A small-town artist who created the first paint-by-numbers pictures and helped turn the kits into an American sensation during the 1950s has died at age 93. Dan Robbins, whose works were dismissed by some critics but later celebrated by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American…
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Thursday afternoon three miles from Pinnacles, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 1:50 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 5 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 15 miles from Soledad, Calif., 18 miles…
On April 5, 1964, the Deauville Beach Club on Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica goes up in flames.
There are growing questions about the woman who drove the getaway car that the suspect in the shooting of Nipsey Hussle used to flee the scene of the attack. Police say Eric Holder, 29, got into a dispute with Hussle on Sunday at the rapper’s shop on Slauson Avenue. Holder allegedly returned and…
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio congressman Tim Ryan says he’s running for president. The 45-year-old announced his 2020 Democratic primary bid Thursday on ABC’s “The View.” He plans an official kickoff rally in downtown Youngstown Saturday, where a big turnout by organized labor is expected. Ryan, a political moderate from Niles, made an unsuccessful bid to…
This undated photo provided by the Aurora, Ill., Police Department shows missing child Timmothy Pitzen. Authorities are using DNA to determine if a teen who told police he fled from kidnappers is the missing boy. (Aurora Police Department via AP) By DAN SEWELL and DON BABWIN CINCINNATI — Authorities conducted DNA testing to try to…
Jim Doti’s shoe snags a chair leg and he keels backward. Yet the former Chapman University president nimbly recovers and I’m silently grateful for his reflexes. It’s not because I think he could crack open like Humpty Dumpty. A high-altitude climber, Doti’s far too tough to break bones in a simple slip and fall. I…
LOS ANGELES — A weak storm out of the Gulf of Alaska may produce some rain in the Southland later Thursday and possibly Friday, a National Weather Service meteorologist said. “It won’t amount to much” said meteorologist Dave Bruno, predicting less than a 10th of an inch of rain in Los Angeles County. The system…
A motorcyclist died at the scene after hitting a car that was making a left-hand turn Thursday, April 4, 2019 in Buena Park. A passenger in the car was transported to a local hospital. (OnScene.TV) A motorcyclist died at the scene after hitting a car that was making a left-hand turn Thursday, April 4, 2019…
San Diego County’s Republican-dominated board of supervisors filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Trump administration, claiming that policy changes in the way the federal government treats asylum seekers have strained the city’s finances and health services. The Trump administration ended…
