On a fog-steeped morning at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, a rocket from Hawthorne-based SpaceX powered its way out of the mist and into space early Wednesday. The Falcon 9 rocket recorded an on-time launch at 7:17 a.m., rising above a bank of fog and low clouds and into the skies. After separating from…
Back to the drawing board since February, the developer of apartments planned across the street from Santa Ana’s Discovery Cube has returned with a pared-down project. But it’s uncertain whether the revisions to the 2525 N. Main St. development will satisfy enough residents to avoid a repeat of February, when a grueling pair of City…
When Santa Barbara County opened the doors to large-scale cannabis cultivation, a largely unregulated rush led by moneyed interests ensued.
Measure EE, the parcel tax for L.A. Unified schools, got crushed at the polls last week. But it wasn’t as big a loser as my column on EE’s failure. Reaction is running about 90% thumbs-down on my take, in which I said that our schools are shamefully underfunded, but that a clear majority of people…
Kim Goldman wrote to O.J. Simpson a few years ago, asking to visit him in the Nevada prison where he was being held for robbery and kidnapping. She wanted to see the man she says killed her brother, Ron Goldman, and Simpson’s wife 25 years ago Wednesday outside Nicole Brown Simpson’s Brentwood…
Family builds underground shelter – not for protection from a-bombs – but for protection from smog.
An elderly man was found dead after a fire at a house in Fountain Valley on Tuesday, June 11. Firefighters were dispatched at about 7 p.m. after a woman at a home burning on the 18000 block of Plumosa Street called 911, Fountain Valley Police said in a press release. Crews managed to put out…
Critics of a Los Angeles Police Department program that identifies potential terrorist activities called for it to be dismantled Tuesday, complaining that people of some races and ethnicities are unfairly targeted. An audit from the Police Commission’s inspector general said the LAPD mostly followed…
As he was leaving office in December, former Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas secretly blocked five deputies who worked with jail informants from being formally designated as liars and having their names released, in theory, to defense attorneys. In a Dec.20 letter released Tuesday by new District Attorney Todd Spitzer, Rackauckas tells the Sheriff’s…
An Orange County sheriff’s deputy on Tuesday denied telling a drug-addled informant to shoot up with heroin a man accused of stabbing to death a bar patron in Laguna Niguel shortly before officers took the suspect into custody. During testimony at a hearing on a defense request to dismiss murder charges against Craig Matthew Tanber, Deputy…
