Every four years, aspiring presidential nominees leave behind families, jobs and, frequently, their dignity to prove they are worthy of the votes of everyday people. Senators, governors, million- or billionaires, they traipse through cornfields in Iowa, eat barbecue in South Carolina, get sand…
United States Immigration officials in 1935 use train to deport foreigners back to their countries.
Police sought witnesses to the 1973 killing of an 11-year-old girl and, on Thursday, Feb. 21, released an old photograph of a man who had been identified as a suspect and arrested with the aid of DNA evidence. The picture of James Alan Neal, 72, of Monument, Colorado, who is a defendant in the kidnapping…
The pilot whose plane crashed into a Yorba Linda neighborhood, killing him and four people on the ground, had been warned by an air traffic controller that he was headed into bad weather, investigators said in a report released Thursday. Antonio Pastini, of Gardnerville, Nev., died on Feb. 3 when…
People get out and enjoy the snow at the end of Silverado Canyon Road as an afternoon storm brought cold temperatures and snow to Silverado Canyon on Thursday, February 21, 2019. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) McKenna Rude, 18, of Lake Forest tries to catch snowflakes on her tongue in Silverado as an…
A real estate developer who touts herself as “California’s cannabis landlord” was arrested during a raid by San Bernardino police at her Pacific Palisades home, authorities confirmed Thursday. Stephanie Smith, 44, was taken into custody at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday and booked into the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, where she was being held on…
In 2017, the highest paid employee working for the city of Los Angeles collected a nearly $600,000 salary and $12,693 in health benefits, according to the state controller’s public pay database. Its lowest paid employee — reportedly earning only $1 that year — had a benefits package that also cost the city $12,693. In fact,…
California’s housing crisis collided with its school funding crisis Thursday, as Oakland teachers went on strike for smaller classes, more nurses and counselors in the schools and wages that will allow them to live in the increasingly expensive San Francisco Bay Area. An estimated 3,000 members…
Xavier Bias walked out of the Whole Foods Market in Pasadena and saw another woman looking to the ground puzzled at the white stuff covering the sidewalk. The woman wasn’t sure exactly what she was looking at. But Bias, who is originally from the East Coast, quickly set her straight. It was snow. …
Four people, including two doctors, were arrested Thursday in Southern California on federal charges of diverting dangerous narcotics — mainly highly addictive opioids — to the black market. The arrests were part of Operation Hypocritical Oath, a yearlong Drug Enforcement Administration probe targeting doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and clinic operators suspected of providing controlled…
