Several charity Thanksgiving dinners and turkey giveways are planned today in Southern California, highlighted by a dinner tonight hosted by L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Cardinal Roger Mahoney for 600 Para Los Ninos children and their families at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.
Villaraigosa will also give out turkeys and groceries this morning as part of the Jackson Limousine Service’s 23rd annual turkey dinner giveaway. The event begins at 8 a.m. at 3669 W. Slauson Ave. and more than 10,000 people are expected to attend. A line formed outside overnight.
City Councilmen Dennis Zine and Bernard Parks are expected to be on hand as officials from three taxi companies -- Yellow Cab, City Cab and United Checker Cab -- announce plans to donate 200 turkeys to various food banks and charity organizations. Parks will also donate turkeys to 8th District residents from his office at 8475 S. Vermont Ave.
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The next time you see the paparazzi chasing their prey in L.A., consider this: Things may not quite be what they seem. Such was the case recently when model and aspiring actor Noel Strane hired a group of paparazzi to follow him around on his 27th birthday. During an appearance at the Hollywood nightclub Kress, Strane and his photo-snapping entourage managed to turn more than a few heads.
"If you're going to spend your money, why not spend it on something that's going to be a lasting memory, something that brings a smile to your face?" Strane said. "Not only tonight, but for weeks to come, months to come. You're definitely going to remember this night!"
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DOGS POISONED: Police were seeking information today about the possible poisoning deaths of three pet dogs in Alhambra. The owner discovered the motionless dogs at 5:30 a.m. Monday, inside his fenced yard, police said. The dog owner also found meat covered with white powder, according to police. The incident occurred in the 1400 block of West Ramona Road, and it does not appear that any other dogs in the neighborhood were harmed. The suspected poisoned meat was to be submitted for testing and analysis, police said.
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PLAYBOY SCAM: A group of would-be security guards in the High Desert are fuming over a scam that involved the false promise of work at the Playboy mansion in the Holmby Hills recently. According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, a number of people were "recruited" to work as security guards at a party allegedly being thrown by Playboy magazine founder Hugh M. Hefner. The victims were told they'd have to pay $225 up front for their security uniforms and passes. Those who agreed were told to meet at a Denny's restaurant in the 14200 block of Valley Center Drive. When nobody showed up to take them to the Playboy mansion, the victims realized they'd been swindled. Reporter Brandon Rudat talks to one of the victims.
In the wake of the water main breaks across Los Angeles, KTLA’s Eric Spillman reports that the Department of Water and Power has identified at least 100 water mains across the city in serious danger of failing -- and, he says, they aren’t necessarily the oldest pipes.
“There’s enough pipe under Los Angeles to go all the way to New York City and back, over 7,000 miles -- and it’s old as I am, most of it. So it’s kind of falling apart,” said David Freeman, interim general manager of the DWP. Some of the pipes under downtown Los Angeles date to 1887, Spillman reports.
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BAD DRIVER GENE: Are you a bad driver? Maybe it's in your genes. A study by a UC Irvine professor has found that people with a gene variation performed 20% worse on simulated driving tests and did as poorly a few days later. Almost one in three Americans have the variation, according to the study. "These people make more errors from the get-go, and they forget more of what they learned after time away," said Dr. Steven Cramer, neurology associate professor at UC Irvine. The study, which was published in the journal Cerebral Cortex, says that the gene variation lowers available levels of a protein that boosts memory.
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GROOVY PAN-AM 70’S CONDO: Globe-trotters who pine for the golden era of commercial air travel might want to book a trip to Anthony Toth's garage in Redondo Beach. Toth has reconstructed a first-class cabin from a Pan Am World Airways 747 in the garage of his two-bedroom condo. The mock cabin includes most of the late 1970s touches that travelers would have found in an actual aircraft: rows of red-and-blue reclining seats, overhead luggage bins and a spiral staircase.
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CORI DESMOND ARREST: A 35-year-old man was arrested Thursday for the February slaying of a popular Manhattan Beach bartender whose body was found dumped along Running Springs Highway. Authorities said they were tipped off to the suspect's identity, and that their investigation involved a search of his car, which he had recently sold. Cori Desmond, 28, of Torrance was last seen alive on Feb. 15 at the Bac Street Lounge in Redondo Beach. Read the story here.
ATM SKIMMING ARREST: A man arrested as he installed a fake keyboard atop a Citibank ATM in Manhattan Beach may be part of an organized crime ring that stole $70,000 from customers' accounts, police said Thursday. So far, Manhattan Beach police have received 50 reports of illegal withdrawals from bank accounts ranging from $100 to $10,000. The 26-year-old suspect is a Romanian national. He was arrested on Sept. 25.
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BUS DRIVER GOOD SAMARITAN: A lost 4-year-old who wandered into traffic on Beach Boulevard in Garden Grove reportedly was rescued by a school bus driver who spotted the youngster in traffic. Numerous cars had swerved to avoid hitting the child by the time Valarie Flanagan scooped the boy up and carried him to safety. Flanagan, who works for the Garden Grove Unified School District, has driven a school bus for 23 years. She noticed the boy as she was driving home from her school route near Beach Boulevard and Westminster Avenue.
CHARTER SCHOOL EMBEZZLEMENT: The district attorney's office has unsealed an embezzlement indictment against the former owner of a charter school in Orange County. The school was shut down two years ago after a state audit found that the school had misspent up to $12 million. It was unclear at the time where all the money went and whether it was spent on education. Investigators began following up on the matter, and now they have accused the forrmer owner of skimming $3 million worth of public funds and depositing them into his own bank account. The suspected embezzler has since left the country and authorities are attempting to have him extradited from Spain.
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LOCAL ALPINIST RETURNS TO HIMALAYAS: A 24-year-old alpinist who grew up in Hermosa Beach was more than 18,000 feet high today on Shishapangma, the world's 14th-tallest mountain, in the Tibetan Himalayas. To date, Nicholas Rice says, he has reached the peaks of four of the world's 8,000-meter peaks -- including Cho Oyu in Tibet in 2004, Gasherbrum II in Pakistan in 2006 and Manaslu in Nepal in May this year. Thirteen months ago, Rice survived a deadly episode on K2 in Pakistan, when 11 other climbers died on the so-called Savage Mountain.
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DOG NURSES SQUIRREL: Princess, a Shih Tzu in Agoura Hills, is nursing three female puppies along with a newborn squirrel that she has adopted as one of her own. The dog's owner, Doug Thomas, said the abandoned squirrel was found near his property.
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MOUNTAIN LION ATTACK: A mountain lion reportedly attacked and killed a dog in a Moorpark neighborhood early Thursday morning, according to officials. The owner discovered the dog -- a chocolate Labrador -- mauled and mutilated in a backyard in the 11500 block of Chestnut Ridge Street. The homeowner brought the dog’s body to a veterinarian, where it was confirmed that the dog was killed by a mountain lion, authorities said.
EL SEGUNDO FLASHER: Authorities are stepping up their search for a serial flasher who has struck numerous times since spring. He’s still on the loose and a composite sketch has failed to lead to any arrests.
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MANSON LETTER: Convicted killer Phil Spector reportedly has a prison admirer, Charles Manson. The 68-year-old music producer's wife, Rachelle, says her husband received a note from the cult leader. Spector's publicist, Hal Lifson, told KTLA that: "Phil Spector has been very, very alarmed and scared at the notion of Charles Manson contacting him for any reason." Read the full story here.
MISSING MAN FOUND: A retired doctor who went missing yesterday has been found by rescuers at the bottom of a cliff. He went missing after going out last night to fly a remote-controlled plane. Authorities are unclear how he ended up at the bottom of a remote cliff.
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THWARTED KIDNAPPING:An 18-year-old woman who was abducted reportedly escaped by jumping out of a moving car on the Long Beach (710) Freeway, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The victim was picked up by two men in their early 20s in a red Mustang convertible near Pannes Avenue and Iva Street in an unincorporated area bordering Compton and Long Beach about 11:45 p.m. Tuesday, said Deputy Jeff Gordon of the Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau. She jumped out of the car and called authorities when she got home. The woman suffered some bruises and scrapes to her legs but no serious injuries.
CHIHUAHUA RESCUE: A Huntington Beach woman saved a dog's life with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation after the dog accidentally hanged itself from a tree house during a party.
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SKINNY-DIPPING ATTACKERS: Huntington Beach Police are in hot pursuit of a gang of skinny-dipping girls who allegedly shoved a 21-year-old apartment security guard into a pool, sending him to the hospital. The incident occurred at 2:42 a.m. Sunday at the Huntington Villas Apartments, in the 16700 block of Viewpoint Lane, according to authorities. No one has been arrested or detained in the incident, but the alleged shovers could be arrested on suspicion of assault.
LOOK-ALIKE SPERM BANK: A Los Angeles sperm bank announced today that it has started posting photos of celebrities who resemble their donors in order to give prospective clients an idea of what their offspring might look like.
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NORWALK ABDUCTION: Sheriff's deputies are searching for a car that was stolen from in front of a local store with two children inside. Their father had left them in the car with the engine running as he ran an errand in the store. When he came out, the vehicle was gone.
BEV HILLS FERAL CATS: The Beverly Hills City Council has voted to allow feral cats to be fed and cared for on a temporary basis. The action follows the inadvertent deletion of language prohibiting feral cat feeding from the city code. The vote stems from a court case involving a former Beverly Hills resident who was cited for feeding feral cats under the deleted code. She is due back in Beverly Hills Municipal Court next month.
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SERIAL PEEPER ARRESTED: Police have jailed a Pasadena man on suspicion of lewd acts for allegedly peeking at a woman in a store bathroom. The 46-year-old man was arrested Thursday after a police officer who had arrested him on a previous peeping offense recognized him on a surveillance video. The man was captured on video after he allegedly peered over a bathroom stall at a woman. The man left when he was confronted by a store employee. Authorities said the man has a history of peeping. They said that earlier this year, he was caught peeping in a women's restroom in a courthouse, where he was ordered to appear for a similar offense.
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JACKSON ENCINO HOUSE MEETING:The re-opening of Hayvenhurst Avenue, the street on which the Jackson family residence is located, will be the topic of a community meeting. City Councilman Paul Koretz and officials from the Los Angeles Fire and Transportation departments will update residents on when the street will be reopened and listen to concerns about the continuing issue of sightseers and media presence since Michael Jackson's death.
CHURCH ATTEMPTED RAPE:A 24-year-old man was arrested this morning on suspicion of attempted rape after he allegedly assaulted a woman in the bathroom of a Ventura church, police said. The man was arrested about 9:45 a.m., following a 40-minute manhunt. The suspect was also booked on suspicion of assault with intent to commit rape, kidnapping with intent to commit rape and assault with a deadly weapon, authorities said. He is being held at the Ventura County Jail.
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FOOD VENDOR BAN: The Anschutz Entertainment Group, or AEG -- promoters of Michael Jackson's unrealized comeback tour and the owners of the Home Depot Center -- is declaring war on bacon-wrapped hot dogs. The entertainment corporation has persuaded Carson officials to ban street vendors from selling the popular snacks around the Home Depot Center. Tonight, code enforcement officers are planning to conduct a widespread sweep. Their goal is to show vendors that they are no longer welcome in the area. Fans won't be too happy...expect for a good food-fight.
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SEA LION COMMANDEERS PATROL BOAT: A sea lion unexpectedly took the helm of an Orange County Sheriff's Harbor Patrol fire boat recently. Deputies had loaded the creature onto their vessel after residents complained that it was behaving aggressively toward children on a Newport Beach dock. As deputies prepared to relocate the creature, the sea lion got into the pilot's seat. Deputies said they discovered the animal with its flippers on the patrol boat's controls.
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RED LIGHT CAM: A red light camera in Ventura is under scrutiny after the signal’s amber light was tested and determined to be far shorter in duration than other amber lights in the area, thus causing more red light cam tickets at the intersection.
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WONG WAY: It's Wong Way no more. Worried that a road in Riverside's former Chinatown neighborhood was sending the wrong message, officials have ordered that Wong Way be renamed Wong Street. In 1961, the short connector street near downtown was named after the late George Wong, the last resident of Riverside's Chinatown. But some in the community thought the street name appeared to be more of a joke than an honor and were insulted by it. City Councilman Mike Gardner, who requested the street name change, said the sign was disparaging to Chinese immigrants with limited English skills.
JOGGER ATTACKED: A woman who was attacked while jogging near a busy park in Corona fought off her assailant, injured him, and chased after him while calling 911. She eventually lost the attacker before police could locate him. The incident was the ninth in a series of attacks on female joggers in the last few months.
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CHASTITY BONO SEX REASSIGNMENT:Chastity Bono is having a sex change to become a man. A spokesman for Bono, born a girl to Sonny and Cher, says he "has made the courageous decision to honor his true identity" and began the sex-change process earlier this year. Publicist Howard Bragman said Bono is proud of his decision and hopes "that his choice to transition will open the hearts and minds of the public regarding this issue." The 40-year-old writer, activist and reality-TV star came out as gay 20 years ago, Bragman said.
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PAPARAZZI NURSERY SCHOOL: The Santa Monica City Council is expected to direct its staff to "investigate intrusive and invasive activities of 'paparazzi' photographers and videographers around areas where children congregate or attend classes" and return with recommendations to protect the privacy and safety of the children, their families and teachers.
STOLEN FOUNTAIN: Police are looking for a 3-foot-tall, handmade marble statue of a boy with wings that was removed from the frontyard of a house in Huntington Beach. The owner said she'd had the statue almost 60 years and considered it a family heirloom. The statue and a fountain it was attached to are worth about $2,000, she said.
TEEN SLAIN: A Hawthorne teenager planning to attend El Camino College was shot to death as he talked with friends outside his house, police said today.
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PRICEY PURSE RETURNED: A $1,500 purse stolen from a La Canada Flintridge boutique -- a theft allegedly committed by a pregnant woman -- was found today in a paper bag outside the back door of the business. Along with the purse was a note of apology from the thief, who remains at large.
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