital, medics pronounced 70-year-old Agustina Cano-De Arambula dead, due to the extent of her condition.No words can mend the broken hearts and sorrow felt during this delicate...

From Doja Cat to Radiohead — the New LA Weekly Playlist is Live

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:13 GMT

From Doja Cat to Radiohead: The 173rd LA Weekly playlist, reviewing the musicians that we’ve been writing about all week, is live now. There’s electronic music from wAFF, hip-hop from Doja Cat, pop from Madilyn Bailey, punk from the Erections and the Varukers, classic rock from Fleetwood Mac and Ringo Starr, and so much more.Find us on Spotify here,or on Soundcloud here.Don’t forget to “Like” the playlists and “Follow” the profiles.Madilyn Bailey (Lissy Laricchia)From Doja Cat to RadioheadAlso this week:Print star Madilyn Bailey told us that, “I practicality came out of the womb singing. ‘Hi world, I’m here.” Putting on little shows for my family, and then I think I started taking it seriously when I performed at my school’s talent show. My whole school was so supportive, and I was such a shy kid at that point that I was like, ‘I’m not even sure that you guys knew that I existed until this moment.’ But they were so supportive and also my parents were super supportive of everything. ...

California shows an electric-car uprising headed for the U.S.

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:13 GMT

By Tom Randall | BloombergIf you want to know how quickly electric vehicles might spread across the US, just look at California. In the past five years, EVs have gone from 2% of new-car sales in the state to 22%.The pace of adoption in California picked up significantly once EVs reached 5% of new-car sales, a threshold at which preferences start to flip for mainstream car buyers, according to a Bloomberg Green analysis of EV adoption curves around the world. California was one of the first major car markets to reach that tipping point, in 2018, and so far 23 countries have been added to the list.If California were itself a country, it would now rank fourth in terms of overall EV sales; only China, the US and Germany sell more. The pace of adoption in the state shows no signs of slowing, either, with second-quarter EV sales rising 70% over the same period in 2022. The US as a whole is just three years behind California, and currently tracing its path. If the trend continues, a quarte...

80-year-old California woman swindled out of house awarded nearly $4 million in elder abuse case

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:13 GMT

A Long Beach woman who unwittingly signed over her house of 48 years to a real estate investor while confined to a nursing home has been awarded nearly $4 million in an elder abuse and fraud case.Jurors awarded 80-year-old Suzanne Yorgason $939,669 in compensatory damages and $3 million in punitive damages after finding Ken Allen Lamphear committed elder abuse, fraud and fraud in the inducement. Additionally, the jury found that Lamphear acted with malice, oppression or fraud at the conclusion of the 10-day trial at the Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse in Long Beach.“We are extremely gratified by the jury’s verdict and punitive award,” Yorgason’s Aliso Viejo attorney, William D. Chapman, said in a statement. “A sophisticated real estate investor, Ken Lamphear, knew exactly what he was doing when he persuaded Ms. Yorgason to transfer her home to him without any documentation — no promissory note, no deed, no escrow and no payment of any kind.”Yorgason lived at her home in the Al...

Murder defendant attacks his attorney at San Jose trial opening

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:13 GMT

SAN JOSE — A man on trial for murder violently brought the proceedings to a halt Thursday when he attacked his own attorney in court moments before opening statements were set to be heard, according to authorities and multiple sources.Ronnell Spencer is shown in a 2022 booking photo taken at Cook County jail in Chicago, where Spencer was a resident. (Photo courtesy of Cook County Sheriff’s Office) Ronnell Spencer, charged in a deadly 2022 San Jose shooting, was scheduled to face jurors for the first time in a San Jose courtroom Thursday morning when, without warning, he started punching a Santa Clara County deputy public defender who was representing him, sources familiar with the incident told this news organization.Court bailiffs — who are county sheriff’s deputies — as well as a prosecutor soon intervened to subdue Spencer and pull the attorney away from the fray, sources said.The attorney who was attacked was not seriously injured, sources said...

Stanford-USC history: No shortage of great moments in the century-long rivalry

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:13 GMT

For more than 100 years, the Stanford-USC football rivalry has had it all.Legendary players. Fantastic finishes. Fiery coaches. Passionate fan bases.So it’s somewhat appropriate that one of the longest-running – and most colorful – soap operas in college football is the first conference game of the Pac-12’s farewell season.When the teams will play again after Saturday night at the L.A. Coliseum is anyone’s guess.Next season Stanford jumps to the Atlantic Coast Conference and the No. 6 ranked Trojans join the Big Ten, and, at least publicly, there are no plans for the teams to meet again anytime soon.This is a series that began in 1905. Since the end of World War II, the teams have met at least once every season except 2020, because of COVID-19 restrictions.Running back Keaontay Ingram #28 of the USC Trojans is upededend against the Stanford Cardinal in the first half of a NCAA football game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles on Saturday, September 11, 2021. (P...

Nancy Pelosi says she’ll run for reelection in 2024 as Democrats try to win back House majority

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:13 GMT

By LISA MASCARO | AP Congressional CorrespondentWASHINGTON — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she will run for reelection to another term in Congress as Democrats work to win back the majority in 2024.Pelosi, 83, made the announcement before labor allies in the San Francisco area district she has represented for more than 35 years.“Now more than ever our City needs us to advance San Francisco values and further our recovery,” Pelosi said in a tweet. “Our country needs America to show the world that our flag is still there, with liberty and justice for ALL. That is why I am running for reelection — and respectfully ask for your vote.”First elected to Congress in 1987, the Democratic leader made history becoming the first female speaker in 2007, and in 2019 she regained the speaker’s gavel.Pelosi led the party through substantial legislative achievements, including passage of the Affordable Care Act, as well as turbulent times with two impeachments of former President Don...

Pelosi says she'll run for reelection in 2024 as Democrats try to win back House majority

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:13 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she will run for reelection to another term in Congress as Democrats work to win back the majority in 2024. Pelosi, 83, made the announcement before labor allies in the San Francisco area district she has represented for more than 35 years.“Now more than ever our City needs us to advance San Francisco values and further our recovery,” Pelosi said in a tweet. “Our country needs America to show the world that our flag is still there, with liberty and justice for ALL. That is why I am running for reelection — and respectfully ask for your vote.”First elected to Congress in 1987, the Democratic leader made history becoming the first female speaker in 2007, and in 2019 she regained the speaker's gavel. Pelosi led the party through substantial legislative achievements, including passage of the Affordable Care Act, as well as turbulent times with two impeachments of former President Donald Trump. The announcement quells any ta...

Person dies at hospital after shooting in Oakland's Melrose neighborhood

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:13 GMT

(KRON) -- A person is dead following a shooting Thursday night in the Melrose neighborhood, according to the Oakland Police Department. Just after 11:45 p.m., officers responded to the 5100 block of East 8th Street and located a victim with at least one gunshot wound. Paramedics provided the victim with medical attention before transporting them to a local hospital, OPD said. Pelosi will run for reelection The victim was listed in critical condition at the time.On Friday morning around 5:30 a.m., the victim died from their injuries. Their identity is being withheld until next of kin is notified.This investigation remains open and active. Anyone with information is asked to contact OPD's Homicide Section at 510-238-3821.