LOS ANGELES – Air quality samples collected near the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility during the 2015 blowout that led to the largest-known human-caused release of methane in U.S. history showed elevated levels of pollutants known or suspected to be associated with serious health problems, according to a UCLA Fielding School of Public Health-led…
The AES power plant in southeast Long Beach is building its way toward a more sustainable future for Southern California, according to its officials. Executives from the company joined city officials at the plant on Thursday, June 27, to break ground on the property’s next big project: A battery storage facility the size of a…
It was 1951 in Mexico City, and George Rosenkranz and two colleagues were hard at work creating a synthetic hormone they hoped would help prevent pregnant women from having a miscarriage. Their work, though, was far more profound than any of them initially realized. The hormone they were tinkering…
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Thursday afternoon at 1:50 p.m. Pacific time in Ontario, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake occurred less than a mile from Eastvale, one mile from Jurupa Valley, two miles from Fontana and three miles from Rancho Cucamonga. In…
The Vallejo Police Department has released a report detailing officers’ accounts of the fatal shooting of aspiring rapper Willie McCoy, who was killed while sitting in a car in a Taco Bell drive-through earlier this year. The report was used in the findings of an independent analysis of the shooting…
An Orange County teenager who briefly escaped from juvenile hall while on trial for killing his mother was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter Wednesday in the woman’s 2017 stabbing death. Superior Court Judge Douglas J. Hatchimonji ruled that Ike Souzer, 15, was guilty of a felony count of…
Mai Mizuno was a 19-year-old USC freshman when she went to the campus clinic and was examined by Dr. George Tyndall. She later talked to police about her experience but wondered whether anything would come of it. “I was losing hope. I’d almost lost all hope,” she said. Then this week, she learned…
An accountant who laundered bribes and a collegiate soccer coach who pocketed them pleaded guilty in Boston on Thursday to racketeering conspiracy, acknowledging they played key roles in a scheme that defrauded some of the country’s most prestigious universities. Steven Masera, an accountant from…
An 82-year-old Westminster man died Wednesday night, June 26, in a two-vehicle crash in a Huntington Beach intersection. Shortly after 7 p.m. officers went to the crash site at Edinger Avenue and Graham Street and found a Toyota Tacoma truck with damage to the front, said Sgt. Eric Warken of the Huntington Beach Police Department….
A 21-year-old Torrance woman was killed Wednesday in a brutal shark attack while on vacation with her family in the Bahamas. Jordan Lindsey was snorkeling about 2 p.m. near Rose Island northeast of Nassau when she was attacked by three sharks. Her arms, legs and buttocks were bitten and her right…
