The top consultant on the California bullet train has been put on suspension after a state watchdog agency began reviewing his approval of a multimillion-dollar contract for a company in which he had heavily invested, The Times has learned. Roy Hill, deputy chief operating officer for the California…
A California Highway Patrol chief is under investigation after sharing a post on social media that demeaned transgender star Caitlyn Jenner and her gender transition. The investigation into Chief Mark Garrett was initiated Monday after a Times reporter showed officials at CHP headquarters a message…
A former state drug agent overseeing Southern California operations was fired after having sex with a female subordinate and blackmailing her into covering it up, according to recently unsealed personnel records. William Telish, former director of a Los Angeles-based regional task force, had an affair with a secretary and then threatened to send nude photos…
Ashley Flores was at home on Christmas Eve 2017, anticipating the gifts she and her siblings would soon open, when she began having difficulty breathing. The 11-year-old’s older sister dialed 911 and was put on hold by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy, her relatives said. The next four times…
SANTA ANA — The Orange County Grand Jury issued a report Tuesday, June 4, faulting the Sheriff’s Department for not taking vital signs of every inmate admitted to its jails to reduce deaths related to hypertension, but Sheriff Don Barnes fired back, saying that’s not his job. The grand jury report noted 28 custodial deaths…
California prosecutors on Tuesday announced that a top leader of the La Luz Del Mundo religious organization based in Mexico was arrested on suspicion of human trafficking, production of child pornography, forcible rape of a minor and other felonies. Naasón Joaquín García, a leader of the organization…
After disturbing reports of death, sexual assault, drug abuse and paying for patients inside California’s loosely regulated addiction treatment industry, an across-the-aisle team of lawmakers has banded together to fundamentally change the rules of the game. The new Bi-Partisan Legislative Substance Abuse Treatment Working Group seeks to significantly expand state oversight, improve patient protections and…
Janice Aragon, executive director of the National Scholastic Surfing Association, stands with some of the names of past national champions of NSSA at the recent competition held in Huntington Beach. ( Photo by Mark Rightmire, The Orange County Register/SCNG) Janice Aragon in her earlier competitive days. For decades, she’s been the executive director of the…
COMMERCE — A big rig crashed into the center divider and overturned on the southbound 5 Freeway in Commerce Tuesday morning and the driver of the semi was freed from the wreckage. The truck crashed north of Garfield Avenue about 5:15 a.m., and the cab ended up on its roof and the trailer on its…
More than 400 small earthquakes have hit a section of Southern California over the last few days. Residents in the area have felt rattled. But experts don’t expect major seismic activity from the recent activity concentrated in the Riverside County community of Glen Avon that they are calling the…
