As president-elect, Biden is making sweeping promises to LGBTQ activists, proposing to carry out virtually every major proposal on their wish lists. Among them: Lifting the Trump administration’s near-total ban on military service for transgender people, barring federal contractors from anti-LGBTQ job discrimination, and creating high-level LGBTQ-rights positions at the State Department, the National Security Council and other federal. transgender Nov 25, 2020
Daniela, a transgender woman who was the victim of a brutal attack in MacArthur Park in October, says she is “alive” and “fighting.” The brutal attack adds to the list of hate crimes that, according to the FBI, continues to grow.
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By City News Service
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - An ex-con from Sylmar who is charged with killing five people most of them within less than a week during a shooting spree in the San Fernando Valley pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity today.
Alexander Hernandez, now 40, is charged with the 2014 murders of Sergio Sanchez on March 14; Gilardo Morales on Aug. 21; and Gloria Tovar, Michael Planells and Mariana Franco on Aug. 24, along with the 11 attempted murders the bulk of which occurred between Aug. 20-24.
Hernandez is also facing 11 counts of attempted murder, eight counts of shooting at an occupied vehicle, three counts of cruelty to an animal, two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon and one count each of discharge of a firearm with gross negligence and possession of ammunition by a felon.
16 Apr 2021
A murderer who was paroled following decades behind bars has reportedly been accused of killing another individual in Los Angeles after his release.
According to Fox 11, the suspect was recently charged in the stabbing murder of a woman in the weeks after the state canceled his parole conditions.
“Court documents obtained by FOX 11 reveal that 67-year-old Eddie Allen Harris has been charged with the Mar. 23 stabbing murder of a woman in south Los Angeles,” the outlet said.
According to LAPD, officers responded to E. 59th Place & South Main Street in south Los Angeles at around 5:30 a.m., where they found a deceased Black woman in an alley with lacerations across her body. Jail records show that Harris was arrested for the murder on April 8, and is currently in jail with a $2 million bond.
By City News Service
Apr 15, 2021
SAN GABRIEL (CNS) - A man convicted of grand theft who left a rehabilitation facility without authorization two months ago was taken into custody in San Gabriel today.
Richard Ledesma walked away from a Male Community Reentry Program facility in Los Angeles on Feb. 12, according to a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation official.
Ledesma was taken into custody without incident Wednesday afternoon at about 2:45 p.m, authorities said. He will be brought to the California Institution for Men in Chino and his case will be referred to the Los Angeles County District Attorney s Office for consideration of escape charges.