A Los Angeles-area man accused of trying to set up sexual encounters with children as young as 8 in Tijuana was sentenced Monday to 17½ years in prison. In his plea agreement, Kenneth Bigler, 53, of Walnut admitted to having sexual contact with girls ages 14 to 16. But in numerous communications…
Sonoma County has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit with the parents of a 13-year-old Santa Rosa boy who was fatally shot in 2013 by a sheriff’s deputy who mistook the boy’s plastic gun for an AK-47. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, alleged that Sonoma County Sheriff’s…
Penny Marshall had been making minor inroads in Hollywood for several years before the iconic Laverne and Shirley characters debuted as Richie and Fonzie’s double dates on an episode of “Happy Days” in 1975. Marshall, who played the feisty Laverne on the spinoff series, “Laverne & Shirley,” was…
Over the last year, the Los Angeles Times has published a series about a controversial program that pays Los Angeles police and firefighters essentially double at the end of their careers. The latest installment looked at how those extra payments drove some former employees’ retirement income far…
LOS ANGELES — The twice-delayed launch of a rocket carrying a reconnaissance satellite into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County is scheduled Tuesday night, potentially giving the Southland a holiday-season aerial light show. According to United Launch Alliance, it will try again to launch the rocket at 5:57 p.m. The Delta…
At least three women say the former associate pastor of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Encinitas tried to seduce them. The allegations rocked the congregation Sunday, when parishioners opened the church bulletin to find an apology from Bishop Robert McElroy “to all who were subjected…
Sharon Gattas spent Thanksgiving this year among the ruins of the largest fire in modern California history, the Camp Fire that leveled the Northern California town of Paradise. “I am not a firefighter, I don’t run towards fire,” the Rancho Cucamonga woman said. “My husband did that; he’s nuts.” What she can do, however, is…
MIDWAY CITY — A sheriff’s SWAT team burst into an apartment in Midway City early Tuesday and arrested a barricaded domestic violence suspect to end a standoff lasting almost eight hours, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department reported. Deputies responded to a domestic violence call at 7:40 p.m. Monday involving a woman and a man on…
You’d be hard pressed to see it at the Emerald Cup, where the pot smoke was so thick it gave me a sore throat, but the good times are not rolling for many of Northern California’s cannabis farmers. The irony is as rich as the honey-colored extracts that have become the smokable consumer pot product…
Image from 1955 of the Buena Vista Reservoir, now empty, was used in the 1955-56, Know Your City photography series.
