Arsonist Arrested After Setting Building On Fire In Long Beach, CA
On Monday night a suspected arsonist set a boarded up home ablaze for an unknown reason. The building previously burned sometime last year. The home was said by community members to possibly be occupied by “Squatters” at the time of the fire being set, no injuries were reported other than the suspect. The roof...
Counties get $56M more from state to address youth homelessness
The state is sending another $56 million to help counties in Southern California and statewide provide services for young adults at risk of homelessness, officials announced Friday. The funding to 52 of the state’s 58 counties is from the Transitional Age Youth Program, or TAY to assist Californians 18 to...
LAUSD Tentatively Settles White Substitute Teacher’s Discrimination Suit
Los Angeles Unified has reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit filed by a longtime substitute teacher who alleged she was discriminated against because she is white when she was fired in 2024 after being falsely accused of making a racially insensitive remark to a Black student and not given the appropriate...
Stretch of Pacific Coast Highway reopens for first time since devastating wildfire
A stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway reopened ahead of Memorial Day weekend, ending more than four months of closure after a devastating wildfire shut down one of America's most renowned roadways. The May 23 reopening comes roughly a week ahead of state officials' scheduled target time . The highway, known as the...
Postal worker robbed at gunpoint in Palos Verdes Estates, USPS keys still missing
Two people were arrested after a U.S. Postal Service worker was robbed at gunpoint in Palos Verdes Estates, officials announced Friday. It was around 5 p.m. on Thursday when the Palos Verdes Estates Police Department received a call reporting the armed robbery on Via Tejon, outside of the U.S. Post Office in Malaga...
Promised Housing, Delivered Neglect: A Westlake Death Raises Hard Questions
How a Mother, Veteran, and Survivor Was Left Behind by the Very System Meant to Help Her The dogs were still inside the tent when Lucrecia Macias Barajas’s daughter pulled back the flap and saw her mother’s body—badly disfigured, with … Continue reading → The post Promised Housing, Delivered Neglect: A Westlake...
Off-Duty Deputy Killed In Three-Way Crash
A 21-year-old off-duty Los Angeles deputy, Daniel Valencia Chavira, tragically died after being seriously injured in a three-way crash. He had served a little over a year for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department LASD. According to a statement shared with PEOPLE, the LASD detailed that Chavira was off...
CHP, Local Law Enforcement Begin Memorial Weekend Enforcement
California Highway Patrol officers began a maximum enforcement period Friday evening in an attempt to crack down on drunken and unsafe driving across Southern California as part of a statewide push to keep roads safe through Memorial Day. The effort began at 6 p.m. Friday and will run through 11:59...
One Wounded During Freeway Shooting in Long Beach
One person was wounded in a shooting on the Long Beach (710) Freeway and an investigation is underway Saturday. California Highway Patrol officers responded to the southbound freeway, just south of Del Amo Boulevard, shortly before 10 p.m. Friday. When the officers arrived at the scene, they found the victim in the...
One person shot on 710 Freeway in Long Beach, CHP says
One person was wounded in a shooting on the 710 Freeway last night, and an investigation is underway. California Highway Patrol officers responded to the southbound freeway, just south of Del Amo Boulevard, shortly before 10 p.m. Friday. When the officers arrived at the scene, they found the victim in the driver’s...
