By TERRI VERMEULEN KEITH LOS ANGELES — Jurors will continue Thursday trying to determine if the so-called “Hollywood Ripper” was sane at the time of the stabbing and mutilation murders of two Southern California women, including one who was killed and nearly decapitated hours before she was set to go out on a date with…
Tropical cyclones in the Pacific basin rarely range north to California. In 1939 there were four in one month.
As developers lobby the Trump administration for endangered species relief, California is moving to backstop wildlife threatened by federal rollbacks, including the San Bernardino kangaroo rat.
LONG BEACH – The coroner’s office released the name of a young woman on Wednesday, Aug. 21, after she was killed Sunday in a two-vehicle crash in Long Beach while riding with an allegedly impaired driver, who was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and vehicular manslaughter. Marilyn Araiza, 21, of Cypress, died at a…
A tow truck driver got more than he bargained for after loading a disabled sedan onto the back of his truck on Wednesday. Flames erupted after he had loaded the car on his truck, eventually engulfing the car in a fiery blaze. At about 7:15 p.m., a tow truck stopped in the middle lane atop…
A man died in a deputy-involved shooting in Stanton on Wednesday evening, Aug. 21. Deputies responded to reports of a family dispute in the 10000 block of Sycamore Avenue at about 7:30 p.m., Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Carrie Braun said. A deputy-involved shooting later took place at the residence. A man described as a…
Police arrested a man suspected of beating and seriously injuring his 13-day-old son on Monday, Aug. 19. Jonathan Reyes, 22, denied harming the infant, but made incriminating statements during interviews with investigators, Santa Ana Police officials said in a news release. He was arrested Monday, after his infant son was found suffering from a skull…
Authorities allowed a fire at an ordnance field at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton to burn out naturally, sending plumes of smoke that were visible to motorists passing nearby on Wednesday, Aug. 21. The blaze was reported at an ordnance impact field in the Camp Horno (which translates from Spanish to “oven” in English) area…
Police arrested a Huntington Beach man on suspicion of threatening to carry out a mass shooting in which he planned to target fellow employees and customers at a Marriott Hotel in Long Beach where he works, authorities said Wednesday, Aug 21. Rodolfo Montoya, 37, who works as a cook at the hotel, was taken into…
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies have arrested a suspect in the Aug. 14 shooting deaths of a UCI grad student and his long-time friend and the attempted murder of a third man, authorities said Wednesday, Aug. 21. On Friday, Aug. 16, Jonathan Johnson, 26, of Lancaster was arrested and booked on suspicion of murder. He…
