By Julie Sharp Click here for updates on this story CALIFORNIA (KCAL/KCBS) — California is synonymous with the golden poppy and the California redwood. If one assemblyman has his way, the state could soon adopt Bigfoot, a.k.a. Sasquatch, as its latest official emblem. Assemblyman Chris Rogers (D-Santa Rosa) authored AB 666 in hopes of making
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COACHELLA, Calif. (KESQ) – The Coachella Valley has been a hotbed of winning lottery tickets in the past week with two more reported. On Friday, someone won nearly $1.5 million from a Mega Millions ticket bought at the Stater Bros. on Highway 111 in La Quinta, KTLA reports. The ticket matched five of the six
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RAMONA, Calif. (KESQ) – Detectives investigating the fatal stabbing of a Cal Fire captain in her Ramona home “are treating this case as a potential domestic-violence incident,” a Sheriff’s lieutenant said today. Deputies responding to a report of an assault about 9 p.m. Monday found Rebecca “Becky” Marodi, 49, mortally wounded at her residence in
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) – As his longtime partner Rihanna looked on, hip-hop star A$AP Rocky was acquitted today of two felony charges of assault with a semiautomatic firearm in a case in which the rapper-turned fashion mogul was accused of shooting at a former friend during an argument in Hollywood in 2021. The jury in
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Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District returned to classes today with a major new rule in place — a ban on cell phones in classrooms. The district’s board passed a resolution in June in a 5-2 vote calling for a prohibition on students’ use of cell phones and social media through the entire
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco formally announced his candidacy for governor of California on Monday. “I am running for governor because our beautiful state — which I absolutely love — is heading down the wrong track and has been for years. Everyone knows it, except those sitting in the Sacramento echo
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – A San Diego woman whom prosecutors say planned to mail Bibles containing heroin hidden inside the spines to two California prisons was sentenced today to more than seven years in prison.  The U.S. Attorney’s Office said that after Lucresia Stone-Rojas, 46, was arrested in December of 2023, investigators found packages
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – During a stopover in San Diego today, the crew of a Northern California-based U.S. Coast Guard ship offloaded more than 18 tons of cocaine seized from seafaring traffickers in the Eastern Pacific over the last several months. Personnel aboard the cutter Waesche confiscated the narcotics during 11 interceptions of vessels
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KESQ) – A Culver City man pleaded guilty today to recklessly operating a drone that crashed into and damaged a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft battling the Palisades Fire last month. Peter Tripp Akemann, 56, entered his plea to a federal class-A misdemeanor count of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft, according to
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A military fighter jet crashed into the San Diego Bay near Shelter Island Wednesday morning, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. The crew members aboard the NAS Whidbey Island-based EA-18G Growlerejected from the aircraft before it went down near Shelter Island at about 10:15 a.m., according to Navy public affairs. The U.S. Coast Guard told
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – A former counselor at a Christian academy in Riverside was sentenced today to 30 years in prison on federal charges for having possessed child pornography and producing it by secretly recording students using the boys’ restroom across from his office at the private school. During a March 2020 search of his
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It’s a day News Channel 3 anchor Karen Devine said she won’t soon forget. Karen traveled to Altadena to meet up with a friend who lost her home in the Eaton Fire. A friend who made a last-minute decision that saved her life. “I’ll be safer if I stay, I’ll be safer if I stay,
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An immigration protest turned violent today in downtown Los Angeles, when a fight broke out and a 17-year-old boy was stabbed. Â Â The protest, largely involving high school students, began earlier Friday morning, with various groups ultimately converging on Los Angeles City Hall, then marching on streets in the area and later gathering in Grand
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SYLMAR, Calif. (CNS) – Southern California Edison officials conceded in a regulatory filing today that it’s equipment may be associated with the ignition of the Hurst Fire, which burned nearly 800 acres in the Sylmar area during the height of the January Southland firestorm. The Hurst Fire, which erupted Jan. 7 and was fully contained
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A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy was found guilty today of using excessive force when he assaulted and pepper-sprayed a woman during a shoplifting investigation outside a supermarket in Lancaster.  Trevor James Kirk, 32, of Santa Clarita was convicted in downtown Los Angeles of one felony count of deprivation of rights under color of
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (CNS) – Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter, who admitted stealing nearly $17 million from the Dodger slugger’s bank account to pay off illegal gambling debts, was sentenced today in federal court in Santa Ana to 57 months in prison. In addition to the four years and nine months in prison, Ippei Mizuhara was
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LOS ANGELES, Calif (CNS) – Customs and Border Protection agents seized over three dozen live beetles being smuggled inside Japanese snacks at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said today. CBP agriculture specialists examining an air cargo shipment in January discovered the beetles concealed inside multiple packages of snacks, potato chips and chocolate, the agency said.
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As Los Angeles recovers from the devastating January fires, a city official today encouraged visitors to come to the city, saying tourism can be a “lifeline” for local businesses and workers. Adam Burke, board president and CEO of the Los Angeles Tourism and Convention, noted more than 540,000 residents work in the tourism industry, and
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PASADENA, Calif. (CNS) – Rep. Judy Chu, D-Pasadena, today honored Altadena resident Edgar McGregor with a Certificate of Congressional Recognition for his “quiet but dogged heroism” during the night the Eaton Fire erupted. Â Â McGregor, a climate scientist, saw flames just blocks away from his home on Jan. 7. While evacuating his family, he also
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