Kidnapping suspects led authorities on a chase from Los Angeles to Orange counties that ended early Friday on a freeway in Irvine. No injuries were reported. The suspects, in a red Toyota Venza, fled at high speeds from authorities after Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies received a call of a woman being kidnapped just before…
A shallow magnitude-3.1 earthquake was reported Friday morning four miles from Littlerock, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 8:15 a.m. PDT at a depth of 3.7 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was seven miles from Sun Village and 10 miles from Palmdale. …
He once held what seemed like the fate of the world in his hands. Now Jack ReVelle, a former Air Force hero who helped avert nuclear disaster during the Cold War, is merely trying to hang on as long as he can. ReVelle, 83, was discharged from a skilled nursing center this week and sent…
Several Southern California police departments regularly feed information into a massive database used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help with deportations, potentially violating state law, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. In the report released earlier this month, the ACLU of Northern California identified the police departments of Bell, Downey, La Habra…
The next move in the college admissions scandal will unfold in a Boston federal courtroom April 3, when Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin and other defendants are set to appear in court. Federal prosecutors announced that the actresses as well as Loughlin’s husband, fashion designer J. Mossimo Giannulli,…
By February, the snow made many neighborhoods here feel subterranean. Twenty-foot walls of white, corniced by the wind, leaned over the plowed roads. Residents worked feverishly to keep the snow from swallowing their homes. They dug tunnels and narrow passageways to the street, opened portals to…
On the mantel in a South Los Angeles home, the lovingly arranged keepsakes reflect a family’s pride. Damion Lester Jr. smiles broadly in his senior class portrait, decked out in the blue cap and gown of nearby George Washington Preparatory High School. His certificate of high honors for his A grades…
By Sammy Caiola, The USC Center for Health Journalism Collaborative In the outpatient waiting room at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, Spanish and Chinese chatter spills from pharmacy windows as other patients doze on chairs or play on their phones. When the overhead speaker beckons, they step forward with stacks of paperwork and walk out…
The California GOP congressman, the butt of jokes for last year’s midnight run to the White House, where he claimed to have seen documents showing that Obama officials had spied on members of the Trump transition, seems to be going off the rails now that Democrats are in charge of the House.
About 100 people participated in a vigil and solidarity rally organized by members of the Muslim community and several other community groups at New Horizon School in Irvine Thursday, March 21, in memory of the 50 people who were shot and killed last week by a self-proclaimed white supremacist in Christchurch, New Zealand. The mass…
