Life inside Los Angeles County’s juvenile detention centers can be menacing for the hundreds of young people locked up there — and for the guards who oversee them, too. Overwhelmed and fearful detention officers use profanity and taunts in an effort to maintain control. The detainees endure threats…
It’s not just that Brown, a Democrat, has moved to an area populated by Republican ranchers. Or even that he is a lawyer and politician now residing where most people make a living off the land. It’s that he’s a newcomer.
Police investigate following a 6-car collision that left one person dead and six other hurt at the intersection of West Lambert Road and South Idaho Street in La Habra on Sunday, February 10, 2019. (OCHAWK) Police investigate following a 6-car collision that left one person dead and six other hurt at the intersection of West…
Officers found a person who had been shot and killed in a Santa Ana tire shop, while two other people showed up at nearby hospitals suffering from gunshot wounds on Sunday, Feb. 10. Police received multiple reports of a shooting at Pro Audio Wheels and Tires, 2015 W. 17th St., shortly before 4 p.m., said…
Sporadic bouts of rain hit all areas of Southern California for much of the mid-morning and afternoon on Sunday, along with snow in the mountains, with more precipitation expected as another winter storm sweeps over the region by Wednesday. The heaviest bands of rain and mountain snow began moving south through Santa Barbara County into…
Search crews sought a man who went missing in waters off the coast of Long Beach on Sunday, Feb. 10. A friend notified authorities when 20-year-old Jean Carlos Cheryl failed to meet with him at Catalina Island on Sunday, according to a news release from the U.S. Coast Guard. It said the missing man was…
Authorities shut down both sides of the 405 Freeway in Long Beach on Sunday as police arrested an occupant of a broken-down vehicle. Callers reported a disabled vehicle in northbound lanes of the freeway near the Bellflower Boulevard in Long Beach at about 12:25 p.m., according to California Highway Patrol Officer Elizabeth Kravig. She said…
A van headed the wrong way on a Santa Ana street crashed head-on into a pickup truck on Sunday, Feb. 10, leaving the van driver dead. Preliminary evidence suggests a white Toyota van was traveling west in eastbound lanes of Warner Avenue before colliding with a Gold Toyota Tundra pickup near Oak Street at about…
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Long before an ex-student opened fire on his former classmates in Parkland, Florida, many school districts conducted regular shooting drills — exercises that sometimes included simulated gunfire and blood and often happened with no warning that the attack wasn’t real. The drills began taking shape after the Columbine High School shooting in…
A new storm is moving into Southern California, bringing modest rain but cold temperatures. “The rain is going to be a lot more hit and miss, and the entire storm system will only bring less than an inch of rain across the region,” said Kathy Hoxsi, meteorologist at the National Weather Service,…
