By City News Service
May 5, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A longtime Los Angeles County prosecutor is suing the county, alleging she was repeatedly harassed and denied promotions by individuals within the office she believed were trying to destroy her career.
Deputy District Attorney Linda Baek s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit alleges gender discrimination, retaliation, disability discrimination and failure to prevent harassment, discrimination and retaliation.
Baek seeks unspecified damages in the suit brought Monday. A representative for the District Attorney s Office declined to comment on the suit.
“The facts in this case stem from a coordinated pattern of continuing violations that began when Ms. Baek complained of sexual harassment by a co-worker in 2014, the suit states.
By City News Service
May 5, 2021
IRVINE (CNS) - A 76-year-old man diagnosed with dementia who was reported missing after last being seen in Irvine was found this morning.
Armando “Gabby Vasquez was last seen about 3 p.m. Tuesday near LA Fitness at the intersection of Culver Drive and Barranca Parkway, according to the Irvine Police Department.
About 12:40 a.m., a patrol sergeant showed a citizen a photo of Vasquez and the person recognized the missing man and helped lead to his whereabouts, the department said.
Vasquez was found in good condition and was reunited with his family, police said.
An exact location where Vasquez was found was not disclosed.
By City News Service
May 5, 2021
INDUSTRY (CNS) - A man riding a bicycle on the eastbound Pomona (60) Freeway in Industry was struck by several vehicles and killed, and some lanes of the freeway were closed for more than four hours before reopening this morning.
The man was riding westbound in the eastbound lanes near the center divider, just east of Santa Anita Avenue, when he began riding northbound across the freeway and was struck by a vehicle in the No. 2 lane about 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The man was immediately struck by three additional vehicles, and came to rest in the No. 2 lane, the CHP said.
By City News Service
May 5, 2021
SANTA ANA (CNS) - Orange County will remain in the orange tier of the state s reopening plan as its coronavirus case rate did not drop enough to move into the less-restrictive yellow tier, according to the latest weekly averages.
The county meets two of the three categories for the yellow tier in the metrics, which are released by the state on Tuesdays, and its weekly average of daily new cases per 100,000 residents improved from 2.6 to 2.4.
However, a graduation into the yellow tier requires that the case rate must get below 2 per 100,000 people. A county must maintain metrics for a tier for two weeks before graduating to a less-restrictive level.
By City News Service
May 5, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are seeking the forfeiture of an ancient Roman sculpture that Kim Kardashian was in the process of acquiring after officials determined it had been illegally smuggled out of Italy, according to court papers obtained this morning.
The marble and limestone statue resembling the lower half of a person draped in fabric was seized at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport in June 2016 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after a company linked to Kardashian attempted to import it using the wrong documentation, the civil forfeiture action alleges.