Bodycam footage shows the moment a Florida man was arrested after police found him asleep in a truck parked at a gas station with two firearms and his 5-year-old child sitting in the backseat.  The incident occurred on Thursday in Plant City, which is located east of Tampa and west of Lakeland.  According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, […]

The tiny foxes found only on California’s Channel Islands were once on the verge of disappearing forever. Now, conservationists are celebrating what’s considered one of the fastest recoveries of any mammal protected under the Endangered Species Act. In a post shared Saturday for Endangered Species Day, the Catalina Island Conservancy reflected on the dramatic rebound […]

Long Beach will hold a pride festival this weekend after the one they originally had scheduled was canceled. Long Beach city officials said the celebration was nixed after the nonprofit that organizes it, Long Beach Pride, failed to submit the required information for an event permit.  It was supposed to start on Friday and last through Sunday. “Despite […]

Often the best hope for central bankers is to minimize mistakes and stay humble.

A Jewish institution in Los Angeles was among the locations targeted in a recently foiled terrorism plot, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton announced this week. The thwarted terrorist attacks were the result of the recent arrest of Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, an Iraqi national and senior member of […]

A Los Angeles area resident who arrived at Tom Bradley International Terminal B at LAX on May 14, was recently diagnosed with measles, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced Saturday. The infected person returned to Los Angeles from an international trip. They arrived on Alaska Airlines flight 1354. “Individuals who were at […]

An investigation is underway after an elderly man and woman were found dead in a Riverside County home. On May 15, deputies from the Thermal Sheriff’s Station were called to a home in the 79000 block of Montego Bay Drive in Bermuda Dunes just before midnight. Inside the home, two people were found with traumatic […]

Two fires burning in the Antelope Valley have prompted evacuation warnings for residents on Saturday. The Corral Fire is burning near 110th Street West and West Avenue E near the Lancaster area and was reported just after 1:30 p.m. As of 4 p.m., the blaze grew to around 161 acres, according to Cal Fire. Evacuation […]

Sen. Ron Wyden, longtime Oregon Democrat and ranking member of the Senate Finance Commitee, has never been a fan of President Donald Trump. But I’ve never seen him quite this worked up. The administration, Wyden declared in a statement on Friday, “is dripping with corruption from top to bottom” and is now plotting “among the […]