A driver was killed after a tree crashed onto two cars in the Winnetka neighborhood of San Fernando Valley.
Los Angeles fire officials received a call about the incident on Manson Avenue between Saticoy Street and Sherman Way at around 3:33 p.m..
The driver, whose identity was not immediately released, inside a white SUV was declared dead at scene.
The tree landed on at least two cars.
Transportation and Street Service officials were responding to the scene.
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Several people were injured Sunday night following a quadruple shooting in Winnetka, authorities said.
The shooting was reported around 9:45 p.m. along Oso Avenue and Saticoy Street,
Multiple people were transported to a hospital; their condition is unclear.
LAPD Topanga Division says that the incident appears to be a drive-by shooting.
NewsChopper4 was over the crime scene that closed down a stretch of Saticoy Street from Mason to Oso Avenue.
No arrests have been made.
This is a developing story, check back for details.
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The house made famous by the 1990 blockbuster film “Home Alone” has hit the market in Winnetka, Ill., with a $5.25-million asking price.
The 671 Lincoln Ave. residence, 20 miles north of downtown Chicago, was the site for the Christmastime comedy in which 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) defends the family home from burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) after being left behind when his family leaves on vacation.
Dawn McKenna Group calls the listing “a rare opportunity to own one of the most iconic movie residences in American pop culture.” Built in 1921 and boasting 9,126 square feet of living space, the abode features full amenities — five bedrooms, six full baths, a home cinema, full gym and an indoor half-court for basketball — minus the movie’s trademark booby traps.
The current owners bought the home in 2012 for $1.59 million and renovated it in 2018, preserving its exterior and memorable features like the staircase McCallister slides down in numerous scenes, Dawn McKenna Group said online.
Trip Advisor lists the “Home Alone” property as “#1 of 20 things to do in Winnetka.” While a wrought-iron fence keeps tourists off the property, it’s possible to take a street-view selfie. The owners have not been shy about their famous home: In 2021, they offered up the place for just $25 a night on Airbnb.
Right next door, at 681 Lincoln Ave., fans will find Old Man Marley’s house from the same movie. It was listed for sale at $3.1 million in 2014, though it’s unclear whether the property ever changed hands. Roberts Blossom, who played Marley in “Home Alone,” died in 2011.
Don’t have a spare $5.25 million to spend on your “Home Alone” experience? Try the 2006 game released for PlayStation and defend against a home invasion yourself. Or pick up a “Home Alone” Lego set. Created in 2021, the 3,955-piece set includes a Kevin McCallister figurine and a tree-house zip line that can be used to facilitate his escape.
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Witnesses say driver tried to run from scene
Saturday, April 20, 2024 12:18PM
A car slammed into a parked car and a townhome causing extensive damage early Saturday in north suburban Winnetka, fire officials said.
WINNETKA, Ill. (WLS) — An out-of-control vehicle slammed into a parked car and townhome in north suburban Winnetka early Saturday.
The crash that happened around 3 a.m. near Green Bay and Westmoor waking up the neighborhood.
“It sounded like an explosion,” said Bess Perry who lives next door the townhome.
“It appears that we had a car coming in at a high rate of speed, hit a parked car and then ran into the front of the building causing some structural damage,” said Winnetka Fire Capt. Ryan Banks.
No one inside the home was hurt, Banks said.
The driver was transported to the hospital in an unknown condition, but could be seen trying to run from the scene.
“He got out and started running because I heard them trying to take him down,” said Perry.
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WINNETKA, IL—Describing a conversation that took place at a family gathering Friday, relatives of local conservative man Dennis Sherman told reporters it was obvious the 57-year-old’s terrifying descriptions of Chicago had come directly from Dante’s Inferno. “He goes on and on about how depraved and awful the city is, but he’s clearly just regurgitating verbatim all the stuff he’s read about hell in the first canticle of The Divine Comedy,” said Sherman’s niece Stella Simmons, a student at Columbia College in downtown Chicago, which her uncle referred to as a place where residents are constantly at risk of having their flesh gnawed upon for all eternity by the three mouths of Lucifer. “He asked me how I could possibly live there among the tortured souls of the damned, and grumbled that you couldn’t pay him to go south of the Phlegethon these days because it’s nothing more than sinners getting shot full of arrows in a river of boiling blood. I tried to tell him that’s not how it is day to day, but he kept saying he’s read about a plain of burning sand along the Red Line where it rains fire and people are routinely feasted upon by harpies.” The conservative man did concede Chicago had some good restaurants, but said it wasn’t worth paying the toll at the River of Oblivion just to end up getting hacked to pieces by a horned demon who wields a flaming sword.