It is a nightmare of a story: A man in South Florida bought a house last year with cash, owning his home free and clear. Even though there was no mortgage, seven months later Bank of America foreclosed on the house he thought he owned outright. Baffled, the man tried to get to the bottom…
Los Angeles Police Officer William J. Skett was convicted this week for hitting two pedestrians and leaving the scene of the accident. Skett was off duty when he struck the pedestrians with his Hummer while backing up in a parking lot. Skett abandoned his vehicle and left the scene of the crime on foot. One…
A Palos Verdes Estates real estate agent and two passengers were killed in the crash of their 1968 Beechcraft Musketeer as they were returning to California from a trip to Mexico. Charles Alfred Chambers, 58, was believed to be piloting the plane that was headed to Torrance from Calexico, Mexico. According to FAA records, he…
An Orange County golfer was struck in the head with a ball and sustained head injuries that resulted in his death. Sixty-nine -year-old Hiroshi Tango was golfing at the Los Serranos Country Club in Chino, California when he was hit in the back of the head by a golf ball. He was hit when he…
In Santa Ana, California, a Newport Beach city police van crashed into two vans that had already been engaged in an early-morning head-on collision. Both drivers of the vans involved in the initial collision were critically injured and taken to the hospital, one of the drivers sustained life-threatening injuries. Four passengers from one van suffered…
The 99¢ Only Store was fined this week for illegally selling misbranded toxic products in violation of federal law. The 99¢ Only Store’s violations were discovered in multiple inspections by federal officials in California, Arizona and Nevada between 2004 and 2008. A federal judge ordered the retail chain to pay nearly $410,000 in penalties for…
A Beverly Hills, California business promising “tax relief” was finally shut down by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week. Authorities say American Tax Relief LLC cheated consumers out of more than $60 million by promising clients that their tax bills could be settled for pennies on the dollar. Despite a criminal search warrant executed…
California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal OSHA) announced that it has fined the Desert Sands Unified School District $7,700 for the electrocution death of a worker in 2009. A California man was killed on the job while working on the school district’s irrigation system in Indio, near Palm Springs. James Jeffredo, a fifty-year-old sprinkler…
Ten people were injured on a rollercoaster ride in Buena Park, California at Knott’s Berry Farm when the Pony Express Ride malfunctioned last week. One car rolled back an on incline and crashed into a second stationary car in the loading area. Nine people on the first car and one person climbing into the stopped…
A Los Angeles Times investigation has found that PG&E has more “high consequence” gas line leaks in populated areas compared to other utilities. The report was in response to the San Bruno, California gas pipeline explosion in September that killed 8 people and caused an estimated $65 million in property losses. (The eighth death occurred…
