The Eagles performed before a sold out crowd Wednesday night, Sept. 12, at The Forum in Inglewood. The band will also play at The Forum Friday and Saturday of The Eagles, from left, Vince Gill, Timothy B. Schmit, Don Henley, Deacon Frey (son of the late Glenn Frey), Joe Walsh and Steuart Smith perform Wednesday,…

BAKERSFIELD — Authorities say a gunman in California on Wednesday killed five people, including his wife, before turning the gun on himself as a sheriff’s deputy closed in. Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said the shootings began shortly before 5:30 p.m. and occurred at a business and a home in Bakersfield, about 90 miles north…

Orange Coast College President Dennis Harkins has announced his retirement effective at the end of the fall semester, ending a nine-year stint leading the campus. Harkins made the announcement in a note to the OCC community: “When I first arrived at Coast, the College was recovering from two significant setbacks — the Great Recession and…

Nearly one in five Californians still lives in poverty despite the state’s vigorous recovery from the Great Recession and its low unemployment rate. The latest numbers, a reflection of the state’s high housing costs and low wages, show 19 percent are poor, some 7.5 million people. The calculation, released Wednesday by the U.S. Census, represents a 1.4 percent…

Charmaine Lawson will never forget the late-night phone call that her son was dead. Her son, David Josiah Lawson, 19, was fatally stabbed at a party on April 15, 2017, in Arcata, a rural town near Humboldt State University, as he was wrapping up his sophomore year. Almost a year-and-a-half later, the murder is still…