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By Graham Kates, Katrina Kaufman Updated on: April 30, 2024 / 9:09 AM EDT / CBS News Testimony to resume in Trump New York trial Banker testimony to resume in Trump “hush money” trial 02:45 The third week of former President Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial kicks off Tuesday with continued testimony from its third witness, bank executive Gary Farro. Farro  testified last Friday that Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney, was his client when Cohen wired $130,000 in “hush money” to Stormy Daniels’ lawyer days before the 2016 election. Farro worked at First Republic Bank when Cohen paid Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump. Prosecutors say the arrangement was intended to protect Trump’s campaign, and that Trump falsified records when repaying Cohen to hide the alleged scheme. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony falsification of business records counts in the case and has denied all allegations, including that he had an extramarital sexual encounter. Farro on Friday testified about Cohen’s “sense of urgency” on Oct. 26, 2016, when he opened a bank account for

After a third person fell to their death in just three years the community gathered Monday night to voice concerns about health, safety, and challenges with landlords while living near the Isla Vista bluffs. “I was right next to him when he fell, I ran to the beach with all my friends, and we were the first ones there,” said Jack Javier, UCSB student, and friend of Jacob Parker. Jack Javier was a close friend to 23-year-old Jacob Parker, the UCSB alum, who fell to his death from a property along the bluffs on April 20th in Isla Vista. Parker is one of 14 people whove lost their lives falling from a bluff in the past 20 years, according to Santa Barbara County Supervisor Laura Capps. Javier says Parkers death was preventable. “If the second layer of the fence was just a little bit higher it would have caught him,” explains Javier. Many students agree that fencing would help prevent falls. “Property owners on the bluffs need to raise their fence heights to six feet and they need to proactively do it,” said Laura Capps

Monday was the long-awaited opening day of Sonic in Atascadero, and customers had no problem waiting in what some people tell us was a two-hour wait in line. “It’s worth the wait because of the tater tots, the ice and the slushies are amazing. iconic,” said Grover Beach resident, Meagan Clemons. Cars could be seen lined down the local streets as people attended opening day. Sonic is a popular drive-in restaurant and the new location in Atascadero features four dine-in stalls, a patio and outdoor seating. Sonic’s menu offers hundreds of thousands of flavor drink combinations, as well as shakes, slushies, burgers and tater tots. The new restaurant is across the street from In-N-Out, one customer spoke to KSBY Monday and said he wanted to test it out against In-N-Out and see which he may prefer for lunch. “I want to compare the taste and I’m just gonna see which ones I want to go to after school with my friends you know,” said Atascadero resident, Lucas Sanders. Sonic is open for breakfast lunch and dinner. The new Atascadero location brought about 50 jobs for

Jamal Murray anotó 32 puntos a pesar de una lesión de pantorrilla, incluyendo la canasta ganadora con tan solo 3.6 segundos en el reloj para que los Nuggets avanzaran en los playoffs de la NBA, eliminando a LeBron James y los Lakers de Los Ángeles, nuevamente, con una victoria 108-106 en el Juego 5 el lunes por la noche. Dos tiros libres de James empataron a 106 con 26 segundos para el final pero los Nuggets lograron llevarse la victoria en los últimos segundos por medio de Murray, tal como lo ejecutó en el segundo partido. La sublime canasta de Murray a falta de cuatro segundos resolvió otra serie entre los rivales de la Conferencia Oeste y sirvió para una victoria por 4-1 de Denver, que ahora se enfrentará a Minnesota en la siguiente ronda. “El chico es un guerrero. Cuanto más grande es el momento, el chico sigue brillando. El que haya anotado dos tiros ganadores en esta serie, habla por si mismo”, declaró el entrenador de los Nuggets, Michael Malone. “Me dijo que si no jugaba, a lo mejor no hubiéramos ganado. Es

Organizers of the pro-Palestinian protests at USC met with USC President Carol Folt for the first time Monday and will meet again Tuesday. “The most important point was that we were starting to talk,” Folt said in a statement to the Daily Trojan, the campus newspaper. “We’ll go day by day.” Divest From Death USC said in a statement it was “deeply disappointed that the university claims ignorance of our divest campaign.” Folt, USC lawyer Beong-soo Kim and Vice President of Student Life Monique Allard “did not come to the meeting with any actionable insights or concrete steps to address any of our demands,” the statement said. “Folt claims she was unaware of our divestment campaign until the start of the occupation. This is despite the fact that we launched our academic divestment campaign, `Suspend Study Abroad in Israel on April 11th and organized a walkout and strike on April 15.” Occupation organizers said before the meeting they would not be making any concessions and would “refuse any normalization in our negotiations. Our occupation will continue until our demands are met.” The 3:30 p.m. meeting

ARCATA, Calif. —  Police were in a tense standoff with Gaza war protesters Monday night at Cal Poly Humboldt, which has been closed for nearly a week with some students occupying campus buildings. Authorities told more than 100 protesters that they had to leave, but most remained. Demonstrators, some wearing goggles, helmets and makeshift shields, spent the night chanting and playing music. At 9 p.m., a police vehicle drove by announce they could be subject to rubber bullets and chemical agents. Some faculty members, who were told by the university that they should not enter campus, massed just outside, observing. Protesters have occuped Siemens Hall, an academic and administration building, and another building. Last week, three students were arrested after demonstrators occupied Siemens Hall and clashed with law enforcement officers wearing helmets and riot shields who descended on campus. According to the university, protesters blocked entrances and elevators with tents and in some locations shut doors using chains and zip ties, violating fire codes and “creating extreme safety hazards for those inside.” Campus administrators said there were reports that protesters broke into the president’s office and

A homeowner in Mar Vista is speaking out after their house was broken into for the fourth time in five years. The victim was at dinner with their family when the break-in occurred around 5:30 p.m. on April 20. When the family arrived back home, their home had been ransacked. The suspects took everything from appliances to a firearm. The thieves had gone through everything, throwing the victims’ belongings around the house. “It makes me feel pretty unsafe,” the homeowner said to KTLA 5’s Omar Lewis. The Los Angeles Police Department confirms there were numerous break-ins in the area on April 20, and many of the victims say the burglars used the same method. Security footage obtained by KTLA shows a woman walking up to the home with a mask on and knocking on the door. When it’s confirmed that no one is in the house, multiple men arrive moments later and smash their way into the home. Video from the Ring app shows a woman approach the victim’s home and knock on the door. The homeowner and their family were out for dinner at

A Southern California woman scammed by hacker scare tactics is speaking out in hopes others won’t fall prey to the same scheme.   Lisa Miles, who was recently widowed, says she’s been learning to live life on her own again and that social media has been a welcome connection to others.   Not that long ago, Miles was scrolling through Instagram on her computer when a pop-up message startled her.   “I clicked on the message,” she said. “I’d never really done that. I’m not sure how Instagram works. I look at pictures. I clicked on it and all of a sudden it just started screaming and being loud, like, ‘You must call Microsoft right now, you’ve been hacked.’”  A pop-up computer message often used by scammers is seen in this undated file photo. (KTLA) Miles found that she couldn’t close the pop and couldn’t shut off the computer. Worried that she had been hacked, she called the number on the pop-up message.   “My husband used to protect me, obviously,” she said. “I was married 35 years and I’ve never had anything like this

DENVER —  Did LeBron James play his last game for the Lakers? The Lakers’ season ended Monday night after a 108-106 loss to the Denver Nuggets at Ball Arena in Game 5 of their Western Conference first-round playoff series, at which point nothing bound James to the team. James, 39, can decline his $51.4-million option for next season. The choice will say more about the priorities of the 39-year-old James than the state of the Lakers. In James’ six seasons with the Lakers, they have been eliminated in the first round of the playoffs twice and not even reached them two other times. The franchise is now four seasons removed from the championship it won in the NBA bubble. Lakers forward Anthony Davis, right, looks to pass the ball after spinning around Nuggets center Nikola Jokic during Game 5 in Denver. (David Zalubowski / Associated Press) The Lakers might be the Lakers in name, but they’re not the Lakers in performance. Their Game 5 loss was the result of the kind of shot Lakers players used to make in their glory years, as Nuggets guard Jamal

PHOENIX — At first, Kiké Hernández thought the Chase Field scoreboard operator had given up. After the first out of the ninth inning in the Dodgers’ 8-4 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday night, Hernández was signaling across the outfield to teammate Andy Pages, when an unusual sight suddenly caught the corner of his eye. Above the right-field bleachers there is a Circle-K sponsored strikeout counter on a digital monitor. Every time the home team punches out a batter, one of the convenience store’s red K logos is added to the ribbon. Only, on this night, Hernández noticed the screen was empty. “I thought the team just kind of gave up on the game,” he said. “And removed all the Ks.” Then, he realized there was a more impressive reason why. Even after 44 total plate appearances, 17 two-strike counts, and 36 individual two-strike pitches for Dodgers hitters Monday night, not a single one of them recorded a strikeout. For the first time since 2006, the team’s lineup went down on strikes zero times. “What the [heck]?” Hernández started thinking to himself. “No Ks?”

A former third-year Pepperdine University law student has been found guilty of second-degree murder for a fatal car crash that occurred on Aug. 3, 2017. The Orange County Dist. Attorney says 34-year-old Richard Lindwall III had a blood-alcohol level four times the legal limit when he got into a head-on collision with 41-year-old Carlos Mendez, who died as a result of his injuries. On the evening of the fatal accident, Lindwall was driving to his Yorba Linda home at more than 90 miles per hour on La Palma Avenue when he sped around a curve and crashed into Mendez’s vehicle. The force of the crash caused the victim’s car to come off its front axle, and detach from the engine, officials say. Lindwall’s vehicle came to a stop a few hundred feet from where the initial impact occurred. First responders said they found broken beer bottles on the floor of Lindwall’s car. Blood tests revealed that the third-year law student also had two types of prescription medication in his system, along with an elevated blood-alcohol level. In 2011, Lindwall was involved in a serious crash

A woman from Southern California who was a student at the University of Arizona was killed at an off-campus party. The incident occurred around 1:40 a.m. Sunday, when officers with the Tucson Police Department responded to a call about a possible shooting, according to AZCentral.com. When emergency responders arrived on the scene, they found a female suffering from life-threatening injuries. The victim, identified as 20-year-old Erin Jones, was transported to a local hospital where she passed away. Jones grew up in Newport Beach and attended Corona Del Mar High School. She was in her sophomore year at Arizona. There were several other victims of the shooting. A female was found with gunshot wounds nearby and was taken to hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. Two other victims, a teenage girl, and a man arrived at the hospital in their vehicles and were treated for minor wounds, according to AZCentral.com. The University of Arizona president, Robert C. Robbins released a statement has been in contact with Jones’ family about the incident, and offered the school’s full support. “Our deepest sympathies go out to Erin’s family in California and

Sigh, scream, here we go again, same Lakers ending, same Lakers failure, same two tiresome words. What now? For the 13th time in 14 seasons, the Lakers have fallen far short in their bid to pile on another NBA championship, and, man, is this getting old. The latest quest ended Monday night with a 108-106 loss to the Denver Nuggets that cemented a four-games-to-one, first-round series defeat while resurrecting another version of the same old query. What next? What can the Lakers do to change this sorry narrative? The answer, frustratingly, is the same as it has been for the five years that the team has been run by the giant talents — and contracts — of LeBron James and Anthony Davis. The answer is nothing. Sure, they could let James walk when he opts out of his contract, and trade Davis for a superstar and multiple draft picks, essentially burning the place to the ground and starting from scratch. But when have you known the Lakers to settle for a massive rebuild? And how do you think Lakers fans and sponsors would react to

A woman from Southern California who was a student at the University of Arizona was killed at an off-campus party. The incident occurred around 1:40 a.m. Sunday, when officers with the Tucson Police Department responded to a call about a possible shooting, according to AZCentral.com. When emergency responders arrived on the scene, they found a female suffering from life-threatening injuries. The victim, identified as 20-year-old Erin Jones, was transported to a local hospital where she passed away. Jones grew up in Newport Beach and attended Corona Del Mar High School. She was in her sophomore year at Arizona. There were several other victims of the shooting. A female was found with gunshot wounds nearby and was taken to hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. Two other victims, a teenage girl, and a man arrived at the hospital in their vehicles and were treated for minor wounds, according to AZCentral.com. The University of Arizona president, Robert C. Robbins released a statement has been in contact with Jones’ family about the incident, and offered the school’s full support. “Our deepest sympathies go out to Erin’s family in California and

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A pedestrian was struck and killed by a police vehicle in a three-car collision in Hollywood Monday and six other people sustained non-life-threatening injuries. Officers responded near the intersection of Gower Street and Santa Monica Boulevard shortly before 4 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Investigators discovered that LAPD officers were traveling northbound on Gower Street moments before another vehicle being driven westbound on Santa Monica Boulevard struck the police vehicle, causing it to spin and hit the pedestrian. Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to the location and took the pedestrian to a hospital, where they later died, police said. The cause of the collision was unclear, and detectives were conducting an investigation Monday evening. The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner was withholding the pedestrian’s name pending relatives’ notification. Anyone with information regarding the collision was urged to call the LAPD’s West Traffic Division at 213-473-0222. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestoppers.org.

A Westminster man and a Texas man were sentenced to lengthy federal prison terms Monday for their part in a drug trafficking organization that peddled narcotics through the darknet and encrypted messaging apps. Michael Ta, 25, of Westminster was sentenced to 21 years and eight months in prison by U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, who handed down a punishment of 19 years and seven months to 37-year-old Rajiv Srinivasan of Houston. Ta pleaded guilty in August to a count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Srinivasan pleaded guilty in June to the same crime and to a count of distributing fentanyl resulting in death. The two made at least 3,800 drug deals to about 1,400 customers in every state from February 2022 through November 2022, prosecutors said. About 123,000 fentanyl-laced M30 pills, more than nine kilograms of methamphetamine, nearly 300 grams of “China white” fentanyl powder and black tar heroin and 27 grams of cocaine were dealt out, prosecutors said. The two admitted they caused fentanyl overdose deaths to three victims, prosecutors said. They also admitted to distributing fentanyl-laced pills to two more victims

What a senior year it has been for El Camino Real volleyball player Audrey Choi. In the fall, she was an outside hitter on the Royals’ indoor volleyball team that captured the City Open Division championship. On Saturday, Choi and freshman sister Addison won the City girls’ beach volleyball pairs tournament. On Monday she completed the “trifecta” by leading the Royals to the beach volleyball team crown in Santa Monica. “It’s been everything I could’ve asked for, really,” Audrey said. “Indoors there’s more energy and noisy crowds so it felt like a bigger deal, but for my sister and I this means a lot because it’s one of the last times we’ll get to play together. We might play some tournaments in the summer, but as far as the school team this is it, so I wanted to go out a winner.” Being three years apart, Audrey and Addison play in separate age groups in CBVA (California Beach Volleyball Assn.), where you can choose different partners. The Royals defeated West Valley League rival Taft in four sets Nov. 3 in the indoor final and were

A woman from Southern California who was a student at the University of Arizona was killed at an off-campus party. The incident occurred around 1:40 a.m. Sunday, when officers with the Tucson Police Department responded to a call about a possible shooting, according to AZCentral.com. When emergency responders arrived on the scene, they found a female suffering from life-threatening injuries. The victim, identified as 20-year-old Erin Jones, was transported to a local hospital where she passed away. Jones grew up in Newport Beach and attended Corona Del Mar High School. She was in her sophomore year at Arizona. There were several other victims of the shooting. A female was found with gunshot wounds nearby and was taken to hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. Two other victims, a teenage girl, and a man arrived at the hospital in their vehicles and were treated for minor wounds, according to AZCentral.com. The University of Arizona president, Robert C. Robbins released a statement has been in contact with Jones’ family about the incident, and offered the school’s full support. “Our deepest sympathies go out to Erin’s family in California and

A man from Orange County and a man from Houston, Texas have been sentenced to federal prison for using the dark web to sell fentanyl-laced pills that caused several fatal overdoses. Michael Ta, 25, of Westminster, and Rajiv Srinivasan, 37, of Houston, received long prison sentences on Monday. From at least February 2022 to November 2022, Ta and Srinivasan conducted more than 3,800 online drug deals, selling illegal narcotics to approximately 1,400 people in all 50 states, according to the United States Department of Justice. Srinivasan operated an account called “redlightlabs,” which he used on multiple marketplaces hosted on the dark web — a hidden portion of the internet accessible only through specialized software. The two used that account to advertise counterfeit M30 oxycodone pills that were spliced with fentanyl and other drugs. FILE – This photo provided by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Utah and introduced as evidence in a 2019 trial shows fentanyl-laced fake oxycodone pills collected during an investigation. Srinivasan communicated with buyers through encrypted messaging apps and handled payments, which were made with virtual currencies and then rerouted through cryptocurrency exchanges.

A pedestrian has died and six others were injured during a traffic accident involving a Los Angeles Police Department patrol vehicle in Hollywood on Monday, authorities confirmed to KTLA.   Police and firefighters with the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to reports of the multi-patient collision at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Gower Street just before 5 p.m.   In a post to X, formerly Twitter, police said that a vehicle traveling westbound on Santa Monica Boulevard struck the patrol vehicle while it was in the crosswalk at the intersection. The chain reaction led to the police cruiser spinning and striking a pedestrian who got pinned under the vehicle. Footage of the scene posted to the Citizen App showed a white, four-door sedan with damage to its hood butted up against the rear of a police cruiser that appeared to have deployed its airbags as a result of the crash.   One person was killed and six others injured after a crashing involving an LAPD patrol vehicle in Hollywood on April 29, 2024. (KTLA) One person was killed and six others injured after