Underworld Turns

Redlands school placed on lockdown after 12-year-old student found with loaded gun

A Redlands middle school was placed on lockdown after a 12-year-old student brought a loaded gun to campus Thursday. Redlands police responded to Moore Middle School at around 1 p.m. after a student reported that their classmate was seen showing off a bullet during lunchtime. Campus staff quickly located the boy and upon searching his […]
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‘Karma got you!’ 2016 Ventura cold case murder closed, investigators say

Homicide investigators in Ventura have closed a nearly 10-year-old cold case murder of a 38-year-old man found bleeding and passed out after being shot. Officers with the Ventura Police Department responded to the 400 block of South Evergreen Drive just after 10:30 a.m. on March 20, 2016, after receiving a 911 call from a woman reporting that her friend bleeding and […]
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Suspect arrested for allegedly threatening Burbank utility workers, police with rifle

Burbank police arrested a 38-year-old man who allegedly threatened utility workers and officers with a rifle. The suspect had reportedly pointed what appeared to be a rifle at employees from Burbank Water and Power, who were in the area conducting routine work, before retreating into a nearby residence that was under construction. The incident happened […]
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11 arrested in $17M scheme targeting elderly L.A. homeowners

Federal agents fanned out across Southern California Thursday morning, serving 11 arrest warrants in a sweeping organized crime and fraud investigation, according to the FBI. The case, dubbed “Operation Hard Money,” centers on allegations that the suspects stole victims’ identities and used them to secure fraudulent real estate loans backed by the victims’ properties, according […]
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Workers in Colorado Have Shut Down One of the Nation’s Biggest Meatpacking Plants

This story was produced in partnership with the Food & Environment Reporting Network. On Monday at 5:30 a.m., more than three thousand employees at the JBS beef packing plant in Greeley, Colorado, officially walked off the line. Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, the union that represents the plant, had begun the […]
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Mayor Bass signs proclamation to rename César Chavez Day amid sexual abuse allegations

Mayor Karen Bass signed a proclamation on Thursday to rename the last Monday of March “Farm Workers Day” in the city of Los Angeles. “This is a very difficult day,” Bass acknowledged at the beginning of a news conference announcing the change. It comes after bombshell sexual abuse allegations surfaced against César Chavez, the long-admired […]
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