Yea Ji Sea joined the U.S. Army more than four years ago hoping to serve her new country and, in the process, earn her citizenship. That abruptly ended last week. The 29-year-old Gardena resident from South Korea was forced out of the military with an honorable discharge, but no word on the citizenship application she…
Costa Mesa police shot and wounded a man who allegedly tried to break into a residence on Tuesday, August 14. A patrol officer responded to a report of someone tampering with cars and attempting to gain access to an enclosed patio near the 2000 block of Charle St. just before 5 a.m. Tuesday. When he…
A preliminary 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck about 3 miles east-northeast of the southwest Riverside County community of Aguanga on Tuesday, Aug. 14, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake hit at 6:24 p.m. Mother Nature just reminded us that we live in #earthquake country! Nice little shaker in the Coachella Valley. — Chief Travis Walker (@CCPDWALKER) August…
A video circulating in Inglewood this week appears to capture Mayor James Butts telling an activist to “go choke yourself,” but the city’s original version of the recording posted online has been altered to remove the insult. In the current version, Butts adjourns the June 12 meeting and the video cuts out four seconds later. But, at…
Los Angeles Unified Supt. Austin Beutner welcomed students and staff back to school Tuesday with a tour of the district that began hours before the first students arrived and was expected to end well after most of them had gone home. At 5 a.m., Beutner arrived at the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center,…
Clarence Sibsey sat alone at a table in the Twin Pine Casino evacuation center, tired and dejected. Once again, a fire was threatening his community and he had to leave home. Two years ago, he fled the massive Valley fire. Now he had been driven away by the Mendocino Complex fire, which at more…
The nation’s second-largest school system kicks off a fresh year Tuesday with dozens of first-time programs to spur student achievement and recapture enrollment. But not everything new at L.A. Unified was planned, including recent leadership turnover at the top. As for details of plans to deal…
Allegations of police officer misconduct led prosecutors to throw out 19 convictions in a Bay Area suburb and exposed what could happen if California’s courts – and the public – actually knew what was in officers’ disciplinary files.
