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Los Angeles

Four Men Suspected in Palm Desert Carjacking, Armed Robbery Arrested

Four men in their 20s suspected of a carjacking and armed robbery in Palm Desert were taken into custody after being located during the execution of search warrants, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday. Investigators with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office, Palm Springs Police Department, District Attorney’s Gang Impact Team, and U.S. Marshals Service executed residential warrants at 7 a.m. Thursday at the following locations stemming from an investigation of an armed robbery and carjacking June 3: — the 2700 block of Michigan Drive in the Salton Sea neighborhood; — the 60 block of La Jolla Drive in Desert Shores; — the 11300 block of Ocotillo Road in Desert Hot Springs; — the 81800 block of Avenida Del Mar in Indio; and — and the 67 block of San Jacinto, also in Desert Hot Springs. Deputies were sent to the 71000 block of Highway 111 in Rancho Mirage around 11:45 p.m. on June 3 regarding an armed robbery, where two victims were assaulted and robbed at gunpoint, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Several minutes later, deputies responded to a carjacking in the

Los Angeles

Arsenal y Manchester United se miden en pretemporada en SoFi Stadium

El Arsenal se enfrentará el sábado al Manchester United en un amistoso en el SoFi Stadium de Inglewood. El cotejo se disputará a las 5 p.m. y será transmitido por ESPN y ESPN Deportes. Los Gunners disputarán el segundo partido de una gira de pretemporada de tres encuentros por Estados Unidos, tras haber vencido el miércoles al Bournemouth en la tanda de penaltis después de empatar 1-1 en el Dignity Health Sports Park de Carson. Después de este duelo, el equipo de Mikel Arteta volará a la Costa Este para concluir su gira el miércoles contra el Liverpool en Filadelfia. El Arsenal terminó en segundo lugar en la pasada temporada, a dos puntos del campeón, Manchester City. “Siempre que jugamos, jugamos para ganar, y ese es el caso mañana”, declaró Martin Odegaard, capitán del conjunto. “Es una gran rivalidad, a mucha gente le importa mucho. Nos preparamos para ganar”. “El ganar siempre ayuda, nos da buenas vibras. Jugamos ante uno de los mejores equipos del mundo, y en uno de los mejores estadios en el mundo, construido por nuestros dueños”, expresó Arteta. “Necesitamos más de

Los Angeles

Christian Olivera scores twice as LAFC tops Tijuana in Leagues Cup play

LAFC forward Cristian Olivera scored two goals during the team’s win over Club Tijuana in a Leagues Cup game at BMO Stadium Friday night. (Ryan Sun / Associated Press) By Los Angeles Times Staff July 27, 2024 12:48 AM PT Cristian Olivera scored two goals and had an assist, and Denis Bouanga had a goal and two assists to lead LAFC to a 3-0 victory over Club Tijuana in a Leagues Cup game at BMO Stadium Friday night. The first goal came in the ninth minute when Bouanga sent a short, low cross Olivera tapped into the net. In the 43rd minute, Olivera sent a bouncing cross from the right that Bouanga finished. More to Read More From the Los Angeles Times

San Diego

Talk of divine intervention as Trump speaks at Florida summit for the religious right

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — In the days since Donald Trump narrowly dodged a would-be assassin’s bullet at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, a unifying message has emerged among some of his supporters: that it was God who saved the former president’s life — and, in turn, blessed Trump’s bid for the White House. That belief served as a central theme of the Believers’ Summit, a three-day gathering in West Palm Beach that kicked off on Friday with a speech from Trump. Thousands of conservatives packed into a sprawling conference hall to blaring new age gospel music and Christian rock. Many donned “Make America Great Again” hats or Trump-branded t-shirts as they settled in to listen to a speech from Charlie Kirk, the right-wing activist and founder of Turning Point Action, the host of this weekend’s gathering. “We were two centimeters away from not just losing President Trump, but also going into a dark chapter in this country that none of us even want to entertain,” Kirk said. “And as we’re here at the Believers’ Summit, I think it is appropriate to give thanks and

San Diego

Brazilian steakhouse in Gaslamp Quarter catches fire; 50 people displaced

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A fire broke out Friday at a four-story building with a Brazilian steakhouse and apartment units in the Gaslamp Quarter, firefighters said. The fire occurred around 7:27 p.m. in Rei Do Gado Brazilian Steakhouse at 939 Fourth Avenue, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. FOX 5/KUSI received photos and videos from Comic-Con attendees of the fire spewing black smoke. Fire officials say the fire started in the kitchen and extended up four stories, displacing 50 people. San Diego mayor reacts to governor’s order on homeless encampments Multiple buildings nearby, including one that had 1,200 guests visiting for Comic-Con viewing a movie, were forced to evacuate as well due to the blaze. Firefighters were able to put out the flames fairly quickly, but they remain on scene to monitor the fire. Road closures in the area have detoured Broadway bus routes 3, 225, 901, 929, 992 and Rapid 225, per the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System. Riders are advised to take the trolley if traveling through downtown. FOX 5/KUSI’s Kasia Gregorczyk contributed to this story.

Sacramento

Teenager killed after colliding with vehicle while riding bike in Merced

Saturday, July 27, 2024 6:43AM A family is grieving after a teenager was killed in crash in Merced last on Thursday night. MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) — A family is grieving after a teenager was killed in a crash in Merced on Thursday night. The crash happened just before 9 pm in the area of East 21st Street and Calimyrna. Merced Police say a 15-year-old boy who was riding a bike was killed in a collision with a vehicle. Sam Scheidt lives nearby and says the busy thoroughfare can be dangerous. “It is a little bit darker on this road, so it would be hard to see pedestrians crossing or riding their bikes or anything like that so if you’re not paying close attention or even if you’re paying attention sometimes of a bike sneaks out in front of you, it is dark,” said Merced resident, Sam Scheidt. Scheidt says just 10 months ago, another tragedy took place. “There was an accident that happened on Glenn and East 21st, just a couple blocks down,” said Scheidt. Authorities say a driver ran a red light, and crashed

Sacramento

Grass fire shuts down part of Highway 99 in Fresno County

Saturday, July 27, 2024 6:29AM A grass fire has forced the closure of a portion of Highway 99 in Fresno County on Friday night. FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) — A grass fire has forced the closure of a portion of Highway 99 in Fresno County on Friday night. The fire is currently burning along the highway near Central Avenue. The California Highway Patrol says all northbound lanes have been closed at Central due to the flames. The closure is expected to last for a couple of hours. Traffic appears to be backed up for miles in the southbound lanes due to the closure. Drivers should avoid the area if they can as the fire continues to burn. All southbound lanes of the highway remain open at this time. Investigators have not yet shared any details about how the fire started. Stay with Action News for the latest updates on this developing story. Copyright © 2024 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved. Top Stories

Sacramento

High School students immerse into university life with eye-opening experience at Fresno State

Saturday, July 27, 2024 3:35AM For the last two weeks, Fresno State has been home to 90 High School students who are getting a unique college experience. FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Ethan Ottaway, a high school sophomore from Woodlake, is one of 90 students selected from throughout California to participate in this year’s two-week Summer Residential Program at Fresno State. The experience immerses students into university life – from sleeping in dorms to attending lecture halls. “We have some STEM classes where students learn not just hands-on projects, but they learn about careers related to those activities like drones and aviation, physics, and graphic design,” California Teaching Fellows Foundation Program Manager Pedro Lopez said. The California Teaching Fellows Foundation collaborated with Fresno State’s College Assistance Migrant Program to find the right students, including those who have not been exposed to college. Most students this summer are from rural communities in Northern California, but some are from Parlier and Woodlake. Ottaway expected long lectures but says the classes and activities were eye-opening. “It wasn’t as bad as I thought, it was actually really fun,” Ottaway said.

Bay Area

Player agent blasts Oakland Ballers, says clients were mistreated on and off field

OAKLAND — The honeymoon is clearly over for Oakland’s expansion baseball team. The Ballers fired manager Micah Franklin on Sunday after just 54 games, despite the team being tied for the fourth-best record in the Pioneer League standings when he was let go.  On Friday, player agent Lonnie Murray publicly criticized the organization on the social media platform X for mistreating her clients.  Murray accused the organization of mishandling shortstop Myles Jefferson’s injury and claimed the team has not set up a visit with a doctor. She posted that players were housed by the team in groups of four to a room when they were told it would only be two per room, and also voiced safety concerns for her clients after she said a Ballers player was robbed at gunpoint at some point this season. “I’ve been a player agent for 22 years,” Murray wrote on X. “I don’t stand for bad behavior by anyone and I carry receipts for what I state publicly.” Oakland A’s Hall of Fame pitcher Dave Stewart is Murray’s partner. He supported her on social media Friday, writing, “These

Bay Area

SF Giants’ Tyler Fitzgerald continues ‘weird’ stretch with two homers in big win

SAN FRANCISCO — The English language contains dozens of adjectives that can be used to describe what Tyler Fitzgerald is doing right now. Astonishing and amazing. Astounding and confounding. Surprising and mesmerizing. But following the first multi-homer game of his career, a feat that puts his name, once again, in the same sentence as Barry Bonds, Fitzgerald repeatedly used an odd descriptor: weird. “It’s just one of those things that’s weird,” Fitzgerald said. “Baseball’s a weird sport.” Whatever Fitzgerald wants to call it, the Giants are happy to have it. Fitzgerald deposited two home runs into the left-field bleachers as the Giants handily defeated the Rockies, 11-4, on Friday night at Oracle Park, giving the infielder seven homers in his last eight games — a feat that no Giant has accomplished since Bonds in April 2004. With Jorge Soler and Heliot Ramos also homering and Kyle Harrison matching his career-high of 11 strikeouts, San Francisco enjoyed a dominant win on the heels of losing three of four in Los Angeles. And as the Giants fight for the postseason, they’d love for more of Fitzgerald’s weirdness

Los Angeles

Un crimen único en la vida: ¿Cómo logró Estados Unidos atrapar a ‘El Mayo’, el máximo jefe del cártel de Sinaloa?

MEXICO CITY —  Incluso entre los jefes de los cárteles mexicanos, un grupo conocido por su riqueza suntuosa, sus atrevidas huidas y su brutalidad extrema, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada se destacó. Fue socio durante mucho tiempo de Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, y juntos convirtieron el cártel de Sinaloa en un imperio global. Adquiriendo un estatus casi mítico, se rumorea que tiene jueces, generales e incluso presidentes de México en su bolsillo. Y a pesar de más de cuatro décadas prófugo como uno de los fugitivos más buscados del mundo, nunca había pasado una sola noche en la cárcel. Hasta el jueves. Zambada, de 76 años, fue arrestado en un aeropuerto privado cerca de El Paso, junto con el hijo de El Chapo, Joaquín Guzmán López, anunció el Departamento de Justicia. El viernes por la mañana, Zambada se declaró inocente de una serie de cargos de drogas, armas, lavado de dinero y conspiración, incluido el tráfico del poderoso opioide sintético fentanilo que ha alimentado una epidemia de muertes por sobredosis en Estados Unidos. Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada fue detenido en un aeropuerto cerca de El Paso el

Los Angeles

Southern California man hospitalized after suspect steals coffee cart, leads police on wild chase

A man who was hospitalized after a suspect stole a coffee cart with him inside and led officers on a wild, multi-county pursuit recalls the terrifying ordeal. “I thought I was going to die,” said the victim, Derek Strano, 37.  On July 16, the suspect, Liam Preston Yanez, 28, jumped into a pickup truck that was also towing a coffee service trailer in Moorpark. Little did the suspect know, Strano was still inside the coffee cart. At the time, Strano had gone inside the cart to prepare a drink for a family member who had arrived home for surgery. As the truck suddenly took off, Strano was taken on a violent, wild ride through Ventura and Los Angeles counties as police officers chased the stolen truck. “I feel the truck moving and I had been in there for two minutes,” Strano recalled. “I thought I had the parking brake off, but then the truck blows through the fence. It was hell.”  Suspect leading police on a chase driving a stolen pickup truck with a coffee trailer containing Derek Strano inside on July 16, 2024. (KTLA)

Los Angeles

Woman Charged With Murdering Wife With Samurai Sword

A woman was charged Friday with fatally stabbing her wife with a Samurai sword and attacking her wife’s mother in San Dimas. Weichien Huang, 44, is set to be arraigned Monday in a Pomona courtroom on one count each of murder and attempted murder, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. The charges include allegations that she used a deadly weapon and inflicted great bodily injury on an elderly victim, according to court records. Investigators responded to the 300 block of South Huntington Avenue, between Arrow Highway and Cienega Avenue, around 3:30 p.m. July 18 regarding a fatal stabbing, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department homicide Lt. Daniel Vizcarra. Investigators determined upon further investigation that Huang and her wife were engaged in an argument at their residence moments before Huang attacked her with a sword, according to sheriff’s officials. Huang’s wife was identified Monday by the medical examiner as Chen Chen Fei, who was pronounced dead at the scene, according to sheriff’s officials. “At some point, Huang attacked Fei with a sword. Fei’s mother was also attacked and severely injured; however, was

Los Angeles

LAFC inicia con pie derecho la Leagues Cup al golear a los Xolos de Tijuana en el BMO Stadium

El LAFC inició su participación el viernes en la segunda versión de la Leagues Cup al derrotar por 3-0 a los Xolos de Tijuana, en el BMO Stadium de Los Ángeles, en un torneo que enfrenta a la MLS y la Liga MX. Las anotaciones del LAFC llegaron por medio de un doblete de Cristian Olivera (una asistencia) y uno de Denis Bouanga, quien dio dos asistencias. Los de Steve Cherundolo sumaron sus primeros tres puntos en el Grupo G y esperan mejorar la actuación del 2023, en la que cayeron en los Cuartos de Final ante Monterrey. Los Xolos contaron con el técnico Juan Carlos Osorio, que tomó el banquillo de los Xolos en mayo y que simboliza un regresó a México tras haber dirigido al Tri desde 2015 hasta el 2018, cuando culminó su participación en la Copa Mundial de Rusia. Sin embargo, el entrenador colombiano no duró mucho en la cancha ya que fue expulsado, a los 15 minutos de juego, por reclamar eufóricamente a la cuarta oficial y cabecear a otro asistente de árbitro tras una fuerte falta que recibió su

Los Angeles

Angel City scores road win over Bay City in Summer Cup

Claire Emslie scored in the 54th minute to add to Angel City’s lead, and the defense held firm in a 2-0 road win over Bay FC in a group game of the NWSL x Liga MXF Summer Cup. Angel City’s first goal came in the 18th minute when Dorian Bailey of Bay FC accidentally knocked the ball into her own net. Angel City next faces San Diego Wave Thursday. The reverse angle on Claire’s goal is pure cinema 📽️ pic.twitter.com/IwNhbnbNgB — National Women’s Soccer League (@NWSL) July 27, 2024 More to Read Angel City beats Club América to open NWSL vs. Liga MX Feminil Summer Cup July 21, 2024 Angel City’s struggles follow them into Olympic break with loss to Gotham FC July 6, 2024 Angel City can’t keep pace with Tess Boade and Bay FC in loss June 22, 2024

San Diego

UCSD halts negotiations with Tri-City Medical Center. ‘We don’t believe there’s a desire to get this deal done’

Despite indications earlier this week that the long-developing partnership deal between UC San Diego Health and Tri-City Medical Center might be nearing completion, the university announced Friday afternoon that it is ending negotiations with the Oceanside hospital district. When the two parties began negotiating in October 2023, both sides expressed excitement that the two medical providers could help one another, with Tri-City getting help shoring up operations that, until recently, have been operating in the red, and UCSD getting an opportunity to expand its footprint into coastal North County, diverting traffic from its overfilled facilities in La Jolla and San Diego. The crux of the nine-month, behind-the-scenes due diligence period that led up to Friday’s announcement is a disagreement over the amount of financial risk that UCSD should assume in folding Tri-City into its network of care, which includes Jacobs Medical Center in La Jolla, UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest and the recently purchased Alvarado Hospital, which was renamed East Campus Medical Center. Originally, the idea was that UCSD would take over all Tri-City assets and liabilities, including long-term debt and a significant amount of

San Diego

Roof fire on three-story downtown San Diego building prompts evacuations

A fire on the roof of a three-story building in downtown San Diego Friday night prompted evacuations, according to Fire-Rescue Department officials. The fire was reported around 7:30 p.m. at Rei Do Gado Brazilian Steakhouse on Fourth Avenue near Broadway, officials said. The blaze created a smoke plume over the metropolitan area. The cause of the fire was not immediately known.