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The ex-wife of a beloved Woodland Hills doctor was charged with murder Monday, Dec. 16, with prosecutors accusing her of hiring two men to beat him with baseball bats in May and to fatally shoot him in August, authorities said.Ahang Mirshojae, 53, did not appear in court Monday due to issues with transport, but was scheduled to appear Tuesday, where she may enter a plea to charges of special circumstances murder and assault with a deadly weapon.One of the two men she allegedly hired, 26-year-old Sarallah Jawed of Canoga Park, appeared in court Monday, but did not enter a plea.…
By COLLEEN LONG, Associated PressPALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump joined SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son to announce plans by the Japanese company to invest $100 billion in U.S. projects over the next four years.Trump announced the planned investments, which are expected to focus on artificial intelligence, at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Monday, with Son at his side, along with Howard Lutnick, head of investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald and Trump’s pick for commerce secretary.“He’s doing this because he feels very optimistic about our country,” Trump said. The president-elect said that since his election, people have expressed interest in “coming in with tremendous…
By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES — No Lauren Betts. No problem. Janiah Barker had her fourth double-double of the season with 12 points and 13 rebounds and top-ranked UCLA led throughout its 69-37 victory over Cal Poly on Monday night at Pauley Pavilion, despite the absence of its leading scorer and rebounder. Londynn Jones and Angela Dugalic also scored 12 points in UCLA’s first home game since it took over the No. 1 spot in the Associated Press Top 25 poll on Nov. 25. Timea Gardiner added 11 points for the Bruins (11-0), who have started 11-0 for…
Buena Park businessman David Montemayor was running for his life when he jumped out of the moving car.He was also running to keep his wife and three young children safe from the gang members who had kidnapped him at gunpoint and were driving him home to steal cash they thought he had hidden in his garage.Montemayor, the father of three, was shot in the head as he tried to escape. He died, his final act a desperate act of love to save his wife — and children — 7, 9 and 11. His family survived. There was no money.Seventeen-year-old gang…
Walt Disney Co. has agreed to settle a wage theft lawsuit for $233 million, ending a five-year dispute over pay for tens of thousands of Anaheim theme park employees.Randy Renick, an attorney representing the workers in the proposed class-action lawsuit, said on Monday that the settlement would be the largest of its kind in California history.Disney confirmed it approved the preliminary settlement on Friday.Also see: Disneyland employees’ economic plight spotlighted in Sundance documentaryAccording to a Dec. 6 court filing, $179.6 million would go to plaintiffs in terms of back pay and retirement contributions. Another $17.5 million in penalties will be paid to the…
A Rancho Cucamonga man was sentenced to more than three years in prison for his role in a birthing scheme that prosecutors alleged allowed more than 100 parents to travel to the U.S. from China to give birth so that their children would have U.S. citizenship.Michael Wei Yueh Liu, 59, was sentenced to three years and five months in prison after a four-day trial on Sept. 13 found him and 47-year-old Jing Dong guilty of one count of conspiracy and 10 counts of international money laundering, according to the Department of Justice.Starting as early as January 2012 through May 2015,…
By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICKAssociated Press (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. swept onto Capitol Hill late Monday,, as the anti-vaccine health guru from the famous political family reintroduced himself to senators, this time as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s Health and Human Services Department.It was a soft-opening debut for Kennedy, whose wide-ranging views — yes to raw milk, no to fluoride, Ozempic and America’s favorite processed foods — are raising alarms in the scientific community and beyond. In the Senate he’s facing a mix of support, curiosity, skepticism and downright rejection among the senators…
EL SEGUNDO — The Chargers acknowledged the obvious in the minutes and hours after their clunker of a loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday at SoFi Stadium. They didn’t play well offensively or defensively. They didn’t play up to their standards and they paid the price for it in the form of a 40-17 loss.Here’s what we learned, what we heard and what comes next after the Chargers’ biggest loss of the season, a game in which their NFL-leading defense collapsed in spectacular fashion in the second half, a game in which they looked nothing like a potential…
“I’m a big believer in tariffs,” President-elect Donald Trump said this week, not for the first time. “I think they’re beautiful.”Trump claims the heavy tariffs he plans to impose during his second term are “going to make us rich,” at no cost to American businesses or consumers. That is a dangerous fantasy.Trump’s position on tariffs begins with his longstanding misconceptions about international trade, which he erroneously views as a zero-sum game with rules that are rigged against the United States. “We’re subsidizing Canada to the tune (of) over $100 billion a year,” he told Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press.”…
By Daniela Sirtori | BloombergStarbucks is boosting paid parental leave for in-store workers, part of management’s plan to boost employee morale and improve performance.Starting in March, birth parents will receive 18 weeks of paid leave at 100% of their average pay, the company said Monday. A parent who doesn’t give birth will get 12 weeks. Previously, the company offered retail workers six weeks of paid parental leave and as much as 12 weeks of unpaid leave.Paid parental leave remains rare in the US, with only 40% of employers surveyed by the Society for Human Resource Management offering it this year.…