The wooden lifeguard tower at the Wedge was replaced over the weekend with a temporary structure – complete with the iconic “W” on its siding. An early-morning blaze on June 20 had destroyed the tower, a perch that gives guards a place to watch over the wild waves that can reach upwards of 20 foot…
Grocery workers in Southern and Central California are voting Monday and Tuesday on whether they’ll authorize their union to call a strike at the region’s major supermarket chains. After months of fruitless contract negotiations with Albertsons, Vons, Pavilions and Ralphs, the seven locals of United Food and Commercial Workers are holding membership meetings where strike…
Northern California was a bit rattled this weekend when a magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck off the Humboldt County coast. It was the biggest quake so far this year in California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Elizabeth Cochran, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena,…
Jurors on Monday recommended death for Charles “Chase” Merritt, convicted June 10 in the murders of the four-member McStay family, who disappeared from their Fallbrook home in February 2010 and were found buried in shallow desert graves nearly four years later. San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Michael A. Smith set Sept. 27 as the…
Throngs of mourners including law enforcement officers from across the state said their final goodbye to Joseph Gilbert Solano on Monday, two weeks after the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy was shot in a surprise attack that claimed his life. Solano’s funeral at the Cathedral of Our Lady of…
The parents who were critically wounded when an LAPD officer opened fire at a Costco earlier this month are beginning to recover and have been told that their son was killed in the shooting. “They do know about their son’s death,” their attorney, Dale K. Galipo, said Monday. “Of course they are…
State officials have warned a Los Angeles group home for migrant youth that it could lose its license if it doesn’t comply more fully with state rules for the protection of children. A Times investigation published in late May found that Casa Libre had been cited by state officials 143 times for…
A longstanding dispute ended with the deaths of five people Friday following a shooting and an explosion in a quiet mobile home park in Central California, authorities said. Officials say Claude Adams, 64, shot and killed 70-year-old Kurt Bracke and 78-year-old Richard Hanen of Santa Maria at Casa…
The body of a well-known automotive journalist was found in a Northern California river last week, capping a weeks-long search for the missing man, according to a family friend. Davey Johnson, 43, had been missing since June 5, when he was test-driving a motorcycle for a magazine review. On his…
A Vietnamese American man from Orange County was sentenced to 12 years in prison after a court found him guilty of “attempting to overthrow the state,” Reuters and other news agencies reported Monday. Michael Nguyen, 55, pleaded guilty at his trial – which lasted about four hours – and asked that his sentence be reduced…
