By City News Service
Judge holding gavel in courtroom
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A Black social worker is suing the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, alleging a supervisor made a racially insensitive remark about jewelry she was wearing.
“Why do you wear so many bracelets? Is it because you want to become a slave again? Mark Wing C. Cheung, a DCFS assistant regional administrator and co-defendant in the suit, allegedly asked plaintiff Jennifer Jackson Warren.
Warren seeks unspecified damages in the suit filed Thursday. A DCFS representative did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
By City News Service
Apr 6, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A Bakersfield man was ordered today to stand trial in the slayings of two young women in the 1980s, including a Reseda resident whose body was found in the trunk of her car in a Burbank parking lot.
Following a three-day hearing, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ronald S. Coen found sufficient evidence to allow the case against Horace Van Vaultz, now 65, to proceed to trial on murder charges stemming from the June 9, 1986, asphyxiation of 22-year-old Mary Duggan, whose body was found in the trunk of her car in an empty parking lot in Burbank, and the July 16, 1981, strangulation of Selena Keough, a 20-year-old mother who was killed in San Bernardino County and dumped under bushes in Montclair.
have experienced a job loss, furlough, or reduced work hours due to COVID-19; have fallen behind on rent or have verifiable need for future rent assistance; have fallen behind on utility payments with Burbank Water and Power; not receive Section 8 or live in a rent restricted unit; or have a current rental agreement.
The application period will end on April 16 at 5 p.m. Applications will be considered on a first-come,first-served basis until funding is exhausted. A waiting list will be established as applications are received.
All applications must be submitted online at:https://www.citydataservices.net/BurbankRAP. Only one application per household will be accepted.
By City News Service
Apr 6, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Councilman Mike Bonin, who represents parts of Los Angeles westside including Venice and Pacific Palisades, said today he wants the city to explore additional ways to house homeless people in his district, including in temporary cabins or safe camping sites at Will Rogers State Beach.
“With homelessness rising nationwide, statewide and locally, we need to do a helluva lot more. And we need to do it fast, so that people aren t living and dying in encampments on our sidewalks, Bonin wrote on Twitter.
“Urgent action means we need to house everyone as quickly as we can, and find safe places for them in the meantime off our sidewalks, with services, sanitation and security.
By City News Service
Apr 6, 2021
ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST (CNS) - An aggressive brush fire scorched its way across 50 acres of wildland in the remote Angeles National Forest today south of Llano, near the Valyermo area, prompting a massive response from federal, state and Los Angeles County fire crews.
Fire teams were first dispatched to the area of Big Pines Highway and Big Rock Creek Road at about 4:05 p.m., according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
The fire quickly blackened 50 acres in the dense forest, fanned by winds traveling at about 20 to 30 mph, according to the U.S. Forest Service.