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Daily Pilot e-Newspaper: Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020

Investigators found that Officers Gavin Roelofs and Josh Espadas are not criminally culpable after reviewing the Jan. 20 incident, which resulted in the death of Miguel Segura Mercado, 31, during a struggle with police. Police had arrived at an apartment on La Hacienda Avenue to apprehend Mercado as a suspect in an investigation into lewd and lascivious acts with a minor. The district attorney’s office released a letter detailing the findings of the investigation into the officer-involved shooting. The report said that Roelofs and Espadas did not give voluntary statements concerning the incident.

Daily Pilot e-Newspaper: Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020

Zombies and monsters are occupying Russell Fischer Xpress car wash in Huntington Beach as Halloween night creeps closer.

The City Council will be considering additional recommendations from the city’s Harbor Commission to current requirements surrounding live-aboards in commercial marinas.

Children’s book husband-and-wife team Keith and Larissa Marantz made their first appearance after the shutdown forced the cancellation of their original launch for the picture book series, Clyde the Hippo.

Supporters of reopening crowded the sidewalk that runs adjacent to the Newport-Mesa Unified School District’s office and wrapped around the corner of Bear and Baker streets, calling for the board of trustees to vote in favor of a return for secondary schools to campuses on Nov. 9 for hybrid, in-person instruction at the board’s regular meeting on Tuesday.

Viola Smith, a Costa Mesa resident and pioneering musician of the swing era who was billed in the 1930s as the fastest girl drummer in the world, has died. She was 107.

Kelly Rodriguez has resigned as the interim police chief of the Huntington Beach Police Department, citing divisiveness in the community and within the department.

A suspect was in custody Friday in connection with the fatal shooting of a man in a Newport Beach residence, police said.

Laguna Beach Pride 365 will host a Spooktacular Virtual Drag Bingo fundraiser next week, just in time for Halloween. As part of the fundraiser, Laguna Beach Pride 365 will be collecting donations to benefit the Friendship Shelter.

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