In 1969, 20-year-old Linda Kasabian came to California to find God. Instead, she found Charles Manson. Just weeks after joining his ragtag “family” of lost and damaged souls, Kasabian was entwined in the brutal bloodbath that became known around the world as the Tate-LaBianca murders. Actress Sharon Tate and six others were killed under orders…
Los Angeles County agreed on Tuesday to pay $28.85 million to the family of Kobe Bryant, concluding three years of litigation that began after deputies shared graphic photos of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed the Lakers star, his daughter and seven others. The settlement agreement filed in federal court combines added money for unresolved…
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Tuesday nominated Julie Su to be his next Labor secretary, setting up the former California labor chief to become the first Asian American to run a Cabinet department during his presidency. Su, who has served as deputy U.S. Labor secretary since 2021, was confirmed by the Senate for her current post…
As polls close in Chicago’s mayoral election race, Lori Lightfoot appears destined to become the Windy City’s first incumbent mayor to lose re-election in 40 years. Heading into Tuesday’s race, Lightfoot’s prospects appeared bleak, with the embattled Democratic mayor trailing multiple candidates in polls. A survey done by Victory Research just days before the election…
Aurora police are asking for the public’s help in identifying suspects in a deadly double shooting that happened on Christmas Eve. Katon Hutt and Nekeya “Tiffany” Brown, both 35, were fatally shot in a residence in the 1500 block of Boston Street, police said. Hutt was legally blind and Brown was his caretaker, police and…
Los Angeles County took the first step Tuesday toward a mandatory earthquake retrofit order for the types of concrete buildings that collapsed catastrophically in the devastating earthquakes that shook Turkey and Syria, causing many of the 50,000 deaths tallied so far. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ask officials to prepare new rules that…
After last week’s epic winter storm hit Southern California, new satellite photos from NASA Earth Observatory show snow covering the region’s mountains. UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said we could see “a historically significant snowfall for parts of the Southern California mountains.” “This well may be the largest single-event snowfall in some parts of Southern…
Watch. Watch your watch, wallet, credit card, key, vehicle, receipt, checkbook. There’s more two-legged rats around than those rooming with the mayor. Street-level beauty salons. Ladies locked in under hair tints. Handbags on the floor. Thieves run in, swipe them, run out — all before gray roots turn blond. Car washes. A blue BMW with…
via Denver Channel Pamela Cabriales A Denver gang member gave a 14-year-old boy permission to shoot at a woman with an AR-15-style rifle after a fender-bender on West Colfax Avenue two years ago, prosecutors alleged during the opening of the older man’s murder trial Tuesday. Neshan Johnson, 20, is charged with first-degree murder in the…
Los Angeles County will end its COVID-19 emergency declaration at the end of March — the latest region to take that step amid stabilizing and improving pandemic conditions. The move, approved unanimously Tuesday by the county Board of Supervisors, comes the same day Gov. Gavin Newsom formally rescinded the three-year-old statewide emergency declaration. Like their…
