In a series of early morning raids, Los Angeles police arrested four people today in connection with the killing of former “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor, who was shot after encountering three people trying to steal the catalytic converter from his parked car downtown. Robert Barceleau, 18, of Huntington Park; Sergio Estrada, 18; and
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More than 360 combined pounds of fentanyl and cocaine discovered last week hidden in a flatbed truck in Otay Mesa amounted to the largest fentanyl seizure this year by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in California, it was announced today. The Aug. 9 seizure yielded 133.6 pounds of fentanyl powder in 50 packages and
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Two Mexican men caught last year in El Monte with more than 1 million fentanyl pills were each sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison. Florencio Camacho Allan, 29, and co-defendant Gerardo Gaxiola Patiño, 30, each pleaded guilty in April in Los Angeles federal court to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s Death Valley National Park has claimed another life in its second heat-related death of the summer, park officials said Monday. On Aug. 1, a day where temperatures reached nearly 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48.3 degrees Celsius), bystanders saw a man stumble back from the Natural Bridge Trailhead, a one-mile roundtrip trail,
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Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom sent letters Tuesday to school districts, urging them to restrict students’ use of smartphones on campus — a move that comes amid an ongoing nationwide debate about the mental health impacts of social media on teens and young children. In South Carolina, the
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The 1986 slaying of a 19-year-old woman whose body was found dumped in South Pasadena has been linked to William Suff, a serial killer who was convicted of murdering 12 women in Riverside County, Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials announced today. The “major breakthrough” in the investigation into the death of Cathy Ann Small was
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By Ashley Zavala Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KCRA) — After being shelved for nearly a year, California lawmakers in the Assembly dusted off a controversial, proposed law that will allow some convicted felons serving life without parole to petition for early release. The proposal would create a process for those
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CalMatters Like single-family homeowners in California, landlords are facing higher insurance premiums, too. And they’re passing along some of those costs to their tenants. Many insurance companies have stopped writing policies in the state because of increased wildfire risks, but that’s not the only reason. They say in the case of any catastrophe, the potential
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A strong earthquake in the Highland Park area rattled a wide swath of the Southland today, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The temblor hit at 12:20 p.m., centered two miles south-southeast of Highland Park, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The magnitude was initially reported at 4.6, but was later
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Data collected on Mars’ planetary crust by the InSight lander has led scientists to conclude the planet has stores of liquid water underground, a report revealed today. Analysis led by Vashan Wright, a geophysicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, provides evidence that the planet still has liquid water in addition to that
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The all-star team from Eastvale will play for a berth in the Little League World Series tonight after winning its first two games in the West Region Tournament. The 6 p.m. game is a rematch of Eastvale’s 11-3 victory over the all-star team from the Central East Maui Little League in Wailuku, Hawaii Tuesday, Eastlake’s
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A Van Nuys man was sentenced today to 20 years behind bars for attacking police with a metal pole and other makeshift weapons on Jan. 6, 2021, during the U.S. Capitol riot. David Nicholas Dempsey’s prison term is the second-longest Capitol riot sentence handed down among the hundreds of Capitol breach prosecutions to date in
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The shaman of an Inland Empire religious sect who is accused of sexually assaulting several young girls was charged today with forcible rape and more than a half-dozen other felony counts. Ricardo Isaac Flores, 59, of Rialto was arrested Wednesday following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation that began last week. Along with rape,
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he will start to redirect money from cities and counties that don’t show “demonstrable results” in reducing homelessness. The announcement Thursday came after Newsom helped clear a homeless encampment in Los Angeles alongside the state’s Department of Transportation. The governor issued an executive order in July calling on
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A woman accused of killing her newborn child and dumping her in a trash receptacle behind a Riverside business almost four decades ago will be arraigned next month on a murder charge. Melissa Jean Allen Avila, 55, of Shelby, North Carolina, was arrested earlier this week following a yearslong investigation by the Riverside Police Department
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As Yun Chuan (yoon chu-an) and Xin Bao (sing bao), the first giant panda bears to arrive in the United States in 21 years, welcomed droves of pandamaniacs at the San Diego Zoo today, special guests made sure they were on hand. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who proclaimed Thursday as California Panda Day, was joined
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Dozens of animals — from goats to exotic birds, as well as larger pets — were seized from an Aguanga property after investigators discovered the creatures living in a state of abandonment and in need of medical attention, authorities said today. The seizure occurred Wednesday in the 44000 block of Bonny Lane, near the point
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Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday had a message for local governments: clean up homeless encampments now or lose out on state funding next year. Standing in front of a cleared homeless encampment in Los Angeles, Newsom vowed to start taking state funding away from cities and counties that
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Associated Press A California woman is charged with taking a cache of weapons, including a sword, a steel whip and a knife into the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by a mob of Donald Trump supporters, according to court records unsealed Wednesday. Kennedy Lindsey had a short sword, a steel tactical whip,
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CalMatters California put hundreds of millions of homelessness dollars at risk because of its “disorganized” and “chaotic” anti-fraud policies, according to a critical federal audit. The audit released Tuesday analyzed California’s Department of Housing and Community Development, which oversees the state’s homelessness programs. It gave the California agency its lowest possible ranking, finding that it
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