Recovery efforts continued Tuesday, July 9, in the communities of Trona and Ridgecrest, shaken last week by two major earthquakes. After Friday’s 7.1 temblor centered roughly 11 miles northeast of Ridgecrest and preceded by Thursday’s 6.4 magnitude quake, both followed by thousands of aftershocks, the communities have been cleaning up. Services have been coming back online…
A replica firearm that looked “identical” to a Beretta handgun was found next to a 17-year-old girl shot and killed by a Fullerton police officer on a busy freeway in Anaheim, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said on Tuesday. The DA’s office – tasked with investigating most police shootings in Orange County – released…
For generations, off-road vehicle riders have flocked to this windy stretch of the Central Coast to camp on the shore, build bonfires in the sand, and gun their engines in the only state park in California that allows motor vehicles on the beach and dunes. And for nearly as long, the surfside playground…
H. Ross Perot, the diminutive Texas billionaire who ran twice for the White House as a disruptive independent candidate in the 1990s, died Tuesday after a five-month battle with leukemia, according to a family spokesman. He was 89. Perot’s down-to-earth personality, combined with public perceptions…
Detectives are looking for a burglary crew that cut a hole in the roof of a Simi Valley Best Buy and stole $93,000 worth of Apple products, the Simi Valley Police Department said. Police responded to the big-box retail store at 1173 Simi Town Center Way on Monday morning and found it had been broken…
H. Ross Perot, the diminutive Texas billionaire who ran twice for the White House as an independent candidate, died Tuesday, according to a family spokesman. He was 89. Perot died after a five-month battle with leukemia, said James Fuller, a representative for the Perot family. Perot was an unlikely…
Good morning, I’m Paige Hymson, a podcast producer here at The Times. Our “Larger Than Life” podcast is out now. Listen to the first two episodes now available, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. This seven-part documentary podcast is about legendary Los Angeles street racer Big Willie…
Every Californian who makes it through an earthquake unscathed has a favorite story. Mine is a family story. It stems from the deadly Sylmar earthquake, which struck Los Angeles on Feb. 9, 1971. I was 15 years old, a sophomore at Cleveland High School, the second of four kids. This was before everybody’s…
The eighth-grade English class at Magnolia Science Academy 3 met last semester in an unusual setting: a carved-out rectangle in the school’s office, formed by portable dividers. Cramped quarters have forced such coping strategies at the charter school, which would like to rent more space at the…
