California’s kindergarten vaccination rate dropped again in the most recent school year as more parents sought permission from doctors to not immunize their children, according to new state data. The troubling trend comes amid a national measles outbreak as well as intense debate over whether California…
Every summer in Los Angeles, the police department, fire agencies and politicians take great pains to warn the public about the dangers of illegal fireworks. Safety experts present at schools, where they show children slides of full-body burn victims and tell stories of firework noise scaring pet…
The war on smog has been called one of America’s greatest environmental successes. Decades of emissions-cutting regulations under a bipartisan law — the 1970 Clean Air Act — have eased the choking pollution that once shrouded U.S. cities. Cleaner air has saved lives and strengthened the lungs of…
Dozens of firefighters and two helicopters rushed to combat a brush fire in Rowland Heights on Sunday, June 30; and some homes were temporarily evacuated as a precaution. The blaze was first spotted at about 5 p.m. near the intersection of Old Ranch Ravine Road and Desire Avenue, Los Angeles County Fire Department Dispatch Supervisor…
Felicity Bourgeois, 15, of Tustin left, and Savannah Smith, 14, of Long Beach wear masks that prevent them from seeing as they work to connect a self-contained breathing apparatus after emerging from the confidence course during the Orange County Fire Authority’s first annual Girls Empowerment Camp at OCFA Headquarters in Tustin on Sunday, June 30,…
DALLAS (AP) — Ten people were killed when a small airplane crashed as it was taking off from a Dallas-area airport Sunday morning, an spokeswoman for the town of Addison, Texas, said. Spokeswoman Mary Rosenbleeth said no one aboard the twin-engine plane survived after it struck a building at the Addison Municipal Airport, about 20…
TUCSON, Ariz. — A suspect has been arrested in a freeway shooting north of Green Valley that left one woman dead and a man and his baby daughter injured. Tucson police say 21-year-old Mateo Zavala of Santa Ana was taken into custody Saturday night. He’s been booked into the Pima County jail on suspicion of…
LOS ANGELES — Union leaders plan to announce Monday whether Southern California grocery workers will go on strike against Ralphs, Vons, Albertsons and Pavilions. Raising the threat of the first Southland grocery strike in nearly 16 years, the workers on Wednesday overwhelmingly authorized their union’s plan to call for a work stoppage unless a contract…
A Santa Ana resident was arrested on suspicion of being the driver in a hit-and-run collision with a wheelchair that left a severely injured man lying in the street. Lucio Luna, 48, was arrested after someone called Santa Ana Police Department on Saturday to report a suspicious looking car in a neighborhood. Detectives went to…
