Los Angeles, Ca
Ventura County judge ends lengthy conservatorship for actor Amanda Bynes
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Actor Amanda Bynes was launched Tuesday from a courtroom conservatorship that put her life and monetary selections in her mother and father’ management for practically 9 years.
Ventura County Superior Courtroom Choose Roger Lund terminated the conservatorship at a listening to in a courtroom in Oxnard, her legal professional David A. Esquibias mentioned.
“The courtroom determines that the conservatorship is not required and that grounds for institution of a conservatorship of the individual not exist,” Lund wrote in courtroom paperwork outlining the case earlier than he issued his resolution.
Bynes, now 35, shot to fame on a pair of Nickelodeon exhibits as a youngster, however struggles with psychological well being, substance abuse and the legislation prompted her mother and father to ascertain courtroom management by a conservatorship in 2013.
Lund mentioned this week that Bynes had demonstrated competency to handle her personal affairs, together with her psychological well being and different medical remedy.
Bynes’ conservatorship performed out, and got here to an finish, way more quietly and fewer contentiously than that of Britney Spears, who had an extended, typically bitter and public struggle to free herself from the same association.
Bynes’ mother and father agreed that the conservatorship ought to finish and nobody else objected to the courtroom’s resolution. Her mom, Lynn Bynes, had acted as her conservator because it was established practically 9 years in the past.
On the time, her mother and father informed the courtroom they had been deeply involved that their daughter, then 27, might need harm herself or others until they had been allowed to imagine management of her medical care and funds.
They mentioned Bynes had engaged in disturbing habits, and was satisfied she was being watched by smoke detectors and her automotive’s dashboard. Her mother and father feared she was additionally planning pointless and harmful beauty surgical procedures.
Within the 12 months earlier than the conservatorship was established, Bynes was arrested in New York for throwing a marijuana bong out of her Thirty sixth-floor Manhattan condo, and in Los Angeles for driving below the affect, misdemeanor hit-and-run and driving on a suspended license. Her mother and father mentioned she additionally set a fireplace on the driveway of a house in Thousand Oaks, the place she grew up.
Bynes was 13 when she landed her personal hit selection program, “The Amanda Present” on Nickelodeon and in addition appeared on the community’s sketch collection “All That.” She went on to star within the TV collection “What I Like About You” and in motion pictures, together with “What a Lady Needs,” ″Hairspray” and “She’s the Man.”
She has not acted for the reason that 2010 Emma Stone movie “Straightforward A” and has publicly mentioned she retired from performing.
Bynes has mentioned in interviews that she has been sober for a number of years and she or he is finding out on the Trend Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles, Ca
Thieves ransack parked cars at Irvine apartment complex
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Surveillance video captured two suspects ransacking parked cars at an apartment complex in Irvine.
The incident happened on June 2 at the Metropolis Apartments located at 2100 Sullivan, according to the Irvine Police Department.
Video of the theft showed a man using a key card to open the doors of a Tesla before grabbing the valuables inside and escaping.
Police confirmed the man had stolen a key card from a nearby parked Tesla that belonged to the same family and was able to use that car to unlock the second car.
The two suspects were also seen stealing tools from a pickup truck that was parked in the garage.
The duo, a man and a woman, escaped with around $9,000 worth of valuables, authorities said. They fled the scene in a white SUV.
Police have released security video of the thieves in hopes someone may recognize them.
Anyone with information on the thefts is asked to call Irvine police at 949-724-7000 or email amena@cityofirvine.org.
Footage of the theft can be seen in the video player above.
Los Angeles, Ca
‘Goat patrol’ gets to work in Santa Clarita Valley
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The work is easy, the compensation is good, and you get to sleep on the job.
Such is life for around 400 goats who play an important role in Southern California’s wildfire mitigation strategy.
The Goat Patrol, as its own, was deployed to the Santa Clarita Valley on Friday as part of a demonstration of the county’s readiness for the height of wildfire season.
“We basically bring them in, they do the work, and we head on out,” Cole Bush of Shepherdess Land & Livestock told KTLA’s Sara Welch. “[The goats] can graze about one acre to two acres a day in places that are inaccessible or unsafe for folks with weed whippers or mowers.”
Friday was the first full day of summer. With temperatures climbing and the July 4th holiday near, officials are concerned about the potential for large, destructive blazes caused by illegal fireworks and other human causes.
“Santa Clarita’s whole area is a high fire zone, which means the chance of a fire happening … is great,” warned Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger. “The city of Santa Clarita puts on an incredible fireworks show. Please take advantage of it. It’s about recognizing that we have to protect our community, but we also have to protect our loved ones.”
A short distance from the site of Friday’s event, fire crews were still working to gain full containment on the 15,000-acre Post Fire outside of Gorman. Two structures were destroyed in the blaze, which broke out Saturday.
Los Angeles, Ca
WATCH: Wild apparent Santa Ana road rage assault caught on video
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An apparent road rage incident in Santa Ana was captured on video, showing a man appear to be viciously assaulted.
The video, which was shared to the Citizen app, shows one man punching and kicking another to the ground while several vehicles were stopped at a red light.
The man who appeared to be assaulted can be seen withering in pain on the ground as cars pass by.
The incident took place at about noon on Thursday in the area of West 1st Street, near Euclid Street. There was no immediate word as to why the incident began or what happened to either person afterward.
Neither of the men have been identified.
KTLA has reached out to Santa Ana police for more information.
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