My quest had something to do with my parents dying in recent years, with memories and regrets, with the meaning of family, and borders and what separates and connects us.

A sting operation in Fountain Valley on Monday, July 15, led to the arrest of three men and one minor suspected of selling drugs and guns. Authorities began monitoring a suspect earlier this month who had allegedly been advertising AR-15 rifles and narcotics for sale, Fountain Valley Police Department officials said in a statement. Detectives…

A faction within MS-13 used gruesome tactics to kill seven people in the L.A. area since 2017, prosecutors said.

Tips from the public helped detectives identify one of two men suspected in two armed robberies that were captured by surveillance cameras in Santa Ana earlier this month, police said Tuesday, July 16. Authorities named Brian Ho, 28, of Garden Grove as the mustache-wearing robber seen in footage of a heist that took place at…

The SoCalGas company employee who was killed Monday in the gas line explosion in Murrieta was identified during a Tuesday afternoon news briefing. Wade Kilpatrick, 31, was a lead construction technician who had been with the company for 11 years, officials said. He started in 2008 as a meter reader. Kilpatrick, a resident of Murrieta,…

Two Orange County sheriff’s deputies serving a restraining order were injured Monday night, and a man in his 30s hospitalized, after an encounter at a home in La Mirada. The deputies arrived around 8:40 p.m. at the home in the 8100 block of Barrington Lane, responding to reports of a family disturbance, as well as…

A Huntington Beach woman who spent several days lost in the Inyo National Forest told a TV interviewer Tuesday morning that wasn’t sure she would survive her ordeal. Sitting next to her husband and adult children, the dog she went missing in the wilderness with in her lap, Sheryl Powell in a “Today” show appearance…

MS-13 street gangsters from the San Fernando Valley butchered and bludgeoned their rivals with machetes, knives, baseball bats, and pipes in a series of gruesome killings in the Angeles National Forest, according to a federal grand jury indictment unsealed Tuesday. In one death, they are accused of cutting a victim’s heart out of his chest….

Four homes are uninhabitable following a gas explosion Monday, July 16, that killed a SoCalGas employee and leveled one house, Murrieta fire officials said. Murrieta Fire & Rescue Deputy Chief David Lantzer said Tuesday morning, four homes near the corner of Spinning Wheel Drive and Wooden Horse Trail were red-tagged, meaning no one can live…

Officials say a deadly explosion linked to a gas line at a Murrieta house underscores the dangers of home improvements and construction without following gas safety rules.