The grandfather of a 13-year-old northwestern Wisconsin girl who authorities say escaped a man who killed her parents and held her captive for three months said Sunday she’s in “exceptionally good spirits.” Jayme Closs on Thursday fled the cabin near the small town of Gordon where she said she had been imprisoned. She approached a…
K9 deputy Arco died suddenly on Saturday night, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department announced on Facebook. Trained in patrol, narcotics and suspect and evidence searches, Arco, 4 years old, served the sheriff’s department for the past three years, said Sheriff’s spokeswoman Carrie Braun. He was involved in some major busts. “He worked in all areas…
An Anaheim woman brought to a Lakewood hospital late Saturday night died from a gunshot wound, and Long Beach police asked for the public’s help Sunday as they tried to gather information about the shooting. Witnesses who brought the woman, identified as Keshawn Castilow, 25, to the hospital “could not provide details of where the incident…
LINCOLN, Neb. — More than four months after Missouri became the first U.S. state to regulate the term “meat” on product labels, Nebraska’s powerful farm groups are pushing for similar protection from veggie burgers, tofu dogs and other items that look and taste like real meat. Nebraska lawmakers will consider a bill this year to…
As nearly 30,000 teachers stand ready to take to the picket lines in the Los Angeles Unified School district on Monday, districts from the Inland Empire to Orange County will be watching. The strike might not inspire copycats, but the issues that have been brewing in L.A. —from class size to salary to the growth…
A shallow magnitude 4.1 earthquake was reported Sunday morning 33 miles from Capetown, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 1:35 a.m. Pacific time. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 46 miles from Fortuna, Calif., 52 miles from Eureka, Calif., and 58 miles…
With considerable fanfare, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti started the year by trumpeting a cellphone app that will instantly notify users in Los Angeles County when an earthquake of 5.0 or bigger begins to hit. The pilot program, officially unveiled Jan. 3, can provide crucial seconds — even dozens of seconds — for people to…
A quarter century has passed, but David Miller will never forget the sound. “It was like there was a freight train under my house,” he said, recalling the moment 25 years ago Thursday, Jan. 17, when the Earth’s plates suddenly slipped along a previously unknown fault 11 miles beneath his Prairie Street home in Northridge….
Third Street Elementary School will be open Monday, but it will hardly be business as usual at the Hancock Park campus: Teachers are expected to picket outside. Students will be herded by unfamiliar adults into big groups both outdoors and indoors. And then there’s the forecast for rain, which…
Shirley Boone, longtime wife of singer Pat Boone as well as a philanthropist, has died. She was 84. She died Friday surrounded by her four daughters, Cherry, Lindy, Debby and Laury, who sang to her, Milt Suchin, Pat Boone’s manager, said in a statement. Shirley and Pat Boone had been married for…
