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A little over a dozen Trump supporters held a rally on the Walk of Fame Friday with a decorative float thats making its way across the country.

Police were investigating the death of a woman who was found lying in the driveway of a Beaumont home Friday evening.

The iconic Broguieres Farm Fresh Dairy in Montebello once again opened its doors Friday after closing for several weeks.

Los Angeles Police Department were investigating a fatal shooting early Saturday morning that left one man dead and one man injured.

A rainbow-colored disc at the intersection of Woodman Avenue and Addison Street in Sherman Oaks in memory of 16-year-old Conor Lynch was unveiled Friday its the first of the installations meant to draw attention to the issue of traffic fatalities.

Tamia Richardson was just 14-years-old when she visited the Happiest Place on Earth.

A man was convicted Friday in a grisly case of kidnapping and torture that came to light after a deputys mysterious encounter seven years ago with a frightened woman pleading for help in the Mojave Desert northeast of Los Angeles.Hossein Nayeri, 40, was found guilty of kidnapping, torture and extortion. He and two high school friends allegedly abducted and mutilated the owner of a flourishing medical marijuana dispensary. The victims penis was cut of and he was burned with a blow torch as the captors demanded he tell them where he buried $1 million in the Mojave Desert. Twisted: A Story in Six Parts The victim survived and testified at trial.Read the six-part series Twisted Updates: Download the NBCLA App Jurors rejected the charge that Nayeri inflicted great bodily injury on the man, saying essentially he wasnt the one who severed the victims penis.Its difficult to imagine a case more horrific than this one, said Senior Deputy District Attorney Matt Murphy outside court. Without a murder at the end of it this is about as bad as it gets.The former pot dealer is still facing a possible life sentence without the possibility of parole for his convictions on two counts of kidnapping for ransom and single counts of aggravated mayhem, torture and burglary. Sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 11.Nayeris attorney Salvatore Ciulla argued that two other men who Nayeri went to high school with, Kyle Handley and Ryan Kevorkian, orchestrated the kidnapping.This case nothing is as it seems, he said. This man right here, Hossein Nayeri, did not do it.Handley was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his part in the case. Kevorkian is awaiting trial.The case goes back nearly seven years.Three masked men armed with a shotgun beat the victim while he slept in his Newport Beach home on Oct. 2, 2012, prosecutors said. His roommate was also kidnapped at gunpoint. She was not hurt.The victims name was being withheld because hes a victim of a sex crime.He was beaten so bad that he defecated in his pants, prosecutors said.Then they dragged him down the stairs, hitting his head on each step, thunk, thunk, thunk, Senior Deputy District Attorney Heather Brown told jurors.They continued beating him in the back of a van, hitting him with a rubber hose, burning him with a torch and shocking him with a Taser, while driving to the Mojave Desert.Along the way, they demanded to know where the money was, which he denied having, Brown said. He even offered tens of thousands of dollars in cash from his business, but it wasnt enough, Brown said.When they stopped in the Mojave Desert, they dragged him out of the van, poured bleach on him to kill any DNA evidence, cut off his penis and left him for dead, Brown said.The victims roommate managed to free herself from the zip ties around her ankles and flagged down a deputy who happened to see her on the side of a road while he was on his way to work.After the crime, Nayeri fled to his home country of Iran, which has no extradition treaty with the United States, Brown said.Authorities were able to lure him out of the country using Nayeris ex-wife Cortney Shegerian, who got him to leave Iran to visit her and his sister in Spain.Shegerian, who authorities alleged was involved in helping Nayeri plan the kidnapping, has agreed to testify in exhange for immunity from prosecution, prosecutors said.Nayeri was arrested as he got off a plane in the Czech Republic on a layover to Spain and eventually was extradited to Orange County.While awaiting trial in this case in 2016, Nayeri grabbed headlines when he broke out of an Orange County jail and recorded it on contraband cellphone that his lawyer provided to NBC4.Nayeri was captured in San Francisco and again returned to Orange County custody.In a jailhouse interview, Nayeri denied the kidnapping and torture charges and told NBC4 his innocence will be proven in court.Photo Credit: NBCLA

Renovations to the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum are complete after a comprehensive two-year project that includes new seats, handrails and other upgrades. The Coliseum opened in June 1923 and went on to serve as a stage for the Olympics, two Super Bowls and other NFL battles, Los Angeles Dodgers baseball games, a World Series, a Papal Mass, presidential visits and USC football. Photo Credit: USC

A picture of a 4-year-old Virginia girl who uses a wheelchair gazing at a beauty advertisement featuring a woman in a wheelchair went viral on Facebook.Maren Anderson has a rare disease caused by a gene mutation. She uses a wheelchair to get around and doesnt talk much. Get Breaking News Alerts With the NBC Washington App She does very brief, short sentences, said her mother, Carolyn Anderson. And she does a lot of pointing, a lot of non-verbal communication.Her parents were stunned when she abruptly stopped her wheelchair at Ulta Beauty in Leesburg Wednesday evening to look at an ad showing a model in a wheelchair.It was like she could just see the representation that she belonged in this world like everybody else does, her mother said. And it just really tugged at all of our heart strings.Carolyn Anderson took the photo and posted it on Facebook with the caption, Well Ulta, you absolutely stopped my girl in her tracks this evening. It was mesmerizing to watch her stop, turn and gaze at this poster. So thank you.The post has more than 60,000 shares as of Friday evening.Its pretty amazing to see, and its amazing the comments we get and the traction it has, said her father, Tim Anderson.We love that this family shared such an amazing moment and were touched to see Maren looking at the image in our window it makes us incredibly proud, and Ulta Beauty spokeswoman said. We feel even more inspired to continue to feature amazing people that help us shape how the world sees beauty.Ulta Beauty reached out to Maren and agreed to allow her to meet the model in the ad, Steph Aiello. Theyre going to shop at the beauty store in Leesburg.Photo Credit: Carolyn Anderson This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.