Santa Ana CA

Two men from Southern California will each serve just 3 years in state prison. That’s a pretty small penalty for Nicholas Hooper and Kenneth Action who managed to drain 330-thousand dollars from California’s Electronic Benefit Transfer or EBT system. That’s the system that provides cash, food stamps, childcare,...

A Frito-Lay manufacturing plant in Rancho Cucamonga has stopped production after more than 50 years in operation, and potentially hundreds of workers are now looking for new jobs. On Monday, a spokesperson for PepsiCo Foods U.S., the parent company of Frito-Lay, confirmed that manufacturing operations at the Rancho...

A small earthquake rattled Southern California early Tuesday afternoon, with shaking felt across a wide swath of the Los Angeles area. The U.S. Geological Survey reports a preliminary magnitude of 3.3 for the quake, which struck at 12:15 p.m. local time off the coast of Los Angeles County. Social media...

Activists are calling for the city to invest another $2.2 million into a fund that pays legal bills for people fighting deportation, saying it’s only a matter of time before immigration raids spill into Long Beach. The post Hundreds of protesters rally against ICE, ask City Council for more funding to fight...

SISKIYOU COUNTY, Calif. - Deputies recently discovered over 3,200 grams of cocaine during a traffic stop, leading to the arrest of two men from Southern California. 27-year-old Noe Gomez Jr. of Pomona and 30-year-old Ismael Puentes of San Gabriel were stopped by authorities for speeding through a construction zone on...

Amid protests sparked by a weekend immigration enforcement operation in Los Angeles County, workers at a Salvadoran restaurant in Compton were seen helping injured deputies who had responded to the scene. Footage captured by stringer service OnScene.TV shows at least three Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department...

After an opposition campaign waged by SoCalGas and others, regulators tanked rules that would’ve encouraged, but not required, a transition to electric heat pumps. On Friday, air-quality regulators for Southern California rejected a plan to gradually phase down a major source of pollution: new gas-burning space and...

Oversight and penalties for California nursing homes are intensifying as the state cracks down on repeated violations and patient safety failures. According to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), there were 1,580 violations at senior care facilities in 2023, a 31% increase from the previous year. The...

COMPTON, Calif. (KCAL/KCBS) – A restaurant owner, who is an immigrant from El Salvador, stepped up to help both demonstrators and police officers who were injured in protests in Los Angeles. Elizabeth Mendoza is the owner of La Ceiba Restaurante in Compton. The restaurant stayed open during the protests,...

A cadre of civil rights groups brought a lawsuit late Wednesday challenging Riverside County’s use of cash bail to detain people as they await trial, citing squalid conditions inside the county’s jails where dozens of inmates have died in recent years. The class-action suit is the latest to...