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…
Jose Segovia Benitez, who was brought to the United States from El Salvador when he was 3, joined the U.S. Marine Corps at 18, eager to serve what he’s always considered to be his country. He saw combat, in Iraq, and after five years was honorably discharged. But when he came home, in 2004, Segovia…
In the aftermath of several controversial police shootings in California, activists and victims’ families have hoped their anguish would lead to action. They have protested, pleaded and lobbied for a law that would clear long-standing hurdles to criminal prosecution in some cases. But the focus…
It was just after noon Tuesday when authorities got their big break in the slaying of rapper Nipsey Hussle. About 14 hours earlier, the Los Angeles Police Department released a photo of Eric Holder, 29, saying he was the suspect in the Sunday afternoon attack. That image pinged across social media…
The deputy charged onto the scene and kicked the door of a truck, threatening to shoot the man inside. After yanking the man onto the ground, the lawman punched him several times in his back and shoulders as other officers wrangled the suspect onto his stomach and into handcuffs, according to law…
Two men were behind bars Wednesday, April 3, on suspicion of stabbing a woman during an altercation in downtown Huntington Beach. Police were called about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday to Main Street and Walnut Avenue on a report of an argument that escalated into violence, said Huntington Beach police Officer Angela Bennett. Officers arrived to find…
