In 1998, Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman Block took a fall in his bathtub, suffered a brain hemorrhage and died. But his supporters so detested his reelection challenger, Lee Baca, they kept Block’s campaign alive after his death. The candidate with a pulse prevailed, but 703,178 L.A. County…
CHINO — The youngest follower of murderous cult leader Charles Manson will again ask a state panel to recommend her for parole. Three female defendants in the Manson court case are shown, from left to right: Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, Leslie Van Houten, March 29 , 1971 as they return to court to hear the…
SANTA ANA — Santa Ana police Tuesday released surveillance video of a knife-wielding shoplifter in the hopes that it helps generate tips leading to an arrest. Santa Ana police are trying to identify a suspect in a theft and assault incident at a department store on Jan. 16. (Photo courtesy Santa Ana Police Department) Santa…
SACRAMENTO — California wildland managers said Tuesday that they want to speed up logging and prescribed burns designed to slow wildfires that have devastated communities in recent years. After the deadliest and most destructive blazes in state history, officials are scrapping 12 years of efforts and starting anew on creating a single environmental review process…
In a rare and stinging public rebuke, Los Angeles County supervisors criticized new Sheriff Alex Villanueva on Tuesday over his reinstatement of a deputy accused of stalking a woman, with some of them questioning whether he was abusing his power. The Board of Supervisors’ move heightened a political…
The federal Dept. of Housing and Urban Development announced Tuesday, Jan. 29, monetary awards totaling more than $171 million to renew funding for homeless assistance programs — housing and services — in five Southern California counties. Los Angeles County and the city of Los Angeles received the largest amount in the 2018 fiscal year Continuum…
Orange County approved funding Tuesday for a first-of-its-kind mental health center and psychiatric emergency room, filling a void that has left mentally-ill patients in the county with inadequate treatment and burdened local hospitals. The Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to allocate $16.6 million to the $40-million project, which will be co-funded and jointly-operated with two…
Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday called for an audit of stops by the Los Angeles Police Department’s elite Metropolitan Division in response to a Times investigation showing the unit pulled over black drivers at disproportionately high rates. Garcetti said the report, which found that Metro officers…
Rain and chillier temperatures will pass through Southern California this week. High temperatures will drop in the region from the low 70s on Tuesday to the low 60s on Thursday, according to forecasts from the National Weather Service. They NWS reported a chance for showers beginning Wednesday evening that may persist through the weekend. Rainfall…
A shallow magnitude 3.6 earthquake was reported Tuesday evening four miles from Cushenbury, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:40 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 10 miles from Big Bear City, 17 miles from…
