Here is the latest Local News from the LA Times.
Gang feuds to blame for recent Compton violence, officials say
Compton City officials along with federal representatives gathered in Compton on Thursday to reiterate their commitment to fighting and preventing violence in the city of nearly 100,000 after a particularly violent May.
Through Thursday, the number of homicides in the city has tripled compared…
Mell Lazarus dies at 89; Woodland Hills cartoonist behind ‘Momma’ and ‘Miss Peach’
Mell Lazarus’ mother was unfazed by her son’s famous comic strip about a nagging, meddling mother.
That’s because Frances Lazarus, who lived near him in Woodland Hills, would never admit that “Momma” was based on her, though of course it was.
“She would say, ‘You have captured Aunt Helen perfectly,’”…
Earthquake: 3.2 quake strikes near Muscoy
A shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Thursday afternoon three miles from Muscoy, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 4:06 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 4.3 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was three miles from Crestline, four miles from…
An allegation of academic theft at heart of UCLA shooting
The gunman was dead. Beside him, two semiautomatic pistols, extra magazines and a backpack.
Mainak Sarkar, a former doctoral student, had killed himself after storming through a UCLA building and fatally shooting a highly regarded professor inside a small fourth-floor office.
But the note Sarkar…
For UCLA shooter Mainak Sarkar, years of intense study ended in rage
Mainak Sarkar, the former student who police say killed his UCLA professor and another woman before taking his own life, appeared to plan out the attack in advance, officials said.
Sarkar, 38, spent years in academia studying engineering and was living in Minnesota at the time of the killings.
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After day of fear, UCLA students grapple with resuming classes, feeling ‘normal’ again
UCLA quickly announced plans to hold most classes as scheduled on Thursday, the day after a murder-suicide in which two people died. But as thousands of rattled UCLA students gathered their belongings — and bearings — after a terrifying morning of hiding in restrooms, texting loved ones and attempting…
Banning Ranch developer allowed environmental degradation to site
The developers who want to build hundreds of homes and a resort hotel on a coastal oil field in Orange County have dressed their project in green, saying they will clean up a fenced-off brownfield and create a nature preserve open to the public.
The Newport Banning Ranch website calls the project…
Earthquake: 3.2 quake strikes near Baker
A shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Thursday morning 37 miles from Baker, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 4:11 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 1.2 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 39 miles from Twentynine Palms, 46 miles from Yucca Valley…
News of UCLA shooting arrives as L.A. City Council discusses gun violence
Wednesday’s murder-suicide shooting at UCLA took place on the same day that the Los Angeles City Council was staging a ceremony commemorating National Gun Violence Awareness Day.
One activist who attended the City Hall event said it was the second time in the past year that council members have…
‘It’s crazy.’ Student survived Isla Vista rampage, and now UCLA violence
The routine seemed all too familiar to Jeremy Peschard. The alerts rolled in about an active shooter; buildings were quickly locked to protect the students inside; officers swarmed the campus.
He had seen it all before just two years ago during the shooting rampage in Isla Vista near UCSB.
Peschard,…
UCLA parents wait in terror as news of campus shooting trickles in
Once is too much. Twice is implausible.
That’s what television producer Mary Zilba thought Wednesday morning when she heard about the shooting at UCLA.
Zilba was one of the parents of UCLA students who watched in fear on television as their children’s school became the scene of yet another shooting…
Classroom by classroom, police search for UCLA shooter
As police search for a suspect in a shooting at the UCLA campus, they are using a tried and true method that has been honed in numerous similar incidents.
According to authorities, two people were shot on campus and police are looking for a 6-foot-tall white male dressed in all black. Hundreds…
Here’s one reason there’s only one Chinese cop patrolling Monterey Park: Chinese mothers
The old Chinese men stamp out their cigarettes, hide their dice and scoot their chairs from the street to the park’s sidewalk. Bob Hung pulls his police cruiser to a stop and rolls down his window. “Ni hao. Mei shi ba?” he asks them. How’s it going? The men insist that they weren’t smoking or gambling….
Jan Crouch dies at 78; televangelist co-founded Trinity Broadcasting Network
Televangelist Jan Crouch, who co-founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network with her husband more than four decades ago, has died just days after she suffered a stroke.
Crouch, instantly recognizable for her mountain of blonde hair, warm smile and long eyelashes, was 78.
Her family made the announcement…
L.A. gathers for ceremony at National Cemetery, home to ‘80,000 stories of bravery’
The weather was warm and sunny with a soft breeze, a perfect day to head to the beach, fire up the grill or hit the outlet sales. But for Rafael Vila, the only destination that made sense Monday was the flag-dappled lawn of Los Angeles National Cemetery.
“I don’t know if there’s any place else…
Santa Catalina Island to vote on marijuana dispensary
From a veranda overlooking Avalon harbor, real estate broker Mark Malan gazed at oceanfront cottages, a curved promenade and passing sailboats with brightly colored pennants.
To tourists, it was a place to bask in sun and surf just an hour from the California coast. But that’s not what the Long…
Subsidized rent, but nowhere to go: Homeless vouchers go unused
Nine years after she lost her apartment in North Hollywood and began couch-surfing and living in her van, Laura Luevano received a federal rent voucher to return her to the world of the housed.
Two months later — after calling 23 apartments for rent with no luck — the 65-year-old disabled woman…
A quiet day of remembrance at Riverside National Cemetery
They brought the little things their loved ones enjoyed in life: bags of pistachios and bottles of bourbon, cups of coffee and carefully chosen flowers.
Some came in groups, with folding chairs and lunches, and spent the day trading memories.
Others came alone. They kneeled and used mineral oil…
Mystery of missing Pearl Pinson deepens as law enforcement calls off search in remote area
The mystery over the whereabouts of a missing 15-year-old Bay Area girl deepened after authorities called off an extensive search along the Russian River in Sonoma County.
Pearl Pinson was abducted on Wednesday in Vallejo while walking to a school bus stop near her home. Authorities think Pearl…
Four compete in O.C. supervisors race – but only two face intense attacks
Four candidates are running for the First District seat on the Orange County Board of Supervisors.
But you wouldn’t know it from the chatter on the streets in Little Saigon, where signs dot major intersections with only two names: incumbent Andrew Do and challenger Phat Bui, a Garden Grove councilman.
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Police ask for help in finding hit-and-run driver that left two injured, one critically
Los Angeles police are asking for the public’s help in locating the driver involved in a hit-and-run collision in the San Fernando Valley that injured two pedestrians, one critically.
The incident occurred about 9:50 p.m. Friday when the suspect’s dark-colored compact vehicle struck the pedestrians…
These heartfelt messages left for California’s war dead reminds us about the true reason behind Memorial Day
On this Memorial Day, the Los Angeles Times pays tribute to the California service members who have died in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq by publishing a selection of comments posted over the last year by those who knew and loved them. Hundreds more can be read on The Times’ database, California’s…
Trump weirdness in Fresno: Latinos who love him, police who charm the protesters
After listening to Donald Trump charm his audience for almost an hour — “Who’s gonna pay for the wall?” — I waded into the crowd at the Selland Arena to find Latino supporters.
Who were these people, exactly, who could vote for a man who has called Mexicans rapists and murderers, who insulted the…
Many Haitians have been arriving in San Ysidro, hoping to get into the U.S.
Surging numbers of Haitians and migrants from other countries have been arriving at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in recent days, hoping for admission to the United States.
More than 200 men, women and children were huddled together inside the port’s pedestrian entrance Thursday, sleeping under…
Good news: Trees and other foliage have regrown, despite drought
Over the past year, scientists have studied California’s trees from the air, the ground and even using X-ray technology.
Each time, they have arrived at some of version of a similar dreary conclusion: the state’s ongoing drought is wreaking havoc on forests, killing millions more trees at each…
Search for abducted teen Pearl Pinson moves to Northern California coast
Authorities Friday narrowed their frantic search for a missing teenager to a remote area about 65 miles from where she was last seen being dragged by an armed acquaintance who later died in a gun battle with police.
The Solano County Sheriff’s Office said Friday that new information was prompting…
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