PLACENTIA — A 21-year-old special needs student who police say waved a kitchen knife with an 8-inch blade in the front of a school in Placentia was taken into custody Friday after officers fired a foam round at him. The incident happened at around 1 p.m., when officers responded to a call that a student…
On a typical workday, David Acevedo uses his hands, his back and a forklift to move tons of lumber around a warehouse in Van Nuys. His hours are not fixed, because incoming shipments of wood and outgoing orders to customers dictate the flow. He and fellow employees have to be flexible and available…
More bad news for local tenants: Rents are rising at the fastest pace in 12 years, according to the local Consumer Price Index. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the slice of the CPI tracking the cost of renting show this expense in Los Angeles and Orange counties rose at a 5.6% annual rate…
Seventeen parents who had been separated from their children by immigration authorities were released from a detention center near Calexico this week, more than a month after they returned to the Mexico border to claim asylum in the United States. The parents had all previously entered the U.S….
ORANGE — A teenage murder suspect who escaped from juvenile hall in Orange was back in custody Saturday morning after 21 hours on the loose and his sister defended her brother’s actions. Ike Souzer, 15, was taken into custody without incident at 9 p.m. Friday at a McDonald’s restaurant near the corner of Euclid Street…
A teenage murder suspect who had escaped from a juvenile hall in Orange County was recaptured by sheriff’s deputies late Friday, officials said. Ike Souzer, 15, was arrested without incident by members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department inside a McDonald’s near Euclid Street and Glenoaks…
One of the men who was wounded in the shooting that killed beloved South L.A. rapper and community activist Nipsey Hussle has been arrested on a parole violation, according to officials and court records. Kerry Lathan, 56, has been held in Men’s Central Jail since Monday on a parole violation,…
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER BOSTON — A former Florida prep school administrator pleaded guilty Friday to taking college entrance exams for students in exchange for cash to help wealthy parents get their kids into elite universities across the country. Mark Riddell admitted to secretly taking the SAT and ACT for students, or correcting their answers,…
Beverly Hills businessman Clark Parker has resigned from Southern California’s air quality board following a Los Angeles Times investigation into charter schools he founded with his wife. The Times report last month found that the couple made millions off charter schools that offered little to…
One moment, Alfonso Morillo III was asleep in the back seat of his friend’s Nissan on the way back from Disneyland. Two weeks later, he awoke from a coma in a hospital. Morillo, now 23, and six others were injured Feb. 27, 2016, when a man who was street racing lost control of his Dodge…
