An Orange County doctor was charged last week of allegedly defrauding a federal COVID-19 healthcare program for uninsured patients by submitting false claims in a scheme that netted him about $150 million, according to the U.S. attorneyβs office. Anthony Hao Dinh, 64, of Newport Beach is facing 12 counts of wire fraud, five counts of…
E-bike scourge Nicole Gelinas was 100% right in her argument about the problem of two-wheeled vehicles (βTime to Rein in Vicious E- Cycles,β Sept. 25). Whether electric, gas or pedal-powered, the majority of bike riders in New York City do not respect the rules of the streets. An easy fix would be to enforce the…
Dolores Sanchez, a longtime community leader who was the publisher of a chain of bilingual newspapers that provided a critical voice for residents in the predominantly Latino communities on Los Angelesβ Eastside and neighboring cities, has died. She was 87. Sanchez had been ill in recent months and passed away Thursday, daughter Gloria Alvarez said….
Lakewood police are investigating a fatal Saturday morning shooting near an RTD station that left one person dead. Just before noon on Saturday, officers responded to reports of a shooting near the Lakewood-Wadsworth RTD station, at West 13th Avenue and Yukon Street, according to a Saturday news release from the Lakewood Police Department. When officers…
Los Angeles on Saturday received its 20th busload of migrants courtesy of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who takes credit for shipping more than 45,000 migrants to a half-dozen βsanctuaryβ cities across the country. The bus arrived around 1:45 p.m. at Union Station with 27 passengers, including a family of six, according to nonprofit groups providing…
A New Jersey man accused of sexual assault by six women was reportedly released by a judge earlier this year on time served β enraging the mother of one victim who called the measly sentence βnot even a slap on the wrist.β The accusations against Eridson Rodriguez, 26, had stacked up quickly in September 2020,…
A man was killed when his car careened off a cliff into the ocean in San Pedro on Saturday night. Authorities received calls about 10:30 p.m. that a car had driven off the side of a cliff on South Meyler Street and West Paseo Del Mar onto the rocky shore of Wilderβs Addition Park. Three…
A controversial new law barring judges from setting bail in most criminal cases took effect in Los Angeles County on Sunday β raising widespread fears it will inevitably lead to a spike in crime. The bail reform measure in southern California β eerily similar to New Yorkβs much-maligned criminal justice reforms β was met with…
This story originally aired on Dec. 3, 2022. It was updated on Sept. 30, 2023. On Sept. 4, 1981, Jeff Slaten, 15 and his brother Tim, 12, were awakened by Lakeland, Florida, police and told their mother, Linda Slaten, had been murdered. Investigators collected a rape kit and lifted a palm print from the windowsill…
Aurora officers are investigating a fatal shooting that happened early Sunday morning, leaving one man dead. When officers arrived at the scene, they found a man dead in the driverβs seat of a car with multiple gunshot wounds, according to a statement from the Aurora Police Department on X. #APDAlert Officers are investigating a fatal…
