Nearly two years after California voters approved Prop. 64, illegal marijuana grows are continuing in the state’s national forests, predominantly the work of Mexican drug traffickers.
The insurance industry says there’s no problem with the California fire insurance market, but tell that to the people whose policies have been dropped.
UC Berkeley says a strong earthquake would pose a serious to severe risk to life in 62 campus buildings.
SANTA ANA — A pair of 18-year-olds are facing charges of pimping a teenage girl in Santa Ana and Pomona, a police spokesman said Wednesday. Carlos Guadalupe Garcia and Leilani Celeste Parker were arrested Friday for allegedly pimping the 15-year-old victim, said Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna. Related Articles CSUF professor wants to raise…
The man who killed California Highway Patrol Officer Andre Moye Jr. during a traffic stop fired at least 100 rounds before being shot to death by other officers, a police official said Wednesday, Aug. 28. Aaron Luther’s rifle was capable of firing about 120 rounds, Riverside Deputy Chief Larry Gonzalez said as he provided details…
A collision involving an Orange County Sheriff’s Department motorcycle in Aliso Viejo sent one deputy to a hospital on Wednesday, Aug. 28. The crash happened at about 3:25 p.m. near the intersection of Pacific Park Drive and Woodfield, Orange County Sheriff’s officials said in a Twitter post. A deputy riding a department motorcycle was knocked…
The former director of the nonprofit once known as the Capistrano Unified School District Foundation has been charged with embezzling more than $42,000, prosecutors said. Michelle Hart, 44, of Fresno wrote checks to herself and made unauthorized purchases with the foundation’s bank card, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said. On Aug. 20 she was…
Critical fire weather is expected Wednesday morning through Thursday in most of Modoc County and Shasta-Trinity National Forest in Siskiyou County.
On Aug. 31, 1986, Aeromexico Flight 498, a Douglas DC-9, flying from Mexico City to Los Angeles International Airport, collided with a Piper PA-28 Archer over Cerritos.
The revelations add another blemish to the reputation of Baca, the once-towering law enforcement figure who spent 14 years heading one of the nation’s largest police agencies.
