A natural gas explosion Monday killed a gas company employee and destroyed a home in Murrieta in a powerful blast that rocked the area. Debris from the explosion was strewn across Spinning Wheel Drive and Wooden Horse Trail, in front of the lot where the home once sat. A garage door panel lay crumpled on…
Southern Californians are getting a muggy start to the week as high temperatures are expected to peak Monday, prompting poor air quality advisories from health officials. Valley temperatures will reach 98 to 103 degrees, dipping slightly Tuesday, meteorologists said. In central Los Angeles, temperatures…
A 27-year-old man died after lifeguards found him unresponsive in the ocean at Table Rock Beach in Laguna Beach Sunday night, July 14. Two men had entered the water at the South Laguna beach and only one came out, said Division Chief Api Weinert with the Laguna Beach Fire Department. First-responders were called at 7:40…
The first day of President Trump’s long-threatened ICE raids didn’t result in the large numbers of arrests some had expected. In fact, for all the hype, there was only a scattering of enforcement actions across the nation Sunday. But the threats did change life for many in immigrant communities. …
Boxing legend Pernell Whitaker died Sunday night after being hit by a car in Virginia, police said in a statement. He was 55. The boxer known as “Sweet Pea” is said to have been walking near an intersection in Virginia Beach, which is near his hometown of Norfolk, when the accident occurred. Police…
PASADENA — A 4.2-magnitude aftershock to the 7.1 earthquake of July 5 struck the Ridgecrest area Monday morning, followed by a smaller aftershock hours later, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The first quake hit at 1:38 a.m., at a depth of 0.6 mile, 31.7 miles north-northwest of Ridgecrest in Kern County, according to a computer…
Growing up, Sandra Martinez’s world revolved around La Luz del Mundo church. She shoveled dirt as a teenager to help build a new church in Houston. Years later, when the church asked congregants to help support their missionaries, Martinez said she and her husband donated the deed to their house…
LOS ANGELES — Some Southland communities will continue to wilt in 100-degree weather Monday as the region’s first heat wave of summer 2019 enters its fifth day. A heat advisory issued by the NWS will go into effect at 10 a.m. Monday in the San Fernando, Santa Clarita and San Gabriel valleys and the Santa…
Over the last four decades, the Happy Foot Sad Foot sign at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Benton Way has become the neighborhood’s mascot and mood ring. The more mystical residents of Echo Park swear the sign works like a giant rotating fortune cookie or tarot card. If you see the sign on…
On July 15, 1976, three gunmen kidnapped 26 children and their driver off a Chowchilla, Calif., school bus.
