California warns residents, tap water unsafe after wildfires
For many California residents recovering from wildfires, clean tap water has become an unexpected concern. Officials warn that in parts of Los Angeles County, including Pacific Palisades, the water flowing from household taps is unsafe to drink, forcing many families to depend entirely on bottled water for daily use....
LAUSD tries to quash lawsuit alleging the district defrauded taxpayers
A lawsuit filed against the LAUSD and Superintendent Alberto Carvalho claims they defrauded taxpayers out of millions of dollars in funding.
Immigrant groups denounce arrest of man and infant at Cypress Park
The Los Angeles Rapid Response Network (LARRN), a coalition of more than 50 organizations, groups, and more than 1,500 volunteers throughout the Los Angeles County region, denounced the arrest of a man and an infant at a Home Depot in Cypress Park. An LARRN first responder shot a video of...
Woman Pleads Guilty to Role in $54M Medicare Fraud
A Los Angeles woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to her role in a scheme to defraud Medicare out of more than $54 million via hospice and diagnostic testing services that were never provided. Sophia Shaklian, 38, of the Larchmont neighborhood, entered a plea to a single count of health care fraud,...
NoHo Police Arrest Man for Alleged Domestic Violence
Police arrested a man Wednesday on suspicion of committing domestic violence and then trying to escape in North Hollywood. Los Angeles Police Department officers from the department’s North Hollywood Division were called at 12:51 a.m. Wednesday to the 12100 block of Hart Street and Laurel Canyon Boulevard regarding a...
Armed Agents Separate Toddler From Father And Drive Away With Child: Video
Immigrants rights advocates accused authorities of timing multiple Tuesday operations to intimidate voters.
Lost hiker makes ‘one final call for help’ just before phone dies in California
A hiker who became lost on her descent from a California mountain made a desperate call for help moments before her cellphone died, rescuers say. After the hiker made her way to Mount Lukens in the San Gabriel Mountains from Haines Canyon Debris Basin, she became disoriented on the trek down the peak, the Los Angeles...
LAPD refuses to release crime map records, says data could lead to ‘public panic’
First Amendment lawyer says LAPD denial goes against principles of public records law.
L.A. Metro bus operator killed by hit-and-run driver while on break
Family, friends and colleagues gathered for a vigil Tuesday evening in Eagle Rock to remember a Los Angeles Metro bus operator killed over the weekend in a hit-and-run collision. The fatal crash occurred Sunday evening at around 7:40 p.m. near the onramp of the 2 Freeway and Colorado Boulevard, according to the...
Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013 • Governor Brown signs AB 60 granting driver’s licenses to...
Publisher’s note: This story originally appeared in the Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013 edition of the Lassen County Times. Joining immigrant rights, community, faith, law enforcement and local elected leaders in Los Angeles and Fresno, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. recently signed AB 60, extending the legal right to drive on...
