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Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012
3:48 a.m.
Three teens charged with sexually hazing soccer players
The youths, all minors, are accused of sexual penetration with a foreign object, felony assault and battery.
Three teenagers arrested in connection with alleged sexual hazing of younger members of the La Puente High School soccer team have been charged with various sexual assault and battery charges, prosecutors said Tuesday.
midnight
Suspect in lethal Pasadena fire is charged
Garth Allen Robbins is arraigned on 19 criminal charges, including two counts of capital murder, in the house blaze. Prosecutors may seek the death penalty.
The man accused of causing a Pasadena house fire that killed two men and severely injured another last week pleaded not guilty to murder and arson charges during a brief appearance Tuesday in a Pasadena courtroom.
midnight
Parents view yoga in elementary school as religious indoctrination
Encinitas education officials accepted a $533,000 grant from a yoga studio to bring a program of exercise and meditation to students. But some parents see the action as an attempt to teach Hinduism.
ENCINITAS, Calif. — Parents in this seaside town are in a twist over yoga, saying that adding the ancient practice of meditative exercise to the school curriculum is tantamount to religious indoctrination into Hinduism.
Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012
10:50 p.m.
Proposition 36 on three strikes law passes, AP says
Proposition 36, placed on the ballot in hopes of reducing prison overcrowding and preventing what proponents view as unfair sentences for minor crimes, has passed, according to the Associated Press.
Backers pointed to thousands of California prison inmates serving long sentences after being convicted of nonviolent crimes. They argued that changing the three strikes law would save taxpayers $100 million a year.
10:38 p.m.
Jackie Lacey extends lead in L.A. County district attorney race
Veteran prosecutor Jackie Lacey jumped to an early lead Tuesday in her bid to become Los Angeles County's first female and first African American district attorney.
Lacey led rival Alan Jackson by 56% to 44% in the runoff after election officials released early tallies for mail-in ballots turned in before election day as well as a tiny fraction of votes cast at the polls.
8:42 p.m.
Jackie Lacey leads in early counting in L.A. County D.A. race
Veteran prosecutor Jackie Lacey led Tuesday in the early vote tally in her bid to become the county's first female and first African American district attorney, edging ahead of Deputy Dist. Atty. Alan Jackson in the battle to become L.A.'s top prosecutor.
The early count for the two-candidate runoff includes the first release of mail-in ballots turned in before election day.
6:55 p.m.
Teen suspected of molesting 4-year-old at Burbank daycare center
Burbank police have arrested the 14-year-old son of daycare operators on suspicion of sexually molesting a 4-year-old boy at the daycare center.
The teenager, who was not identified because he is a minor, was arrested Sunday after the alleged victim’s mother called police to lodge the complaint, according to the Burbank Leader.
6:46 p.m.
Man charged in fatal stabbing of his wife in 2001
The husband of a woman found stabbed to death more than a decade ago behind an Arcadia restaurant has been charged in her killing, prosecutors said.
Richard Keith Cole, 72, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to one felony count of murder for the 2001 death, according to a statement from the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. Cole is being held on $1-million bail, prosecutors said.
6:29 p.m.
O.C. man gets six years in investment scheme
An Orange County man was convicted Tuesday and sentenced to six years in state prison for defrauding more than $350,000 from investors he met through a youth sports league, prosecutors said.
Christopher Alan Tate, 47, pleaded guilty to seven felony counts of securities fraud, eight felony counts of passing rubber checks and one felony count of forgery, according to a statement from the Orange County district attorney's office. He must also pay restitution and a fine totaling $887,944.
5:40 p.m.
Gunman in Fresno poultry plant shooting methodical, authorities say
Lawrence Jones didn’t seem quite “himself” on Tuesday morning, a co-worker told police.He started his shift, with the others at the chicken packaging plant in central Fresno at 5 a.m. They often work until 5 p.m. -- grateful, many said, for the overtime.
But about 8:20, authorities said, just a few minutes before meal break, Jones pulled out a .357 derringer handgun and reportedly walked methodically up to his co-workers and fired.
4:40 p.m.
Proposition 36 and prison overcrowding
With a panel of federal judges watching closely over prison crowding, California correction officials have already estimated how many beds could be emptied by softening the state's three-strikes law.
Proposition 36 would authorize resentencing of those serving life sentences if their third conviction was not violent or serious. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation makes no estimate of how many inmates would be affected in the prison population estimates released last week.
3:49 p.m.
'I don't believe in killing, but...' Voters torn on death penalty
Voters at polling stations were across the board on a state measure that would abolish the death penalty and replace it with life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Some said they were staunchly behind the measure and considered the death penalty to be expensive and rarely enforced. The state has executed only 13 people in the last 34 years and there are 729 people on death row, all housed in single-bunk cells.
3:05 p.m.
Burglary reported at Rep. Nancy Pelosi's Napa County home
Authorities are investigating an apparent burglary at a residence of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), officials with the Napa County Sheriff's Department said Tuesday.
Deputies responded to the House minority leader's home on Zinfandel Lane near St. Helena around 2:50 p.m. after an alarm was tripped at the residence, said sheriff's spokeswoman Capt. Tracey Stuart.
2:32 p.m.
Tougher USC security rules win praise from students
Reaction at USC was mainly positive Tuesday to new security rules that will restrict access to the school late at night.
Some, however, expressed concern that the campus would become too walled-off as a result of the policies adopted in the aftermath of shootings on campus last week.
2:24 p.m.
Missing Mojave cross might have been found in Half Moon Bay
When Henry and Wanda Sandoz erected a cross on a rocky outcropping in the Mojave National Preserve, they intended for it to last. They gathered on Palm Sunday 1998, just off Cima Road south of Interstate 15 at a place known as Sunrise Rock, and they hoisted the welded steel pipe cross to its foundation, some 30 feet above the floor of the desert, and bolted it to the granite and filled it with concrete.
Twelve years later, thieves had a different plan for their cross. Cutting the bolts, they toppled it from its perch and took it away. In spite of a $25,000 reward for its recovery at the time, no solid leads materialized.