How L.A. doctors plan to include more people of color in COVID-19 vaccine trial
Doctors at Harbor-UCLA are participating in a COVID-19 vaccine trial, and they’re aiming to recruit people of color and members of other high-risk groups.
3 family members from O.C. sentenced to jail for home loan modification scheme
SANTA ANA — A 43-year-old Yorba Linda man, his brother and the brother’s wife received jail terms Tuesday as part of their involvement in a $390,000 scheme involving loan modification companies that preyed on mostly Spanish-speaking victims throughout the state. The ring leader, Carlos Jose Centeno, who pleaded guilty in January, was sentenced to a…
Santa Ana tutor suspected of molesting 12-year-old boy
Police arrested a tutor Tuesday, Aug. 25, who is suspected of molesting a 12-year-old boy in Santa Ana. Investigators responded to the 500 block of East Pine Street and arrested Michael Douglas Bailey, 30, on suspicion of multiple counts of child abuse, Santa Ana police said in a news release. Investigators suspect he molested a…
FBI reassigned top LA agent after 2018 baseball game buffet
LOS ANGELES — The top FBI official in Los Angeles violated federal ethics regulations by holding a sensitive meeting of agency brass at a 2018 Los Angeles Dodgers playoff game, according to a federal inspector general’s report. Paul Delacourt, then the FBI Los Angeles field office’s assistant director in charge, was reassigned to the agency’s headquarters…
Woman charged with murder in fatal crash in Dana Point
A Los Angeles woman accused of leading police on a pursuit that ended in a deadly crash in Dana Point last week has been charged with murder and driving under the influence. Charges were filed Monday, Aug. 24, against Ariana Joyce, 44, according to Orange County court records. She was charged with felony counts each…
Son of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar charged with stabbing attack on neighbor
The son of Laker’s legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was charged Tuesday with multiple felonies after prosecutors allege he stabbed a neighbor during an argument over trashcans. Adam Abdul-Jabbar, 28, of San Clemente is facing three felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon as well as a felony count of carrying a dirk or dagger and…
Owner of San Pedro clinic sentenced to nearly 4 years for $5 million health care fraud scheme
A chiropractor who operated a clinic in San Pedro was sentenced Tuesday, Aug. 25, to just under four years in federal prison for defrauding a dock workers union benefit plan of nearly $5 million in bogus billings, authorities said. Mahyar David Yadidi, 38, of West Los Angeles was also ordered to pay nearly $2 million…
Helicopter company in fatal Kobe Bryant crash sues 2 air traffic controllers
The company that operated the helicopter that crashed in Calabasas in January, killing Laker legend Kobe Bryant and eight others, is fighting back against lawsuits by filing a suit of its own contending air-traffic controllers were to blame for the crash. The suit, filed last week as a cross-complaint to litigation against Island Express Helicopters…
Island Express sues air traffic controllers in Kobe Bryant crash
Island Express, the company that operated the helicopter involved in the fatal Kobe Bryant crash, blames air traffic controllers for causing accident.
Squaw Valley ski resort to drop ‘squaw’ from name
Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, near Lake Tahoe, plans to drop the derogatory term ‘squaw’ from its name.