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A bicyclist was struck by two cars and killed in Fullerton on Monday night, and while one motorist stayed and cooperated, police are now searching for the other driver involved.  According to the Fullerton Police Department, officers were dispatched to the area of South Euclid Street and West Orangethorpe Avenue regarding a subject down in the roadway just after 8 p.m.  When they arrived, they located a female and a bicycle in the eastbound lanes of Orangethorpe at Jefferson Avenue. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene by Fullerton Fire Department paramedics; her identity has yet to be released by the Orange County Coroner’s Office.  “Preliminary investigations indicate that the female was walking with her bicycle in the number one eastbound lane of West Orangethorpe when she was struck,” Fullerton police said. “During the investigation, [officials] learned the female had been struck by a second vehicle after the initial collision.”  LASD investigating early-morning deputy-involved shooting in East L.A. The 32-year-old Westminster resident behind the wheel of a 2003 Lexus RX 300, which was the first vehicle to strike the woman, remained at the scene

Incident commanders involved in the battle against the Franklin Fire in Malibu are offering the public a three-dimensional view of the situation. A 3D map available through Cal Fire’s incident homepage shows the active fire perimeter, the areas under evacuation orders and warnings, and notable roads and structures, including the Pepperdine University campus. Users can rotate, pan, zoom and click on layers to see additional fire and evacuation information. As of midday Tuesday, the Franklin Fire had charred 2,593 acres of dry brush on the east side of Pepperdine’s campus and throughout the Santa Monica Mountains along Malibu Canyon Road and north of the Pacific Coast Highway. Both Malibu Canyon Road and PCH were closed to general travel. Officials could not immediately confirm if any homes had been destroyed. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. No injuries have been reported.

The city of Westminster is suing two sitting City Council members for allegedly disrupting meetings. The city’s suit claims that Councilmembers Amy Phan West and NamQuan Nguyen create a “dysfunctional and raucous” atmosphere that prevents important items from being considered and voted on during meetings, as reported by LAist. “The Mayor has been unable to manage their unruly behavior, and repeated efforts to obtain their compliance have failed,” the lawsuit explains, as reported by the outlet. “As a result, the City Council has ended meetings without accomplishing its business, met late into the night, and generally frustrated those interested in responsible, effective conduct of City meetings.” West was censured by her fellow council members earlier this year for “at least 30 allegations of violating city policy,” the Voice of O.C. reports, with her and Nguyen being the only votes against the measure. The outlet described her response to the censure as combative, with her “calling the council majority ‘Chinese communist dictators’ and calling the discussion a ‘banana republic court.’” “The majority is just trying to silence me,” West said, per the outlet. “You can censor

A Malibu resident declared victory over the Franklin Fire after staying behind despite evacuation orders to keep his property and several others from being destroyed by flames. “When you’re in Malibu and you’ve been through a couple of fires, you know you have to stay because the embers [can] float a mile and land on a roof or a lawn and you can put it out with a garden hose,” Alec told KTLA’s Erin Myers Tuesday morning. The Franklin Fire broke out shortly before 11 p.m. Monday before exploding overnight to 2,200 acres and threatening thousands of homes. “What we do is we get gas-powered water pumps,” Alec said. “We put them in our pool and we super-soak the whole house. We turn it into a tropical rainforest where nothing will catch on fire and then that frees us up to save the other houses. So, we saved five houses.” Alec talks with KTLA on Dec. 10, 2024, after he stayed behind to fight the Franklin Fire in Malibu. (KTLA) Firefighters work as the Franklin Fire burns near a building on December 10, 2024 in

Poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni, a prominent figure during the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and ‘70s who was dubbed “the Princess of Black Poetry,” has died. She was 81. Giovanni died “peacefully” Monday with life partner Virginia “Ginney” Fowler by her side, her friend and author Renée Watson said Tuesday in a statement to The Times. She had recently been diagnosed with cancer for the third time, Watson said. “We will forever feel blessed to have shared a legacy and love with our dear cousin,” Giovanni’s cousin Allison “Pat” Ragan added in a statement on behalf of the family. Watson and author-poet Kwame Alexander said that they, along with with family and close friends, recently sat by Giovanni’s side “chatting about how much we learned about living from her, about how lucky we have been to have Nikki guide us, teach us, love us.” “We will forever be grateful for the unconditional time she gave to us, to all her literary children across the writerly world,” Alexander said in the statement. Giovanni, born Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr., used her voice as

Smoke rises from the Franklin fire in the hills near the Malibu Pier. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) Dec. 10, 2024 10:33 AM PT Cellphone service was proving a challenge in Malibu, where the Franklin fire was burning Tuesday. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said the fire burned some cell towers in the area, affecting service. It is unclear the scope of the outage, but people in the area reported trouble making calls. There are also several power outages in the area of the fire Tuesday morning — some that were cut off for firefighter safety and some part of widespread public safety power shutoffs, planned electricity cuts to limit potential fire sparks from utility equipment, according to David Eisenhauer, a Southern California Edison spokesperson. He didn’t have details on outages around the fire. Across the region, more than 40,000 customers had their electricity cut for those planned shutoffs due to high winds, about a quarter in Los Angeles County. Another 200,000 were being considered for a shutoff. It wasn’t immediately clear how many such outages were among those in Malibu. Officials

Jessica Jones and Matthew Ryder grabbed their essentials before the Franklin fire made its way to their home in Serra Retreat. Important documents. Bags of clothes. Three goats. A potbellied pig. Jones and Ryder, both 37, saw the flames coming down a ridgeline overlooking the ranch they rent sometime around 11:30 p.m. Monday. Fleeing a wildfire is stressful enough, but adding livestock to the mix can complicate matters. The goats, kids Willie and Russell and mother Ginger, were easy enough to wrangle into the back of the couple’s pickup truck. But the 1-year-old pig, Penelope, put up a fight when it was time to leave. “She was screaming her head off,” Ryder said. “She doesn’t like to be picked up usually.” The fire reached the property as the couple left around midnight, and they waited on the side of the Pacific Coast Highway to plan where to go next. They slept in their truck in a parking lot for hiking trails and arrived at the Palisades Park evacuation center around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday. “It was insane,” Jones said. A hillside burns during the Franklin fire

WASHINGTON —  The Supreme Court may be about to sharply limit the reach of so-called environmental impact statements, which gauge potential harm caused by new developments and can often block or scale back large projects. For more than 50 years, federal law has required agencies to take a hard and broad look at the “reasonably foreseeable environmental effects” of a building or development project before approving it. The justices sounded ready on Tuesday to reconsider that approach in a case involving a proposed 88-mile railroad line in Utah that would allow crude oil to be shipped to refineries on the Gulf Coast. “Focus on the project,” argued Paul Clement, a Washington attorney representing county governments in support of the project. He urged justices to consider only the direct impact of the rail line’s construction, and not potential secondary impacts that are “remote in time and space.” In their comments and questions, the justices appeared to agree. If so, their ruling could rein in the reach of environmental impact statements, an outcome that would be welcomed by developers and condemned by environmentalists. Three years ago, the Surface

El hecho de que Jay-Z fuera nombrado públicamente como la misteriosa celebridad acusada en una demanda civil anónima de violar a una niña de 13 años con Sean “Diddy” Combs se produjo después de semanas de batallas tras bastidores entre el abogado de la estrella y el abogado de Texas que representa a la mujer. Desde que Combs fue acusado por los fiscales federales en una investigación de tráfico sexual, se han presentado numerosas demandas civiles de personas que afirman haber sido víctimas del artista. También ha habido sugerencias de que otros grandes nombres se verán arrastrados al escándalo. Pero el caso de Jay-Z ofrece una ventana a las maquinaciones y el gran dinero detrás de estos casos que podrían ser un anticipo de las posibles consecuencias de otros litigios civiles que se han presentado contra Combs. En octubre, Jay-Z recibió una carta de demanda del abogado Tony Buzbee, con sede en Texas, en la que se hacían acusaciones de mala conducta y se sugería una reunión. Los expertos legales dijeron que este tipo de cartas son una forma habitual de iniciar las negociaciones para

A second infant has died in an 8-state listeria outbreak related to recalled Yu Shang Food ready-to-eat meat and poultry products, according to federal health officials. The products were sold online and at retail locations nationwide, according to federal health officials. Nineteen cases are confirmed, with 17 hospitalized, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in its latest update. States with confirmed illnesses include: California, Georgia, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon and Tennessee.  Seven of the illnesses are related to pregnancy, the CDC stated. In California, a mother and her twins were sick and both infants died, but because listeria was found only in a sample from the mother and one twin, only the mother and one twin are included in the confirmed cases in the outbreak.  In Tennessee, a mother and her infant were sick and the baby died.  Sick people’s samples were collected from Oct. 24, 2021, to Oct. 28, 2024, the agency said. The outbreak might be higher than reported, the CDC said, because people who have gotten sick may not have gotten tested for listeria. It takes 3

Netanyahu takes stand in corruption trial, lectures on relationships between media, politicians – CBS News Watch CBS News Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu testified in his corruption trial Tuesday, denying any wrongdoing. CBS News foreign correspondent Debora Patta has more. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Last month, Roy Jones Jr. called Jake Paul’s unanimous decision victory over Mike Tyson for Netflix. Now Jones — who, like Tyson, is considered one of the best fighters of all time but is well into his 50s — says he wants a shot at the 27-year-old Paul. “It makes you want to go in there and at least just test Jake Paul’s chin,” the 55-year-old Jones recently told TMZ Sports. “You know he got a good punch. I know he’s capable of putting anybody out. But I don’t think Mike checked his chin at all, so I wouldn’t mind having a shot to see if I could get to his chin, to test his chin. “He takes the shot, cool. Or if he can catch me before I can get to his chin, cool. But I would definitely like a shot to get in there and shoot at his chin, you know?” Jones (66-10, 47 KOs) is far from the only boxer calling for a chance to take on Paul (11-1, 7 KOs), the influencer-turned-fighter who attracts hoards of viewers and makes a whole

Electric service to Southern California Edison customers in the Banning Pass, Morongo Reservation and Cabazon area are temporarily shut off Tuesday because of Santa Ana wind conditions. The dry winds have created dangerous wildfire conditions and there is a potential for downed power lines that could start a wildfire. Service has been cut to 9,003 Edison customers in Riverside County. Another 58,326 customers could have their service turned off.

The Franklin Fire in Malibu Canyon continues to grow crossing Pacific Coast Highway and spreading to more than 1,800 acres Tuesday, burning in the hillsides near Pepperdine University. The fire was reported a little before 11 p.m. Monday. A high volume of dry brush in the area and strong Santa Ana winds led to the potential for the blaze to continue to spread rapidly. The fire has destroyed and damaged homes and structures, but it is unknown the extent of the damage or the number of homes that have burned, according to media reports. A mandatory evacuation order was issued by the Los Angeles County Fire Department covering the area east of Malibu Canyon Road and south of Piuma Road, as well as the Serra Retreat area. Damage to buildings was difficult to assess due to heavy smoke and night conditions. Flames reportedly reached the retreat area at 1 a.m. Tuesday and the fire jumped Malibu Canyon Road. Pepperdine University was reporting power outages and activated a shelter in place protocol for students and staff. “The fire is not currently threatening the campus, but we

Dec 10: CBS News 24/7, 10am ET – CBS News Watch CBS News Malibu wildfires prompt evacuation orders; Jamie Foxx opens up about near-death experience in Netflix comedy special. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Officials give update on Franklin Fire in California – CBS News Watch CBS News Officials in California held a news conference Tuesday to offer details on their response to the Franklin Fire that’s been burning in Malibu, California. See the full news conference. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Trump administration picks blitzing Capitol Hill to ahead of confirmation hearings – CBS News Watch CBS News Some of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks are expected back on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning as they are looking to garner more Senate support ahead of their confirmation hearings. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O’Keefe has more. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

By Kelsie Hoffman December 10, 2024 / 11:41 AM EST / CBS News Christian Slater, Patrick Gibson on “Dexter” Christian Slater, Patrick Gibson on “Dexter” prequel series 05:30 Christian Slater and Patrick Gibson star in the highly-anticipated prequel “Dexter: Original Sin.” The series takes place 15 years before audiences first met Dexter, from the original award-winning series starring Michael C. Hall. The new series, which will air on Paramount+, follows young Dexter, played by Gibson, as he evolves from college student to serial killing vigilante. Slater stars as Dexter’s father, Harry, a homicide detective who teaches his son an ethical code for killing. In the series premiere, Dexter comes clean with his dad. “Harry, he’s a cop. He’s seen a lot of people get away with things they shouldn’t have gotten away with, so he tries to channel Dexter’s blood lust in that kind of direction. When you think about it, imagine how many more serial killers there would be in Miami if not for Dexter,” Slater said. “See he’s already justifying it,” Gibson responded, laughing. The duo said they worked together ahead of time

Firefighters battle the Franklin fire in Malibu. (Ethan Swope / Associated Press) The Franklin fire in Malibu Canyon continues to grow, crossing Pacific Coast Highway and spreading to more than 1,800 acres Tuesday, burning in the hillsides near Pepperdine University. The fire was reported a little before 11 p.m. Monday. A high volume of dry brush in the area and strong Santa Ana winds led to the potential for the blaze to continue to spread rapidly. The fire has destroyed and damaged homes and structures, but it is unknown the extent of the damage or the number of homes that have burned. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press) A firefighter sprays water on a home as it burns in the Franklin fire in Malibu. (Ethan Swope / Associated Press) A woman evacuates a horse as the Franklin fire burns in Malibu. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times) Smoke from the Franklin fire creates a orange glow at sunrise in Malibu. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times) A firefighting plane drops retardant on the Franklin fire over Malibu Canyon. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press) The Franklin

In a year of exuberance and dread, songs came from every which way to comfort, to amuse, to haunt, to tantalize. Here, in descending order of greatness, are the 30 best of the year. 1. Chappell Roan , “Good Luck, Babe!” The achievement of Roan’s breakout smash — a stand-alone single so buoyant that it lifted her 2023 debut to the upper reaches of the charts — is its emotional specificity: Somehow sleek and jagged at the same time, “Good Luck, Babe!” is a song in which a woman gets a lover to consider what she’s abandoning in a breakup by asking her to imagine waking up a few years hence and realizing that she could have had all this — and now instead she’s just somebody’s … wife. “You know I hate to say ‘I told you so,’” Roan sings, her voice rippling with the unwelcome shame of her own pain, “You know I hate to say — but I told you so.” What a scene. — Mikael Wood 2. Kendrick Lamar, “Not Like Us” Will the Recording Academy actually give the Grammy for

The first contract Jackie Robinson signed along with Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey on Oct. 23, 1945, was an agreement to play for the Montreal Royals, the Dodgers’ top farm club. The deal called for a $3,500 signing bonus and $600 per month for the 1946 season. Less than two years later, on April 11, 1947, Robinson signed his first major league contract along with Rickey and National League president Ford Frick. He would be paid $5,000 for the season. What happened next is well-documented and annually celebrated. Five days after signing, Robinson made history by becoming the first Black player to play Major League Baseball, breaking the color barrier. The Dodgers second baseman was the Rookie of the Year, and two years later the National League Most Valuable Player. He batted .313 over 11 seasons and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1962, and his No. 42 was retired across baseball in 1997. But what became of the contracts? Sports memorabilia can fetch millions these days, and experts say the original player’s contracts of one Jack Roosevelt Robinson could possess monetary value