A person is in custody after a high-speed police chase of a driver reportedly wanted for assault with a deadly weapon Tuesday night. It’s unclear exactly what time the chase was initiated, but the suspect was leading officers with the Los Angeles Police Department in pursuit in southbound lanes of the 101 Freeway just before […]

A Riverside County school psychologist was arrested and charged with child sex crimes following a months-long investigation. Paul Ryan Coleman, 46, of Yucaipa, had been communicating online with an undercover officer who was posing as a 13-year-old child, according to the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. After three months of conversation, Coleman reportedly traveled from […]

One person is dead and another hospitalized after a raging house fire in Orange County Tuesday evening. Officials with the Orange County Fire Authority confirmed to KTLA that firefighters responded to reports of the blaze at 6200 Apache Road in Westminster around 7:20 p.m. Arriving crews found a two-story home engulfed in flames and launched […]

A 34-year-old deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to obstructing a federal investigation into a self-styled cryptocurrency businessman who called himself “The Godfather,” authorities announced. Scott Allen Simpkins, a resident of Brea, was assigned to LASD’s Lakewood Station where he was a member of the department’s Special Enforcement Bureau and SWAT Team while […]

An Australian citizen was arrested for allegedly assaulting an on-duty Transportation Security Administration officer at the Los Angeles International Airport on March 15. The suspect, 35-year-old Thomas Jesse Bingham of Melbourne, accused the uniformed federal officer of stealing his passport and backpack and violently attacked him while they were leaving the restroom between Terminals 6 […]

First responders were on the scene of a single-vehicle crash in Encino that sheared a fire hydrant and prompted a response from crews with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department responded to reports of the crash near the intersection of Hayvenhurst Avenue and Calneva Drive just after 3:30 p.m. Details are limited and it’s unclear exactly how the crash occurred, but […]

On Tuesday, the oversight and investigations arm of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing to discuss alleged Medicare and Medicaid fraud—a major talking point of the Trump administration and Robert F. Kennedy’s Department of Health and Human Services, which have deployed fraud claims to help justify cuts to critical funding and […]

Joe Kent has resigned as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center in protest of President Donald Trump’s ongoing war against Iran. Kent, a twice-failed Washington congressional candidate aligned with the isolationist MAGA right, is the highest-ranking Trump official to quit because of the war.  But Kent didn’t portray the president as the real villain […]