California

HACIENDA HEIGHTS, Calif. (KESQ) – An 89-year-old woman died, and another person was injured when a tour bus caught fire on the Pomona Freeway in Hacienda Heights.   The fire was reported at 5:38 a.m. Friday on the eastbound Pomona (60) Freeway, east of Hacienda Boulevard, according to the California Highway Patrol. According to the CHP’s

SANTA ANA, Calif. (KESQ) – A man who spent nearly 19 years in state prison for an armed robbery he had nothing to do with was freed today of his conviction in state court in Santa Ana.   When Guy Donnell Miles won the right to a retrial in 2017, he was given the chance to

RIVERSIDE, CA (KESQ)– The United States Department of Justice today announced that a Riverside man was sentenced today to 480 months in federal prison for using social media and other internet platforms to solicit minor victims to produce and provide him with child sexual abuse material featuring themselves, sometimes in exchange for money. A registered

BURBANK, Calif. (KESQ) – Seventeen people were taken into custody in Burbank as part of a statewide organized retail theft operation, police announced today.    Los Angeles Organized Retail Crime Association and California Highway Patrol Organized Retail Crime Task Force investigators conducted a joint operation with detectives in a statewide operation known as Summer Blitz

SHERMAN OAKS (KESQ) – Sparks flew tonight as Mayor Karen Bass and City Councilwoman Nithya Raman sparred over homelessness, housing and public safety, and attempted to persuade voters to support their respective bids to lead the second-largest city in the nation. During the 90-minute debate conducted by the Sherman Oaks Neighborhood Council and Sherman Oaks/Encino

Andrea Turisk CALEXICO, Calif. (KYMA) – A residential citrus tree in Calexico tested positive for an incurable plant disease. The disease is called called huanglongbing (HLB) that infects and kills all citrus tree varieties. This is the first detection of the deadly citrus tree disease in Imperial County. HLB can be spread by a small pest called

LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A proposed merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery could put about 4,500 film and television jobs in Los Angeles County at risk over three years and threaten billions of dollars in regional economic activity, according to a final county report released today.   The report from the Los Angeles County

LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A man who engaged in a gunfight with Los Angeles police outside a Silver Lake Trader Joe’s store following a pursuit in 2018, leading to a store assistant manager being fatally shot by an officer, was convicted today of second-degree murder. Gene Evin Atkins, 36, was convicted in June of 40

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – The San Diego County Board of Supervisors today approved a policy banning federal immigration enforcement agencies from using county facilities for firearms training. However, county Sheriff Kelly Martinez said in a statement that she “will continue to allow CBP to utilize the Otay Range,” after “careful consideration of impacts at

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – A man and a woman suspected of running a years-long exotic reptile smuggling operation, in which animals were brought across the border through San Diego County ports of entry have been arrested, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today. Georgina Bribiesca Chavez, 66, of Tijuana, and Salvador Pelayo, 28, of Chula

LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – Young people are turning to digital media to explore religion and spirituality, but they continue to trust parents, caregivers and faith leaders more for spiritual guidance, according to a UCLA study released Tuesday. The first Future of Faith study from UCLA’s Center for Scholars & Storytellers surveyed more than 2,000 people