A fire was knocked down early Monday in Santa Monica after it burned four vehicles and at least one carport at an apartment.
No injuries were reported after the 4:30 a.m. fire in the 800 block of 14th Street. An apartment above the carport sustained smoke damage, displacing one family.
Utility crews responded to reports of downed power lines. It was not immediately clear how many customers were without power.
A man shot multiple times died at a residence in Pomona early Monday morning, police said.
The wounded man walked into a woman's residence in the 1200 block of W Third Street, according to the woman's 12:30 a.m. 911 call, a Pomona Police Department statement read. She said she knew the man, who collapsed on the floor.
He died at the scene, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body, the statement read. The man was 30 and lived in Pomona, but other identifying information about him has not been released.
Police did not find a gunman or vehicle in connection with the shooting after a preliminary investigation, according to the statement. It was unclear if the shooting was gang-related.
A man who lives nearby said violence has increased on the street recently.
"I'm scared," neighbor Darnell Musgrove said. "It's like wow, man, that could have been me."
Detectives are investigating the shooting and ask anyone with information to call 909-620-2085.
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"I don't think about that season much," Byron Scott said on a Sunday morning, as he stood in a gym wearing Los Angeles Lakers issued shorts.
"That season" referred to the 1996-97 season. That season was also Scott's last season as an NBA player, and the way it ended was nothing short of memorable.
Against the Utah Jazz, rookie Kobe Bryant took the ball and launched up air-ball after air-ball after air-ball when the game was on the line. He infamously lost the game and the series ended with Shaquille O'Neal and Del Harris walking off the court pale faced and dumbfounded.
That infamous defeat went down as Scott's last game as an NBA player, so the current Lakers' coach had unique perspective to provide on Bryant's wild shots.
"You either grow up big time like he did or you don't--there no in between as far as I'm concerned," Scott said of Bryant's colossal failure in Utah. "Kobe was special. Even at 18 years old, you knew the kid was going to be special."
Scott explained, "First of all, he was brave enough to take the shots. He was put in that position, and he didn't fear it at all. He wanted to take the shots, and I just knew it would make him stronger--which he was, and has been ever since."
At NBCLA.com's request, Scott attempted to connect Bryant's failure as a rookie to the current Lakers' constant failures late in games:
"With [Bryant's] work ethic, I knew that was going to drive him. You hope that does the same for certain guys you have on the team. Jordan [Clarkson], I know he has that type of drive. He wants to be good."
Scott admitted drawing those parallels did not entirely come naturally. So, why not finish with one more thought on the 18-year-old Bryant shooting air-balls, then?
"Some people can handle it. Some people can't," Scott said matter-of-factly. "I knew when he missed those three. I knew he could handle it. I knew that he would be fine. It was just something that was going to drive him."
A Los Angeles police officer was arrested after Border Patrol agents at the U.S.-Mexico border allegedly found someone hiding in the officer’s car when they stopped him for questioning Saturday night, law enforcement sources confirmed to the NBC News Investigative Unit.
The officer was taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in California. His name was not released, but officials confirmed he was assigned to the LAPD’s Hollywood Division.
The officer faces possible human smuggling charges.
No further information on the incident was released.
LAPD Commander Andrew Smith, a department spokesman, declined to comment on the arrest, deferring questions to federal authorities.
The arrest came on the heels of another LAPD officer being linked to a crime. Officer Henry Solis, a rookie assigned to the department’s Devonshire Division, was named as a person of interest in the fatal shooting a 23-year-old Ontario man early Friday morning.
NBC4's Willian Avila contributed to this report.
A teenager taken into Connecticut state custody and forced by the state to get chemotherapy treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma testified in court on Monday in hopes of leaving the hospital to finish her treatments.
Seventeen-year-old Cassandra C., who remains away from home under the care of the state, didn't want chemotherapy and was previously fighting the state so she wouldn't have to get the treatment, but she lost in court so she was forced to undergo chemo. She has since gone into remission.
People Magazine reports that Cassandra C's attorney's asked a state court if she could leave the hospital to finish chemotherapy. She testified remotely for about an hour on Monday, one of her attorneys said, though details of her testimony were not available. No television cameras were allowed inside the courtroom.
In a statement to NBC Connecticut in January, DCF officials said they were exploring options for Cassandra C. to live in a specialized group home when she was released from the hospital.
Court documents show DCF took custody of her when she ran away from home after two days of chemotherapy and missed medical appointments. Her mother, Jackie Fortin, plans to fight those claims.
The state's highest court reviewed the case under an emergency appeal filed by attorneys representing Cassandra and her mother, taking up an issue previously decided by several other states – whether some minors are mature enough to make decisions about their own bodies.
The judges ultimately decided that Cassandra is not mature and will continue to receive chemotherapy. She turns 18 in September, a year after her cancer diagnosis.
Police searched for a burglar in the San Fernando Valley for hours after one awoke residents of a home, but couldn't find one, officers said.
The residents of a Tarzana home in the 19000 block of Briarfield Way reported just after 4 a.m. that someone entered their house, according to a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman.
The burglar fled the residence, but was believed to have remained in the neighborhood, officers said. It was unknown if the burglar was armed.
Police dogs sniffed the area for the intruder but came up empty, and the search was called off before 10:30 a.m., officers said.
George State’s head coach may have ruptured his Achilles tendon after celebrating his team’s thrilling victory in the Sun Belt Conference tournament championship, where his son shot the winning free throws.
Ron Hunter was embracing his son, R.J. Hunter, and jumping up and down when he injured his left leg, NBC Sports reported. A picture showed the coach on the ground, hugging his son moments after the win.
His son had scored the winning free throws with 21.6 seconds left to lift the Panthers to a 38-36 win over Georgia Southern.
After being helped off the court, Hunter returned on crutches for the team’s celebration and trophy presentation and cut down the net.
Hunter told ESPN that he suffered an Achilles tear years ago and felt the same pain during this celebration.
“I knew when I came down that I had done it (again), but instead of stopping right there, I wanted to go celebrate with my team,” he told ESPN. “More importantly I wanted to go celebrate with my son. You don’t get many opportunities like that.”
After the game, Hunter sent out a series of tweets insisting that the injury won't hamper his joy over the victory.
Georgia State will play Baylor in the NCAA tournament.
Hunter will wait until after the tournament to get surgery on his Achilles, NBC Sports reported.
An American healthcare worker infected with Ebola has been downgraded from serious to critical condition, hospital officials announced Monday.
The patient was admitted to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, Friday morning.
The patient had been volunteering at an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone when he or she contracted the disease. The patient was flown to the United States on a chartered flight and then traveled to the hospital's Special Clinical Studies Unit (SCSU) via private charter medevac.
The patient's name, age and gender were not released. No further details about the patient's condition were released.
The NIH Clinical Center's Special Clinical Studies Unit (SCSU) is designed for high-level isolation capabilities and is staffed by specialists in infectious diseases and critical care, the NIH said.
The person is the second to be treated for Ebola at NIH. Last fall, Texas nurse Nina Pham was treated there after contracting the disease while treating the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S.
The NIH has also cared for two other people who had high-risk exposures to Ebola, but were later determined to not be infected.
For the first time in school history, UC Irvine will be playing in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament Friday against fourth seed Louisville in Seattle.
The Anteaters (21-12) received the 13th seed in the East Regional and the 14th ranked Cardinals (24-8) the fourth seed as the tournament brackets were unveiled.
Since the NCAA tournament field was expanded to 64 teams in 1985,the 13th seed is 25-95 against the fourth seed, a .208 winning percentage.
The game will be televised by TBS at 1:10 p.m.
The Anteaters qualified for the tournament for the first time by defeating Hawaii, 67-58, Saturday night, in the Big West Conference Tournament championship game.
"I'm really satisfied and excited for our program and the UCI community to have this experience," UC Irvine coach Russell Turner said after Saturday's game.
The Anteaters had an 0-4 record in the finals of the Big West Conference tournament before Saturday's victory.
UCLA received the 11th seed in the South Region and will begin play in the NCAA basketball tournament against sixth-seeded SMU Thursday in Louisville.
Some experts predicted that the Bruins (20-13) would fail to qualify for the tournament.
"I definitely think this team's deserving," UCLA coach Steve Alford said on a conference call with reporters. "They've worked awfully hard. I couldn't be more proud of this team."
UCLA finished just 1-7 against top-25 teams in Rating Percentage Index and 2-8 against the top 50, but its schedule was the toughest in the Pac-12.
"We know we have a tough task ahead of us," Alford said. "I know our guys will be ready. Hopefully we'll be successful."
SMU is coached by Hall of Famer Larry Brown, who coached the Bruins from 1979-81, including guiding them to a berth in the 1980 national championship game.
The game will begin at approximately 12:10 p.m. and be carried by cable's truTV.
A damaged Orange County freeway connector was shut down in an emergency closure expected to last through the lunch rush, Caltrans said.
The highway connection between the southbound 5 Freeway and the 55 Freeway was closed at 10 a.m. Monday due to a damaged guardrail, Caltrans said in a statement. The closure was expected to last through 2 p.m.
"Caltrans appreciates the public’s patience while we perform emergency work. Detour signs will be posted to alert motorists of the closure," the statement read.
For more information, visit www.dot.ca.gov/dist12 or call 949-724-2000.
A pregnant woman remained hospitalized Monday morning after a man walked up to her and opened fire in a Pico-Union District park, police said.
The pregnant woman, 18 to 19 years old, was out of surgery in critical but stable condition as of just before 9 a.m. Officials said the baby doesn't appear to have been hit by gunfire.
The woman, six to seven months pregnant, was walking along the basketball courts at Toberman Park in the Pico-Union District west of downtown Los Angeles at about 10:30 p.m. when a man approached her. Without provocation, the man shot the woman several times, according to the LAPD Rampart Station.
A witness told NBC4 he heard about six rounds fired.
After officials arrived on-scene, she was transferred to a trauma center and underwent emergency surgery.
It was unclear at the time if the man and the woman knew each other, the LAPD said.
Police searched for the man, and asked that any witnesses with information on the shooting come forward.
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The Golden State Warriors have only lost 13 games during the 2014/15 NBA season.
With seven fewer losses than any other team in the Western Conference, Golden State should easily cruise to the best record in the West. The Warriors' only worry is Atlanta, who only trails Golden State by half a game in the standings. However, that head-to-head difference would not come into play until and unless both teams make it to the NBA Finals.
The Los Angeles Lakers lost to the Hawks on Sunday at Staples Center, which means Monday night in rowdy Oracle Arena does not promise to end well. On the second night of a back-to-back, away from home and struggling to finish the season on a strong note, Bovada and other Las Vegas sports books list the Lakers as 18-point underdogs. Monday night could get ugly and quick.
Worth pointing out that one of the Lakers' 17 wins on the season came against the Warriors. However, few expect a repeat of the Dec. 23 115-105 victory at Staples Center. On that night, the Lakers finished with seven different players scoring in double figures with Carlos Boozer leading the way with 18 points and nine rebounds. Point guard Ronnie Price finished with 17 points and eight assists, as Kobe Bryant took a night off to rest following a fatigued performance against the Sacramento Kings only two nights earlier.
Although not officially ruled out for the season, Price told NBCLA.com on Sunday night that his chances of returning this season were "slim to none."
"Slim to none" is probably an accurate way to describe the Lakers' chances on Sunday night, too. However, here are two reasons to tune in on Monday night.
First, a trio of rookies should earn a great deal of experience from facing the best team in the NBA in an intimidating arena. Jordan Clarkson facing Stephen Curry should help the Lakers' rookie point guard gain valuable experience. If Clarkson plans to play in the NBA as a point guard, Curry should be one of the premier players at the position for the next decade. Rookies Tarik Black and Jabari Brown also stand to see valuable minutes on the court.
Second, Curry is currently the favorite to win the league's Most Valuable Player award, and watching the best player in any league at the top of his game is worth the price of admission, which for most Southern Californians is a cable bill that has already been paid. Currently, Curry is ahead of the field in the MVP race with James Harden second in the conversation. With the Warriors sitting at the top of the NBA, Curry's argument carries more weight.
Tipping at 7:30 p.m. Pacific Time, the Lakers face the best player and team in the NBA.
As the economy recovers, unemployment drops and the stock market takes an up-turn, there are still millions of people that have been bypassed, according to a new report.
The household income poverty rate remains at 14 percent, one in four jobs in the U.S. are considered low-wage and 56 percent of consumers in the U.S. have subprime credit scores, according to nonprofit, Corporation for Enterprise Development.
A number of resources are available for assistance as people struggle to understand and manage their debt and credit:
For many people, buying or selling a car can be frustrating.
Now, a new breed of startup companies are racing to change the car business, but many in the industry wonder if they are trying to skirt around state regulations in the process.
Because website startups are not yet technically subjected to many of the same regulations as other car dealerships — particularly because most connect buyers and sellers but never take possession of the vehicles themselves — there is some concern that they are giving potential buyers and sellers a possibly false sense of security.
NBC4 produced the piece with our nonprofit partner Fair Warning.
See the full story on its website here
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Emotions were running high outside the Palestra Sunday afternoon after the funeral service for Philadelphia Police Officer Robert Wilson III.
As Springfield Township Corporal Shawn Hart looked at the solemn expressions in the crowd, he noticed a look of anxiety on the face of one police official. Corporal Hart quickly realized the reason for the concern. Officer Wilson’s funeral procession was about to begin and a car with no owner in sight was blocking the route.
“I watched him for a couple minutes, walked down, talked to him and asked him if it needed to be moved,” Hart said. “He’s like, ‘yeah, it has to be moved. I got a tow coming but I don’t know if it’s gonna make it here in time.’”
After waiting a few more minutes, Corporal Hart and more than a dozen other officers took action as the procession started.
They gathered around the car and began to lift.
“We just moved the car,” Hart said.
“I just asked some guys in line for a hand. They came over and we moved it to the side. The procession was able to get past and that was it. After the procession came by he [the car’s owner] jumped in his car and moved it out of the way before the hearse came down.”
The funeral procession eventually brought Officer Wilson’s body to his final resting place at Fernwood Cemetery in Lansdowne.
Hart isn't sure how many other officers joined in or what departments they were a part of. All he knows is that they stepped in to help, no questions asked.
“There were so many,” Hart said. “They just came over, grabbed a piece of the car and they moved it. I don’t even know where they were from.”
Hart had no idea the moment was captured on camera and subsequently shared on social media. Yet those officers weren’t looking for any recognition, they were simply performing their duty to the fullest in honor of a man who gave his life in order to do the same.
A Los Angeles police officer accused of trying to smuggle a man into the U.S. in the trunk of his car will be held on a $20,000 bond, a federal judge ordered.
Carlos Curiel Quezada Jr., 34, made his first appearance in U.S. District Court in San Diego Monday afternoon.
Quezada, handcuffed and dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit, was seated two seats away from the woman with whom he was returning from Mexico, 31-year-old Angelica Godinez.
Both are charged with “bringing in illegal alien without presentation.”
Asked by U.S. Magistrate William Gallo if he understood the charge against him, he answered, “I do, sir.”
Quezada and Godinez, both U.S. citizens, were arrested Saturday at the Otay Mesa border crossing after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers directed them to a secondary inspection and sent their car through a giant x-ray machine, according to prosecutors.
Officers discovered a man, identified as 26-year-old Antanasio Perez-Avalos, hiding in the spare tire area of Quezada’s trunk, the CBP alleges. Perez-Avalos had no legal ability to enter the U.S.
“It’s a very serious act of misconduct if it’s true,” LAPD Chief Charlie Beck told NBC.
LAPD Cdr. Andrew Smith said Monday an internal investigation has been launched into the incident.
“Whenever an employee is arrested, their commanding officer responds,” said Smith. “So when one of our employees gets in trouble in any other jurisdiction, we'll send a commanding officer down there to begin the investigation, contact the employee, make sure they're OK and initiate personnel complaint, an internal personnel complaint."
A 10-year veteran of the LAPD, Quezada is on probation at the department on a suspected DUI charge from 2014, according to prosecutors. He makes $4,800 a month but said that he is concerned he will not be able to return to his job or afford a lawyer.
Smith said Quezada will not be returning to duty until this case is adjudicated – both on the criminal side and LAPD side.
Gallo told him that based on his financial affidavit, he might be able to pay a portion of his attorney’s bill.
Quezada, who lives with his parents in Los Angeles, cannot go to Mexico or travel outside of southern and central California and must surrender his passport.
Godinez is also being held on a $20,000 bond. The mother of a 14-year-old, she has two convictions for DUI, according to prosecutors. Like Quezada, she cannot go to Mexico and must surrender her passport.
Few details were revealed in court about Quezada’s relationship with the man in the trunk or with Godinez.
Both defendants are expected back in court on April 9 for their preliminary hearing.
NBC's Tena Ezzeddine contributed to this report.