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CBS News
28-05-2025
- General
- CBS News
Woodland Hills pursuit suspect shot by police was armed with BB gun
A Los Angeles Police Department investigation has determined that the pursuit suspect shot by officers in Woodland Hills on Monday was armed with a BB gun that resembled a pistol. Wednesday's department update said that Claudia Corugedo, 42, was treated at a hospital for her wounds and was booked for felony evading. The entire ordeal lasted nearly three hours, causing neighbors in the area where the pursuit ended to take shelter in their homes as a standoff with law enforcement ensued. It all began around 7:15 a.m., as police responded to a North Hollywood shooting investigation involving a white van with multiple bullet holes in its windshield. Police learned that the woman in the van, Corugedo, had a felony warrant and they attempted to detain her. Police said she pulled out what appeared to be a semiautomatic pistol and held it to her throat. Corugedo then led officers on a pursuit around 7:45 a.m., which ended at a Woodland Hills cul-de-sac. After refusing orders to surrender during the neighborhood standoff, police said the suspect was armed with a large machete while continuing to point what appeared to be a pistol at her throat. The LAPD investigative report said "Corugedo began walking toward the front door of a residence while still holding the pistol and machete, and an Officer-Involved Shooting occurred. Corugedo was struck by gunfire and collapsed near the entryway of the residence." Neighbor Katrina Escalante said she heard the commotion in their Woodland Hills neighborhood around 8 a.m. "We were sleeping and then helicopters were really loud and started going around the neighborhood, and saying like "please stay inside your house, lock your doors, there is an armed suspect in your neighborhood, be safe, do not leave your house,'" she said. At one point, aerial footage caught Corugedo standing on the top of her van, and later lying on the outside entryway area of a home. SWAT officers ultimately took Corugedo into custody around 10:30 a.m., where she was transported to a hospital for medical treatment. The police investigation determined that Corugedo was holding a BB gun designed to resemble a semiautomatic pistol. A metal machete was also recovered at the scene.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Yahoo
Sword-wielding man evading capture sets fire to popular SoCal campsite
A sword-wielding Woodland Hills man was arrested after allegedly setting fire to a popular Southern California campsite while running from deputies, officials confirmed Thursday. It happened on Wednesday evening, according to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office, near El Capitan Canyon Resort. Deputies and State Parks employees responded to reports of a man exhibiting 'odd behavior' in the area around 5:15 p.m. The suspect, identified as 40-year-old Simon Khalili, saw law enforcement approaching and tried to drive away, according to the sheriff's office. However, as Khalili was trying to flee via a dirt access road, his car got stuck. The suspect instead attempted to continue fleeing on foot, running off into the nearby canyon. 'Deputies paused their pursuit into the dangerous terrain and minutes later, a fire erupted in the brush where Khalili fled within State Parks property,' the sheriff's office explained in a release. It was around this time that deputies purportedly learned Khalili was also armed with a sword. Firefighters responded to the scene and, under a 'force protection plan' where they were shielded by deputies, crews were able to approach the flames while Khalili remained an active threat nearby. Santa Barbara County Fire provided footage of the water drops and announced forward progress had been stopped at 7:41 p.m., and that the flames burned about 1.1 acres of land in total. Khalili ultimately surrendered to authorities, and the sheriff's office said he was transferred to State Parks' custody for the arrest. State Parks booked Khalili at the Main Jail for a felony charge of arson as well as the following list of misdemeanors: trespassing, brandishing a weapon and negligent fire setting. As of Thursday night, officials said Khalili is being held on $75,000 bail. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
News.com.au
13-05-2025
- News.com.au
Amazon driver fired after families find stomach-turning ‘deliveries' on porch
A mischievous Amazon delivery driver got the axe after she was caught on home surveillance video relieving herself on two front porches while dropping off packages in Los Angeles. The gross stunt took place Sunday in the city's Woodland Hills home, with the unnamed driver caught literally with her pants down, according to KTLA-TV News. 'We're deeply disturbed by the unacceptable behaviour of this delivery driver and apologise to the customers involved,' Amazon officials said in a statement to the outlet. 'We immediately identified the driver and they are no longer delivering on behalf of Amazon.' The disgusting display played out shortly after 6am on Mother's Day. The driver is first seen on the home security camera walking away from one home seemingly pulling her pants up — with the sickening bowel movement left behind on the bottom of a set of outdoor stairs. As if that wasn't enough, a neighbour decided to check their security footage and caught the same delivery driver allegedly urinating inside a wooden gate at their home, and even appears to be staring right at the camera. The driver was not identified, but won't be making more deliveries anytime soon.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
These are the record high temperatures reached in Southern California on Saturday (so far)
The much hyped 'mini heat wave' has hit Southern California, and it has been no joke. The unusually hot temperatures have been felt across most inland communities throughout the region. According to meteorologists, expected temperatures have been between 10 and 20 degrees above the average for the date. Multiple heat records have already been broken for May 10, according to the National Weather Service. As of 2:30 p.m. here are the current places that have set or tied heat records for the date according to the NWS: Downtown Los Angeles: 95 degrees (Previous: 95 in 1934) Woodland Hills: 100 (Previous: 99 in 1988) Here are cities where the NWS anticipates potential records being set, but aren't official as of 2:30 p.m.: Anaheim Ramona Big Bear Lake Campo Vista Borrego This story will be updated when official temperatures are released. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
What challenges did RI native Michael Shawver overcome editing the movie 'Sinners'?
NORTH PROVIDENCE – If you stay for the credits at the end of the hit movie "Sinners," you'll see the name of 41-year-old North Providence native "Michael P. Shawver" fill the screen. Shawver, who graduated from Ponaganset High School and now lives in Woodland Hills, California, with his 9-year-old son, Ben, is credited as the editor of "Sinners," a wildly popular and multifaceted film that ultimately gets classified as a "vampire movie." "A lot of people don't really realize how much goes into editing a feature film," Shawver told The Providence Journal in late April. "Most movies, I'm on for 10 months to a year, 12-hour days. An editor has their hands and helps out in every different department. Ultimately, we're sort of the gatekeepers of the movie in a way and plot out the emotional blueprint for the experience of the audience. We're the first audience." He got his love of movies from weekly family movie nights at home with his parents, Paul and Barbara, and older sister, Jessica. But it quickly snowballed from there. "When I was around 12, my parents bought one of those big chunky VHS camcorders," Shawver said. "I would take that camera out and go make whatever movies I could with my friends. I fell in love with and got addicted to that feeling of creating something, and then showing other people." With that, the die was cast. "That ability to do something that came from me that could affect other people was really profound for me," he said. "So, as a teenager, I talked about making movies most of my life." After majoring in communications studies at the University of Rhode Island, he Googled "best film schools in the world" and packed up his car and headed to the University of Southern California in 2008. That's where he first teamed up with Ryan Coogler, making possible later collaborations such as "Black Panther," "Creed," and this year's "Sinners." "I had met Ryan in a directing class, and he was just making things that were above and beyond anybody else at the time," Shawver said. "He was making things that would make you think and feel things and change your mind and open your eyes about things and different walks of life. I realized I can have the same joy of storytelling and creating from editing and helping someone who is doing things at a different level than myself." "To be honest, the biggest obstacle has always been sort of myself and my anxiety," Shawver said. "It's a big responsibility to create and be artistic under deadlines. As an artist, putting your work out there to the world, there's always a bit of, 'Is this good enough? Am I good enough?'" But the challenges of editing aren't just psychological. "In terms of actually like the physical, technical aspects of editing, it's keeping everything in front of you and being mindful and being present," he said. "Editing is, it's a puzzle. But you don't have a picture on the box in front of you to tell you what the answers are. So you have to be in tune with what the story needs to be, what you want the audience to feel." Editors will watch the movie hundreds of times while working on it, almost constantly tweaking, putting material in or taking it out. And then they show it to a producer or director or test audience, who may find that it doesn't work and needs even more tweaking. "I don't know how many hours officially were shot, but we were there 55 days or so, and each day there would be anywhere between six to eight hours of footage. There could be anywhere between three to 10 hours of footage per scene," Shawver said. "That is one of the difficult things: How do you pick those moments?" And "Sinners" had the added complication of actor Michael B. Jordan playing twin brothers, Shawver said. "Instead of choosing one take, I have got to have two takes, and do they match? Does the performance match? Do the twins feel different enough?" "In general, per scene there's hours and hours of footage that sometimes just have to get boiled down to a minute and a half, two minutes." "If you can have people lost in it and have a relationship between themselves and the movie in terms of their own experiences, their own hopes and fears, you know that's when you're winning," said Shawver. So he said he trained himself to watch raw footage that way, as the movie's "first audience." "If it makes me feel happy, sad, tear up, afraid, scared – anything, those are the pieces," he said. "So then those become my puzzle pieces, and then the rest is, 'OK, how do I get to these moments? How do I build up to make this moment the best thing?' It's a lot of trial and error." "I do want to write and direct a movie that takes place and is shot in in Rhode Island," he said. "I think Rhode Island is the most untapped resource for film making. The fact that you can go from the beach, and then 10 minutes later you're in the woods, and then 10 minutes later in the suburbs, and then you're in the city, and then another 10 minutes you're on a farm. The locations are beautiful. The history, the old buildings and hidden railways and factories and all that. It's just such a beautiful place." He'd like to work on the remake of "The Thomas Crown Affair," starring and directed by Michael B. Jordan. This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: What went into making and editing Michael B. Jordan's 'Sinners'?
