Three people, including a child, were killed after a fire broke out in a Montebello home Thursday. Fire crews responded to the engulfed residence in the 100 block of South 5th Street near West Whittier Boulevard around 4:30 a.m.  At the scene, a boy was found dead and two adults, a man and a woman, […]

The Supreme Court has rejected a federal appeals court’s attempt to end telemedicine and mail-order abortions, hitting pause on a fast-moving case that threatened to decimate access to abortion pills nationwide. The one-paragraph SCOTUS order, issued late Thursday afternoon, means that for the foreseeable future, the abortion pill mifepristone can continue to be prescribed via […]

Something big happened in Virginia last month that you probably missed. On April 13, Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill making Virginia the 18th state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. That’s an agreement among states to elect the president by the popular vote rather than the Electoral College.  The compact goes into […]

A school resource deputy is under investigation in Riverside County after reportedly using force on a juvenile while responding to an altercation near a Moreno Valley high school campus. Video posted to social media by user @crowntownactivity shows the incident, which occurred May 12 in the 15000 block of Lasselle Street, just off the campus […]

California Public Health officials said they have identified a fifth person from the Golden State who may have been exposed to hantavirus following an outbreak on a luxury cruise ship. None of the five California residents have tested positive for the hantavirus. Officials said the newly-identified passenger disembarked from the MV Hondius and briefly returned […]