Daily Memo: Over 20 Kidnapped by ICE and CBP, Including Another U.S. Citizen, Amid...
Memo Torres breaks down immigration raids and related news in Southern California today. Below, you'll find links and references to everything discussed in the video, allowing you to take a closer look at each topic. Thursday. December 4th. It’s day 181. In the last two days, Federal immigration agents...
Largest Utah Coal Plant Goes Quiet as Los Angeles Goes Coal-Free
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Utah’s largest coal-fired power plant — the Intermountain Power Project (IPP), located in the Great Basin region of western Utah and primarily serving southern California — is no longer operating, after the Los Angeles Department of Water and...
2 men charged in $1.3 million construction scam in Ventura County
VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. - Two Los Angeles County men have been charged with defrauding multiple victims in Ventura County in a construction scam that totaled more than $1.3 million. What we know:. The suspects, Ben Nino Hunter of Hidden Hills and Morgan Elkarif of Los Angeles, are accused of scamming...
First all-female class graduates from LA County firefighter training program
A group of 14 women, some of whom were inmates or former foster kids, became the first all-female class to graduate from an LA County firefighter training program.
L.A. teachers union declares impasse after 10 months of talks with district
United Teachers Los Angeles, the union representing more than 37,000 educators across the Los Angeles Unified School District, has declared an impasse following 10 months of negotiations. Negotiations began on Feb. 18, and declaring an impasse will usher in a formal mediation process. So far, UTLA has claimed that...
Woman convicted of murder in stabbing death of woman, 66, in Rolling Hills Estates...
A woman was convicted of murder in connection with the stabbing death of a woman in a parking garage at a Rolling Hills Estates mall.
LAPD seeks source of ‘large quantity of illegal pyrotechnic devices’ after teen’s death
The search is on for the source of “a large quantity of illegal pyrotechnic devices” that killed a teenager in the Vermont Knolls area of South Los Angeles Wednesday evening. In a press release issued by the Los Angeles Police Department Thursday afternoon, police confirmed that the 17-year-old was declared dead at a...
Fear of ICE raids forces cancellation of annual Boyle Heights Christmas Parade
The Boyle Heights Christmas Parade, which last year featured artist Robert Vargas and East LA-born actor Edward James Olmos, has been canceled due to fears of immigration raids. “It’s a small parade, but it was building up,” said organizer Tonie Juarez. “The last thing I need is for it to...
3 stabbed in Southeast Los Angeles gas station fight involving 20 men
Three men were stabbed when a large fight broke out at a gas station in Southeast Los Angeles on Friday night, officials told KTLA. The incident happened around 8 p.m. near the Chevron station at Atlantic Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Century...
More LA County employees charged with unemployment benefit fraud
Los Angeles County employees were charged for fraudulently receiving unemployment benefits during the coronavirus pandemic while they were working full time for the county, the LA County District Attorney’s Office said Friday. Eleven additional county employees were facing felony grand theft charges for their alleged...
