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What happens to Amber Alert boy, 9, after dad suspected of slaying mom is killed by LAPD?

A 9-year-old boy abducted by his father after the slaying of his mother – which prompted an Amber Alert – was in protective custody Wednesday after police shot and killed the man in Encino. The officer- involved shooting occurred about 6:45 p.m. Tuesday on the 5500 block of Lindley Avenue near Killion Street, said Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief Justin Eisenberg . Konstantin Morozov, 48, brought his son, Daniel Morozov, to a friend’s apartment, and police found them after receiving a tip, Eisenberg said. The elder Morozov, who was suspected of fatally shooting Daniel ’s mother and then abducting the boy Monday in Santa Maria in northern Santa Barbara County , emerged from the apartment and confronted officers, prompting an officer-involved shooting, Eisenberg said. The father was taken to a local hospital, where he died, said LAPD Officer Mike Lopez . A gun was recovered at the scene, Lopez added. An interview with the boy was pending Wednesday, said Eisenberg, who didn’t ...

Not a typical affordable-housing community, Las Brisas finds success through its enrichment programs and police presence

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Las Brisas affordable -housing community contains approximately 160 rental units , varying in size and number of bedrooms.</strong>" title="Las Brisas 1" width="400" height="300" class="size-full wp-image-16158" /> Cory Bilicko/Signal Tribune Signal Hill’s Las Brisas affordable -housing community contains approximately 160 rental units , varying in size and number of bedrooms. Nick Diamantides Staff Writer Approximately five years after the completion of the Las Brisas affordable -housing community in Signal Hill, programs offered at the site are still succeeding in improving the lives of the people who live there. The project was developed in two phases under the auspices of Los Angeles- based Abode Communities with funding from the now- defunct Signal Hill Redevelopment Agency , as well as financial assistance from other public and private sector entities . According to Robin Hughes, president of Abode Communities , Las Brisas c...

Neighbors react after shots fired at Rivercrest Apartments

ALBANY, GA (WALB) - Residents of an east Albany apartment complex are scared after bullets flew into their homes. Police said that at least four apartments were hit by bullets Tuesday night. 15 people and many children were in those homes. Fortunately, no one was hurt.  Many of the shooting victims contacted WALB , saying they need help. The residents told us they have heard gunshots for several nights, but last night's was by far the worst. A bullet went through one woman's apartment window around 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday. "We heard gunshots. Then we laid on the floor. A few seconds after that we heard the window shatter.  And we just crawled into the kid's room," said a resident who did not want to be identified. The bullets missed her and her two young daughters. In the daylight, police gathered shell casings and evidence. On Wednesday, WALB spoke with several residents, but all refused to show their faces on camera. When asked why she doesn't want to go o...

Woman falsely identifies herself after reporting kidnapping of her child: Richmond Heights Police Blotter

RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Ohio Custody dispute, Chestnut Drive: Officers responded to the Loganberry apartment parking lot Aug . 13 after a woman reported her child's father kidnapped her son. When they arrived, the child, 4, was with her and another woman. She was advised to take her son and go home, as officers went to speak with the father and his girlfriend, who were yelling towards them. Both of them were very uncooperative in explaining the events as they had occurred. It was later learned the child's mother, a 23-year-old Cleveland Heights woman , had falsely identified herself and had an active warrant in the city. A warrant for obstructing official business was then entered for her arrest. Harassing communication, Richmond Park Drive East : An apartment management employee reported Aug . 8 a tenant is constantly complaining about maintenance issues and harassing the staff. He said they had been having problems with her since July and would be serving her a 30- day eviction n...

Trapped by a search for freedom, the life of an Alabama refugee

Just a couple of miles from the Mexican border, where approximately 200, 000 immigrants illegally cross every year, 14-year-old Guatemalan Byron Raxcaco came face-to-face with reality of life on this nearly 2,000 mile border. A local drug lord demanded that Raxcaco and his chaperone pay $800 for safe passage across the border, where criminal gangs ferry humans and drugs across daily, and where police presence is almost non-existent, he said in an interview with AL.com. Poor and desperate to reach the U.S., Raxcaco was detained in a hotel in the Mexican region of Senora for a day until his aunt in Semmes, Alabama, gathered the money for the drug lord. After paying up, Raxcaco was released and free to start a new life in the United States.  He approached a border patrol post , told them he was an unaccompanied minor and asked for political asylum. In the four years since crossing the border, he has moved in with his aunt, enrolled in school, learned English, and got himself a girlfri...

Carl Icahn’s Failed Raid on Washington

One day in August, 2016, the financier Carl Icahn made an urgent phone call to the Environmental Protection Agency . Icahn is one of the richest men on Wall Street, and he has thrived, in no small measure, because of a capacity to intimidate. A Texas- based oil refiner in which he had a major stake was losing money because of an obscure environmental rule that Icahn regarded as unduly onerous. Icahn is a voluble critic of any government regulation that constrains his companies. So he wanted to speak with the person in charge of enforcing the policy: a senior official at the E.P.A. named Janet McCabe . Icahn works from a suite of offices, atop the General Motors Building , in midtown, that are decorated in the oak-and-leather fashion of a tycoon’s lair in a nineteen-eighties film. During that decade, Icahn made his reputation as one of the original corporate raiders , pioneering the art of the hostile takeover and establishing himself as a human juggernaut—a pugnacious deal machine ...