City of Torrance urges Metro Board to reject proposed Hawthorne Boulevard route
The city of Torrance is urging Los Angeles County Metro Board members to reject a proposed extension of the Metro K Line that would run about 4.5 miles to the Torrance Transit Center, arguing the plan would cause significant economic harm and add hundreds of millions of dollars in costs. City officials say the...
East Village Apartment Killing Nets Long Beach Man 32 Years In State Prison
Nearly five years after a roommate walked into an East Village apartment and found a man fatally wounded, a Long Beach resident has been ordered to spend 32 years in state prison for the 2021 killing. Peter Andrew Hairston, 49, entered a no-contest plea to voluntary manslaughter earlier this month...
Heavy rain severely damages a major California mountain highway
Millions of Southern Californians know the feeling of escaping the city by heading into the mountains. For many, that trip starts on Angeles Crest Highway, a scenic road that feels like a gateway to fresh air and open space. Late summer brought relief when the full highway reopened after years...
Hospital Trying to Identify Unconscious Patient
A Los Angeles hospital is asking for the public’s health in identifying an unconscious patient. According to Dignity Health, the Asian or Hispanic man, believed to be 25 to 35 years old, was found near Wilshire Boulevard and Witmer Street in the Westlake neighborhood and has been hospitalized since Dec. 29.
Rain in the forecast for Los Angeles. Here’s how long it will last
A band of showers was moving across western L.A. County as of 7:30 a.m., with rainfall totals around 1/500th of an inch, said Rich Thompson, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.
ICE Agents Detain Man in Little Tokyo
A man was seized by ICE agents in front of the Miyako Hotel in Little Tokyo on Jan. 14 around 12:10 p.m. A video posted on Reddit by “The Ghosty Bear” shows two agents struggling with the man and shoving him into the back seat of a car parked in the hotel’s driveway as several pedestrians watch.
New Evidence In The Black Dahlia Case Suggests Elizabeth Short Knew Something Bad Was...
A Case That Never Lets Go Some stories fade into history. This one never did. Nearly 80 years later, the fate of Elizabeth Short—forever known as the Black Dahlia—still grips investigators, writers, and the public. Now, new evidence has surfaced, and it’s quietly reshaping how her story is being understood. Santa...
Long Beach’s Whistlemania campaign uses collective power to prepare against ICE raids
To resist the ongoing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and alert communities about incoming operations, neighborhoods across Los Angeles and Chicago have created a campaign called “Whistlemania.”. Whistlemania is a community-organized decentralized movement in which volunteers mass create zines and...
2 arrested after man fatally shot inside pickup truck in Long Beach
Two suspects were arrested after a man was fatally shot inside a pickup truck in Long Beach. On Jan. 18, police were on patrol when they heard multiple gunshots just before 2 a.m. They scanned the area and discovered a white pickup truck had collided with a light pole on the 1600 block of Pacific […]
Armed robbery suspect shot, killed in West Hills
Loved ones said the suspect was an 18-year-old from Riverside County.
