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January 22, 2025 / 6:15 AM EST / CBS/AP Patriots safety Jabrill Peppers accused of assault Patriots safety Jabrill Peppers accused of assault 02:06 QUINCY – New England Patriots safety Jabrill Peppers is scheduled to go on trial Wednesday in Quincy, Massachusetts on domestic violence charges. Peppers, 29, was arrested last October in Braintree. Police said he shoved his girlfriend’s head into a wall and choked her six times after she received a phone call while they were in bed together. Jabrill Peppers charges He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment last fall to charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and possession of a Class B substance believed to be cocaine, according to court documents. Police said Pepper’s girlfriend refused to go to a hospital and was treated at the home for her injuries. Peppers answered the door shirtless, nodding his head and telling police, “I know what is going on,” according to court documents. He was arrested without incident. Police said they found a clear plastic bag at the home containing a white powder, which later tested positive for cocaine. In

Facing mounting questions over a chaotic evacuation, top L.A. County officials say they want to build a database of residents with disabilities who require help fleeing a neighborhood engulfed in flames. L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone told county supervisors at a public meeting Tuesday that the ongoing wildfires underscored the need for a “database to track people who have mobility challenges or health challenges.” “Trying to do it during an emergency is very, very difficult,” he said. The assessment comes as the county faces fresh scrutiny over the tumultuous evacuation of Altadena, the site of the majority of fire-related deaths since Jan. 7. At least eight of the 27 fire victims to date were at least 80 years old, and some had disabilities that hampered their efforts to evacuate. Anthony Mitchell Sr., an amputee in his 60s, for example, died in his Altadena home along with his son Justin , who had cerebral palsy, as they waited to be rescued. Mitchell’s other son, Anthony Mitchell Jr., told The Times he wanted to see a better accounting of residents with special needs, saying officials should

Los Angeles is being investigated, pilloried and derided over the horrific loss of life and property in the 2025 fires. Certainly, Mayor Karen Bass, the City Council and the county Board of Supervisors, and many of their recent predecessors, have not convinced the world that L.A. is a governable city. Fire preparedness isn’t the only problem. In recent years, Los Angeles has been losing residents right and left. Census data show that its poverty rate is among the highest in the state, and that it’s in the top 10 nationwide . South L.A., roughly the area between the 10 Freeway south to the city boundary, locale of two of the worst riots in U.S. history, is now poorer in relation to the rest of Los Angeles than it was before those upheavals — the Watts riots, in 1965, and the Rodney King unrest in 1992. The city and county of Los Angeles has the second-highest unhoused population in the U.S., behind New York, and yet L.A. builds far less new housing than almost every other large “metro.” It has a deepening budget hole . The

After flames leveled nearly 500 homes in Bel-Air and Brentwood in 1961, Los Angeles had a reckoning over firefighting. By 1964, city leaders had added 13 fire stations, mapped out fire hydrants, purchased helicopters and dispatched more crews to the Santa Monica Mountains. To accommodate growth in Pacific Palisades, they built a reservoir in Santa Ynez Canyon, as well as a pumping station “to increase fire protection,” as the L.A. Department of Water and Power’s then-chief water engineer, Gerald W. Jones, told The Times in 1972. Some Palisades residents had initially fought having a reservoir so close, fearing a repeat of the 1963 Baldwin Hills disaster when a reservoir failed, killing five people and destroying about 280 homes. In a photo published in 1970, Department of Water and Power engineers Gerald W. Jones and William J. Simon watch as the Santa Inez Reservoir in Pacific Palisades is filled. (George R. Fry) In the decades since, the Santa Ynez Reservoir became a source of comfort. “I used to say all the time, ‘Boy, I know one thing that will never happen is our place will burn

Scott Dudelson, 45, peers out over the shelves of Santa Monica vinyl shop Record Surplus. First opening its doors in 1985, its been his home away from home since childhood. While other kids were popping CDs into their center consoles, Dudelson thumbed through bins of one-dollar records. It was a luxury he could afford, given that the going rate for the then-new, compact technology was anywhere from “$12 to $18” per disc in the late ’90s — a far cry from what he had stuffed away in his pockets. There’s a lingering despondence in his expression. Perhaps it’s because just a week earlier, on Tuesday, Jan. 7, he watched Hellfire climb over the Palisades hills, eventually trickling into his community. It would reduce his home to ash along with his vinyl record collection, tallied at roughly 8,000 albums and built over 25 years. “Before the fire was even reported, I walked outside and I smelled the fire,” Dudelson says, recollecting details over the phone, with his girlfriend by his side to corroborate the account. “10 minutes later, I just saw the smoke rising over my

Barely halfway into the prologue of her new memoir, Neko Case has already confessed to performing while in the early stages of a yeast infection, her touring diet disaster of fries, white bread and cola, and concerns the audience will be eyeing her poorly applied concealer. There’s every reason, she writes, to not be brave enough to be on stage at the microphone, and yet, “I can’t help it.” As Case, 54, candidly points out, for a girl who grew up in abject loneliness, the prospect of failing or faltering in front of an audience was no big deal. Despite her efforts (“I would contort myself all sorts of shapes to try to please her,” Case writes), even her mother faked her own death to run off to Hawaii with a new boyfriend, leaving Neko with her pothead dad. And Buffy, the wiry-haired dog named after singer Buffy Sainte-Marie that Case was given seemingly as compensation for her mother vanishing, couldn’t fill a mom-shaped gap. From her hotel room in New York City, where she’s working on a Broadway adaptation of “Thelma & Louise,” Case

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