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Authorities announced on Saturday that a group of youths had arrested a man from his country after allegedly exposing him as a sex offender. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that deputies responded to Nicholas Road Park in Temecula Friday afternoon after receiving a tip that an adult was meeting a minor for sexual purposes. “Upon arrival, the deputy encountered approximately 20 juveniles and recorded the encounter,” the department said. Officers detained the suspect, identified as 46-year-old William Vandenbusch. Authorities said an investigation revealed Vandenbusch sent nude photos and agreed to meet minors for sexual purposes. Police…

Officers arrested a Santa Monica man Saturday morning on suspicion of stabbing his elderly mother to death, police said. Santa Monica police said they received a call around 5:30 a.m. from a man who said his older brother, Vernon Jeremiah Harris, 43, had stabbed their mother multiple times. Police responded and found the two brothers in an apartment in the 1100 block of 12th Street. When officers removed the brothers, they found their mother suffering from multiple stab wounds to her upper body. She succumbed to her injuries while being transported to a local hospital, officials said. Police said Harris…

A preliminary magnitude 3.4 earthquake struck the Inland Empire around 8:17 p.m. This is the second earthquake to hit the area on Saturday. The quake occurred about 6.9 miles northwest of Fontana, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. As of 9 p.m., there were no reports of injuries or damage. This is a developing story. Stay tuned to KTLA 5 News for the latest information. recent California earthquake. Please wait for a moment while the map loads. Use controls or thumbs to move and zoom. Thousands of earthquakes are recorded in California each year, but most are extremely small. According…

Images in this story and the video above may be considered offensive Rumors abound and no one knows the real reason, but Los Angeles and the surrounding area have been fortunate to have a beautiful “model citizen” parrot for decades. But in recent years, a disturbing trend has been that many of these birds in the San Gabriel Valley are being found by residents, severely injured or even dead. Cleo Watts, founder of Cleo’s Critter Care, a nonprofit animal rehabilitation center in Pasadena, has received several calls about friendly animals in the area being seriously injured or killed. He said…

A massive fire broke out at an auto parts store on Hollywood Boulevard Saturday afternoon, destroying the store and damaging two adjacent restaurants.The Los Angeles Fire Department said the AutoZone in the 1300 block of Highland Avenue at the intersection of Fountain Avenue was on fire when firefighters arrived after receiving a 911 call at 4:21 p.m.Fire department spokesman Brian Humphrey said the fire was under control by 6:30 p.m. No injuries were reported.Humphrey said the auto shop was “destroyed.” He said the fire also damaged Fat Sal’s Deli and Sushi Hajito Restaurant, located next to an auto parts store…

Her family is asking the community for help finding a Maui woman who missed her connecting LAX flight and hasn’t been seen or heard from since Nov. 10. They say the last message Hannah Kobayashi, 31, sent to her family was alarming. “She was scared and said someone might be trying to steal her money and identity,” her aunt said. Kobayashi is described as 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing about 140 pounds, with brown hair and eyes, and fair skin with freckles. According to Kobayashi’s family, Kobayashi was traveling from Maui to New York City to visit family, but…

Aaron Spolin, a Princeton-educated lawyer and former McKinsey consultant who signed thousands of inmate clients seeking release under a new criminal justice reform law, was released from a California courtroom for the second time last week. was indicted.The 18-count complaint filed Thursday comes on the heels of an initial disciplinary complaint in August that accused Spolin and Westside’s firm of trying to convince desperate families to hire him. , provides further examples of how the lawyers allege the use of deceptive marketing and outright lies.One of the alleged violations concerned a 2023 press release on Spolin’s website in which Gov.…

The first U.S. case of the more severe mpox variant has been confirmed in a person who recently traveled to East Africa and was treated in San Mateo County, the California Department of Public Health announced Saturday. While the person diagnosed with the clade I variant is recovering in isolation at home, public health officials have notified people who had close contact with the person. The California Department of Public Health said there is no evidence the strain is widespread in California or the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the risk of contracting clade…

On Saturday, an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.5 struck the Inland Empire and was felt by residents across a wide area. The earthquake was reported about 8 miles northwest of Fontana at 2:17 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. As of 2:40 p.m., there were no reports of injuries or damage. This is a developing story. Stay tuned to KTLA 5 News for the latest information. recent California earthquake. Please wait for a moment while the map loads. Use controls or thumbs to move and zoom. Thousands of earthquakes are recorded in California each year, but most…

Alec Baldwin returned to the cold opening of “Saturday Night Live,” but not as President-elect Donald Trump (whom he impersonated for much of Trump’s first term), but instead as the new head of the Department of Health and Human Services. He returned as candidate Robert F. kennedy jr. Mr. Kennedy, the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, ran for president as an independent this election cycle, but later dropped out and supported Mr. Trump. Vaccine skeptics have previously said that a bear carcass was once dumped in Central Park, where parasites infected the brain. “I’m a huge believer in…