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Florida woman indicted in Beverly Crest shooting.
A grand jury charged a Florida woman with trying to kill people at a celebrity home in the Los Angeles hills. Prosecutors say she fired a rifle there in March. No one was hit. She pleaded not guilty.
What happened. The Associated Press reports that an indictment against Ivanna Lisette Ortiz, 36, of Orlando, was unsealed Wednesday. It lists 14 felony counts, including attempted murder, plus counts of assault with an assault weapon and shooting at an inhabited dwelling. Prosecutors say that on March 8 she drove to the Beverly Hills-area home of Rihanna and A$AP Rocky, fired at least 20 rounds, and struck an Airstream trailer the couple was in and the wall of a nursery. Their three children, all under 5, are named as victims. No one was injured. Her lawyer entered a not-guilty plea. A judge set bail at $2.6 million, the AP reported.
Who wants what. Prosecutors want a conviction. A deputy district attorney told reporters she wanted to kill Rihanna. The defense has not laid out its case in the stories we read; the plea is not guilty.
Follow the money. The number on the record today is bail: $2.6 million. The AP story does not price the damage to the house.
What they’re not saying. An indictment is a charge, not a verdict. The AP places the house in the Beverly Hills area. This desk’s headline uses Beverly Crest; the wire copy we linked does not use that neighborhood name.
Why LA. The shooting, the court, and the house are in Los Angeles County. The defendant is from Orlando. The case is local because the bullets were.
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$11 million so fire survivors keep a guide.
FEMA said on Sept. 30 that it is adding $11 million for people who help fire survivors with paperwork and plans. The helpers are called case managers. FEMA says the new money covers the 2025 Los Angeles fires and 2023 California storms. Nearly 6,000 survivors are in those two grants.
What happened. FEMA’s Sept. 30, 2026 press release says the $11 million is additional Disaster Case Management funding. More than $6.6 million of it is for more than 3,000 survivors of the 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires, including the Palisades Fire. FEMA says nearly $10 million has now been provided for case management on that disaster. More than $4.5 million of the new money is for 2023 storm survivors. Across both disasters, FEMA says it has provided nearly $24 million for this kind of help. Case managers help survivors make a recovery plan and find aid.
Who wants what. FEMA says the money keeps the guides in place. Survivors want a person who will stay on the claim. Earlier this month local groups warned the Eaton Fire program could stop if unpaid approved money did not arrive. Today’s document is FEMA saying more money is going out.
Follow the money. The new check is $11 million. The wildfire slice is more than $6.6 million, and the running total for that disaster’s case management is nearly $10 million. The two-disaster total for this program is nearly $24 million. Those figures are FEMA’s, dated Sept. 30, 2026.
What they’re not saying. A press release is not a bank receipt in a survivor’s hand. FEMA does not, in this note, say how many case managers keep their jobs on Oct. 1, or how fast the state will pass the money through.
Why LA. The Palisades and Eaton fires were Los Angeles County fires. The guides work with people still rebuilding here. The $11 million is the number that decides whether that help continues.
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Bass and Raman face Jewish voters.
Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman spoke to Jewish voters in Los Angeles on Tuesday. It was a forum, not a debate. They took the stage one at a time at the Skirball Cultural Center. The election is five weeks away.
What happened. NBC4 reported that on Sept. 29, 2026, Bass and Raman appeared at a forum co-hosted by the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles at the Skirball. They answered a similar set of questions separately, in front of hundreds of people. A UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll, co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times and taken Sept. 15–20, found Raman at 39 percent, Bass at 28 percent, and 33 percent undecided among 2,150 likely city voters. The margin of error is about 3 points. In the June primary, Bass led Raman 34 percent to 29 percent.
Who wants what. Both want the undecided voters. The poll director said Raman’s job is lighter than Bass’s. Bass has said she does not see Raman as the frontrunner. The Federation wanted both candidates on the record with its community.
Follow the money. The poll is not a fundraising report. We are not printing donation totals we have not read. The numbers we will stand on tonight are the horse-race percents: 39, 28, and 33.
What they’re not saying. A forum with separate turns hides the clash a debate would force. High undecideds mean the 11-point gap can move. Favorability in that same poll was harsh for Bass: 63 percent unfavorable, 28 percent favorable.
Why LA. This is the city’s mayoral runoff. The room was in Los Angeles. The voters they were asking for live here.
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Teen mother arrested after baby found in dumpster.
Police say a baby girl was found Monday night in a dumpster in South Los Angeles. Firefighters took her to a hospital. She died. Officers arrested her 19-year-old mother on suspicion of murder.
What happened. ABC7 and NBC Los Angeles report that the baby was found about 10:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, outside the Pueblo Del Rio housing project, in the 5200 block of Alba Street in Central Alameda. ABC7 says she was 4 months old. NBC4 says police believed she was between 4 and 6 months old. Paramedics took her to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Police identified the mother as Takiyah Babers, 19, and booked her on suspicion of murder. Bail is $2 million. This is a charge. A court has not tried the case.
Who wants what. Police want a homicide case. The mother is accused. She has not been convicted in the stories published so far.
Follow the money. The only dollar figure in these reports is bail: $2 million.
What they’re not saying. The reports do not yet give a full account of how the baby died. Neighbors and a foster parent have talked to TV news. Those interviews are not a medical finding. We are not adding a motive the police have not stated in the stories linked here.
Why LA. The block is in South Los Angeles, beside a public housing project and near an elementary school. The charge is an LAPD case.