Club Hottie Robs Men; Cocaine Candy; LA Space Cadets: Patch PM

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

• Racial Slurs And Lynching Image Trigger Palisades Charter Hate Crime Investigation Students at Palisades Charter High School are, again, the center of a hate crime investigation after a black student was harrassed
• 4-Year-Old Hit With Stray Bullet In Compton A young child was wounded in a shooting in Compton Wednesday morning.
• Hollywood Clubber Drugs And Robs Men, Police Warn BREAKING: Police are warning people to look out for a young woman who goes home with men from Hollywood clubs and drugs them and robs them.
• NASA's New Recruits Draw Heavily From LA Area The candidates will undergo two years of training, then will be assigned to NASA's Astronaut Office while waiting for flight assignments.
• Teen Fell To Death In Chantry Flat Above Monrovia Details of how the hiker fell were not immediately available.
• Toy Vending Machine Dispenses Cocaine To Child A mother and her child were shocked when a restaurant's toy vending machine dispensed a plastic egg with cocaine-filled putty.
• Lost Hikers Rescued Near Altadena The Altadena Mountain Rescue Team rescued to hikers who had become lost near Switzer Falls as night descended Tuesday.

• County Supes Call LA's Homeless Numbers 'Abysmal' The homeless increased despite the fact that more than 14,214 homeless people were moved into permanent housing in 2016.
• Woodland Hills Grandmother Critically Hurt In Hit And Run Police are asking for help finding the driver of an Astro van who struck and 83-year-old woman and fled the scene
• DWP Snuffs Power Plant Plans, Pivoting To Greener Options Environmentalists are cheering DWP's decision to hold off on $2.2 billion in gas power plant projects.
• Hollywood Elementary School Coach Guilty Of Molesting Girls Ronnie Lee Roman, a former coach at Vine Elementary and Cahuenga Elementary schools could face 105 years in prison
• LA Appears Willing to Accept 2028 Olympics If Paris Gets 2024 While insisting LA isn't conceding the 2024 Olympics to Paris, LA's Olympic bid officials expressed willingness to take the 2028 Games.
• LA County Shellfish Toxic, Health Officials Warn The alert does not apply to commercially sold clams, mussels, scallops or oysters from state-certified commercial shellfish harvesters.
• Man Robbed, Shot At South Bay Gas Station After Winning Big At Casino: Police The suspects followed the victim to the gas station from a casino where the victim won a substantial amount of money, police said.
• Los Angeles Voters Elect Jimmy Gomez To Congress Vowing to fight President Trump In Congress, Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez defeated Robert Lee Ahn Tuesday
• Feds Join Suit Alleging LA Misused Money Intended For Housing Disabled People A spokesman for LA's city attorney accuses the justice department of abusing its power to take money from LA Taxpayers for the treasury.