Good morning, I’m Paige Hymson, a podcast producer here at The Times. Our “Larger Than Life” podcast is out now. Listen to the first two episodes now available, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. This seven-part documentary podcast is about legendary Los Angeles street racer Big Willie…
Every Californian who makes it through an earthquake unscathed has a favorite story. Mine is a family story. It stems from the deadly Sylmar earthquake, which struck Los Angeles on Feb. 9, 1971. I was 15 years old, a sophomore at Cleveland High School, the second of four kids. This was before everybody’s…
The eighth-grade English class at Magnolia Science Academy 3 met last semester in an unusual setting: a carved-out rectangle in the school’s office, formed by portable dividers. Cramped quarters have forced such coping strategies at the charter school, which would like to rent more space at the…
ANAHEIM — Relatives identified a 17-year-old girl on Monday, July 8, who was killed in an officer involved shooting on a crowded freeway in Anaheim on Friday. Police have declined to release the teen’s name because she was a minor But, family members said Hannah Linn Williams of Anaheim was the suspect fatally shot by…
DINOSAUR, Colo. — A California man was killed in a weekend rafting accident in northwestern Colorado. Officials with Dinosaur National Monument say 47-year-old Anthony Vasi of Newport Beach, California, died Saturday at Triplet Falls while on a commercial rafting trip with family and friends on the Green River. Related Articles Torrance woman killed in Bahamas…
President Donald Trump on Monday declared an emergency exists in Southern California — a move that could free up federal resources where two powerful earthquakes Thursday and Friday damaged buildings and infrastructure and rattled residents in Kern and San Bernardino counties. The announcement came in response to a request from Gov. Gavin Newsom, who during…
A Newport Beach man who pleaded guilty on Monday, July 8, to stealing an endangered lemur from the Santa Ana Zoo last year could face as much as a year in prison and a six-figure fine. Aquinas Kasbar, 19, had been charged on suspicion of unlawfully taking an endangered species, officials said in a statement…
A condemned inmate who was convicted of killing Garden Grove Police Department Officer Donald F. Reed was found unresponsive and died in his cell at San Quentin State Prison on Sunday evening, officials said Monday. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a press release on Monday that John George Brown, 71, was…
Weary, thirsty Trona residents struggled Monday, July 8, to arrange for services to the earthquake-damaged community, where they’ve been without running water since the first of the twin earthquakes rattled through the region last week. In nearby Ridgecrest, services had largely been restored by Monday. “It’s painful where I am. I don’t have any water…
The 7.1 earthquake that hit the Ridgecrest area last week was the largest in Southern California in 20 years. It created surface ruptures and damage near the epicenter. But experts said the quake could have been much more punishing — and could have caused more damage in the metro Los Angeles area. …
