Dozens of firefighters and two helicopters rushed to combat a brush fire in Rowland Heights on Sunday, June 30; and some homes were temporarily evacuated as a precaution. The blaze was first spotted at about 5 p.m. near the intersection of Old Ranch Ravine Road and Desire Avenue, Los Angeles County Fire Department Dispatch Supervisor…
Felicity Bourgeois, 15, of Tustin left, and Savannah Smith, 14, of Long Beach wear masks that prevent them from seeing as they work to connect a self-contained breathing apparatus after emerging from the confidence course during the Orange County Fire Authority’s first annual Girls Empowerment Camp at OCFA Headquarters in Tustin on Sunday, June 30,…
DALLAS (AP) — Ten people were killed when a small airplane crashed as it was taking off from a Dallas-area airport Sunday morning, an spokeswoman for the town of Addison, Texas, said. Spokeswoman Mary Rosenbleeth said no one aboard the twin-engine plane survived after it struck a building at the Addison Municipal Airport, about 20…
TUCSON, Ariz. — A suspect has been arrested in a freeway shooting north of Green Valley that left one woman dead and a man and his baby daughter injured. Tucson police say 21-year-old Mateo Zavala of Santa Ana was taken into custody Saturday night. He’s been booked into the Pima County jail on suspicion of…
LOS ANGELES — Union leaders plan to announce Monday whether Southern California grocery workers will go on strike against Ralphs, Vons, Albertsons and Pavilions. Raising the threat of the first Southland grocery strike in nearly 16 years, the workers on Wednesday overwhelmingly authorized their union’s plan to call for a work stoppage unless a contract…
A Santa Ana resident was arrested on suspicion of being the driver in a hit-and-run collision with a wheelchair that left a severely injured man lying in the street. Lucio Luna, 48, was arrested after someone called Santa Ana Police Department on Saturday to report a suspicious looking car in a neighborhood. Detectives went to…
The man suspected of kidnapping and murdering 23-year-old MacKenzie Lueck of El Segundo wanted to alter his basement in a way that made a contractor feel “weird,” the worker said. Brian Wolf turned on TV news on Thursday, June 27 and was shocked to police searching the Salt Lake City home and that the owner,…
First of two parts There’s just a whisper of bone, ghostly and gray, in the X-ray image of Joshua Lash’s spine. The vertebrae spiral down, diffuse as smoke, until they reach a brutal and jagged conclusion: six stark-white images of screws embedded deep into bone, lashed together by metal rods. Dimly visible near the spinal…
The announcement by police that a Salt Lake City man was arrested on suspicion of killing University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck has sparked grief from her sorority sisters in Utah as well as her family in California. Lueck had been missing for days, but family and friends held out hope that…
Sex, lies and bullets flying wildly. Then there are the stolen drugs, illegal chokeholds, planted evidence, falsified reports and a police officer who lied to move up the adoption list for a puppy. Those are among the misadventures uncovered during the first six months of disclosures under California’s new police transparency law, Senate Bill 1421,…
