Officials were investigating a gun battle that left three California Highway Patrol officers injured — one fatally — in Riverside on Monday, Aug. 12. Officers use yellow tape to block off the scene of a gun battle in Riverside involving at least three CHP officers and one armed suspect. (Photo by OC Hawk) Fellow officers…
Former Angels baseball star Doug DeCinces was sentenced by a federal judge in Santa Ana on Monday to eight months of home detention and ordered to pay a fine for his role in an insider-trading scheme. DeCinces, 68, was convicted in May 2017 for his role in the trading scheme that involved the alleged use…
Hazardous materials teams responded to reports of potentially hazardous chemicals at a parking lot of the Veterans Affairs Long Beach Healthcare System on 7th Street on Monday, Aug. 12. A patient told staff that caustic chemicals were stored in his vehicle parked at 5901 E. 7th St., the Long Beach VA’s director of public relations,…
A 28-year-old Garden Grove man was charged with murder on Monday, with prosecutors accusing him of beating, bludgeoning and stabbing his mother to death. Police say Jonathan Michael Warner admitted to killing his mother when he was taken into custody on Thursday, two days after 62-year-old Vivian Wolff was found dead in a condominium the…
The funeral for a Los Angeles Police Department officer gunned down while off duty in Lincoln Heights last month drew hundreds of his peers to a downtown L.A. cathedral Monday morning. Flanked by dozens of LAPD vehicles along Temple Street just outside Cathedral Our Lady of the Angels, the hearse holding the casket of Officer…
In Newport Beach, Hossein Nayeri could face life in prison if convicted on charges of kidnapping and torturing a marijuana-dispensary owner in 2012.
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