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Articles from the June 21, 2016 edition


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  • Selma Blair Roofied Herself And Is Carried Off Airplane On A Stretcher ..

    Christine Peake, Observer Entertainment Writer|Jun 21, 2016

    TMZ is reporting Selma Blair was taken off a Delta airlines flight at LAX on a stretcher after she reportedly exhibited odd behavior mid-flight. Eyewitnesses told the site that two nurses on board attempted to help the actress, who allegedly could be heard yelling about an unnamed man: "He burns my private parts. He won't let me eat or drink. He beats me. He's going to kill me." Witnesses told TMZ that Blair was in first class, and it appeared that she put something into her wine and stirred it...

  • Taste of L.A. Farmers Market is back and "All Fired Up"

    Ryan Lamont, City of Los Angeles PR Dept.

    Los Angeles (June 20, 2016) – The Original Farmers Market is gearing up for the eighth annual Taste of Farmers Market event, which will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, July 19 with a feast of more than 50 delicious summertime food and beverage samples from Market grocery, restaurant and specialty food merchants. For this year's event, the Market is pleased to partner with a local non-profit First-In Fire Foundation, who are "Friends of the Fire Department and Fire Service," and firefighters...

  • Theft of Teen's Tricycle Leads to State Prison

    Observer Staff|Jun 21, 2016

    A homeless man was sentenced today to four years in state prison for stealing a custom made tricycle for a teen with cerebral palsy, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Deborah Kranze said Carlos Andres Lopez, 47, entered a no contest plea today to one felony count of first-degree residential burglary, as a strike, in case GA098156. Lopez also admitted a 2002 conviction for first-degree residential burglary in case LA039169. On Jan. 23, Lopez...

  • Controversial Campaign Manager Who Shoved Female Reporters, Ousted

    Observer Staff|Jun 21, 2016

    Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski's abrupt firing Monday came down to a battle of ultimatums, reports FoxNews. And ultimately, Lewandowski lost. Paul Manafort, the veteran political aparatchik who since March has been amassing influence inside Trump HQ, recently told Trump through third parties he would quit in 48 hours if Trump didn't oust Lewandowski. Trump was reluctant to dump the man who had run his campaign from the time he declared his candidacy a year ago. But Manafort had...

  • Crane Collapses at Exxon Mobil in Torrance; Three Injured

    Observer Staff|Jun 21, 2016

    A 300 ton crane collapsed at Torrance's ExxonMobil refinery at about 9:30 a.m. The collapse inflicted minor injuries on three workers. The 300-ton crane was being used in the operational portion of the refinery, on 190th Street near Crenshaw. It suddenly fell for reasons that are under investigation, said Torrance Fire Department Battalion Chief Bob Miller. "Initially, some flammable gas was suppressed by water monitors," Millea said. "There were no offsite impacts." The accident scene was...

  • Jeep That Killed Yelchin Had Recall For Shifting Into Reverse

    Associated Press|Jun 21, 2016

    Update: 6/20: The Jeep vehicle that lurched down a driveway and killed "Star Trek" actor Anton Yelchin had recently been recalled after federal regulators found that its gear shifting could confuse drivers and possibly cause vehicles to roll away, reports the LA Times. The recall, issued May 23, 2016 specifically because the vehicle's automatic transmission, may suddenly shift from Park to Reverse. It is unknown whether this happened to Yelchin after he left his vehicle to open his gate, but...

  • Divided D.C. Circuit Panel Upholds FCC Net Neutrality Rules

    Christopher Savage, Davis, Wright, Tremaine|Jun 21, 2016

    On June 14, 2016, the D.C. Circuit upheld the FCC's 2015 order adopting its Open Internet rules against a wide range of legal challenges. (Our advisory describing the FCC's rules can be found here.) In a detailed and lengthy opinion, Judges Tatel and Srinivasan: Sustained the FCC's authority to reclassify mass market broadband Internet access as a telecommunications service (as opposed to an information service); Sustained its authority to include interconnection between broadband ISPs and...

  • Waze Fix Avoids Difficult Intersections

    Observer Staff|Jun 21, 2016

    If you've ever driven with Waze, you've noticed two things: Your wife constantly yells at you to put down the phone, and the Waze App directs you to "difficult intersections." Meaning you have to take a left turn off of some small street, onto Olympic Blvd. At rush hour. From now on, the default setting on Waze will avoid "risky turns," and instead allow you to make a series of right turns, or another alternate route. Users may disable this feature, if they're just totally mad. Note that...

  • Libertarians "Oppose No Fly No Buy bill and other restrictions without due process"

    Carla Howell, Libertarian Party|Jun 21, 2016

    ALEXANDRIA - The Libertarian Party opposes the No Fly List, "no buy" lists, and other such lists where the government infringes on a person's rights without due process of law. In recent years, the federal government has used "the war on terror" as an excuse to encroach on our most fundamental human rights. Warrant-less wiretapping, detaining prisoners for years without trials in Guantanamo Bay, "no fly" lists that are compiled secretly and without due process, and similar "no buy" lists all...

  • 21 Year Old Karate Teacher Arrested for Soliciting Sex With 11 Year Old Boy

    Observer Staff|Jun 21, 2016

    Orange County Police arrested Orlando karate instructor Stephannie Figueroa, 21, after she allegedly told an 11-year-old student she wanted to have sex with him and sent him more than a dozen nude photos . The instructor was arrested after the boy's mother opened the messaging app Kik on his phone and found inappropriate messages from the teacher, police said. The local District Attorney has filed charges against Stephannie Figueroa, 21 alleging child abuse, attempted lewd or lascivious...