ARCADIA — An East Coast transplant, rock climber Michelle Wong, 32, often tackled the New River Gorge in West Virginia. She’d happily make the 6-hour ride from her home in Baltimore for a chance at dangling from a rock – with no net – looking up at only azure skies. On Saturday, the new Los Angeles…
By RACHEL LA CORTE and KEITH RIDLER OLYMPIA, Wash. — Investigators are piecing together how an airline ground agent working his regular shift stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane, took off from Sea-Tac International Airport and fatally crashed into a small island in the Puget Sound after being chased by military jets that were…
Low-lying roads or parking lots near the ocean in Southern California may see some minor flooding during high tide cycles Saturday evening, according to the National Weather Service. In a beach hazards statement, high tide warnings were put in place for Seal Beach, Newport Beach and Balboa in Orange County. The tide was expected to…
SEATAC, Wash. — A “suicidal” airline mechanic stole an empty Horizon Airlines plane, took off from Sea-Tac International Airport and was chased by military jets before crashing near a small island in the Puget Sound on Friday night, officials said. Preliminary information suggests that the 29-year-old mechanic stole the Horizon Air Q400 and the crash occurred…
The flames that drove neighbors from their homes also brought them together. On Saturday morning, some of them told stories of rushed attempts to secure property, last-minute escapes from the encroaching inferno and the camaraderie that grew in the midst of the Holy fire. The dominant emotion was relief. James Gassor left his home of…
Wind-swept wildfires raging. Homes incinerated. Families displaced. Lives lost. In the long, hot, smoky California summer of 2018, as we camp under ash-hued sunset skies, the scariest thought is that the future has arrived, and more intense weather extremes will continue to wreak havoc in years…
Tera Swick watched in horror as monster flames raced down a mountain Friday morning and toward her mother’s neighborhood. She and her family had been tracking the Holy fire during the last few days, watching it gain steam then stall as it climbed through the Santa Ana Mountains from Orange County…
For some in the room, the problem was all too familiar. At a church in Compton last week, community members spoke out about allegations of deputy gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department — the topic of similar gatherings several years back. The meeting was in response to news last month…
WESTMINSTER – Two people were killed and four others were injured in a fiery, multi-vehicle crash Saturday on the San Diego (405) Freeway in Westminster that involved a big rig and a pickup truck. Two people were pronounced dead at the scene and four people were rushed to area hospitals, where their conditions were not…
In a sign that firefighters have a firmer handle on the Holy fire near Lake Elsinore, residents of three areas who were forced to flee were allowed to return home Saturday morning, Aug. 11. Evacuations for the neighborhoods of Horsethief Canyon, McVickers and Rice Canyon were lifted, said Thanh Nguyen, a spokesman for the incident…
