Headlines: Couple Beaten and Robbed At 99 Ranch in SGV; Sea Lions Charge At SoCal Beachgoers
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— A couple was attacked and pistol-whipped, the man robbed of his $60,000 Rolex watch, by two assailants in broad daylight in the parking lot at 99 Ranch in Rowland Heights on Saturday. [ABC]
—"Uber flouted laws, duped police, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments during its aggressive global expansion." [The Guardian]
—Juan Reynaga, a 17-year-old boy who worked at Walmart and is said to be an innocent victim, was shot and killed by a gang's drive-by shooting in Anaheim on Saturday night. [KTLA]
—Due to the high cost of shipping containers, the California almond industry is sitting on about 1.3 million pounds of product it can't deliver. [Food & Wine]
—Two people were shot and taken to the hospital following a shooting at a large house party in Antelope Valley on Saturday night. [KTLA]
—Three men were killed and two people injured in a shooting in Downey on Sunday morning. [LAT]
—City Councilmember Paul Koretz is calling for a ban on new gas stations being built in Los Angeles, anticipating Governor Newsom's state-wide ban on selling gas-powered cars by 2035. [KCRW]
—Silver medal-winning Olympic volleyball player Kim Glass was attacked and nearly blinded after leaving lunch with a friend in Downtown and getting attacked by a random assailant. [MSN]
—Two sea lions charged beach goers who approached them in San Diego, sending a crowd running off in a panic. [NBC]
—Ancient sequoias, some that may be 2,000 years old, in Yosemite's Mariposa Grove are under threat from the wildfire growing in the park. [CNN]
—Corrido legend Pedro Rivera has penned a song about Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador criticized for being a repressive autocrat. [LAT]
—The leader of Jalisco New Generation Cartel may possibly be behind a video pleading with warring gangs to leave innocent people out of the violence. [Reuters]
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