LOS ANGELES – Granada Hills Charter High School has done it again, winning the school’s seventh national Academic Decathlon this weekend in Bloomington, Minnesota. The results were announced Saturday morning, and live-streamed on the internet. School officials announced that a big celebration rally will be held on campus Monday, featuring “multiple live performances including cheerleaders, bagpipers and special guests.”…

A Los Angeles elementary school that briefly counted pop star Michael Jackson as a student before he skyrocketed to fame has voted to keep his name on the auditorium in a decision that generated worldwide interest. School district officials announced the result Saturday after a vote by parents…

POWAY — Authorities say a woman died and three other people were hospitalized after a shooting at a synagogue outside San Diego on Saturday, the last day of Passover. A 19-year-old man, said to be armed with an assault rifle, was arrested. San Diego County Sheriff William Gore said at a news conference that a…

Last month, the scheme was laid bare: USC, and at least half a dozen top universities, had been breached by a multiyear conspiracy that used bribes, rigged tests and at least a few Photoshopped applications to slip the children of wealthy and influential families past admissions processes that…

By Esmeralda Fabián Romero || LA School Report Californians are divided in their general views on charter schools, according to a new statewide survey. Most are in support of parents having the option to choose charters, but there’s also a high level of concern that charters divert state funding from traditional schools. Nearly half —…

The pedestrian who was struck in Santa Ana by a reported hit-and-run driver Wednesday has died, the Santa Ana Police Department said Friday, April 26. Police identified the person as Leticia Marquez, 40, a homeless woman. The news release did not say when she died. Marquez’s information was not listed on the Orange County Coroner’s…

A shallow magnitude 3.3 earthquake was reported Friday evening 16 miles from Capetown, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake occurred at 7:38 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 11.8 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 30 miles from Fortuna, 40 miles from Eureka and…

Edwin Winslow Bennett was still on parole for the 1989 gangland-style execution of a business rival when he began a meteoric rise through the managerial ranks at the VA Loma Linda Healthcare System. Bennett, 57, who says on his LinkedIn page he has an MBA  from an online school in Santa Ana called California Coast…

It’s unprecedented! It’ll be worth billions! It’s just plain Marvel-ous! Hyped any way you care to, or not, “Avengers: Endgame” is like no other movie ever released. The culmination of 11 years and 21 other films (and a couple of TV shows) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Endgame” is expected to break all opening weekend…

Sergeant Maj. Troy E. Black, who served with 1st Marine Logistics Group at Camp Pendleton, will become the Marine Corps’ 19th sergeant major. Black, who currently serves as sergeant major of Manpower and Reserve Affairs, will replace Sgt. Maj. Ronald L. Green during a ceremony this summer, the Marine Corps announced on Thursday, April 25….