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California’s attorney general filed criminal charges Wednesday against one of L.A. County Dist. Atty. George Gascón’s top advisors, who supervises high-profile and sensitive cases including police misconduct, fraud and public corruption. Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta announced the 11 felony counts against Assistant Dist. Atty. Diana Teran in a press statement. He accused her of improperly downloading confidential records of police officers in 2018 while she was working for the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department. Teran then “impermissibly used that data” after joining Gascón’s office three years later, Bonta said. The confidential records concern 11 sheriff’s deputies, according to a criminal complaint filed in L.A. Superior Court. The deputies’ names were not included in the court filing. The announcement of criminal charges against one of Gascón’s top advisors — particularly one so closely tied to his agenda of law enforcement accountability and criminal justice reform — sent shock waves across the state’s legal community and was expected to have a far-reaching impact on active and future criminal cases handled by Gascón’s office, while also fueling fresh controversy as he pursues reelection this year. “No one is above

Police in Orange County are asking for the public’s help in locating a woman wanted for assault inside a retail store earlier this year.   The incident unfolded on Jan. 30 at a shop in the 1510 block of North Main Street in Santa Ana, according to a social media post by the Santa Ana Police Department.   Authorities say the woman entered the store and began throwing merchandise around. After the store manager asked the woman to leave, the suspect reportedly grabbed the manager’s hair and punched her in the face repeatedly.   When store security intervened and pulled the woman off the manager, she began assaulting the guard before fleeing the shop on foot.   Female assault suspect seen in a photo released by Santa Ana Police on April 24, 2024. (SAPD) The suspect is described as a female between the ages of 25-30, approximately 5 feet 4 inches and 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighing around 135-140 pounds, with black hair and possible tattoos on her left hand, police said.   She was last seen wearing a gray v-neck hoodie, beige shorts

Fifteen people were arrested and $16 million worth of illegal drugs were seized during a massive cartel bust in Southern California. The operation, nicknamed “Hotline Bling,” was a multi-agency investigation targeting a Sinaloa drug trafficking network operating in the Inland Empire. The investigation began in March 2023 and ended in April 2024. It involved the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Riverside District Office, the Riverside Police Department, and assistance from the United States Postal Inspection Service. During the large-scale operation, agents seized around 376 pounds of methamphetamine, 600,000 fentanyl tablets, 37.4 pounds of fentanyl, 1.4 kilograms of cocaine, and seven firearms. The estimated street value for the narcotics is around $16 million, Riverside police said. The amount of narcotics seized during the bust prevented the distribution of more than 10 million potentially lethal doses of fentanyl within the Inland Empire and throughout the United States, officials said. Theft crew arrested for over 130 burglaries across Southern California Fifteen people were arrested and $16 million worth of illegal drugs were seized during a massive cartel bust in Southern California in April 2024. (Riverside Police Department) Fifteen people were

By Alexander Tin Edited By Paula Cohen April 25, 2024 / 12:01 AM EDT / CBS News Why U.S. births are decreasing Why U.S. births are decreasing 04:36 The pace of babies born each year in the U.S. has slowed to a new record low, according to an analysis of 2023 birth certificate data published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Last year’s slowdown marks an official end to the uptick in new babies that began during the COVID-19 pandemic. At least 3,591,328 babies were born in the U.S. in 2023, down 2% from the 3,667,758 born in 2022.  This is on par with annual declines seen before the pandemic, the report said, which averaged around 2% fewer babies each year. There were already signs in the year before that a pandemic surge in births was coming to an end. There were slightly fewer babies born in 2022 compared to 2021, though agency officials said at the time that this drop was not large enough to be considered a statistically significant decline. “Last year, the difference was very small. This year, it’s something

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Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters held an “occupation” of USC’s Alumni Park Wednesday, issuing demands for the university to end ties with Israel and Israeli-tied investments, and the gathering devolved into chaos late in the day when police began working to disperse the crowd. By early evening, an estimated 70 people who refused to leave the park after multiple dispersal orders were arrested peacefully, according to reports from the scene. The occupation action added USC to a growing list of college campuses across the nation that have seen encampments and protests over the Israel-Hamas war, most notably Columbia University. USC’s Alumni Park is scheduled to host the university’s already headline-making commencement ceremony on May 10. Organizers of the USC occupation — identifying themselves as the USC Divest from Death Coalition — issued a statement saying the action is “in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they resist genocide and continue in their struggle for liberation.” “The occupation is also in resistance to attempts by USC and other universities to suppress the student movement for Palestine on its campuses, in resistance to the silencing of students

By S. Dev April 24, 2024 / 11:20 PM EDT / CBS News Arizona certifies state’s midterm election results Legal challenges to election results could be ahead in Arizona 07:11 An Arizona grand jury indicted 18 people Wednesday in the ongoing investigation into an alleged attempt to use  alternate electors  after the 2020 presidential election as part of a wider alleged conspiracy to falsely declare then-President Donald Trump the winner, the state’s attorney general announced. The alleged fake electors and defendants named in the indictment were Kelli Ward, Tyler Bowyer, Nancy Cottle, Jacob Hoffman, Anthony Kern, James Lamon, Robert Montgomery, Samuel Moorhead, Lorraine Pellegrino, Gregory Safsten and Michael Ward. Hoffman and Kern are both Arizona state senators. Hoffman had in the past several weeks been pursuing a position with the RNC. Hoffman told the Arizona Republic in a statement that he is “innocent of any crime,” and “I look forward to the day when I am vindicated of this naked political persecution by the judicial process.”  An attorney for Lamon also told the Arizona Republic the indictment is “a politically motivated prosecution.” Additional defendants’ names

Anaheim, CA — Desde 1955 cuando Walt Disney abrió su primer parque temático, el turísmo local e internacional fue cambiando año tras año, pero siempre fue en crecimiento hasta convertirse en sinónimo de las “vacaciones soñadas” para visitantes del mundo entero con visitas a parques temáticos en puntos estratégicos del planeta como lo son sus dos locaciones en los Estados Unidos (Anaheim y Orlando), uno en Europa (Paris) y tres en el continente asiático (Shanghai, Hong Kong y Tokio). Y ahora, tal y como lo publicó Los Angeles Times “hoy el gigante del entretenimiento de Burbank está redoblando su apuesta una vez más” con el planeamiento de hacer una inversión de 60 mil millones de dólares al término de 10 años tanto en parques temáticos, complejos turísticos, líneas de cruceros y mercancías temáticas. Para comenzar, aquí el Disneyland Resort de Anaheim, el primero que se creó en el mundo, acaba de recibir del ayuntamiento la aprobación para su plan de expansión que podría generar casi $1.9 mil millones para el desarrollo de nuevas atracciones, espacios para hoteles, más tiendas y más espacios para restaurantes. Pero

Fifteen people were arrested and $16 million worth of illegal drugs were seized during a massive cartel bust in Southern California. The operation, nicknamed “Hotline Bling,” was a multi-agency investigation targeting a Sinaloa drug trafficking network operating in the Inland Empire. The investigation began in March 2023 and ended in April 2024. It involved the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Riverside District Office, the Riverside Police Department, and assistance from the United States Postal Inspection Service. During the large-scale operation, agents seized around 376 pounds of methamphetamine, 600,000 fentanyl tablets, 37.4 pounds of fentanyl, 1.4 kilograms of cocaine, and seven firearms. The estimated street value for the narcotics is around $16 million, Riverside police said. The amount of narcotics seized during the bust prevented the distribution of more than 10 million potentially lethal doses of fentanyl within the Inland Empire and throughout the United States, officials said. Fifteen people were arrested and $16 million worth of illegal drugs were seized during a massive cartel bust in Southern California in April 2024. (Riverside Police Department) Fifteen people were arrested and $16 million worth of illegal drugs were seized

A 43-year-old teacher in San Bernardino County has been arrested after allegations of inappropriate conduct with a 16-year-old girl and it’s believed he may have additional victims, authorities announced Wednesday.   Investigators with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s Specialized Investigations Division – Crimes Against Children Detail – responded to reports of the incident at Excelsior Charter Schools on April 24, according to a department news release.   Authorities say that Victorville resident Brett David Dahl, a teacher at the charter schools, was identified as the suspect.   Brett David Dahl, 43, of Victorville. (SBSD) “At the conclusion of the investigation, Dahl was arrested and booked into the High Desert Detention Center in Adelanto,” the release stated.   The 45-year-old teacher is facing charges of contacting a minor to commit a felony, meeting with a minor for lewd purposes, child endangerment and child abduction.   Twerking vandals cause $25K in damage to Southern California business Dahl’s bail was set at $60,000.  The suspect’s photograph was released because detectives believe there may be additional victims. Anyone with information regarding this case is encouraged to contact Det.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police peacefully arrested student protesters at the University of Southern California on Wednesday, hours after police at a Texas university aggressively detained dozens in the latest clashes between law enforcement and those protesting the Israel-Hamas war on campuses nationwide. While tensions rose between police and protesters at USC earlier in the day, in the evening a few dozen demonstrators standing in a circle with locked arms were detained one by one without incident. Police officers encircled the dwindling group, which sat in defiance of an earlier warning to disperse or be arrested. Beyond the police line, hundreds of onlookers watched as helicopters buzzed overhead. The school closed the campus. While universities struggling to defuse unrest have quickly turned to law enforcement, the arrests in California were in sharp contrast to the chaos that ensued just hours earlier at the University of Texas at Austin. Hundreds of local and state police — including some on horseback and holding batons — pushed into protesters, at one point sending some tumbling into the street. Officers made 34 arrests at the behest of the university

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