A race against time. That’s how one air quality expert describes the current public health situation in Los Angeles, where thousands are coping with destruction wreaked by the Palisades and Eaton fires. Together, the fires have ravaged more than 37,000 acres since they broke out last Tuesday — leaving over 12,000 structures, including homes, business,…
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LOS ANGELES — The only time his legs found a seat last weekend in Champaign, Illinois, was for 60 measly seconds, and USC forward Saint Thomas found himself laboring amid USC’s upset bid. He’d played the most minutes of anyone in a Trojans jersey. And midgame, naturally, he asked head coach Eric Musselman for a…
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A cryptocurrency businessman who dubbed himself “The Godfather” and a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy have agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges for alleged involvement in a conspiracy that used intimidation, extortion and illegal search warrants against multiple victims, officials said Friday. Adam Iza, 24, who has homes in Beverly Hills and…
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The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has reached an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to end a years-long investigation into the systemic misuse of jailhouse informants, federal authorities announced on Friday, Jan. 17. The lengthy Department of Justice Civil Rights Division investigation into the use of informants between 2007 and 2016 found that informants within…
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As the Kings strolled down to Seattle in an effort to tame the Kraken on Saturday, they sought to end their heretofore split road trip on a high note. They were singing in falsetto on Thursday in Vancouver, where Alex Turcotte’s two goals and his no-look assist to Adrian Kempe in the opening 9:42 of…
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FILE: Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan Photo by: Mindy Schauer, SCNG There’s a saying that the late L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan cited during his tenure when it came to government red tape, and it came in handy amid a catastrophe that, until last week, was a notch higher on the list of L.A.’s worst natural…
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Evelyn McClendon died on the Altadena block she grew up on when the Eaton fire swept through her neighborhood like “a scene out of a … movie,” her brother said. A Loyola Marymount graduate and school bus driver, McClendon, 59, loved politics, scary movies and religion, according to her nephew, Jamire Calvin. “She was an…
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Notable O.C. football transfers Name, Position, Grade, Previous school, New school Ja’Myron Baker, WR/ATH, Jr., Los Alamitos, Sierra Canyon Mike Davis Jr., LB, So., Aquinas, Mater Dei Jordan Hicks, DB, Fr., Santa Margarita, Mission Viejo Justin Lewis, RB, Jr., Thousand Oaks, Mater Dei Devan Parker, WR, Jr., Servite, Corona Centennial Elijah Rincon, OLB/edge, Jr., Servite,…
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A former La Habra Heights deputy fire chief accused of posing as an officer when he pulled over a co-worker in Whittier four years ago recently took a plea deal in the case. Timothy Michael Peel, 37, pleaded no contest on Jan. 10 to one misdemeanor count of impersonating an investigator. He is scheduled for…
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As the Palisades and Eaton fires continue to burn in Los Angeles County, government agencies and nonprofits are offering resources and aid to residents whose homes have been damaged or destroyed, as well as to those who have been ordered to evacuate. From adult clothing to baby supplies to information on filing disaster relief claims,…
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