A defense team member who approached two alternate jurors to ask them about appearing in a documentary in the capital murder case of Charles “Chase” Merritt invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in a statement to the court Thursday. Merritt is accused in the bludgeoning death of the four-member McStay family of Fallbrook in …
Cleaning up neighborhood beaches is an ongoing effort, and it takes a community to do it. And it has to happen more than once. Every second Saturday of the month for the last 20 years, Justin Rudd has met volunteers at the Granada Launch Ramp to do just that with the 30-minute Beach Cleanup. On…
Sergio Gonzalez brought a little bit of Hollywood with him when he’d come home to Sylmar from work. Not just because he was a waiter at Musso & Frank Grill, the nearly century-old institution on Hollywood Boulevard, for more than 45 years. Also because Gonzalez, who at 66 died of a heart attack at home…
Soon, the Brea and Fullerton fire departments will sport a bolder look. The Brea Fire Department unveiled its new logo and paint style on Tuesday, June 4, when it commissioned a new fire engine, which will be housed at Fire Station No. 3. The Fullerton Fire Department plans to follow in August when it will…
One day after Los Angeles received confirmation of a major increase in its homeless population, two City Council members said they want to look into legal strategies to force nearby cities to provide shelter beds or allow people to sleep on their sidewalks. Councilmen Mike Bonin and Joe Buscaino…
How conflicted is California’s electorate? Consider: Most voters in the state don’t like President Donald Trump, don’t trust the Census Bureau to keep private information private and don’t think we’ve seen the last of Russian interference in U.S. elections. But many of those same voters also say they aren’t sure if Trump should be impeached,…
Some of my readers think I’m a tad too upbeat about California. For example, some thought a recent column I did on California’s economic outperformance was, politely put, misguided. Well, what’s a journalist to do when the state’s economy ranks highly on numerous scorecards? The personal finance website WalletHub just released its own math about…
BY KEVIN FREKING and JONATHAN LEMIRE COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — On a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach, President Donald Trump on Thursday lauded the heroism of American and Allied service members who participated in the D-Day invasion, saying they “they came wave after wave without question, without hesitation and without complaint.” Trump joined other world leaders at…
Operations at Los Angeles International Airport were returning to normal Thursday morning after a power outage knocked out electricity for nearly four hours, affecting everything from lighting to passenger bridges, from terminals to planes, before power was restored. The outage struck about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday – caused by a power “bump” at an off-airport Los…
Some news hits like a punch in the gut. It makes your jaw throb from teeth gritting. The new homeless numbers have left a lot of people who live in houses and apartments in Los Angeles feeling walloped. By the vastness of the problem. By its complex tangle of hard-to-fix causes, led by the high…
