The Orange County jail’s telephone vendor improperly recorded another 617 confidential phone conversations between inmates and defense attorney Joel Garson over the past three years, bringing to nearly 1,700 calls improperly recorded by a Sheriff’s Department contractor since January 2015. Garson said 11 of the recordings of him talking to inmates were downloaded and sent…
LOS ANGELES — A man with an attempted murder conviction and a woman who has seven convictions for driving under the influence were among 150 people arrested this week in the Southland by federal agents targeting “criminal aliens” and other immigration violators, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Wednesday. In announcing the arrests, ICE officials…
Three years before Arizona sex crimes prosecutor Rachel Mitchell was thrust into the national spotlight this week, she advised the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Safe Sport program. “Rachel explains that the first step in the process is selecting a victim, or targeting a victim, and that there are a lot of different things that offenders look…
Violent and property crimes ticked upward in many Orange County cities last year, according to the FBI’s annual report released this week, but overall remained near the historic lows of recent years. Local crime rates among Orange County communities in 2017 were slightly out of step with the national trend – which saw modest drops…
A 53-year-old man has been charged with a racially motivated, knife-wielding attack in Fullerton, a week after another alleged hate crime in the city, records showed Tuesday. Bobby Willis Palm, who is white, was accused of trying to attack a black man with a knife, according to court records. The attack occurred just before noon…
With the bullet train project facing titanic legal battles in the San Francisco Bay Area and Central Valley, the last thing the state rail authority needs is a route into Southern California that would galvanize new opposition. But whether it can avoid such a fight remains uncertain after the California…
Just days after his aunt and uncle were reported missing in Houston, Ramon Escobar got in his Honda CR-V and drove west. The 47-year-old native of El Salvador traveled more than 1,500 miles along Interstate 10, stopping when he hit the Pacific Ocean on Sept. 5. Three days later, Santa Monica police…
Just east of the border fence construction, the Border Patrol has launched Operation Blazing Sands to deter illegal border crossings and thwart human smuggling attempts. The agency noticed an uptick in smuggling activity along a stretch of the border in the southeasternmost part of the California…
Tony Randall throws a fit as a concerned but calm Jack Klugman looks on in “The Odd Couple,” Neil Simon’s comedy, playing at the Shubert Theater in Los Angeles in 1975.
The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana region is the nation’s top metro area for clean-energy jobs and the Inland Empire ranks 16th, according to a study released Tuesday by E2, a national organization of environmental entrepreneurs. The state’s 519,000 clean-energy jobs are heavily focused in metro areas, where more than 430,000 of those jobs are located….
