A 38-year-old Northern California man is accused of killing a woman before going on a violent cross-county rampage in which he fired at other motorists. The harrowing May 22 incident began around 8:30 a.m. when deputies with the Lake County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports of shots fired near Highway 29 and Point Lakeview Road […]

A shelter-in-place order has been issued as crews with the Los Angeles County Fire Department battle a large industrial fire in South Gate on Sunday. The fire was first reported around 2 p.m., with units arriving in the 18000 block of Industrial Avenue to find a one-story building fully engulfed in flames. Heavy smoke prompted […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Having spoken out for the welfare of immigrants and against the war in Iran—and drawn the ire of some American conservatives in the process—Pope Leo XIV is now calling on the world to safeguard human dignity in the AI era. His upcoming address on Monday, alongside a co-founder of artificial intelligence company Anthropic and a […]

Is there a deal? Is there not a deal? The fawning quarters of the right-wing press have spent the weekend so far gushing about how late and hard President Donald Trump is working on a deal to end his war on Iran—even missing his own son’s wedding for “circumstances pertaining to Government.” But for all […]

Crews are continuing to monitor the Garden Grove area amid the chemical incident that has prompted mass evacuations, a state of emergency and a class-action lawsuit. The whole ordeal began around 3:30 p.m. Thursday when a leak was reported at the GKN Aerospace Transparency Systems Inc. facility located at 12122 Western Avenue. First responders were eventually able to determine the leaking substance […]