The Game Returns Home To Compton For Community Giveback With WSS
The Game returned to Compton this week with intention, partnering with WSS to host a community giveback supporting students from the Compton Unified School District. The event combined mentorship, music, and cultural connection in a way that reflected hip-hop’s ongoing commitment to community impact. Approximately 50...
Car crashes into fountain, catches fire; driver transported
A two-vehicle traffic collision ended in one person being transported after a Lexus sedan flipped on its side into the Tesoro del Valle water fountain and caught fire on Monday morning. The other car was a Mercedes Benz SUV and had damage on the right front of the car. Los...
Pasadenans Among Hundreds of Thousands Affected as Decades of Unreported LA County Convictions Come...
Many Pasadena- and Altadena-area residents are among nearly 330,000 people in Los Angeles County now facing potential job loss, licensing consequences, and firearm prohibitions after the LA County Superior Court revealed that criminal convictions dating back more than 40 years inadvertently were never reported to the...
Compton man charged with child assault, more victims sought
Detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department – Special Victims Bureau are investigating allegations of sexual assault involving 30-year-old Alberto Rojas, who was arrested by Compton Sheriff’s Station deputies on Sunday, February 15, 2026. The alleged assault of a minor occurred in the city of Compton....
Hiker’s Death at California’s “Bridge to Nowhere” is a Grim Reminder of a Hidden...
Members of California’s San Dimas Mountain Rescue were chatting with local hikers about safety at the Bridge to Nowhere trailhead near Los Angeles on March 1 when what had been a preventative search-and-rescue mission became an emergency. In a Facebook message, the team recounted that a “frantic runner came charging...
Young, Black, Female, and On L.A.’s Sidewalks
*It’s a sight that has grown more commonplace and even more agonizing. And with good reason. In 2024 the Urban Institute conducted a study on the crisis problem of women of color on the streets in Los Angeles County. The numbers are staggering. It found that three out of four women on the sidewalks are women of...
LAPD Officer Charged With Disability Fraud After Skydiving While on Injury Leave
A veteran officer with the Los Angeles Police Department has been charged with two felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly collecting disability benefits while engaging in physically demanding activities, including skydiving and weightlifting. According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office,...
Garden Grove Moves to Ban Whippets
Another Orange County is looking to introduce restrictions on whippets, with Garden Grove officials eying a ban of the inhalant. Recreational nitrous oxide, known as “whippets” or “galaxy gas,” can be inhaled to create a high and can lead to “neurological, hematologic [related to blood], and psychiatric...
Girl, 12, Dies 10 Days After Bully Allegedly Threw a Water Bottle at Her...
RESEDA, CA — The Los Angeles Police Department has launched a homicide investigation into the death of 12-year-old Khimberly Zavaleta Chuquipa, a sixth-grade student who died Wednesday following what her family describes as a violent bullying incident at Reseda High School. The preteen passed away at UCLA Children’s...
Teen Driver Shot Near Atlantic and Artesia, Then Drives Himself to Hospital
A teenage boy is recovering after he was shot while driving in North Long Beach early Saturday, then managed to get himself to a nearby hospital. Police say the teen arrived at the hospital around 2:06 a.m. with gunshot wounds and that his injuries are not considered life-threatening. Detectives later cordoned off a...
