Underworld Turns

Man staged wife’s murder as suicide, California prosecutors say

Prosecutors in Northern California have charged a 66-year-old man with murder, alleging he staged the killing of his wife more than 10 years ago as a suicide, officials announced late last week. Police in Antioch, a city approximately 37 miles from Oakland, responded on Sept. 28, 2015, to home in a residential neighborhood and discovered 52-year-old Brenda Joyce Leon dead […]
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Police ID driver in alleged DUI that killed pregnant woman in Southern California

The Anaheim Police Department has identified the driver they say was intoxicated when his vehicle collided with a car containing a pregnant woman, killing her and the baby Sunday morning. Daniel Ramos, a 24-year-old from Riverside, faces charges of felony DUI and vehicular manslaughter, and “due to the victim being pregnant, additional charges may be […]
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NRA slams California prosecutor Bill Essayli’s Minnesota shooting response: ‘Dangerous and wrong’ 

The National Rifle Association of America is calling out U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli for his response to Saturday’s fatal federal agent-involved shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.  Shortly before 10 a.m. PST Saturday, Essayli, the First Assistant Attorney for the Central District of California, which covers much of the Los Angeles area and greater Southern California, reposted the Department of […]
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Nurses Union Calls ICE Agents “Public Health Threat” After Alex Pretti Killing

Nurses Union Calls ICE Agents “Public Health Threat” After Alex Pretti Killing

The nation’s largest union of registered nurses fervently renewed their demand to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement and cease current deportation operations in American cities after a federal immigration agent shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old registered nurse, in Minneapolis on Saturday.  “The nation’s nurses,” National Nurses United, which has more than 225,000 members […]
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Pregnant woman reportedly killed in multi-car Anaheim crash 

A pregnant woman was reportedly killed in a crash involving multiple vehicles in Anaheim early Sunday morning. The collision occurred just after 12:10 a.m. on North Lemon Street near the 91 Freeway, according to preliminary information. Video obtained by KTLA shows four cars were involved in the crash. Two of them had careened completely off the road as a result […]
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