RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – A Riverside County man has agreed to plead guilty to filing false income tax returns after selling Stan Lee-signed memorabilia and receiving more than $1.2 million in proceeds which he never reported to the IRS, officials announced today. Mac Martin Anderson, 59, of Corona will enter a plea in downtown Los
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KESQ) – Kristin Crowley, who was fired by Mayor Karen Bass as chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department last week, notified the city today she is appealing her termination to the Los Angeles City Council. Crowley announced the decision in an email sent to City Council members Thursday afternoon. In
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – Border officials in San Diego today said they’ve seen a recent, significant increase in travelers attempting to bring raw eggs and other prohibited food items into the United States from Mexico. Since fiscal year 2024, there has been a 158% increase in “egg interceptions” by the U.S. Customs and
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KESQ) – Last month’s Palisades and Eaton wildfires caused between $28 billion and $53.8 billion in property damage, with business disruptions projected to result in economic losses of up to $8.9 billion in Los Angeles County alone over the next five years, according to a study published today. LAEDC-2025-LA-Wildfires-StudyDownload The report commissioned
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RAMONA, Calif. (KESQ) – A Cal Fire captain allegedly murdered by her wife at their Ramona home sought to leave her marriage shortly before she was killed, according to an arrest warrant declaration issued for the veteran firefighter’s spouse. The declaration from a San Diego County District Attorney’s Office peace officer states Yolanda Marodi, 53,
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By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — A Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles International Airport bound for Sydney on Saturday was forced to return after smoke was detected on board. The flight, DL43, which took off shortly after 9:00 p.m., returned to LAX around 30 minutes later, according to data from FlightAware. The Airbus
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By Josh Campbell, Jamie Gangel, Norma Galeana and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — US immigration officials launched a new round of enforcement operations in the Los Angeles area Sunday, according to two people familiar with the effort. The new effort in Southern California follows recent operations ordered by the Trump administration to apprehend individuals unlawfully
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – Calling it essential for public safety, the state Senate minority leader and other advocates, including Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, unveiled a proposed overhaul of California’s “sanctuary state” law today. Speaking at a news conference in downtown San Diego, Sen. Brian Jones, R-San Diego, said Senate Bill 554 would do two
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KESQ) – Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said today his office will oppose a motion by defense attorneys seeking a new trial for Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are serving life in prison without parole for the 1989 shotgun slayings of their parents in Beverly Hills. “The people believe it
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KESQ) – Mayor Karen Bass fired Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley today — citing what the mayor called failures in leadership ahead of the January windstorm that led to the deadly Palisades Fire, as well as what Bass said was Crowley’s refusal to prepare an after-action report on the firefight.
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By Julie Sharp Click here for updates on this story CALIFORNIA (KCAL/KCBS) — California is synonymous with the golden poppy and the California redwood. If one assemblyman has his way, the state could soon adopt Bigfoot, a.k.a. Sasquatch, as its latest official emblem. Assemblyman Chris Rogers (D-Santa Rosa) authored AB 666 in hopes of making
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COACHELLA, Calif. (KESQ) – The Coachella Valley has been a hotbed of winning lottery tickets in the past week with two more reported. On Friday, someone won nearly $1.5 million from a Mega Millions ticket bought at the Stater Bros. on Highway 111 in La Quinta, KTLA reports. The ticket matched five of the six
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RAMONA, Calif. (KESQ) – Detectives investigating the fatal stabbing of a Cal Fire captain in her Ramona home “are treating this case as a potential domestic-violence incident,” a Sheriff’s lieutenant said today. Deputies responding to a report of an assault about 9 p.m. Monday found Rebecca “Becky” Marodi, 49, mortally wounded at her residence in
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) – As his longtime partner Rihanna looked on, hip-hop star A$AP Rocky was acquitted today of two felony charges of assault with a semiautomatic firearm in a case in which the rapper-turned fashion mogul was accused of shooting at a former friend during an argument in Hollywood in 2021. The jury in
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Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District returned to classes today with a major new rule in place — a ban on cell phones in classrooms. The district’s board passed a resolution in June in a 5-2 vote calling for a prohibition on students’ use of cell phones and social media through the entire
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco formally announced his candidacy for governor of California on Monday. “I am running for governor because our beautiful state — which I absolutely love — is heading down the wrong track and has been for years. Everyone knows it, except those sitting in the Sacramento echo
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – A San Diego woman whom prosecutors say planned to mail Bibles containing heroin hidden inside the spines to two California prisons was sentenced today to more than seven years in prison. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said that after Lucresia Stone-Rojas, 46, was arrested in December of 2023, investigators found packages
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – During a stopover in San Diego today, the crew of a Northern California-based U.S. Coast Guard ship offloaded more than 18 tons of cocaine seized from seafaring traffickers in the Eastern Pacific over the last several months. Personnel aboard the cutter Waesche confiscated the narcotics during 11 interceptions of vessels
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KESQ) – A Culver City man pleaded guilty today to recklessly operating a drone that crashed into and damaged a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft battling the Palisades Fire last month. Peter Tripp Akemann, 56, entered his plea to a federal class-A misdemeanor count of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft, according to
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A military fighter jet crashed into the San Diego Bay near Shelter Island Wednesday morning, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. The crew members aboard the NAS Whidbey Island-based EA-18G Growlerejected from the aircraft before it went down near Shelter Island at about 10:15 a.m., according to Navy public affairs. The U.S. Coast Guard told
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