Frank Stoltze
Reporter at KPCC-FM (Pasadena, CA)
Correspondent covering the L.A. area, with a focus on criminal justice and politics for @NPR Station @KPCC 89.3FM, @LAist et al. Member @nlgja DM news tips.
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1 week ago |
laist.com | Frank Stoltze
A congressmember from California on Tuesday urged the head of the Federal Communications Commission to move forward with a plan to implement a new wireless emergency system across the country that would alert people in multiple languages. U.S. Rep.
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2 weeks ago |
laist.com | Frank Stoltze
The Los Angeles City Council on Thursday voted, 12-3, to approve a revised budget that reduces the number of layoffs proposed by Mayor Karen Bass — in part by shrinking the size of the Police Department. The plan averts 1,000 layoffs, lowering the number of city workers who will lose their jobs to 650. Bass, facing a nearly $1 billion deficit, had proposed 1,647 layoffs that she acknowledged would have resulted in a reduction in a wide range of city services.
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2 weeks ago |
laist.com | Frank Stoltze
The backstory: In February, a jury found L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy Trevor Kirk guilty of one felony count of deprivation of rights under color of law in connection with his 2023 arrest of a woman in Lancaster. Videotape shows Kirk punching and pepper spraying Jacy Houseton as she uses her cell phone video camera to capture the arrest of a man. The maximum sentence for such a conviction is 10 years in federal prison.
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3 weeks ago |
laist.com | Frank Stoltze
Backstory: Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for the shotgun murders of their parents in their Beverly Hills home in 1989. On Tuesday, a judge reduced that sentence to 50 years to life in prison, citing the brothers' rehabilitation work on themselves and their efforts to help others in prison.
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3 weeks ago |
laist.com | Frank Stoltze
The arrests: Prosecutors say Gustavo Torres, 28, and Kiara Jamie-Flores, 34, allegedly pulled their car in front of a government car and blocked its pathway at a South L.A. intersection in February. Later, they are alleged to have raced out in front of it again and slammed on the breaks, nearly causing a crash. The charges: They are charged with “knowingly and recklessly” putting federal agents’ lives in danger and face up to six years in prison if convicted.
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