TEHACHAPI — Authorities have identified three people who died when their plane crashed in the snowy Tehachapi Mountains. The Kern County Sheriff’s Office on Monday said those killed were 38-year-old Marina Villavicencio of Yorba Linda; 53-year-old Felipe Plascencia of Whittier and 74-year-old Ruben Piranian of Granada Hills. The twin-engine Beechcraft was reported overdue Thursday on…
Newly elected Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to end its civil rights investigation into the county’s improper use of jailhouse informants and begin negotiations to place his office under probation. Spitzer said Monday he has reached out to DOJ administrators to begin settlement talks on the necessary…
SAN CLEMENTE — About 100 6- to 13-year-olds dropped their lines off San Clemente Pier Saturday, all hoping to hook “the big one.” The fishing derby was part of the second annual San Clemente Day festivities, celebrating the city’s 91st birthday. Noah Henderson, 12, of San Clemente stands with his fishing pole while competing in…
A former NASA contractor who authorities said hacked into women’s computers, then threatened to publish on the internet nude photos and information he had retrieved unless they sent him more explicit photos, has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison. Richard Gregory Bauer, 28, a resident of the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood of Los Angeles,…
A dolphin is rescued by Pacific Marine Mammal Center. (Photo courtesy of PMMC) A dolphin is placed on a rescue truck by staff from Pacific Marine Mammal Center. (Courtesy of PMMC) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds A dolphin is rescued by Pacific Marine Mammal Center staff at Fisherman’s Cove in Laguna Beach. (Courtesy of…
The National Weather Service has plotted the recorded temperatures for downtown Los Angeles so far for February 2019, which is shaping up to be one of the coldest months on record. (Graphic courtesy of the NWS) From a National Weather Service statement February 2019 has been a very cold month across all of southwestern California….
Orange County supervisors are set to consider a sweeping overhaul of the county’s voting system that would eliminate polling places and replace them with vote centers, which election officials say could make it easier to cast ballots, increase participation and save the county upwards of $29 million. But the new model – which would be…
To watch Rep. Duncan Hunter on TV is to see a diligent, baritone-voiced congressman championing conservative causes and defending soldiers accused of war crimes. But on Capitol Hill, Hunter, R-Alpine, is hamstrung, stripped of committee assignments that are vital to a lawmaker’s influence and effectiveness. Then-House Speaker Paul Ryan forced Hunter to resign from the…
Four years ago, Anahi Olide would drop off her young son at day care and then head straight back home for several hours before driving 10 minutes to Cal State Los Angeles for class. Those days are over. In order to snag a parking space before the tsunami of cars shows up, the 22-year-old child…
Each year, thousands more qualified students apply to Cal State Los Angeles than the campus has the funding or space to accommodate. Now campus officials want to raise admissions standards and shrink the fall 2020 class. If campus officials decide to do so and the Cal State chancellor’s office…
