SANTA ANA — A 25-year-old woman pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter Friday and was immediately sentenced to six years in prison for the fatal stabbing of a fellow transient in Edison Park in Anaheim. Jessica Ventura. (File photo) As part of the plea deal, a charge of murder against Jessica Ventura was dismissed along with…
Police arrested a man suspected of assaulting his brother and prompting a six-hour standoff in Santa Ana on Sunday, Nov. 16. A man armed with a 12-inch sword, knife and pellet gun assaulted his sibling in their home at 2710 S. Rosewood Ave., said Santa Ana Police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna. He said the man’s brother…
If the Los Angeles school district moves forward with plans to paint over a controversial mural at a Koreatown campus, artist Shepard Fairey said he will insist on the removal of his large outdoor portrait of Robert F. Kennedy at the school named after him. In support of artist Beau Stanton, Fairey…
A woman was shot and a man was struck in the face during what sheriff’s deputies described as a domestic violence assault in La Mirada just past midnight on Sunday. The assault suspect was arrested, but posted bail Sunday, said Lt. Blanca Arevalo of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. His name and city of…
It can’t be all work and no play for the big jolly man in the red suit. A number of Santas hit the snowy slopes at Mountain High on Sunday, a fun sight for visitors of the Wrightwood resort. Dozens of snowboarders and skiers decked out in costumes joined the fourth annual Santa Sunday, a…
The regional air-pollution watchdog will accept public comments for the next week on a series of proposed plans to monitor emissions at four South Bay refineries — including the Torrance Refinery — which the agency wants to implement by this time next year. The deadline to comment on the four proposals is 5:30 p.m. Friday,…
A crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian walking across the street in Rancho Santa Margarita led sheriff’s deputies to shut down an intersection near a busy shopping center for hours Sunday morning. An Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokesman said the collision happened at around 8:53 a.m., near the intersection of Santa Margarita Parkway and…
“We don’t want to burn to death.” That sentiment and demands for far more prudent wildland development, better firefighting equipment and tougher building codes ring loud and clear from readers after my column reporting that early half of Southern California burned in the last half-century. But instead of simply flipping to the next digital or…
Q. I have seen you say that new residents have 20 days to get a vehicle registered in California. What about a current California resident homeowner who retires, establishes a home in another state and stays in that other state every year for a little more than six months, so as to not be considered a…
Dozens of retired Los Angeles employees are collecting such generous retirement pay that they exceed pension fund limits set by the Internal Revenue Service, saddling taxpayers with additional costs, a Times data analysis has found. Their lavish pensions forced the city to establish an “Excess…
