Sept. 26, 2023 1:56 PM PT Real estate developer Wayne Ratkovich, who saved the Art Deco-style Wiltern theater and several other aging landmarks from the wrecking ball while changing attitudes about Los Angelesβ historic structures, has died at 82. He died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from an aortic aneurysm,…
The unhinged man who allegedly stabbed an 81-year-old grandfather to death and wounded two other neighbors on Staten Island last week has been charged with murder, authorities said Tuesday.Β Ramazan Ramusevic, 57, was picked up soon after the Friday afternoon assault on quiet, tree-lined Sunnyside Terrace β which left his octogenarian neighbor Francesco Pompilii mortally…
A Chicago man enjoying a slice of pizza was savagely beaten and robbed by two brutes in a brazen daylight attack caught on camera Monday β a day before the House Judiciary Committee visited town to hear testimony about how βsoft-on-crimeβ policies have turned the Windy City into an βactive warzone.β The victim, an unidentified…
Picketing UAW workers outside an Ontario automotive parts distribution center say jobs that once lifted them into flirting with middle-class status no longer provide them enough for a decent living. The workers were protesting outside the Stellantis Mopar facility that supplies thousands of parts for automotive repairs and upgrades. It is part of the United…
A man was found dead early Tuesday morning, and Denver police are investigating the manβs death as a homicide. Police at about 6:30 a.m. received the report of a dead body outside near Mexico Avenue and Julian Way and Sanderson Gulch in Denverβs Mar Lee neighborhood, a Denver police spokesperson said in an email. UPDATE:…
A youth football coach in Riverside was arrested and suspended after he allegedly punched a 14-year-old player in the head and knocked him unconscious after a game. The coach, Eibylardo Funes, was arrested and booked on charges of battery and willfully harming a child on Saturday after he allegedly assaulted Harlem Edwards, who was playing…
The death of a 65-year-old man in custody at a Colorado state prison was caused by strangulation and/or blunt force injuries to the head, according to the Lincoln County Coronerβs Office. Paul Hack was pronounced dead at 5:09 p.m. on Aug. 17 at the Limon Correctional Facility, a state prison two miles south of Limon…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several gun-control measures on Tuesday, including a bill that tightens the stateβs concealed-carry rules and another that imposes a new tax on firearm and ammunition sales. During a signing ceremony in Sacramento alongside lawmakers and gun-control advocates, Newsom said California would push back on legal efforts to dismantle its firearms…
The creep suspected of sexually assaulting a 24-year-old woman at a Manhattan subway station β bashing her head on the platform and then snatching her phone as she tried to call 911 β has been charged with the horrifying attack, police said Tuesday. Joel Ramirez, 26, was arrested around 10:30 p.m. Monday when eagle-eyed cops…
The Powerball jackpot rose to $835 million after no ticket matched all the numbers in Monday nightβs draw. That means thereβs a chance, albeit a very slim one, to win a massive payout during Wednesday nightβs drawing; the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million. Mondayβs drawing marked the 29th in…
