| | | | Afternoon headlines for Friday, August 28, 2020
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Two TikTok Stars Hit With Criminal Charges In Hosting Huge Hollywood Parties Despite Coronavirus Ban  Criminal charges have been filed against two TikTok stars who hosted two parties at their rented home in the Hollywood Hills, along with the owners of two other houses where large parties have been held during the coronavirus pandemic, Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer announced Friday. “If you have a combined 19 million followers […]
  
Kiddie Porn Charges Against Pomona City Councilman: Suspect Was Elementary School Substitute Teacher  A Pomona city councilman accused of taking inappropriate pictures of female students at two elementary schools where he was a substitute teacher pleaded not guilty Friday to five criminal counts, including possessing child pornography. Rubio Ramiro Gonzalez, 45, was ordered not to have any unsupervised time with minors or participate in any teaching activities, along […]
Woman Bartender’s Green Hair Was Reason For Wrongful Arrest? Los Feliz Plaintiff Sues LAPD Detective, LA City  A Los Feliz bartender is suing the city of Los Angeles and an LAPD detective, alleging she was wrongfully arrested as an assault suspect in 2019 merely because she had green hair like the actual perpetrator. Kimberly Garcia’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit against the city and Detective David Miner alleges civil rights violations, negligence, […]
Retired OC Pastor Charged with Sexually Assaulting 2 Girls A 67-year-old retired Orange County pastor was charged Friday with sexually assaulting two girls. Jose Andres Lopez was charged with 18 felony counts with sentencing enhancements for multiple victims and substantial sexual conduct, according to court records. The charges include three counts of continuous sexual abuse of a child, five counts of oral copulation or […]
NBA Playoffs Set To Resume Following Players’ Social Justice Boycott The Lakers and Clippers will be back in action this weekend, with NBA players agreeing Friday to end their boycott prompted by the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and the league agreeing to work on social justice issues and promote voter participation in the November election. NBA playoff games — all of […]
Woman Bank Robber Gets 70 Months For Violent Takeover Stick-Ups In San Fernando Valley A woman was sentenced Friday to nearly six years in federal prison for taking part in violent takeover-style bank stick-ups in the San Fernando Valley. Demenia Hawkins, 40, was also ordered by U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner to serve five years on supervised release following her 70-month prison term. Hawkins pleaded guilty in February […]
HiFi Collective to Bring Supportive Housing, Community Center to Filipinotown Councilman Mitch O’Farrell announced Friday that a partnership was reached to build 63 supportive housing units and a community cultural center in Historic Filipinotown. O’Farrell’s office said Linc Housing partnered with Search to Involve Filipino Americans to build HiFi Collective, a planned five-story building featuring programming space and a community cultural center. “This permanent supportive […]
LA County Health Officials Again Warn Of Virus Danger To Children Los Angeles County health officials warned again Friday that the coronavirus can infect children as easily as it can adults, while also reporting three additional local cases of a pediatric inflammatory syndrome linked to COVID-19 infections. “Over 21,000 COVID-19 cases have occurred in children aged 0 to 17 years old,” county public health director Barbara […]
Providence Holy Cross Agrees to Improve Access for the Deaf Providence Health System-Southern California, which operates Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, has entered into a settlement in which it agreed to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act by ensuring effective communication for patients who are deaf or hard of hearing, it was announced Friday. The settlement resolves allegations that Providence failed […]
Protesters Sue LASD over Crowd-Control Tactics Attorneys for demonstrators protesting the in-custody killing of George Floyd in May and June Friday announced a lawsuit against Los Angeles County and its sheriff, alleging law deputies subjected protesters to excessive force and civil rights violations. The proposed class-action suit filed in Los Angeles federal court late Thursday mirrors a similar complaint brought in […]
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