Author: Artificial Intelligence

Less than a month into her term as Los Angeles District 14 councilwoman, Isabel Jurado remains purposeful in her goal of challenging the status quo by addressing the housing crisis and the city’s lack of services. I am. Mr. Jurado, a new politician who successfully led a relentless grassroots campaign against longtime politician Kevin de Leon, is committed to building more affordable housing and protecting people from eviction, while prioritizing working needs. And he said he was going to address the housing crisis from day one. -Class components. “We are not satisfied with business as usual or the current politics…

Los Angeles police say Gossip Girl actor Chanel Banks has been found safe after she was reported missing days ago, but her family insists the 36-year-old is still missing. There is. Los Angeles police announced Wednesday that Banks, a Playa Vista resident, was found in Texas after being reported missing on Nov. 8. The family said in a GoFundMe post that welfare checks were made at Banks’ home on Nov. 7 and 8, but she was not home. The family last had contact with Banks on October 30, according to the post. Missing person posters were distributed in Los Angeles’…

NBC News on Wednesday projected Republican incumbent Rep. Ken Calvert to retain his seat in California’s 41st Congressional District. The race was a rematch against longtime Congressman Will Rollins, a Democrat. In the 2022 election, the difference between the two was less than 5 points. Calvert received 51.3% of the vote, according to Wednesday’s update. Mr. Rollins had 48.7%. Mr. Calvert has been an advocate for California farmers, tax cuts, and funding for education. Rollins, a former federal prosecutor, called for keeping Americans safe while expanding affordable housing policies, protecting reproductive rights and increasing funding for transportation infrastructure. The 41st…

Measure G supporters declared victory this week, winning with about 51% support. The Los Angeles County Charter changes didn’t get as much attention as other high-profile policies on the ballot, but don’t get me wrong. This shaky governance reform package could be the most transformative decision county voters have made in decades.By 2026, the county will have its first ethics commission to regulate conflicts of interest and lobbying and investigate misconduct by elected officials and county employees. This is a long-awaited move for a government with a $45 billion budget and 100,000 employees. A recent investigation sparked by a federal…

A Glendale man owed an Orange County couple $80,000, so he shot the husband to death, kidnapped and murdered his wife, set the bodies on fire, returned to their home, and stole about $250,000 worth of luxury goods. Authorities say the items were stolen.Under these extreme and violent circumstances, Hoang Tinh Ngon, 30, could face the death penalty, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.Gong was arrested by Blair police at Los Angeles International Airport on Nov. 5, and prosecutors say he faces a long list of charges.These include two felony counts of murder, one felony count of kidnapping,…

A Lancaster teenager accused of making hundreds of swatting calls and offering paid swatting services has pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal. Alan W. Filion, 18, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Florida to four counts of interstate menacing to injure another person. He could face up to five years in prison on each charge. According to prosecutors, Filion made more than 375 swatting and threatening phone calls between August 2022 and January 2024. The calls included bomb and shooting threats against religious institutions, high schools, universities, government officials, and individuals across the United States. Prosecutors said Filion, who was…

The election has ended and you can no longer vote. But campaigns in close congressional races across California are scrambling to make sure their supporters’ votes are counted.A process known as “ballot curing” is becoming increasingly common, with campaigns reaching out to voters whose votes weren’t counted for technical reasons and giving them a chance to correct the mistake. That could mean asking you to correct your address or adding your signature to an envelope you forgot to sign. The stakes are especially high in California’s battleground states, where voters could decide which party controls the House next year.Of the…

The murder of 76-year-old Tsai Chung Ren in 2019 was as gruesome as it was unexpected. Arcadia’s grandmother was found dead in her backyard after being violently attacked with a hammer, circular saw and box cutter, authorities said. Now, five years later, Tsai’s family has received some measure of justice. Heber Enoch Diaz, 33, of Pasadena, was found guilty of capital murder Thursday, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. The prosecutor’s office announced that he could be sentenced to life in prison at sentencing scheduled for December 16th.Prosecutors said Diaz was one of the construction workers working…

Hurry up and take a photo. The tide is rising.The California Coastal Commission invites the public to take photos of storm surge for the King Tides Project, a community-led effort to help the public understand the impact of rising sea levels on coastal communities. are. During the next two months of spring tides, high water levels can be expected to be 1 to 2 feet higher than the coastline-wide average on some weekends. This year, the committee is seeking photos from the king tides from Nov. 15-17 and Dec. 13-15. Submitted images will be added to an interactive map to…

Australian researchers have been towing seal-shaped decoys in waters infested with great white sharks for years, and have found that wrapping the lures in very bright light (like an aquatic Christmas tree) can be effective at repelling sharks. I concluded that there seems to be.That’s because sharks are used to seeing the dark silhouette of their prey from below, backlit by the sun.So when a fake seal’s body is wrapped in bright horizontal stripes of LED lights, the silhouette appears to be shredded so that it no longer looks like a seal, said researcher Nathan Hart, dean of the School…