Authorities shut down both sides of the 405 Freeway in Long Beach on Sunday as police arrested an occupant of a broken-down vehicle. Callers reported a disabled vehicle in northbound lanes of the freeway near the Bellflower Boulevard in Long Beach at about 12:25 p.m., according to California Highway Patrol Officer Elizabeth Kravig. She said…
A van headed the wrong way on a Santa Ana street crashed head-on into a pickup truck on Sunday, Feb. 10, leaving the van driver dead. Preliminary evidence suggests a white Toyota van was traveling west in eastbound lanes of Warner Avenue before colliding with a Gold Toyota Tundra pickup near Oak Street at about…
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Long before an ex-student opened fire on his former classmates in Parkland, Florida, many school districts conducted regular shooting drills — exercises that sometimes included simulated gunfire and blood and often happened with no warning that the attack wasn’t real. The drills began taking shape after the Columbine High School shooting in…
A new storm is moving into Southern California, bringing modest rain but cold temperatures. “The rain is going to be a lot more hit and miss, and the entire storm system will only bring less than an inch of rain across the region,” said Kathy Hoxsi, meteorologist at the National Weather Service,…
A shallow magnitude 2.7 earthquake was reported Sunday morning one mile from Naylor Place, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 9:45 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 4.3 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was eight miles from Castaic, Calif., 11 miles…
The typical American worker was 42.4 years old in 2018. But like any median statistic — the mid-point for all workers — this figure hides a huge variance in how age plays out across industries and the workforce. Federal data give some surprising insight into which professions are filled with seasoned vets or newer members of the…
A truck driver turned his vehicle onto a sidewalk in downtown Fullerton early Sunday and plowed into a crowd, injuring nine with some vicitms trapped beneath the vehicle that was lifted off of them with the help of passersby, authorities said. Christopher Solis, 22, of Anaheim, crashed into a tree in the 1:48 a.m. incident…
ANAHEIM — A 54-year-old Fresno man was struck by a vehicle and killed as he walked on a sidewalk near Disneyland and a La Mirada woman was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, Anaheim police said Sunday. The accident occurred Saturday just after 11 p.m. on Disneyland Drive north of Katella Avenue. The…
Dippi taught her to push harder, to fight through. When JayaMae Gregory was down, she loved to head out on Dippi, over the trails outside Paradise, where she had moved to start a new life. JayaMae trained Dippi to be an endurance horse. The plan was for JayaMae’s teenage son Jakob to compete with Dippi…
It started with a few bites of ice cream with cashew and ended with a ride in an ambulance run by an Orthodox Jewish emergency medical service. In 2017, 2-year-old Rus Amster was on her way home with her family after Shabbat lunch in Baltimore when she began throwing up. Within minutes, her stomach…
