LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – The Los Angeles City Council today gave its final approval to a proposed ordinance that would create a Metal and Wire Theft Reward program, which city officials hope will curb crimes against public infrastructure such as copper wire theft. In an 11-2 vote, council members approved the ordinance, which now heads
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LA MESA, Calif. (KESQ) – A 25-year-old La Mesa police officer and a driver were killed when they were struck by an oncoming vehicle while the officer was assisting two motorists involved in a traffic collision on the freeway, authorities announced today. Â Â Around 10:25 p.m. Monday, Officer Lauren Craven stopped to assist a person
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – Citing a spike in Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and arrests, the San Diego City Council unanimously gave tentative approval to an ordinance today intended to prevent local law enforcement from joining certain federal task forces. The Due Process and Safety Ordinance will set “clear legal boundaries that protect residents,
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A former Los Angeles Police Department officer who fatally shot an unarmed homeless man in Venice in 2015 was behind bars today following his arrest at Los Angeles International Airport. Â Â Clifford Proctor, now 60, was arrested at the airport Thursday, according to police and jail records. He was being held
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – A federal lawsuit alleging gross negligence against a Virginia law enforcement agency for hiring a deputy who went on to kill a Riverside couple and their daughter in order to abduct the youngest member of the household before killing himself is gradually proceeding toward trial, the plaintiffs said today. Â Â The
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – The Dodgers moved within one victory of their second consecutive World Series appearance with a 3-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series today at Dodger Stadium. Tommy Edman broke a 1-1 tie by singling in Will Smith from second with one out in
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health today confirmed another case of a more severe strain of mpox in a local patient who has no known history of travel to areas where the virus is usually found. Â Â The L.A. County announced came two days after Long Beach health officials
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – The former chief financial officer for a downtown Los Angeles-based affordable housing developer and a Brentwood man who prosecutors say defrauded lenders are facing unrelated federal criminal cases for allegedly taking advantage of funds allocated to assist the homeless, officials announced today. Â Â Cody Holmes, 31, of Beverly Hills, was arrested
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – California has become the first and only state to make its own affordable insulin, with the medication expected to be available for purchase starting Jan. 1., Gov. Gavin Newsom announced in Los Angeles today. Through a state-backed deal with Civica Rx, a nonprofit generic drug manufacturer, and Biocon Biologics, California residents
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – A Riverside County sheriff’s lieutenant killed during an apparent hunting accident in southern Idaho was a 25-year law enforcement veteran, whose loss prompted the sheriff’s department today to extend “heartfelt condolences” to his loved ones. Lt. Nathan Kaas suffered a mortal gunshot wound early Sunday morning while on a mountain hunt
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Actress Diane Keaton died of pneumonia, her family said today. The actress known for roles in films such as “Annie Hall,” “The Godfather” and “The First Wives Club” was taken from her Brentwood home Saturday morning to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Â Â In a statement to People magazine
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Authorities today were seeking any additional possible victims of a former USC graduate student who is charged with using drugs to incapacitate and sexually assault three women. The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Chinese national Sizhe Weng, was arrested Aug. 28, police said a news conference Wednesday morning outside Los Angeles Police
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A federal grand jury today indicted a 29-year-old former Pacific Palisades resident who is charged with allegedly intentionally sparking what eventually became the Palisades Fire, one of the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles history. Jonathan Rinderknecht, an Uber driver who most recently lived in Florida, is charged in the three-count
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A coalition of legal organizations and undocumented immigrants has filed suit in Los Angeles challenging an ICE policy that authorizes the “routine” jailing and deportation of noncitizen survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking, according to court papers obtained today.  The suit filed Tuesday by the Center for Human Rights and
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COACHELLA (CNS) – Five Indian tribes have joined forces to create an intertribal commission aimed at incorporating their cultural heritage, values and knowledge into the management of the Chuckwalla National Monument, it was announced on Monday. “Chuckwalla National Monument is imbued with religious, spiritual, historic and cultural significance for Tribal Nations that trace their origins
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Gov. Gavin Newsom denied parole today for former Charles Manson follower Patricia Krenwinkel, who is serving a life prison term for her role in the 1969 Tate-La Bianca murders. Krenwinkel, now 77, was convicted of seven counts of first-degree murder in 1971 for participating with fellow Manson family members Charles “Tex”
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – The county Board of Supervisors declared a local state of emergency today in response to ongoing federal immigration enforcement raids, alleging the actions are preventing people from going to work and forcing some businesses to close. Supervisor Lindsey Horvath introduced the motion calling for the drafting of the emergency proclamation in
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – An early cryptocurrency evangelist once dubbed “Bitcoin Jesus” reached a tentative deal today with the U.S. Justice Department to pay nearly $50 million to resolve federal charges alleging he evaded tens of millions of dollars in taxes.  Under the agreement, Roger Ver would pay the IRS $49.9 million in back taxes,
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – Days after the signing of a new state law that bans the sale or transfer of Glock and Glock-style handguns, firearms advocates filed a lawsuit in San Diego federal court this week challenging the ban. Â Â Assembly Bill 1127, which was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday, bars California
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – A 31-year-old felon accused of opening fire on a sheriff’s deputy while fleeing from a traffic stop in Jurupa Valley, then hiding out in Mexico until his whereabouts were uncovered, pleaded not guilty today to attempted murder of a peace officer and other offenses. Martin Perez Jr. was extradited back to
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