Lake Elsinore woman pleads guilty in case involving the fatal shooting of an Irvine...
Hailey Angelique Rangel, a 22-year-old woman from Lake Elsinore, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last Friday. She was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for her involvement in a fatal car-to-car shooting of Nicholas Alistair Neaimi-Pour, a 19-year-old Irvine resident, two years ago. Co-defendant Jayden...
12 Urban Areas With the Highest Rates of Homelessness
Ever wandered down a crowded city street, neon lights flashing, traffic humming, only to spot someone curled beneath a blanket, trying to sleep through another night without a roof overhead? It’s a scene far more common than the glossy postcards suggest. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness,...
Who Looks Like They Belong in America?
America treats belonging as something Latinos must earn—rather than something they already possess, says David Alvarado.
LASD Appeals to Public to Help Solve Car-to-Car Shooting
Sheriff’s Robert Luna and homicide detectives will reach out to the public Monday for help finding the killer or killers of a 22-year-old woman who died during a 2024 car-to-car shooting near South Los Angeles. A $20,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction...
Healthcare workers, activists march at White Memorial to protest ICE in hospitals
Demonstrators, including healthcare workers, marched to Adventist Health White Memorial in Boyle Heights on Sunday, calling on hospital administrators to uphold the privacy rights of immigrant detainees and protect staff who advocate for patients. It was the last of three stops in a rally organized by the People’s...
Man shot to death near Metro Station in Watts
LOS ANGELES – A man was mortally wounded in a shooting near the Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Metro Station, authorities said Monday. The shooting was reported at about 7:45 p.m. Sunday in the 11600 block of Willowbrook Avenue at Imperial Highway, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The...
Longtime appliance retailer closes stores, files for bankruptcy
A well-known appliance chain has shuttered all its locations and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And recent customers have expressed concerns since the Southern California retailer took these steps so soon after Black Friday. “Despite our best efforts to overcome tariffs, declines in consumer spending, and other...
Two nabbed for stealing checks from mailboxes in Ojai, Ventura County
Two Montebello men were arrested in what's believed to be a large-scale mail theft operation, involving stealing checks from mostly "affluent communities," according to authorities. Ojai has been seeing an uptick of mail theft targeting monetary checks from U.S. Postal Service collection boxes for some months with...
Publisher’s Perspective: Four Irvine Councilmembers Betray Veterans … Again!
I wrote an article in May regarding four Irvine City Councilmembers — William Go, James Mai, Melinda Liu, and Kathleen Treseder. On May 27th, these four Councilmembers voted to break a promise that the City of Irvine made 11 years ago to veterans and their families to build a Veterans Memorial Park & Cemetery on the...
Los Angeles firefighters honored with star on Hollywood Boulevard
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Fire Department now has a star on Hollywood Boulevard to celebrate the department’s courage and public service in response to the fatal Palisades Fire in January. The idea started from an assignment 14-year-old Eniola Taiwo wrote for her eighth grade English class.
