The armed passenger in a car that led police on a chase from Downey to Vernon that ended in a shootout with police on Friday is believed to be the suspect who allegedly shot and killed a liquor store co-owner in Downey, police said. The passenger, described only as a man, lay motionless after the…
Equestrians in Yorba Linda see 27 acres of city-owned property off Bastanchury Road as their last, best hope for public stables. To entice broad support, the equestrians are also proposing the city plan the equestrian center as part of a larger park with a slew of other recreational facilities from a dog play area to…
The issue of race has followed Chris Darden through two of the most high-profile cases of his career. In 1995, some called the black lawyer a traitor for prosecuting the murder case against O.J. Simpson. Now, he said, his brief stint defending a black man accused of gunning down the beloved rapper…
Dozens of Britney Spears fans holding signs reading “FREE BRITNEY” and “Brit is Stronger” gathered outside the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles on Friday afternoon in anticipation of a status hearing on the pop star’s contentious conservatorship. Members of the so-called #FreeBritney…
Jim Fowler, the towering wildlife enthusiast who brought pumas, anacondas and birds of prey to prime-time television in the long-running “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom,’ has died at his home in Connecticut. He was 89. Fowler dangled from helicopters, swam side by side with sharks and squirmed…
It was one of Mayor Eric Garcetti’s most dramatic pledges in his sweeping “Green New Deal” for Los Angeles: “We will have zero days of unhealthy air quality by 2025.” The goal, it turns out, was not as ambitious as it sounded. Rather than using current federal health standards, the mayor’s plan…
Four teachers and a principal have been placed on leave after a photo of the educators posing with what appears to be a noose circulated on email and social media. The circumstances around the origin of the noose at Summerwind Elementary School in Palmdale and the response afterward are under investigation. …
In 1985, a housekeeper entered the Studio City condo of TV director Barry Crane and came across a horrific scene. Crane’s body — bludgeoned and strangled — was wrapped in bedding on the garage floor. His wallet and late-model Cadillac were missing, but there were no signs of any additional burglary…
Homebuying in Irvine and Tustin fell 23% in what was Orange County homebuying’s slowest start to a year since 2009. CoreLogic stats show the lowest countywide sales count for any first three months of a year since the Great Recession. It also was the third-slowest-selling first quarter in the real estate tracker’s database that dates…
Soka University’s summer art show, “Natasha Shoro: Earth, Air, Fire & Water,” will run in its Founders Hall Art Gallery from Thursday, May 16 to Aug. 31. Shoro is a Southern California-based contemporary artist whose mediums range from abstract mixed media, mixed media collage paintings, to site-specific installations. “Earth, Air, Fire & Water” celebrates the…
