A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was seriously wounded during an incident in Alhambra Monday night. Few details were available, but the the deputy was rushed to County-USC Medical Center. The shooting took place near a Jack in the Box on Valley Boulevard. Sheriff’s deputies and Alhambra police…
A bear that scuffled with a dog and its owner in Sierra Madre was tranquilized Monday afternoon, as was her cub. The dog’s owner suffered minor injuries during the incident with the adult bear and declined to be taken to a hospital. The dog’s condition wasn’t immediately clear. State wildlife officials…
SANTA ANA — A 17-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by two men while walking home from summer school in Santa Ana on Monday, and police were working to determine if the attack was related to an earlier break-in by a man who crawled into bed with a 15-year-old girl and groped her. The first attack…
The student government at UC Irvine declared food insecurity as a campus emergency last week, pledging $400,000 in one-time funds to help hungry students. The money from the Associated Students of UC Irvine’s reserves — unspent student fee dollars banked from previous years — will go to the FRESH…
A Vietnamese American man from Orange County who has been detained in Vietnam for almost a year is expected to face trial this month. Michael Nguyen, of Orange, will be tried in Ho Chi Minh City on June 25 (which falls on June 24 in the U.S.) His family is still unclear on the specific…
Tom Osborne likes to think about the years he spent at Old Man’s beach in San Onofre riding waves on his vintage longboard. But there’s something the 77-year-old from Laguna Beach says he loves even more: clean oceans, breathable air and a bright future for his two young grandchildren. So Osborne sold his treasured Phil…
A lieutenant with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department claims his supervisors retaliated against him for trying to warn the public before a killing in a popular state park outside Los Angeles, according to his lawsuit. James Royal says he repeatedly pleaded with his superiors to warn people…
Former Lennox School District Supt. Kent Taylor, 54, was found dead Sunday at his home in San Bernardino County two months after stepping down amid questions over his management of the school system, officials confirmed Monday. His oversight of the South Bay-area school district, which faces possible…
In a city where property values and rents are soaring in anticipation of the opening of an NFL stadium, Inglewood plans to impose a rent-control ordinance Tuesday that would cap increases at 8% annually. The proposed ordinance, which will be considered by the City Council at 2 p.m. at City Hall, 1 W. Manchester Blvd.,…
I am constantly getting requests to write about the late Mickey Dora, also known as “The Black Knight” of surfing. I have written about him before, but it was mostly many years ago and probably most of you have not read me back that far. So, I will revisit Mickey today. The dude was definitely…
