A deputy with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department was treated for injuries after receiving a cut on the shoulder in a Saturday morning altercation with an inmate at Theo Lacy Jail. Carries Braun, spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s Department, said two deputies and a sergeant attempted to address an inmate who did not want to leave…
Cheer teams from Inland Empire high schools competed in the first CIF-Southern Section Cheerleading Championships Saturday, Jan. 12, at Colony High in Ontario. Among the San Bernardino County hopefuls were Chino Hills, Grand Terrace, Kaiser, Summit, Fontana, A.B. Miller and Rialto high schools. Riverside County participants included Beaumont, Centennial, CSDR, Great Oak, Jurupa Hills, Palm…
By ROB GILLIES | Associated Press TORONTO — Tired but smiling, an 18-year-old Saudi woman who said she feared death if deported back home arrived Saturday in Canada, which offered her asylum in a case that attracted global attention after she mounted a social media campaign. “This is Rahaf Alqunun, a very brave new Canadian,”…
Two days before a strike in the nation’s second largest school district, parents all over Los Angeles received automated phone calls encouraging them to connect to a teachers union town hall designed to answer questions and ramp up support. During the live event Saturday afternoon, United Teachers…
Running back C.J. Anderson #35 of the Los Angeles Rams runs for a first down as defensive tackle Antwaun Woods #99 of the Dallas Cowboys makes the tackle in the first half of a NFL playoff football game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Saturday, January 12, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by…
A bagpiper plays as hundreds gathered to celebrate the life of Bruce Mulhearn in Long Beach on Saturday, January. 12, 2019. Mulhearn who passed away December 26, at the age of 80 was president of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties and a dominant figure in Southern California’s real estate industry. (Photo by Brittany Murray,…
By JILL COLVIN, LISA MASCARO and LAURIE KELLMAN | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Progress made, said one. Not so, said the other. We’ll meet again, said one. Waste of time, said the other. Such has been the life lately of Mike Pence, the loyal soldier dispatched by President Donald Trump to lead negotiations over the…
The 101 Freeway was closed in both directions for hours Saturday after a reportedly armed man led officers on a pursuit before crashing and then engaging officers in a standoff where he was ultimately shot and killed, authorities said. Southbound lanes of the 101 Freeway were shut down at Lost Hills Road as authorities investigated…
Whether they were stuck in an auditorium or playing long-term hooky, many a school kid old enough to remember the 1989 Los Angeles teachers strike recalls the period as nine days of good old-fashioned lawlessness. Quoted in a New York Times article at the time, LAPD Lieut. Frank Valdez expressed his concern about “little predators”…
A federal magistrate has recommended overturning the controversial 2006 conviction of a California man accused of attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan and plotting an attack in the United States. Hamid Hayat, now 36, who was then a young cherry-picker from Lodi, has served about half…
