By Virginia Gaglianone and Yesenia Amaro, The USC Center for Health Journalism Collaborative More than anything else, Claudia Navarro wanted health insurance for her children when she arrived in the United States. Navarro’s daughter has spina bifida — a congenital condition her doctors in Mexico said would kill the girl within a year. But Navarro didn’t…
A Laguna Beach black and white police car sports a new American Flag police graphic in Laguna Beach, CA on Monday, April 15, 2019. Laguna’s police cars where all white, the police department added the logo when they went to the black and white cars. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG) A woman, who…
SANTA ANA — A 35-year-old man faces 14 years in prison for an alcohol-fueled, wrong-way crash on State Route 241 in Anaheim that killed a woman and her son. Two people were killed in a crash on the 241 freeway south of the 91 freeway in Anaheim. (Photo by Southern Counties News Service) Two people…
Deputies arrested a man suspected of randomly targeting strangers in a violent crime spree in Lake Forest that left two women hospitalized on the evening of Tuesday, April 16. Preliminary investigation suggests it began when a man had been involved in a fight near the Salvation Army store near the intersection of Mercury Road and…
A 77-year-old Hawaii resident died Monday night in an accident on the southbound 405 freeway in Long Beach after being ejected from a car that hit a curb, officials said. Judith Blankenfeld of Hilo was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident on the freeway south of Lakewood Boulevard, the California Highway Patrol reported….
Gov. Gavin Newsom talks with formerly homeless individuals, service providers and local officials at the Arrowhead McKee Family Health Center in San Bernardino on Tuesday, April 16, 2019. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Michelle Padilla talks about her former homelessness during a round table discussion with Gov. Gavin Newsom, service providers and local officials…
The use of deadly force by Los Angeles police and the number of suspects killed in violent encounters dropped in 2018, officials reported Tuesday. Even with reductions, the LAPD led the nation in fatal police shootings last year, with 14, the report said. Los Angeles police officers fired their…
CAMP PENDLETON — Staff Sgt. Joshua Braica was just weeks away from a deployment to the Indo-Pacific Command region when he was fatally injured in a training exercise at Camp Pendleton over the weekend. Officials from the U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command released his name Tuesday, April 16. Braica, 29, enlisted in the…
Clogging landfills, trashing beaches and fouling the oceans — in part via a massive junk ball off the coast — have been key reasons for the war on plastic bags, straws and bottles. Now, a researcher from UC Santa Barbara has added one more: They make the planet warmer. In one of the first-ever evaluations of…
MemorialCare and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim announced the provider — with its largest facilities in Long Beach — will become the team’s official healthcare partner on Tuesday, April 16. While MemorialCare has four hospitals and 200-plus care locations in Los Angeles and Orange counties, two of its largest facilities are Long Beach Medical…
