SANTA ANA — A suspect in a killing in Westminster nearly five years ago has been arrested and made his first appearance in court Monday. Roberto Rafael Saavedra Gallardo, who was arrested Friday, had his arraignment rescheduled for April 5 on a charge of special circumstances murder for financial gain that was filed in October…
A man climbed down from atop a crane in Koreatown after members of the Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team persuaded him to leave his post. The man, thought to be in his early 20s, spent more than three hours on top of the crane in the 3000 block of West 8th Street. Tony Im,…
A woman and her dog were found dead Monday morning in a gated senior living community in Pomona. Just before 6 a.m., officers went to the 150 block of East Bonita Avenue to investigate a suspicious death, said Aly Mejia, Pomona Police Department spokeswoman. They found the bodies of the woman,…
The Santa Monica Police Department asked for the public’s help Monday in finding the driver who fled after striking a 41-year-old man who fell into the road while riding an electric scooter. Paramedics treated the victim for significant head and body trauma, but he died a short time later at a…
There have long been serious concerns about the fairness and equity of the admissions process to elite universities. But the sprawling college admissions scandal has exposed serious weaknesses that experts say will result in far-reaching changes. “This is like Luke Skywalker finding the hole in…
The blue Pacific shimmered and rippled through waves of heat, much like what rises from a car’s roof on a hot summer day. But here, the heat comes not from the sun, but from 29 vents allowing nuclear waste to cool at the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Nearby, four giant canisters stood outside…
A longtime Los Angeles County sheriff’s official who came back from retirement to serve as Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s second-in-command — and was seen as a steadying hand in a fledgling administration that has already grappled with controversies — is leaving a little more than three months into…
Searchers combed a river in the Sierra Nevada foothills for a little girl swept away over the weekend, and two people were rescued in Los Angeles early Monday, putting a focus on dangers resulting from California’s exceptionally wet winter. The girl slipped off the rocks and fell into the Stanislaus…
A Long Beach tax preparer is expected to plead guilty Wednesday in federal court to wire fraud in connection with a Ponzi scheme that allegedly bilked $40 million from investors, according to authorities. As part of a plea deal, prosecutors have recommended that Carol Ann Pedersen receive 6 1/2 to eight years in federal prison…
Irvine Mayor Don Wagner has won a special election to fill a vacant seat on the Orange County Board of Supervisors. With only a few dozen ballots left to count on Monday, Wagner, a Republican, led former congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, a Democrat, by 3,537 votes in the seven-candidate race to represent the inland 3rd District,…
