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1,200-acre wildfire at Vandenberg Air Force Base delays satellite launch
California wildfire updates: Blaze at Air Force base delays satellite launch Sept. 18, 2016, 6:29 p.m. A rash of fires this summer has destroyed homes, subjected residents to evacuation orders and resulted in at least one death. Here are some of the fires now burning in California (numbers updated…
California wildfire updates: Blaze at Air Force base delays satellite launch
California wildfire updates: Blaze at Air Force base delays satellite launch Sept. 18, 2016, 6:29 p.m. A rash of fires this summer has destroyed homes, subjected residents to evacuation orders and resulted in at least one death. Here are some of the fires now burning in California (numbers updated…
‘Sound of Music’ actress Charmian Carr, who played Liesl von Trapp, dies at 73
Charmian Carr will always by 16 going on 17 for fans of “The Sound of Music.” In the movie adaptation of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, she played the rebellious Liesl von Trapp, eldest daughter of a privileged Austrian clan of seven children living under the strictures of their militaristic…
Police use pepper spray on unruly crowd at Kaaboo music festival
Trouble marred the Kaaboo music festival in Del Mar on Saturday night as concertgoers tried to force their way into an at-capacity venue, officials said. Sheriff’s Lt. Mark Moreno said attendees became unruly just after 11 p.m. when they were told that Encore, the venue where rapper Ludacris and…
Federal officials launch shuttle service from the San Gabriel Valley to the San Gabriel Mountains
Angeles National Forest supervisor Jeffrey Vail and a host of other officials clambered aboard buses Saturday at the Gold Line stop in Arcadia to make the five-mile trek up to Chantry Flat. It was supposed to be a test run for a shuttle program aimed at reducing congestion at one of the most popular…
In ‘tough’ Willowbrook, sheriff’s deputies ask residents for advice
The knocks started just after 9 a.m. in Willowbrook. Sheriff’s deputies moved down the streets of a rough neighborhood known as Corner Pocket, tapping on gates with flashlights and calling through open windows. Is something wrong, asked residents, some still in pajamas. Are you looking for someone?…
Earthquake: 3.2 quake strikes near Yosemite Valley
A shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Sunday morning 11 miles from Yosemite Valley, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 7:35 a.m. PDT near the surface. According to the USGS, the epicenter was about 57 miles from Clovis, Madera and Chowchilla. In the…
How a pension deal went wrong and cost California taxpayers billions
With the stroke of a pen, California Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation that gave prison guards, park rangers, Cal State professors and other state employees the kind of retirement security normally reserved for the wealthy. More than 200,000 civil servants became eligible to retire at 55 — and…
Understanding California’s public pension debt
What is the unfunded liability of California state and local governments? Put simply, the unfunded liability is the shortfall between retirement benefits that governments have promised their workers and the current funding available to meet those obligations.
A girl with two graves: The past haunts a city that evicted its dead
They found her buried under a garage earlier this year, her small body perfectly preserved in an airless, metal casket. She wore a white christening dress with hand-stitched lace that would have dragged along the ground when she walked. Her blond hair had been laced with sprigs of lavender and…
San Diego could do more to reduce pedestrian deaths, audit says
San Diego police and transportation officials are not doing enough to protect pedestrians from being injured and killed, a lack of attention to detail and data that is contributing to a rising number of fatalities, a city audit has found.
Auditors said 270 people died on San Diego streets over…
Playwright Edward Albee, 3-time Pulitzer winner and ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ author, dead at 88
Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee has died in suburban New York City at age 88.
Albee challenged theatrical convention in masterworks such as “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “A Delicate Balance.”
Albee assistant Jackob Holder says the playwright died Friday at his…
What happens to 116 high school students when their charter school closes a month into the year
Outside a synagogue on Pico Boulevard, home to the independent charter City High School, signs beckoned families to join: “Now Enrolling! 9th and 10th grade.”
But on Friday morning, the classrooms were mostly empty. Instead, the blue chairs on which students sat for the last month were arranged…
Author W.P. Kinsella dies at 81; wrote the novel that became ‘Field of Dreams’
Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella, who blended magical realism and baseball in the book that became the smash hit film “Field of Dreams,” has died. He was 81.
His literary agent, Carolyn Swayze, said in a statement that Kinsella’s death on Friday in Hope, British Columbia was doctor-assisted. Details…
Facing a deadline, this South L.A. high school hustles to boost enrollment by 3 students
Four weeks into the new school year, Jose Lara, the dean of a South Los Angeles high school, approached a sagging white bungalow and shook the gate, summoning the household’s guard dog, a Chihuahua.
“Do you know where Stefani is?” he asked the woman who opened the door. She didn’t — in fact, no…
Can L.A.’s aging Grand Dame, Memorial Coliseum, take center stage one more time?
The seats creak and the rows are so narrow that Rams fans might find their knees in position to do duty for the cup-holders that they won’t find in their armrests. The low entrance tunnels feel like they were built for hobbits.
The Rams return Sunday to Los Angeles to the same stadium they left…
3.3 earthquake strikes near Avenal, Calif.
A shallow magnitude 3.3 earthquake was reported Saturday morning three miles from Avenal, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 2:41 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 10.6 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 15 miles from Coalinga, Calif., 24 miles from…
Tustin officer gave man less than a second to raise his hands before fatally shooting him, court says in ruling
A Southern California police officer gave a man less than a second to raise his hands before opening fire and killing him, a federal appeals court noted Friday in rejecting the officer’s request to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit against him.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco…
For Reagan campaign manager, this election is tough to watch
You got a bad back, you go see a chiropractor.
You got a toothache, you go see a dentist.
You got the election year blues, you go see Stu Spencer.
So I drove to Palm Desert, pulled up to Keedy’s Fountain Grill, and had lunch with the man.
Spencer ran four of Ronald Reagan’s campaigns — two for…
Racing family stunned after ‘Baja’ Bob Gordon and his wife are found dead in apparent murder-suicide
Ryan Hunter-Reay said this week has brought a full range of emotions, with the birth of his third son coming only hours before he learned that his father-in-law was dead in an apparent murder-suicide.
The former Indianapolis 500 winner is married to Beccy Gordon, and the couple welcomed son Rhodes…
Edward Albee, three-time Pulitzer-winning playwright and ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ author, dies at 88
Edward Albee, the award-winning playwright who instilled fire-breathing life into George and Martha, the middle-aged couple who made his “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” a clenched battleground of love-hate matrimony, has died. He was 88.
Personal assistant Jakob Holder, executive director of…
Gabriele Amorth, prominent Roman Catholic exorcist, dies at 91
Father Gabriele Amorth, a prominent Roman Catholic exorcist, has died after a long illness, an Italian care facility said Saturday. He was 91.
Santa Lucia Foundation, a Rome rehabilitation center, said Saturday that Amorth died a day earlier in another Rome hospital, where he was recently transferred…
Former Glendale city manager says broken sidewalk caused wife’s death in $1-million claim
A former Glendale city manager, along with his two sons, has filed a $1-million claim against the city, claiming his wife died in a wheelchair accident caused by an uneven sidewalk, records show.
On the afternoon of March 16, James Starbird was pushing his wife, Carolyn, in a wheelchair on the…
Sixty years later, remembering San Diego’s shoe bandit
Were they ever going to catch this guy?
Sixty years ago this month, a shoe bandit had San Diego and Coronado on edge. He accosted women as they walked home at night from the bus or the ferry, knocking them to the ground and stealing just one shoe, usually the left. He sneaked into homes and took…
Mother gets 21 years to life for drowning toddler in custody dispute
An Oceanside woman was sentenced to 21 years to life in prison for intentionally drowning her toddler son after learning she’d have to split custody of the boy with his father.
Veronica Rivas, 30, pleaded guilty in Vista Superior Court last month — three weeks before trial — to second-degree murder…
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