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Note from Star-news city editor Hector Gonzalez:
they just released the housekeeper in the 90 yr old's death--lack of evidence
This just hours after Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said the housekeeper was a prime suspect.....somebody's got some explaining to do here.
*The woman has been exonerated, officials told City News this afternoon.
That's what reporter Dan Abendschein thought when he first arrived on the scene and *saw several large trucks in Azusa and Glendora were among 46 and 48 vehicles that* had their windows blown out overnight.
"ELF," asked reporer Bethania Palma.
"It was just a crackpot theory," Dan replied.
After he saw a few compacts with the same sort of damage Dan admitted he was bummed out that his "theory" didn't pan out.
Was it teenagers?
"Yeah, I think so," said Dan.
Photographer Keith Durflinger had some interesting moments when he was approached by a woman whose car was damaged.
"I got a picture of a lady and her child. And he's looking at the window that got blown out. She said they saw it on TV and said to herself, 'Hey, is thats our car? Yeah that's our car!'"
Keith later found out that Sarah Barroga haven't been driving the unidentified vehicle. They were going to be selling it...
BTW, Dan shot this photo. He thinks it was on Mauna Loa in Glendora
Property records showed that a Sandy Mosley Hamilton lived at the address.
Further details as they happen
If you are a freelance photog you probably want to get a shot of what Yahoo Buzz says are the hottest actors right now:
| 1 |  |
2 | Elisha Cuthbert (23) | +196 | 366 | 1 | Jacinda Barrett | 1465% |
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43 | Jacinda Barrett (2) | +173 | 184 | 2 | Natassia Malthe | 803% |
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3 | Jessica Alba (1158) | -1 | 86 | 3 | Paula Garces | 752% |
| 4 | |
5 | Lindsay Lohan (1049) | +5 | 72 | 4 | Carla Gugino | 534% |
| 5 | |
16 | Eliza Dushku (2) | +40 | 72 | 5 | Greta Garbo | 433% |
| 6 |  |
4 | Miley Cyrus (385) | -13 | 66 | 6 | Monica Keena | 430% |
| 7 | |
6 | Angelina Jolie (1257) | +3 | 66 | 7 | Kim Cattrall | 318% |
| 8 | |
93 | Natassia Malthe (2) | +49 | 55 | 8 | Dominique Swain | 285% |
| 9 | |
89 | Paula Garces (2) | +49 | 55 | 9 | Priyanka Chopra | 268% |
| 10 | |
11 | Hilary Duff (1307) | +4 | 53 | 10 | Mallika Sherawat | 246% |
| 11 | |
32 | Katrina Kaif (112) | +36 | 51 | 11 | Katrina Kaif | 236% |
Just don't go to Malibu if you want to get some photos:
From LAObserved:
The seaside city has asked Ken Starr, dean of the Pepperdine Law School, to convene media and legal experts to help draft an ordinance that would control paparazzi swarms around local celebs. They're talking about possible buffer zones and a tax on the photogs. "We're coming up on another summer season. Let's hope we are not in store for another tsunami of paparazzi," Mayor Pamela Conley Ulich says.
Fred Ortega spent some time in Altadena yesterday hoping to put together some of the puzzle surrounding the death of 90-year-old woman: Associated Press filed this. Here's a piece of Fred's story:
ALTADENA - Firefighters doused a blaze at an Altadena home Thursday - and uncovered a murder mystery.
Homicide detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department are now investigating after firefighters discovered the body of a 90-year-old woman inside the burned Lincoln Avenue home early Thursday.
Detectives said they found blood and other signs of a struggle inside the home in the 3200 block of North Lincoln.
"Right now we have no details about whether she was killed by fire or smoke," said Los Angeles County Fire Department Inspector Ron Haralson.
However, he said the woman's body showed signs of trauma.
And later in the day Thursday, detectives confirmed the woman's death was a homicide.
So this is my suggestion. What if Barak Obama entered public appearances with a theme like WWE wrestlers?
If he did, I would hope he'd pick this James Brown classic, "Funky President (people its bad)"
Here's a sample of the lyrics:
Hey, country
Didn't say what you meant
Just changed
Brand new funky President
Stock market going up
Jobs going down
And ain't no funking
Jobs to be found
Taxes keep going up
I changed from a glass
Now I drink out of a paper cup
It's getting bad
Indeed. Here's someone who had a similar thought.
When I first saw this photo by Watchara Phomicinda, I thought it was somebody wearing a Jimmy Carter mask at Vroman's Wednesday. Turns out, it's just Jimma bein Jimma.
Baldwin Park Police interim Capt. Lili Hadsell* has been officially named Chief of Police, according to city officials.
As far as I know the appointment of Hartsell would make her just the second woman police chief in the San Gabriel Valley if not Los Angeles County, behind Marilyn Diaz of Sierra Madre.
More at Leftovers.
*Tania Chatila says Hadsell is the county's third female chief. Inglewood's Jacqueline Seabrooks is the second.
Here's the latest:
ALTADENA - Homicide detectives are investigating the death of an elderly woman found in a Lincoln Avenue home gutted by fire early Thursday, after blood and other signs of a struggle were found at the scene.
Firefighters were dispatched to the home on the 3200 block of North Lincoln Avenue at about 10 a.m. Thursday and found two rooms of the house in flames, said L.A. County Fire Inspector Ron Haralson.
Firefighters knocked down the fire within minutes and found the dead woman inside, Haralson said.
"Right now we have no details about whether she was killed by fire or smoke," said Haralson, adding that there were signs of trauma on the body. He described the woman as approximately 90 years old and of unknown race, but would not release her identity.
But neighbors and relatives identified the woman as Evelyn Mosley, a 90 year old who lived at the location for about six years with her daughter and teen-aged grandson.
"Oh my God, does Sandy know, does her grandson know?" said Jacqueline Jackson, a neighbor, who broke into tears when she heard the news.
A woman who claimed to be the victim's god-daughter also identified her as Evelyn Mosley, and property records show a Sandy Mosley Hamilton living at the address.
Took this picture at lunch. If nothing else it says SGV.
Reporter Fred Ortega is on the scene. Here's what he told me earlier:
ALTADENA -- An elderly woman was found dead at a house in the 3200 block of Lincoln Avenue, after firefighters were dispatched to the home Thursday morning.
The woman, who was not identified as believed to be in her 90s, officials said. Her body showed signs of having suffered trauma.
The fire was reported about 10:00 a.m., according to Los Angeles County Fire Inspector Ron Haralson.
Homicide detectives and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's bomb squad have been dispatched to the scene.
No further details were available.
Robert Parry's post on the Foothill Cities Blog got me thinking about Internet anonymity and how important it is to people visiting and commenting on blogs. Centinel has another post addressing the same issue from a different perspective here.
Granted, the nature of the newspaper business is anything but anonymous. My name is on every story I write or contribute to and my picture is here on the blog and in the paper twice a week. Taking this a step further, we shy away from sources we can't name.
But blogs are different. You choose to come here, you choose to comment and you choose to take on whatever identity you want. That said, this site does keep track of IP addresses of commenters and I have (from time to time) looked at and compared those IP addresses.
I have not (and will not) share that information with anyone. Other than me, there are approximately five people that have access to this site's IP information -- none of them are even remotely interested in finding out who you are, in fact the recent software upgrade has made that task quite a bit more difficult.
I want to know what you think, so I've put together a poll. Feel free to comment as well.
Jennifer McLain will be reporting this story later today:
A burlgary ring that involved dozens of homes and a victim who was fired on by a suspect was broken this week. The Temple City's Sheriff's Department arrested four people, including one female, who were led the ring. The woman was arraigned today at the Alhambra Courthouse.
Jen says the ring was operating in Rosemead, Monterey Park and Temple City. More on this as it becomes available.
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