Bell, Calif., audit results shared at hearing

BELL, Calif. (AP) — California residents of the scandal-plagued city of Bell can hear the latest on state audits of their town at a Monday night meeting.

The state controller’s office will present the most recent investigative findings at a state Assembly committee hearing in the Los Angeles suburb.

The controller’s office has been investigating since word broke earlier this year that some Bell officials were making enormous salaries to govern a city of about 40,000.

City Manager Robert Rizzo had an annual compensation package of about $1.5 million a year in pay and benefits. Rizzo and seven other current and former officials have been charged with misusing $5.5 million in public funds.

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Supreme Court won’t stop new sentencing hearing

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t stop a new sentencing hearing for a man sentenced to death for the shotgun slaying of a Yuma, Ariz. woman.

The high court on Monday turned down appeals from Arizona officials in Fred Lawrence Robinson’s case.

Sterleen Hill was killed when two men claiming to be narcotics officers burst into her Yuma home, tied her up and shot her in the back

Robinson was accused of masterminding the plan.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Robinson’s death sentence. Judges said Robinson did not have an effective lawyer and that the courts arbitrarily said the crime was committed in “cruel, heinous or depraved manner.”

The case is Ryan v. Robinson, 10-34.

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