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CALIFORNIA
Apple, Samsung settle 7-year battle over smartphone design
Apple and Samsung have finally settled a seven-year battle over smartphones that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The bitter rivals notified U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh of the truce in a notice filed Wednesday. Terms of the settlement weren't disclosed.
The resolution comes a month after a jury concluded Samsung owed Apple $539 million for copying some of the iphone's innovations in some of Samsung's competing products. The verdict was reached after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 2016 ruling that determined a portion of earlier damages awarded to Apple needed to be reexamined.
Apple had been seeking more than $1 billion in the latest trial while Samsung argued it should only pay $28 million.
LOS ANGELES
made in death of boy who had complained about abuse
Authorities say the boyfriend of a woman whose 10-year-old son died after suffering head trauma has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Los Angeles County welfare officials have said the boy previously reported that he had been beaten, locked up and was not fed.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Nicole Nishida said Kareem Leiva was arrested Wednesday in the death of Anthony Avalos.
The boy died June 21 at a hospital in Lancaster after his mother said he fell down stairs.
County welfare officials said the boy had injuries to his head, showed signs of malnourishment and likely died from abuse.
The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services had received dozen referrals over several years about Avalos.
LOS ANGELES
Freeway sign climber snarls downtown Los Angeles traffic
—A man wearing only boxer briefs and tennis shoes snarled rush-hour traffic in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday after he climbed a busy freeway sign, hung protest posters, danced repeatedly and apparently mocked his would-be rescuers.
Reporters and passers-by shot videos of the man's antics as he climbed around and on the freeway sign, eluding firefighters wearing harnesses and police officers trying to get him down.
The man, who identified himself as “Dephree,” did various dances and the strongman pose as traffic backed up for miles on State Route 110. He hung signs that read “Dephree,” “Fight pollution, not each other” and “Give a hoot, don't pollute.”
The southbound lanes of the freeway were closed as firefighters placed inflatables underneath the man and extended ladders to him. The traffic snarl spread onto connecting freeways and surface streets and workers in nearby buildings stopped to watch the events unfold.
Cars passing on the other side of the freeway at times honked at the man and one even shouted to police: “Shoot him!”
The standoff ended when the man eventually did a backflip off the freeway sign down to an inflatable below. He was unhurt and quickly arrested.
LOS ANGELES
Nation’s secondlargest city gets new police chief
— The nation's secondlargest city has a new police chief.
Michel Moore, a 36year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, was sworn in Wednesday by Mayor Eric Garcetti after the City Council voted unanimously to confirm his appointment.
The move was expected after Garcetti recommended Moore for the job earlier this month, choosing him over two other candidates.
Moore replaces Charlie Beck, who retired after more than 40 years with the LAPD. Beck became chief in 2009.
Moore joined the department in 1981 and has seen it grapple with some of its toughest times, from the 1991 beating of Rodney King by four officers to the more recent erosion of trust in law enforcement.
Moore assumed command of a key division in the department following an infamous corruption crisis in the late 1990s known as the Rampart scandal.
Moore, 57, said before the council vote that he wants to build community relations and trust, and increase diversity within the department to better represent the city, particularly among women and black people.