The state and local tax burden for Californians is middle-of-the-pack nationally, when the analysts at WalletHub measured the tax collector’s take against comparative income levels. The financial information site’s data crunchers studied state-by-state spending on state and local sales, excise, property and income taxes and compared that cash flow to different income brackets. When I…
After two months of trial, there’s still no evidence that Charles “Chase” Merritt of Rancho Cucamonga killed business partner Joseph McStay, his wife and their two small sons, a defense attorney claimed this week. Merritt faces the death penalty if convicted as charged in the case. Since opening statements Jan. 7, prosecutors have tried to…
A young girl found dead inside a duffel bag last week near a trail in Hacienda Heights has been identified as Trinity Love Jones, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Authorities are still trying to determine who killed the 9-year-old and the circumstances of her death. Investigators…
You wouldn’t expect democratic socialists to hit the brakes when it comes to social justice. But in late February members of Inland Empire Democratic Socialists of America learned how to fix brake lights so they could offer that bit of auto repair service, for free, at an upcoming community event. Working tail lights, they reasoned,…
Assemblyman Tom Daly, D-Anaheim (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file) An overview of a sober living home on Via Lampara, San Clemente, and its neighbors. (Courtesy of Orange County Superior Court case file of Hurwitz et al v. Scolari) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Huntington Beach City Attorney Michael Gates, shown earlier this year, teamed up…
AGOURA HILLS — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee will take his nascent campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination to the Malibu Hills Monday to meet with residents of a Malibu Hills mobile home park devastated in the Woolsey fire. Inslee, who earlier this month launched a campaign overwhelmingly focused on climate change, is set to tour…
The March 10, 1933, Long Beach earthquake destroyed numerous schools. During rebuilding, many school classrooms were inside canvas tents.
A stretch of the 405 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley was reopened in both directions Sunday afternoon hours after a tanker truck hauling 9,400 gallons of liquid propane flipped on its side, forcing the freeway to shut down, authorities said. The freeway reopened about 3 p.m., roughly eight hours…
20th Century Fox sponsored a Buffy Slay Day with the American Red Cross to celebrate the anniversary of the tv series Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Sunday March 10, 2019. The Torrance ARC is the flagship site for the event as the series was fillmed at Torrance High. Buffy comic given out to people who…
Lenny Mendonca, chief economic and business advisor to Gov. Gavin Newsom, tells business leaders at the state Capitol California needs more housing to drive down prices. “California is too expensive to do business in. A core driver … is housing costs too much,” he said. (Photo by Jeff Collins, the Orange County Register/SCNG) Worry less…
