By City News Service
Apr 5, 2021
MALIBU (CNS) - A motorist was killed today when a vehicle crashed off the side of a road and into a canyon in Malibu.
The crash was reported about 2:10 a.m. at Kanan Dume and Latigo Canyon roads, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Information was not immediately available on the identity of the motorist, who died at the scene. The circumstances of the crash were under investigation.
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By City News Service
Apr 5, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the federal corruption case involving ex-Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar say they want to put off the trial until next year, according to court papers obtained today.
Citing concerns over COVID-19, attorney schedules and voluminous materials in the case, attorneys filed a stipulated agreement to set the Huizar trial on May 24, 2022. The proposed date requires the judge s approval.
Also, U.S. District Judge John F. Walter has rejected a defense bid to examine grand jury records used to indict the former councilman.
Huizar filed a motion in February to compel production of two categories of grand jury records: information regarding any modifications to prosecutors pre-coronavirus grand-jury procedures for the case such as grand jurors appearing by video, witnesses wearing masks or testifying remotely and legal instructions that the U.S. Attorney s Office used to inform the grand
The Los Angeles Bureau of Street Services will clean the walls in the Sepulveda Boulevard tunnel near LAX starting tonight, requiring overnight lane closures for four nights this week, the airport's public relations division said.
By City News Service
UCLA v Gonzaga
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The UCLA men s basketball team returned to Los Angeles Sunday, one day after its bid for an upset of undefeated Gonzaga ended with Jalen Suggs making an approximately 40-foot 3-point basket as time expired in overtime to give the Bulldogs a 93-90 victory.
The Bruins had tied the score in the national semifinal game of the NCAA men s basketball tournament when Johnny Juzang grabbed the rebound of his missed jump shot and made a layup with three seconds to play.
UCLA had a chance to win in regulation Saturday but Juzang was called for an offensive foul with one second left, forcing the Bruins into overtime for the third time in their six games in the tournament.
By City News Service
Apr 1, 2021
COMPTON (CNS) - What began as a tree fire was pushed by gusting winds into an industrial pallet yard and warehouse complex in Compton today, creating a plume of thick black smoke visible from as far as Orange County and prompting evacuations as embers ignited blazes at homes in an adjacent neighborhood.
A passerby initially reported a fire burning in a tree near Alameda Street and East Rosecrans Avenue around 4:30 p.m., fire officials said.
With the Southland in the tail end of a Santa Ana wind event, gusty conditions quickly pushed the flames into the industrial yard, sparking an inferno as flames chewed through flammable materials stacked in the yard and inside metal-roof structures on the property.