Eight-time serial killer Andrew Urdiales, who last month was sentenced to death for murdering women in Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties, was pronounced dead over the weekend in what prison officials said Monday may have been a suicide. Urdiales, who arrived on San Quentin’s death row on Oct. 12, was found unresponsive late Friday…
The state attorney general has sued Quemetco, the battery-recycling facility in City of Industry, citing 29 alleged violations involving failures to stop hazardous waste from migrating into the neighborhood and the underground aquifer, a source of drinking water for more than a million Los Angeles County residents, according to the legal complaint. Using numerous reports…
More than two dozen U.S. Congress members have urged the U.S. Postal Service to “strongly consider” implementing climate-control units in all their mail trucks after a postal carrier died in Woodland Hills over the summer from overheating. U.S. Rep. Tony Cardenas, D- Panorama City, spearheaded the call “for the safety of all mail carriers” in…
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9557 will hold its annual Veterans Day ceremony at 10 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 11 at Veterans Park in Fountain Valley. The ceremony usually attracts 200 to 300 people, and there is ample seating for all. VFW Post 9557 was created through the consolidation of several posts: Post 4048 of Seal…
Los Angeles schools chief Austin Beutner is working on a plan to radically reshape the nation’s second-largest school district by shrinking the central bureaucracy and moving decision-making closer to campuses. The aim is to boost student success and save money at a time when officials insist that…
Questions about voting on Tuesday? Here are some answers. How to find your polling place: Visit the California Secretary of State’s website, www.sos.ca.gov/elections/polling-place, and enter your address. You can also find your polling place by calling the state’s Voter Hotline at (800) 345-8683. …
LOS ANGELES — An Uber driver who allegedly kidnapped four passengers by refusing to let them out of his vehicle on Halloween night in the Santa Monica area is scheduled to be arraigned Monday. Khaled Elsayedsa Ali, 35, of Garden Grove is scheduled to be arraigned this morning on four counts of kidnapping and one…
Immigration officials stopped allowing a volunteer group to visit people at a San Diego detention facility unless its members agreed not to talk with the news media or other groups about conditions inside. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says that members of SOLACE, or Souls Offering Loving…
A man was found shot to death early Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, in the front yard at 2329 Ramona Drive in Santa Ana. He was shot multiple times in the upper body, police said. (Google Street View) SANTA ANA — A man was shot to death Monday in Santa Ana, authorities said. Officers arriving at…
With the finish line in sight and receipts in their wake, California congressional candidates have spent nearly $150 million, or about 36 percent more than they spent in the 2016 election cycle. In their drive to flip Congress, Democrats have spent $102 million of the total, more than double the $47 million spent by GOP…
