Angela Rose Bickmann is the KTLA digital team’s intern for the fall of 2018. She is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in journalism at California State University Northridge.
Recent Articles
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Man Charged With Killing a Grandmother On Her Way to Church in South L.A. Hit-and-Run
A man was charged in connection with a hit-and-run that killed a grandmother who was on her way to church last month, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office officials said Thursday. Brandon Rosendo Mazariego, 25, was allegedly driving an SUV on Budlong Avenue on Nov. 13 when he turned onto West 28th Street and hit Maria Asuncion Reynoso, 77, officials said in a news release. Reynoso was in a crosswalk a few miles from her home when she was struck and she […]
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Man Charged With Assault After CSUN Student Captures Video of Attack on Campus
A man was charged Friday in an attack on a Cal State Northridge student who captured video of the strange and violent encounter that occurred on campus earlier this week. The female student victim, Gasig Kejejian, 22, said a man followed her while she was riding her bike to class around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. She said he was questioning her, making comments and pulling her hair. Kejejian said she started filming the man when she got inside her classroom building. […]
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Maywood High School Teacher Charged After Caught-on-Video Fistfight With Student
A music teacher at a Maywood high school was charged Friday with allegedly hitting a student earlier this month, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said. Marston Riley, 64, was charged with one misdemeanor count of corporal injury to a child, according to the DA’s news release. Riley was taken into custody on Nov. 2 on suspicion of getting into a brawl with a student at Maywood Academy High School, the L.A. Police Department said. Despite the criminal charges, multiple students […]
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Man Fatally Struck by Train Near Exposition Park
A man died after being struck by a train near Exposition Park on Thursday evening, the L.A. Fire Department said. The man was struck at 5:39 p.m. on the Los Angeles Metro Line along the 1000 block of West Exposition Boulevard where the train was going eastbound, L.A. Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey said in an alert. He said the the train operator, who is a man, complained of pain and was taken to a local hospital. No one else aboard the […]
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State ABC Official, Consultant Admit to Brewing Up Bribery Scheme While Overseeing Koreatown Bars
A former official with the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and a Koreatown business consultant pleaded guilty on Thursday to a long-running scheme in which they turned a blind eye to alcohol-related violations in exchange for bribes, officials said. Then-ABC Los Angeles Metro Office Administrator Wilbur Salao, 46, targeted Koreatown businesses that violated ABC enforcement operations, according to a U.S. District Attorney news release. He, along with Koreatown consultant Scott Seo, 49, charged the businesses thousands of dollars to help them get […]
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Police Arrest Reseda Man in Fatal Thanksgiving Beating of His 30-Year-Old Girlfriend
A Reseda man has been arrested in connection with the fatal beating of his girlfriend, following a history of domestic violence, police said Friday. The incident happened around 10:50 a.m. Thursday on the 7500 block of Enfield Avenue in Reseda and resulted in the arrest of Ricardo Sauz, 35, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a news release. Sauz is also the father of the victim’s 8-year-old child, police reported. Sauz confessed during an interview with detectives, according to […]
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Police Seek Man Accused of Sexually Assaulting Sleeping Woman After Breaking Into Her Echo Park Apartment
Los Angeles police are searching for a man who used a fire escape to enter a woman’s apartment in Echo Park and sexually assault her while she was sleeping, the agency said Friday. The incident happened around 5:00 a.m. on Nov. 4 at the woman’s apartment located on the 1800 block of Sunset Boulevard, LAPD said in a news release Friday. The man used a fire escape to access the woman’s bedroom window. He then pried the window open, entered her bedroom […]
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Former Canoga Park Elementary Teacher Sentenced for Inappropriately Touching 6 Students
A former fourth-grade teacher at Hart Street Elementary School in Canoga Park was sentenced to five years in prison Friday for inappropriately touching six students, officials said. Rene Tenas, 39, touched the 9 and 10-year-old students on or between Aug. 1, 2016, and Jan. 31, 2017, the Los Angeles District Attorney Office said in a news release. Tenas was first arrested in December 2017, according to L.A. County booking records. He spent two days in jail before he posted bail. The […]
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10 Indicted in Large-Scale Federal Drug Case Targeting South Bay Street Gang
Federal agents arrested eight people connected to a South Bay street gang on Thursday for allegedly trafficking drugs like heroin and pounds of methamphetamine out-of-state, as well as into a state prison, authorities said. The indictment names 10 members and associates of the East Side Torrance street gang, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release. Two of the defendants were already behind bars for different cases. Officials said the gang distributed meth and other drugs out of […]
