Live updates: Garden Grove chemical leak crisis continues as explosion fears loom

Crews continue monitoring a potentially explosive chemical incident at a Garden Grove aerospace facility that has forced roughly 50,000 residents from their homes and prompted a state of emergency, evacuation orders and a class-action lawsuit. The incident began Thursday afternoon at the GKN Aerospace Transparency Systems facility on Western Avenue after a 34,000-gallon tank containing […]

Family seeks answers after teen cyclist injured, breaks teeth in Cerritos hit-and-run

A Cerritos-area family is asking witnesses to come forward after their 13-year-old son suffered facial and dental injuries in a hit-and-run crash while riding his bike home from school last week. The crash happened Tuesday, May 19, along Carmenita Road between Red Plum Avenue and Beach Street, according to the boy’s mother, Eunice Kim, who […]

‘Garden Grove families did not sign up for this’: Attorney behind lawsuit speaks out

As tens of thousands of Garden Grove residents remained displaced Sunday due to the ongoing chemical emergency at a GKN Aerospace facility, the attorney behind a newly filed class-action lawsuit said families “did not sign up for this” and accused the aerospace company at the center of the crisis of potential negligence. The lawsuit, filed […]