A man driving a stolen vehicle allegedly rammed a police vehicle while attempting to evade arrest in Santa Ana on Tuesday, Feb. 13. Police spotted the suspect vehicle near the 2700 block of West McFadden Avenue at 2:23 p.m., according to Santa Ana Police Sgt. Javier Aceves. A brief chase ensued. At one point in…
California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris joined a growing number in Congress calling on the Trump administration to allow DACA recipients to travel abroad – a campaign spearheaded by a Cal State Long Beach professor and Southern California immigrant youth. In a letter sent Tuesday, Feb. 12, 36 legislators from both chambers asked for…
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s announcement that he intends to scale back California’s $77-billion bullet train project stunned many officials close to the project while also raising many questions about what it actually means. “It is shocking,” said a senior executive at a major engineering firm in California…
Piercing the roar of the crowd, in the searing heat of Guadalajara, Mexico, Gordon Banks heard Pele shout “Goal!” Aiming a header to bounce off the hard field, Pele was certain the ball would creep inside the England goalkeeper’s right post and threw his arms into the air to celebrate what he thought…
The Senate passed a sweeping public lands package Tuesday that would create 700,000 acres of new conservation and recreation areas, expand two of the most visited national parks in the California desert and designate nearly 80 miles of scenic rivers while providing new off-highway vehicle recreation areas in San Bernardino County for motorized trail riding….
Officers arrested a man Tuesday on suspicion of homicide and driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol during a six-vehicle collision in La Habra that left one woman dead on Sunday, Feb. 10. Police said a motorist travelling east on Lambert Road slammed into a vehicle headed north on Idaho Street shortly before 7:09…
Immigrant rights advocates have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration over its decision to end humanitarian protections for more than 100,000 people from Honduras and Nepal. The lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on behalf of six immigrants…
Los Angeles County supervisors narrowly approved a plan Tuesday to tear down the dungeon-like Men’s Central Jail downtown and build at least one mental health treatment facility in its place. The new plan modifies an existing $2.2-billion proposal that would have created the Consolidated Correctional…
By Elizabeth Marcellino LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to scrap plans for a women’s jail in Lancaster and approved a new vision for a downtown mental health treatment center, though many criminal justice advocates worried that it might only be a jail by another name. The board room…
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday he plans to invite leaders of 45 noncompliant California cities and two counties to a “candid conversation” aimed at encouraging them to find “the political courage to build their fair share of housing.” The list includes 15 cities in Los Angeles County and six in Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino…
