It’s past 8 p.m. on a school night and Eddie Tafolla Jr. wants his three children to take showers before going to bed. But first he has to corral them. His daughter, Nevaeh, 4, and his youngest boy, Nathaniel, 3, chase each other around the two rooms where they live with their dad and older…
A posh Northern California hotel was ordered to pay $1.6 million in penalties Thursday for failing to provide public access to its nearby beaches. All beaches in California are open to the public, with rare exceptions, but the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Half Moon Bay did not make that clear and at times…
If you read enough about the Bohemian Grove, a private 2,700-acre swath of redwood-covered land on the Lower Russian River, you come to understand there’s nothing especially mystical about the secretive, testosterone-fueled revelry that goes on there every summer. It’s a bunch of normally uptight…
In Big Bear Lake, officials worry about an explosive wildfire roaring through the resort city, trapping tens of thousands of people. In the Santa Monica Mountains, authorities stage a mock evacuation in Mandeville Canyon, where police discover they are too slow to rescue residents from a wildfire…
The Dodgers’ Reggie Smith lands a punch on Cubs pitcher Rick Reuschel after Reuschel hit the Dodger outfielder in the ankle with a pitch.
Mourners spoke of community, unity and preventing violence as dozens gathered for a vigil Thursday evening, June 13, in front of the Alhambra Jack in the Box where days earlier a man fatally shot an off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy. Deputy Joseph Gilbert Solano, 50, died of his injuries Wednesday at Los Angeles County…
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Thursday evening one mile from Glen Avon, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 7:16 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 1.2 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was three miles from Jurupa Valley, four miles…
Authorities sought the public’s help in identifying a suspect seen stomping on the head of a 65-year old man in Buena Park and leaving him unconscious in the street in dash-cam footage captured Wednesday, June 12. Part of the assault was recorded near a bus stop at the intersection of Beach Boulevard and Orangethorpe Avenue,…
The Dew Tour at the Long Beach Convention Center on Thursday, June 13, 2019 in Long Beach, California. Bryce Wettstein of Encinitas finished fourth in the women’s Park semi finals during the the Dew Tour at the Long Beach Convention Center on Thursday, June 13, 2019 in Long Beach, California. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena…
Immigration agents violated the law when they raided a Van Nuys factory and arrested some 130 workers suspected of being in the country illegally in 2008, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. Though the case is more than a decade old, it could affect pending litigation pertaining to arrests of multiple people, which often happens…
