LOS ANGELES – A 15-year-old has been shot dead and a stray bullet struck an 11-year-old girl in the Lincoln Park area. Police are now seeking public help in locating whoever shot Miguel Machuca dead with a hand gun. “On August 28, 2010, at around 7:30 p.m., Hollenbeck officers responded to a radio call of [...]
SACRAMENTO – The anti-Islamic crusade continues in the United States fanned by the New York mosque controversy. Several incidents of vandalism have been reported and the Sacramento Valley chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SV) today called on law enforcement authorities to initiate a hate crime investigation of an incident in which a mock [...]
SANTA ANA, CA – A man suspected of being an international serial rapist is in custody in Orange County after being extradited from Austria following a DNA match through INTERPOL. The suspect was featured on the Orange County District Attorney’s (OCDA) Ten Most Wanted list. Ali Achekzai, 32, formerly of Ladera Ranch, will be arrived [...]
CHICAGO – TransUnion’s quarterly analysis of trends in the credit card industry revealed that the national credit card delinquency rate (the ratio of bankcard borrowers 90 days or more delinquent on one or more of their credit cards) decreased to 0.92 percent in the second quarter of 2010, down 17.1 percent over the previous quarter. [...]
ALEXIS CREEK, B.C. – An American woman touring B.C. has died after falling 15-feet off a bridge into shallow water running below. RCMP said the deadly plunge on Saturday occurred near the Tsylos Provincial Park area which is a 2.5-hour drive from Alexis Creek. She was with a companion at the time but police believe [...]
LONG BEACH, CA – Red Bull Flugtag brought many things to Long Beach: the Spruce Goose, the Jetsons, the Flintstones and more than 105,000 spectators. The crowd was so enormous that the 710 freeway’s exit ramp to the area was closed, all parking garages were at capacity and traffic was gridlocked throughout the downtown area. [...]
BOSTON – A 24-year-old man was ordered held on high bail at his district court arraignment on charges that he raped a friend’s seven-year-old child multiple times over the past six months, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley announced. Erik Roldan, who had an address in East Boston, but is believed to be living [...]
VANCOUVER, B.C. – (Update) Police have recovered a Wisconsin couple’s motorhome and most of their belongings following publicity of their plight. The motorhome, being used by the couple on a multi-year trip, was stolen from a Vancouver street. “An alert citizen watching news coverage on the evening of August 5th realized that the stolen motor [...]
NEW YORK -Six-in-ten American families with children at home (62 per cent) say they plan to spend less this year than last or nothing at all on back-to-school shopping, according to the RBC Consumer Outlook Index. Although most families are cutting back, nine per cent say they actually plan to spend more and 29 per [...]
FULLERTON – A mother who concealed her pregnancy from her husband because he was not the father of her child has been convicted of attempting to kill the newborn by putting the infant in a dumpster. Shawn Kelli Sepulveda, 40, of Laguna Niguel, was convicted of attempting to murder her newborn baby girl and abusing [...]
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