Off-Duty Cop Shoots Ex-Girlfriend; Polanski's Victim Blasts Prosecutors: Echo Park-Silver Lake Tonight

LOS ANGELES, CA — Here are the Los Angeles Patch stories people are taking about today:

• Roman Polanski's Rape Victim Takes His Side In Court The former teenage victim in the Roman Polanski sex case will appear in court after lambasting prosecutors for misconduct.
• 278 Mayors Join LA To Defy Trump On Climate Goals Hundreds of Mayors joined Eric Garcetti's Climate Action group pledging to uphold the Paris climate accord after President Trump withdrew.
• College-Sponsored National Merit Scholarship Winners For Los Angeles County These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the school financing the scholarship.
• Investigation Of LA Riot Homicide Picks UP 25 Years Later It took 25 years to ID the final LA Riot victim, and now police are working to find out who killed 18-year-old Miguel Armando Quiroz Ortiz.
• LA Leaders To Fight Trump For Earthquake Early Warning System LA Councilman David Ryu introduced a resolution opposing President Trump's proposal to kill the West Coast's quake early warning system.
• Fuel Spilled After Tanker Truck, Big-Rig Crash In Sun Valley Two patients were evaluated at the scene for non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said.
• Venice Boardwalk Rampage Killer Denied Appeal An Appeals court didn't buy the defense claim that Nathan Louis Campbell's only crime was fleeing the scene after he plowed into 18 people.
• Pedestrian Killed In Sepulveda Boulevard Crosswalk A man in his 40s was killed Wednesday night when a driver struck him as he walked in a cross walk on Sepulveda Boulevard
• Long Beach Man Pleads No Contest To Raping Elderly Woman Emmanuel Stanley Reales, 42, of Long Beach, was immediately sentenced to 38 years in state prison following his plea.
• Teen Killed In Hiking Accident Above Monrovia Was Due To Graduate A moment of silence for the teenage hiker was held at his high school graduation ceremony and balloons were released in his memory.
• White Powder In Southand Vending Machine Toy Not Cocaine: Police The white powder initially tested positive for cocaine but that turned out to be a false positive, police said.
• Off-Duty CHP Officer Shoot, Kills Ex-Girlfriend in Long Beach Studebaker Road, between Spring Street and Wardlow Road, which was closed for the investigation, has since been reopened.
• 7 Charged In L.A. Strike Force's Sting On Drug Traffickers Linked to Sinaloa Cartel If convicted as charged, all defendants would be subject to potential sentences of life without parole in federal prison, prosecutors noted.