Gilroy festival shooter obtained ‘weapons of goddamned mass destruction,’ Newsom says
Gilroy Garlic Festival shooter legally obtained a weapon legal in Nevada but illegal in California.
Man suspected in Monrovia kidnapping barricades himself inside vehicle in downtown L.A., prompting SWAT response, police say
Authorities are engaged in an hours-long standoff in downtown Los Angeles with a possible kidnapping suspect who barricaded himself inside a Toyota Prius that police had been looking for in connection with a missing woman.
Driver suspected of DUI crashes into gate entrance of Musick jail near Irvine
Police arrested a 19-year old driver on suspicion of driving under the influence after authorities say she crashed an SUV through the front gate of the James A. Musick jail near Irvine early Monday, July 29. Sheriff’s authorities said the driver, whose name had not been released, was taken into custody and booked into an…
Newsletter: Play Next: New podcast explores why a man went unidentified for more than 15 years
How did an unconscious man remain unidentified for more than 15 years? In a brand-new podcast brought to you by L.A. Times Studios, investigative reporter Joanne Faryon set out to answer that question.
Disturbing portrait emerges of Gilroy Garlic Festival shooter
Amid the screams, flying bullets and bloodshed that erupted on a warm summer evening at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on Sunday, someone shouted a pivotal question at the gunman: “Why are you doing this?”
In a blow to the bullet train, California might shift billions to L.A., Bay Area projects
A plan is quietly gaining support to truncate California’s troubled high-speed rail construction project in the Central Valley and spend some of the remaining billions of dollars in Southern California and the Bay Area.
Newsletter: More details emerge in the Gilroy shooting
Two children, a 6-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl, were among those killed Sunday in Gilroy.
Car runs into construction equipment in Anaheim, knocking worker into 20-foot-deep hole
Firefighters rescued an injured worker from a 20-feet-deep hole he was knocked into after a car crashed into a construction site in Anaheim Monday night, July 29, authorities said. Urban search-and-rescue teams from Anaheim and Orange were called out to the scene, at State College Boulevard and Ball Road, shortly after the 10:30 p.m. crash,…
Man accused of San Fernando Valley crime spree is charged with 4 murders, 2 attempted murders
Gerry Dean Zaragoza – accused of a 12-hour rampage that left his dad, a brother, an ex-girlfriend and a bus passenger dead last week – was charged on Monday with four counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder and one count of attempted robbery. Prosecutors included a special-circumstance allegation of multiple murders, making him…
Gilroy Garlic Festival shooter died in gun battle with officers, chief says
The man who killed three people, including a 6-year-old boy, at the Gilroy Garlic Festival died in a gun battle with three officers, according to the city’s police chief. Santino William Legan was the man who opened fire with an assault-type rifle at the close of the three-day festival before three Gilroy police officers, armed…