The death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs on Monday, July 1, 2019 is the latest in a long line of tragedies that have marked the Angels’ history: 1965 – Rookie reliever Dick Wantz made his major-league debut with the Angels on April 13, pitching one inning in a 7-1 loss to the Cleveland Indians. It was…
Carlos Michael Rodriguez was sentenced Monday, July 1, to 55 years to life in prison. (Photo courtesy of Santa Ana Police Department) A man who ambushed and wounded a police detective during a 2016 shootout in a Santa Ana neighborhood was sentenced Monday to 55 years to life in prison. A jury earlier this year…
PIH Health, a company based in Whittier, has acquired Pioneer Medical Group and all of its assets, including eight medical offices in the Long Beach area and 36,000 patients The nonprofit health care network, on Washington Boulevard, announced the acquisition Monday, July 1, effective the same day. The nonprofit will rebrand the eight Pioneer Medical…
When Glenn Langer retired as head of the UCLA’s cardiovascular research lab in 1997, he dipped into his retirement savings to buy books, calculators and tickets to museums and theaters. Not for himself, but for disadvantaged students at Lennox Middle School. Years earlier, during a visit to the…
Manuel L. Real, a towering legal figure who ordered the desegregation of a prominent Los Angeles County school district and approved an unpopular but mandatory busing plan to achieve integration in the classroom, has died. He was 95. Real, who died Wednesday , was the nation’s longest-serving active…
The Los Angeles Police Commission will start accepting applications for residents who want to serve on the powerful boards that review serious officer misconduct. The commission needs to expand its pool of examiners after the City Council passed a measure last month to give police officers the…
Summer finally arrived in Southern California this weekend with temperatures in the 90s and a series of small fires around the region. Firefighters were able to put out the fires — including one near Dodger Stadium and another in the San Gabriel Mountains — fairly quickly. But officials say this…
Ayoola Ajayi, the man police say killed Mackenzie Lueck and then burned her body in his backyard, appeared to live a life of contradictions and unfinished business. He was kind to visitors and those who stayed in his home, which he rented as an Airbnb, according to his roommate. But other times,…
LOS ANGELES — L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti said Monday that he plans to lead a coalition of mayors calling on Congress to pass the Ending Homelessness Act. The legislation, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, would direct more than $13 billion to support the work of cities on the front lines of this crisis, deliver…
Restoration work underway on 17 historic cottages on the north end of Crystal Cove State Park received $2.9 million in funding from the new state budget. Crystal Cove Conservancy, the nonprofit that has spearheaded the massive restoration project, worked with Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris to secure the funding for the remaining cottages from this year’s general…
