Nearly 34,000 inmate phone calls to their attorneys were recorded, and the Orange County Sheriff’s Department accessed calls 347 times, according to documents revealed in court proceedings Friday, Nov. 9. The numbers are a significant – and, to some, alarming – spike from the 1,079 recorded calls Global Tel Link originally acknowledged in an August hearing. At…
With about a third of all votes still to be counted from Orange County’s Nov. 6 midterm election, District Attorney Tony Rackauckas has issued an internal memo that indicates he believes he will not win re-election. The Nov. 7 memo comes as the ongoing ballot count by the Registrar of Voters shows Supervisor Todd Spitzer’s…
Republican Rep. Jeff Denham lost his lead over Democrat Josh Harder on Friday in one of California’s four unresolved congressional races as updated ballot counts showed the GOP in growing danger of losing as many as six House seats in the state. GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of Costa Mesa fell further…
As the Woolsey fire raged Friday, more than 200,000 residents in Ventura and Los Angeles counties were ordered to evacuate. “This fire is moving quickly. Conditions are changing rapidly,” said Sgt. Eric Buschow of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office during an afternoon news conference at the Thousand…
POMONA, Calif. – Leah Pritchett led the Top Fuel qualifying and Tommy Johnson Jr. led in Funny Car Friday at the final event of the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season. Top Fuel driver Richie Crampton hits the throttle during qualifying in Pomona on Friday, November 9, 2018 at the 54th annual NHRA…
The Woolsey fire moved into the West Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles Friday night and some evacuations have been put into place. All homes in West Hills, west of Valley Circle, from Roscoe Boulevard to Vanowen Street are under mandatory evacuation orders, according to the LA City Fire Department. The alert went out at 6:45 p.m….
The sign that greets visitors to this town in the Sierra Nevada foothills proudly states: “May you find Paradise to be all its name implies.” But after a fast-moving wildfire ravaged this community of 27,000 people, forcing thousands to flee by car and on foot, Paradise has become something else…
