GRANADA HILLS -- A man with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire at a festival
outside a Catholic church Saturday, wounding three
people, including his girlfriend, authorities said.
A charter bus overturned Saturday on a
Mojave Desert freeway, killing a woman and injuring 21 other
people, authorities said.
POMONA -- Firefighters braced for more hot and dry weather
Saturday as they worked to surround a wildfire that has burned
460 acres of parched brushlands in the San Gabriel
Mountains.
LOS ANGELES -- Temperatures are expected to hit the century mark in
parts of the Southland Friday, and record or near-record temperatures are
expected in valley areas.
ANGELS CAMP -- State safety inspectors on Saturday
began investigating what caused the mechanical failure of a
carnival ride that injured 23 people, mostly children, at the
Calaveras County Fair.
EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA -- A former Bethlehem woman will serve up to 23 months in prison for having her 7-year-old son dress as a Cub Scout to collect money for a nonexistent cause.
LONG BEACH -- Long Beach police sought the public's help today in
the search for a suspected predator who allegedly tried to lure away two small
children earlier this month.
A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted
the former head of UCLA's cadaver program on eight felony counts
for allegedly trafficking in parts of bodies donated to the
university.
CERRITOS -- It's not your typical ATM robbery. This time the suspects stole the entire ATM, in the middle of the night, and the whole thing was caught on surveillance tape.
SAN DIEGO -- Federal prosecutors say the probe into the May
4 bombing of the San Diego federal courthouse has led to a woman
being charged with using a false identification to try to obtain
explosives.
BERKELEY -- Robert Mondavi, the pioneering vintner
who put California wine country on the global map, has died. He was
94.
SAN JACINTO -- The leader of Southern California's
Soboba Indian tribe agreed Friday to establish a joint operation
plan with Riverside County sheriff's officials after three people
were killed on the reservation in gunbattles with deputies.
COMMERCE -- Three people were killed on Interstate 5 south of downtown Los Angeles
Friday morning after a motorist driving the wrong way crashed head-on
into another vehicle.
CHATSWORTH -- Authorities have identified and questioned several Chatsworth High School students who were in Mason Park on the same day three teenage girls were found unconscious, but no arrests were made, police said today.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Even as same-sex couples across California
begin making plans to tie the knot, opponents are redoubling their
efforts to make sure wedding bells never again ring for gay couples
in the nation's most populous state.
Lynn Elber | 10:23 AM PDT
LOS ANGELES -- Ellen DeGeneres is putting the California Supreme Court ruling in favor of gay marriage into action -- she and Portia de Rossi plan to wed, DeGeneres announced during a taping of her talk show.
MOUNT BALDY VILLAGE -- Firefighters face a second
day of hot and dry weather as they work to contain a wildfire on
towering Mount Baldy.
SANTA MONICA -- The city of Santa Monica today cut down 23 downtown
ficus trees that activists had been trying to save, city officials said.
ORANGE -- An Amber alert has been cancelled for a 10 month old baby allegedly kidnapped by his mother from Children's Hospital of Orange County.
PALMDALE -- Family and friends are asking for the public's help in finding the killer of a 13-year-old girl whose body was found wrapped inside a piece of red carpet in a Palmdale onion field.
LOS ANGELES -- "Sleuth to the Stars", investigator Anthony
Pellicano, was convicted on federal racketeering and other
charges for digging up dirt for his clients to use in
lawsuits, divorces and contract disputes against the rich and
famous.
Thomas Watkins | 6:24 AM PDT
INGLEWOOD -- The police chief Wednesday called the
fatal shooting of an unarmed man "highly tragic" but said the
officers who shot him may have been within policy.
ENCINO -- A man was shot today at an Encino market and police were
searching the area for the gunman.
OCEANSIDE -- Instead of celebrating his 28th birthday, family members wait for word on the fate of Josh Hartman and his fiancee who disappeared from their fishing boat last week.
GARDENA -- Authorities have released video of a cold blooded murder and a $10,000 reward has been offered in hopes of arresting and convicting the two men responsible.
SOUTH LOS ANGELES -- An immigrant discovered in a South Los Angeles drop house this week told authorities she was impregnated by one of the smugglers, and witnesses reported that several other women were sexually assaulted, immigration officials said Thursday.
VALLEY VILLAGE -- Arraignment was postponed today for a
volunteer Boy Scout district commissioner accused of possession and
distribution of child pornography.
MIAMI -- A highway patrol official says O.J. Simpson's girlfriend has been seriously injured in a car accident in Miami.
LANCASTER -- A high school teacher and coach at a high school in Palmdale
has been arrested, accused of having sex with a 17-year-old-student
three years ago.
Juliet Williams | 8:48 PM PDT
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday
released a $144.3 billion state budget that eliminates a massive
deficit by selling lottery bonds and cutting billions in state
programs.
DOWNEY -- Most ten year old boys are playing baseball, video games or just hanging out with friends, but, not Moshe. He's cramming for final college exams.
LOS ANGELES -- Hospitals that leave homeless patients on the
streets of Los Angeles without their consent would be fined $25,000 under an
ordinance to be considered today by the Los Angeles City Council.
Altadena -- A $10,000 reward was posted today for information
leading to an arrest and conviction in the death of a 90-year-old Altadena
grandmother whose body was found in her home, which had been set on fire
deliberately.
Chester -- A Northern California mother is mourning
the loss of her son and daughter in separate weekend tragedies,
after her son died in the hospital Tuesday morning.
Los Angeles -- Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight is reportedly nursing his wounds and ego after being knocked unconscious during a brawl outside a local nightclub.
California City -- Scores of worshippers flocked to a desolate spot in the Mojave Desert today to honor a special lady -- the Virgin Mary.
Long Beach -- A judge has sentenced a man to death
for the murder of an off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy
during an attempted robbery.
Alicia Sieradzki | 8:52 PM PDT
South L.A. -- Los Angeles is taking aim at pimps and prostitutes, specifically a group constantly in trouble with the law along L.A.'s Figueroa corridor.
Ojai -- The "Pastie Lady" has left town. Jennifer Moss has moved on after a year in Ojai, where she often pedaled a bicycle around town in a hemp G-string and flower-shaped
pasties to promote Earth-friendliness.
By Jessica Garrison | 10:10 PM PDT
South L.A. -- The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the murder of a middle-aged woman found partially decapitated in an alley in South Los Angeles early this morning.
Azusa -- Windows of more than 50 cars in Azusa and surrounding areas were shot out with a BB or pellet gun in a series of attacks on parked vehicles early Friday morning.
Santa Ana -- A man who cut out his girlfriend's
tongue and let her bleed to death has been given a life sentence
without chance of parole.
Garden Grove -- Police are urging a man suspected of stealing high tech cameras in Garden Grove to turn himself in.
JC Penney is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the those who have burglarized 11 stores in the past year.
By Richard Winton | 1:25 PM PDT
The dean of students at a South Los Angeles school is under investigation by police for allegedly concealing evidence that one of his colleagues, former Assistant Principal Stephen Thomas Rooney, had a sexual relationship with a student.
Tami Abdollah | 7:56 AM PDT
Santa Monica -- The president of Santa Monica's school board said Thursday that a "breakdown in communication" prevented the board from fully examining a 2006 complaint against a teacher who was charged this week with molesting five of his female students.
Lake Arrowhead, Calif. -- A 2-year-old Lake Arrowhead girl is recovering from bite wounds suffered when a coyote attacked her in the front yard of a residence in the 28700 block of Laurel Drive.
California's Megan's Law website is being credited with helping to capture a registered sex offender who approached a 15-year-old girl near her Riverside home.
The head animal control officer in Adelanto
has resigned after being accused of drowning of nearly 50
kittens.
Here's a call emergency crews don't get every day:
Lancaster, California -- A dog badly burned by someone who deliberately set the
animal on fire in Lancaster was being treated at an animal shelter today, and
Los Angeles County supervisors approved a $5,000 reward in hopes of tracking
down the tormentor.
Santa Monica, California -- New brides have done it for centuries and now, after more than two years of legal wrangling, a California man has officially taken his wife's last name.
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