California doctor sentenced to 15 years in nation’s largest $45M Botox fraud scheme
Dr. Violetta Mailyan has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for running a $45 million Medicare Botox scheme. Federal data uncovered Mailyan collected over $24 million – six times more than top neurologists – to fund Teslas, real estate, and fancy vacations. Officials have not yet determined...
Covered California open enrollment starts this weekend. Here are the major changes
Covered California open enrollment starts Sunday, with higher premiums and major changes to subsidies and eligibility. Here’s what Californians need to know.
Hidden Pool Under Anaheim Motel Adds $1M to Supportive Housing Project
A swimming pool buried beneath an old Anaheim motel has thrown a costly wrench into plans to turn the building into housing for young adults leaving foster care. Construction crews converting the Tampico Motel into permanent supportive housing discovered the improperly abandoned pool hidden under the structure, triggering soil remediation and a rebuild of the foundation and framing that added roughly $1 million to the project's price tag.
King tides turn PCH into a river as El Niño flexes
King tides broke records along the Southern California coast this week, and forecasters say the next round, due Thanksgiving week, could push the water even higher. On Oct. 27, the tide gauge at San Pedro in Los Angeles Harbor reached about 8.18 feet, the highest since record keeping began there in 1923. Newport Beach hit 8.4 feet, and seawater shut down Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach. There was no hurricane and no major storm. The ocean just came up.
Glendale doctor sentenced for $45 million Botox fraud scheme
A Los Angeles County doctor was sentenced to 15 years in prison for fraudulently billing Medicare for more than $45 million in Botox injection services that were "medically unnecessary and never provided," according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
California says no Dungeness crab for Thanksgiving or Christmas
California’s Dungeness crab season is being delayed until at least January, dashing hopes — yet again — of crab on dinner plates on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Legendary rapper involved in crash with garbage truck on Los Angeles freeway
Rapper DMC of the iconic hip-hop group Run-DMC was involved in a crash with a garbage truck in South Los Angeles on Friday. It happened just after 11:30 a.m. on the 105 Freeway, according to the CHP. Footage from the aftermath of the crash was shared on the Citizen App. The rapper, whose real name […]
State refuses to declare golden mussel emergency because there is no “long-term solution”
Kern County water managers and officials were left scratching their heads after the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) refused to declare an emergency due to golden mussels because “…there is no identified long-term solution to eliminate or control the continuation of the Golden Mussel Invasion,” according to a letter from CalOES.
He just kept beating her until he finally thought she was dead’: Daughter of...
A man accused of beating a 71-year-old California grandmother with a metal baseball bat after she let him stay in her home has been arrested in Oklahoma, about two months after the attack. Suspect tracked to Oklahoma and returned to California Erik Eduardo Navarro, 26, was booked on charges including battery, assault, robbery and elder...
California veterans rated totally disabled can exempt half a home’s value up to $1...
California veterans rated 100% disabled can exempt half of a home’s value, up to $1 million of value, from property tax starting with the Jan. 1, 2027 lien date, under SB 296, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Sept. 28. The Board of Equalization’s analysis of the bill describes an exemption of a fixed slice of... The post California veterans rated totally disabled can exempt half a home’s value up to $1 million from property tax from the Jan. 1 lien date, and $83,474 is the income limit on the old
