Williamson Rock is a sheer granite wall that rises from chaparral in the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument. Crisscrossed with 300 routes, it has been a proving ground for Southern California rock climbers since the 1960s. But in a move that outraged many in the climbing community, the area…
On July 7, 1946, Howard Hughes took the first XF-11 prototype on its maiden flight and crashed.
LAUSD board President Monica Garcia and Superintendent Austin Beutner are slated to participate in Walk to School Day on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. (File photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG) Thousands of Southern California students, along with parents, teachers and staffers, will take to the streets Wednesday to mark Walk to School Day, which not…
By JAY REEVES PANAMA CITY, Fla.— Michael’s leading edge careened onto northwest Florida’s white-sand beaches as a still-growing Category 4 hurricane Wednesday, lashing the coast with tropical storm-force winds and rain and pushing a storm surge that could cause catastrophic damage well inland once it makes landfall. The unexpected brute quickly sprang from a weekend…
A Huntington Beach police officer on his way to work on his patrol motorcycle was involved in a crash on the Butterfield Ranch Road onramp to the southbound 71 Freeway in Chino Hills Wednesday morning, prompting authorities to shut down the onramp, California Highway Patrol officials said. “It appears the officer and a civilian vehicle…
Mexican officials discovered a sophisticated cross-border tunnel that began in a home in the town of Jacume less than a football field away from the U.S. border. A team made up of members of the U.S. Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations and the Drug Enforcement Administration determined…
A man reported missing near the border of Brea and Rowland Heights remained unaccounted for after multiple law enforcement agencies searched nearby foothills for more than three hours on Tuesday, Oct. 9. A construction company contacted authorities at about 3 p.m. after an employee failed to return from a delivery to a residential job site…
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s detective said while the recent reports of a burglary suspect possibly armed with a rifle near Malibu Creek State Park were “concerning,” there was no evidence that the man was connected to the deadly shooting of an Irvine father at a nearby campground in June. Lt. Eddie Hernandez, one of…
His last name has five letters, but Republicans running for office in Southern California are as reluctant to mention “Donald Trump” as they are to drop one of the few still forbidden four-letter words in public. It’s a reality of the double political life many candidates on both sides of the political aisle are leading…
Mel Mermelstein kept looking for pieces from a place that tried to kill him. Stones and bits of barbed fence. Forks and spoons for whatever scraps he and others were fed. A photo of him, squeezed among dozens of other prisoners, in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Dr. William Kott and his daighter-in-law, Lisa Kott, examine a picture…
