A man was awarded nearly $9 million Thursday by an arbitrator who ruled that former San Clemente-based drug treatment facility Sovereign Health negligently allowed him to overdose on medication, resulting in a seizure and significant brain injury. A provision in the award orders Sovereign to pay attorneys’ fees and legal costs borne by Zachary Peterson,…
Brenda Wallace had been traveling up to the Mt. Baldy Fire Station all week, hoping that she and her daughter, who had missing since Saturday in the mountains, soon would be reunited. Late Wednesday night, a relieved Wallace finally got her wish. Search crews found her daughter — Gabrielle Wallace, 31, of Rancho Cucamonga —…
A woman who may have been armed with a knife wounded three people at a Tustin gas station near Frontier Park on Thursday, April 11. The attack happened at the Arco service station on the corner of Red Hill and Mitchell Avenues at about 6 p.m., according to Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Tony Bommarito….
Orange County’s toll road agencies announced Thursday, April 11, an independent company has been hired to audit a contract with a public relations firm, after some board members questioned the costs. The audit of the Venture Strategic contract by Irvine-based Hall & Company began last week and will be done in a month or so,…
Pink and white balloons festooned the ceiling and a red carpet showed the way past tables where servers in white aprons stood behind steam trays at the Anaheim White House. The VIPs arriving Thursday, April 11, wore T shirts and sneakers, but were treated as politely as restaurant patrons would be. Volunteer Mickey Sharples serves…
A small altar bloomed in the shadow of the Watts Towers, beneath a large butcher-paper sign painted with the words “From Watts with love: RIP Ermias Nipsey Hussle Asghedom.” Kneeling on the pavement, a little girl with a fluorescent green bow in her hair delicately burned a smudge stick around…
Mylar balloons that popped when they hit electrical wires scared some fans of slain rapper Nipsey Hussle waiting outside a South Los Angeles strip mall on Thursday, sparking a small stampede that appeared to leave some with minor injuries. Several hundred fans started running north on Slauson Avenue at the sounds of the balloons exploding….
The funeral procession for Nipsey Hussle is a scene the likes of which L.A. hasn’t quite seen. Life in parts of South L.A. has come to a halt has ten of thousands line the streets — in addition to standing on roofs and hanging from traffic light poles — to bid farewell. Someone in one…
The last time Nipsey Hussle was at Staples Center, he was headlining the BET Experience concert in June. On Thursday, the slain rapper’s image — bathed in shades of blue — was projected on a screen outside the venue as thousands of fans arrived to celebrate his life. Lights inside were dimmed as…
At a meeting of the Watts Gang Task Force on Monday, Capt. Louis Paglialonga of the LAPD’s Southeast Division described a recent surge in shootings in Watts that may be a back-and-forth between rival gangs. The beginning of the year had been quiet, Paglialonga said, with no homicides in Southeast…
