Juan Corona, who gained the nickname “The Machete Murderer” for hacking to death dozens of migrant farm laborers in California in the early 1970s, has died. He was 85. Corona died Monday at an undisclosed hospital, Vicky Waters of the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reported. He had been serving a life sentence in…
VICTORVILLE — Federal prosecutors say a prison guard has been arrested on suspicion of taking cash bribes in exchange for smuggling contraband into a Southern California lockup. The Department of Justice on Monday said Paul James Hayes II, 49, of Victorville, was a lieutenant assigned to investigate wrongdoing by inmates and guards at the Federal…
We live in different versions of Los Angeles, but an East Hollywood brunch summit shows our lives can intersect with conversation and food, even avocado toast.
Los Angeles County sought an injunction against Sheriff Alex Villanueva on Monday over his reinstatement of a deputy who was fired in connection with allegations of domestic abuse, setting off an extraordinary test of wills between the county’s governing body and a newly elected sheriff who has…
Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro speaks to about 450 students in Moore Hall at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA, on Monday, Mar 4, 2019. Castro, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Obama, outlined his priorities if he were to win. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG) Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro…
A pair of storms passing through Southern California between Tuesday, March 5, and Friday, March 8, will drop even more precipitation onto areas that have already received well above their average rainfall totals. Residents in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties will see the first of two storms hitting all of Southern California…
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who led a heist of more than a half ton of marijuana from a downtown warehouse pleaded guilty to federal charges Monday. Marc Antrim, 41, admitted to his role in the scheme during a hearing before U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips, who is scheduled to sentence…
Jarring as the photos were, Jocelyn Navarro, a junior at Newport Harbor High School, said she wasn’t surprised when they surfaced on Snapchat and Twitter Sunday morning. Not by the red cups arranged in a swastika. Not by the arms outstretched in Nazi salutes. Not even by the gleeful expressions…
Eight months after being recalled from a Southern California state senate seat, Fullerton Democrat Josh Newman says he’ll run to retake the district in 2020. Newman, who was elected to represent the 29th state senate district in 2016, was recalled by voters in June – only 17 months into his first four-year term – after…
The U.S. Center for SafeSport banned U.S. and Pan American champion weightlifter Colin Burns for 10 years last year for sexually assaulting a female weightlifter at pre-Olympic test event in Brazil, only to have the ban lifted by an arbitration panel last July, the Southern California News Group has learned. After an 11-month investigation, SafeSport…
