A long-awaited state audit of Los Angeles County’s troubled Department of Children and Family Services has uncovered shortcomings that often place vulnerable children in harm’s way. The audit found that the department’s social workers didn’t initiate or complete investigations of neglect accurately…
The Montebello Police Department is investigating a vehicle theft that hits rather close to home. A marked patrol SUV was boosted from a city parking lot last week — along with a loaded AR-15 assault rifle and two loaded shotguns that were inside, authorities said Wednesday. One of the shotguns…
Georgie Anne Geyer, a longtime foreign correspondent who chased after the world’s most despotic leaders while clearing the way for a future generation of women journalists who’d largely been excluded from the male-dominated foreign press corps, has died at her home in Washington, D.C. She was 84. …
As Marcia and Gregory Abbott’s daughter prepared to take her SAT subject tests last August, she asked if the tall blond man who was “so sweet” when proctoring an earlier exam in West Hollywood would be there again. “She said, ‘Can’t I take my SAT subjects with him?’ ” Marcia Abbott told William…
Beverly Hills has long been anything but a smoker’s paradise. The city was the first in California to ban smoking inside restaurants and most public places, back in 1987, and added outdoor venues to the list in 2007. Now it is poised to enact what officials say is the most stringent tobacco ban…
A bike lies in the road at the scene of car and bicycle accident Wednesday, May 22, 2019 on the northbound Newport Boulevard at Cecil Place in Costa Mesa. (Photo by Richard Koehler, Contributing Photographer) A Costa Mesa Police police officer investigates the scene of car and bicycle accident Wednesday, May 22, 2019 on the…
Yes kiddies, this is the first part of my annual tips columns on how to survive going to the beach this summer. As always, this is aimed at newbies and other non-beach-oriented people who might be a tad clueless when it comes to the hazards to your health of what would seem to be a…
Just 14 years after its $27 million construction, a Santiago Canyon College building in central Orange may be demolished this fall. The Rancho Santiago Community College District is ready to hire a demolition company now that school board members recently approved tearing the building down. They have yet to decide what, if anything, would replace…
Nine people were arrested on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at a business on La Palma Ave. in Buena Park after police served a warrant at a suspected illegal gambling operation. (OnScene.TV) Nine people were arrested on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at a business on La Palma Ave. in Buena Park after police served a warrant…
New federal charges were filed Tuesday against a man accused of opening fire in a Southern California synagogue, killing one person and wounding three others. A grand jury handed up a revised indictment against John T. Earnest, 19, that adds four counts of discharging a firearm during crimes of…
