The longtime boss of the infamous Colombo crime family, Carmine “The Snake” Persico, has died at age 85 while serving a 139-year prison sentence. Persico died Thursday at the Duke University Medical Center, said his attorney, Benson Weintraub. He had been serving what was effectively a life sentence…
Victor McElhaney was studying music at USC, but his mother said his heart was in his hometown of Oakland. “Victor was a son of Oakland,” Oakland Councilwoman Lynette Gibson McElhaney said in a statement. “He was a musician who drew his inspiration from the beat, soul, and sound of the Town and…
Two men who collided mid-air while paragliding in San Diego County on Saturday, March 9, were identified by the county Medical Examiner’s Office as residents of Carlsbad and Laguna Hills. Laguna Hills resident Raul Gonzalez Valerio, 61, and Carlsbad’s Glenn Johnny Peter Bengtsson, 43, both died after they crashed into each other above the Torrey…
The state and local tax burden for Californians is middle-of-the-pack nationally, when the analysts at WalletHub measured the tax collector’s take against comparative income levels. The financial information site’s data crunchers studied state-by-state spending on state and local sales, excise, property and income taxes and compared that cash flow to different income brackets. When I…
After two months of trial, there’s still no evidence that Charles “Chase” Merritt of Rancho Cucamonga killed business partner Joseph McStay, his wife and their two small sons, a defense attorney claimed this week. Merritt faces the death penalty if convicted as charged in the case. Since opening statements Jan. 7, prosecutors have tried to…
A young girl found dead inside a duffel bag last week near a trail in Hacienda Heights has been identified as Trinity Love Jones, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Authorities are still trying to determine who killed the 9-year-old and the circumstances of her death. Investigators…
You wouldn’t expect democratic socialists to hit the brakes when it comes to social justice. But in late February members of Inland Empire Democratic Socialists of America learned how to fix brake lights so they could offer that bit of auto repair service, for free, at an upcoming community event. Working tail lights, they reasoned,…
Assemblyman Tom Daly, D-Anaheim (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file) An overview of a sober living home on Via Lampara, San Clemente, and its neighbors. (Courtesy of Orange County Superior Court case file of Hurwitz et al v. Scolari) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Huntington Beach City Attorney Michael Gates, shown earlier this year, teamed up…
AGOURA HILLS — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee will take his nascent campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination to the Malibu Hills Monday to meet with residents of a Malibu Hills mobile home park devastated in the Woolsey fire. Inslee, who earlier this month launched a campaign overwhelmingly focused on climate change, is set to tour…
The March 10, 1933, Long Beach earthquake destroyed numerous schools. During rebuilding, many school classrooms were inside canvas tents.
