Several eligibility criteria for California’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) officially changed on Wednesday, with most of the changes affecting lawfully present immigrants. The changes to CalFresh, according to the California Department of Social Services (CDSS), are due to H.R. 1, President Trump’s sweeping federal budget legislation more commonly known as the “Big Beautiful Bill.”  A shift in eligibility requirements […]

Multiple shots were heard during an hourslong standoff between law enforcement and an armed man in East Los Angeles early Wednesday morning. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies responded to the area of Noakes Street and South Downey Road shortly before 2 a.m. after someone inside a home reportedly called authorities and threatened to hurt […]

Europe will have to take on global threats alone if it doesn’t support America in Iran.

After a very dry and sporadically warm month of March, a healthy downpour of rain hit Southern California just hours before April 1. “As it moves further south and through L.A. County, we are seeing rain now falling in Anaheim, Costa Mesa and Mission Viejo,” KTLA Meteorologist Vera Jimenez said. “Then, as we continue across […]

A Southern California woman said it was nothing short of a miracle when her dog, who had been missing for five years, was found alive and returned home to her. Michelle Bluestone adopted Lola, a Schnauzer mix who was 3 years old, from a shelter in 2018. The two remained inseparable until one day in […]

A Northern California man accused of killing his wife and her mother has been charged in connection with a third murder in Los Angeles County, the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office announced. Police in Walnut Creek, a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, responded to a residence on […]

A Southern California woman who murdered her boyfriend and entombed his body under a staircase at her home was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Trista Ann Spicer, 46, was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder in November 2025 of her then-boyfriend, Eric Mercardo, 42. Mercado had been living at Spicer’s San Bernardino home […]

A fight that reportedly started inside a Northern California bar and spilled out onto the street turned deadly for one man who, presumably fleeing officers, jumped off a two-story high patio and landed on the rocky beach below. The March 21 incident, according to SFGATE, unfolded around 1 a.m. in the 600 block of Cannery […]

Police are searching for a driver involved in an illegal street takeover who fled the scene after striking a spectator that left the victim with severe injuries in Granada Hills last month. In a community alert, investigators with the Los Angeles Police Department said the incident happened around 1 a.m. on Feb. 22 at intersection […]