An Oregon man who bizarrely rigged the home he lost in a lawsuit with an “Indiana Jones” inspired booby trap and other hazards — which hospitalized a federal agent — was found guilty by a jury on Tuesday. Gregory Lee Rodvelt, 71, rigged the home as a form of retaliation upon learning that the state…
A LGBTQ+ pride banner hanging outside a Toluca Lake church was found slashed down the middle Wednesday morning, marking one of the latest examples of pride symbols being targeted for vandalism across the nation. Harmony Toluca Lake, a campus of the Hollywood United Methodist Church, has displayed a pride banner every Pride Month for the…
Two people died after their single-engine plane, a type of home-built craft used primarily for aerobatics, crashed in Solano County on Thursday morning. The crash occurred at 11:45 a.m. near the Rio Vista Municipal Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The airport is northwest of Stockton and east of Napa Valley. A Solano County…
The record-setting snowpack over the winter has recharged the waterfalls at Yosemite National Park, which is home to one of the tallest waterfalls in the world. Yosemite has several waterfalls, most of which have peak runoff in May or June when most of the snowmelt occurs. The largest waterfall at the park is Yosemite Falls,…
A San Fernando police officer has been charged with stealing money from a domestic violence suspect who was being arrested, Los Angeles County prosecutors announced Thursday. Officer Jeffrey King was responding to a domestic violence call at a San Fernando home on June 21, 2022, when he allegedly took a cellphone and cash from the…
LOS ANGELES — Former University of Southern California football player Joshua Jackson Jr. has been arrested and charged with raping two women. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced the charges Wednesday against Jackson, who played for the Trojans in 2021 as a defensive back. The 21-year-old Jackson was charged with one felony count…
Amid a heated nationwide debate about gay and transgender rights, the Los Angeles City Council has designated a corner in downtown Los Angeles as a historic landmark for the LGBTQ+ community. The council voted unanimously Wednesday to designate the intersection of 2nd and Main streets as “Cooper Do-nuts/Nancy Valverde Square.” Cooper Do-nuts, whose first location…
A magnitude 2.6 earthquake was reported at 3:09 p.m. Thursday less than a mile from Monrovia and could be felt in parts of the San Gabriel Valley, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake occurred one mile from Arcadia and Sierra Madre, and three miles from Pasadena and Duarte. In the last 10 days,…
For 25 years, one of at least four women murdered by Wayne Adam Ford in California remained unidentified. The admitted serial killer turned himself in to authorities in November 1998, carrying a Bible and the severed body part of one of his victims in a plastic bag. He confessed to strangling the woman whose body…
The Florida woman accused of gunning down a young mom of four through her front door claimed the victim’s kids had previously threatened to kill her – despite her own history of violence towards the children, one of whom she once referred to as a “black slave,” officials said. Susan Louise Lorincz appeared in a…
