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The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office has filed murder charges in a Los Angeles Superior Court against a DUI driver who struck and killed a pedestrian in Pasadena last month. According to the story appearing on the Pasadena Now website, the accident happened on October 23 at 11:30 p.m. when Martin Cesar Villagomez, 48, of Pasadena, was allegedly struck 36-year-old Christopher Andrew Mendez while driving his GMC SUV. Investigators say...

The surviving husband of a woman killed at Arches National Park has filed a wrongful-death administrative claim for a lawsuit potentially worth $270 million last month. KUTV reports that the incident happened on June 13th when Esther Nakajjigo was decapitated by a gate that swung into the car that she and her husband, Ludovic Michaud, were in as they were leaving the grounds of the national park. Emergency response personnel...

The idea that you can never escape the long arm of the law was definitely proven when the suspect of a 2017 hit-and-run crash in Los Angeles was extradited from Australia to face the charges against her. CBS Local in Los Angeles reports that 35-year-old Andrea Dorthy Chan Reyes has been returned to  California after the FBI helped the Whittier Police Department obtain an international warrant for Reyes arrest.    Investigators...

A freshman student from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) has died after he fell from the roof of an off-campus apartment building over the weekend. Yahoo! News reports that the fatal accident happened early Saturday, October 24, at an apartment building located at 433 Midvale Avenue. The apartment complex is located just across the street from the UCLA campus. According to a statement released by UCLA spokesperson...

The late John Lewis recently said in a speech, “When you see something that’s not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up.  You have to say something; you have to do something.” CBS Local in Los Angeles’ Rachel Kim reports that Sylmar resident Miguel Castellanos is taking that advice to heart after he witnessed a hit-and-run crash that left a 6-year-old boy injured. A spokesperson for the...

 The Silverado fire in Orange County has expanded due to Santa Ana winds on Monday morning.  Two firefighters are reported to have been injured in the wildfire that has now consumed over 7,200 acres. KTLA in Los Angeles reported on Monday that the fire began in the Santa Ana mountains at approximately 6:45 a.m. near Santiago Canyon Road and Silverado Canyon Road.   Because of the seasonal Santa Ana winds, which...

Street takeovers in both Costa Mesa and Anaheim early Thursday morning have resulted in one person dead and two others being taken into police custody. Patch.com reports that the incident happened in the early morning hours of Thursday, October 22.  According to a statement released by the Costa Mesa Police Department, the incident happened at approximately 2:30 a.m. at the intersection of Sunflower Avenue and Highland Avenue. Police say that...

A Compton man has been arrested after he allegedly carjacked a vehicle with a 93-year-old woman and a 9-week-old baby inside over the weekend ABC affiliate, KTLA reports that the incident happened on Saturday,  October 11 at approximately 2:45 p.m. when 22-year-old Maaliki Grant allegedly jumped into the diver’s seat of a vehicle left running at a fabric store near Maple Avenue and East Ninth Street.  Inside the car were...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a report yesterday, faulting the owners of a boat in California for the deaths of 34 people in September of last year. CBS Local 21  reports that in their findings, the NTSB stated that the Conception, a 75-foot recreational vessel, had a total of 33 passengers and 6 crew members on board at the time of the fatal incident.  On the morning of...

In a 2016 wrongful death case in Whittier, the litigants have reached a tentative settlement agreement of approximately $28 million. My News LA reports that in 2016, 61-year-old Margarita Mojarro was killed after an 80-foot tree fell on her during her daughter's wedding reception on December 17, 2016. The surviving family members alleged in their suit filed in April of 2017 that a dangerous condition of public property caused Mogarro's...