Is Inland area bucking statewide trend in heroin overdoses?
The number of people visiting Inland emergency rooms because of heroin overdoses declined in 2016, bucking a statewide, seven-year trend that saw Riverside County visits almost double from 2010 and San...
View ArticleFormer LA County Sheriff Lee Baca found guilty in corruption trial
After a day and a half of deliberations, a federal jury found former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca guilty Wednesday of obstruction, conspiracy to obstruct and giving false statements in...
View ArticleFormer LA County Sheriff Lee Baca sentenced to 3 years in jail abuse scandal
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was sentenced to three years in federal prison Friday, two months after a jury found him guilty of obstruction of justice and other charges stemming from an...
View ArticleWith Trump’s DACA decision coming, Southern California immigrants urge him to...
Hundreds of people at a rally at Federal Building on Los Angeles Street Friday, September 1, 2017, calling for the protection of DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program started by...
View ArticleMan who refused to leave home during La Tuna fire said he did not threaten...
Aaron Funk waters down the hillside behind his parents’ home as a plane makes a drop near Petaluma Dr. in Sun Valley on Saturday, September 2, 2017. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Orange County...
View ArticleIf given the chance, what would the homeless have to say? One photographer...
He gave each homeless person he met a white board and a marker and asked a question: “If you could say something about yourself to anybody, what would it be?” Some wanted nothing to do with the burly...
View ArticleIn the midst of Las Vegas mass shooting, off-duty first-responders from...
They told people to get down. They shielded those who fell. Some loaded victims into ambulances. Others comforted the dying. They too, became victims. As a gunman opened fire into a massive crowd...
View ArticleWhy some say Las Vegas mass shooting proves LA law enforcement should use drones
As law enforcement continue to gather evidence in Sunday’s mass shooting in Las Vegas, a terrorism expert said Monday the use of drones could assist local police in gathering real-time information if a...
View ArticlePorter Ranch residents exposed to Aliso Canyon gas leak have uranium, lithium...
High levels of uranium, lithium and a synthetic chemical used to make plastics were present in the urine and hair samples of residents who live near the site of the massive 2015 Aliso Canyon natural...
View ArticleWest Nile virus deaths in California have nearly tripled from last year
More people were infected and died of West Nile virus across California this year compared to last year, especially in Los Angeles County. That’s where the number of infections peaked in September,...
View ArticleWildfires raging in Southern California cap most destructive season in state...
Fanned by cold, fierce Santa Ana winds and fueled by dead trees and dry brush, wildfires raced across Southern California communities Tuesday, burning through thousands of acres from Ventura to San...
View ArticleDespite strained resources, firefighters persist in battle with Southern...
As tens of thousands of Southern California residents continued to stay back from wind-whipped flames that pressed down on their neighborhoods, about 4,000 firefighters from across the region rushed...
View ArticleThere’s no rain in sight. So why is Southern California bracing for floods,...
Even as charred hillsides smoldered from a series of wildfires that tore through Los Angeles County, state and local officials were planning last week to head into burn areas to assess slopes and...
View ArticleWhat next for fire victims? Here’s where to go for answers
SYLMAR >> As they stood Monday in a neighborhood where many homes were damaged by the massive Creek fire, Art and Sylvia Valenzuela ticked off a list of people they had wished they never had to...
View ArticleShould you still get the flu shot? What you should know about its effectiveness
It’s one of the top questions circulating on the web right now: is the flu shot effective? While a severe flu season is underway, doctors still say it’s better to have been vaccinated than not at all....
View ArticleFlu-related deaths in California continue to rise, making it among ‘worst...
Flu-related deaths are climbing across California, where 27 people under the age of 65 have died, state officials said Tuesday during a news conference. The number may be much higher, however, since...
View ArticleOn heels of fierce storm, clear skies and warm temperatures coming to...
While a two-day drencher snarled freeways and sent mud and debris sliding down burned, barren hillsides, forecasters say rain clouds will move out and warm temperatures will move in for the rest of the...
View ArticleThe H3N2 flu virus is known as the hospitalizer. Here’s why.
Stay home. Don’t go to work. Keep sick children out of school. That’s some of the stern advice Los Angeles County health officials offered on Wednesday to people and their loved ones suffering from...
View ArticleFlu-related deaths continue to climb in California. Here’s the latest toll
Fifteen more flu related deaths in California were reported by state health officials Friday, as outbreaks and hospitalizations continued at elevated levels compared to prior years. In all, 42 people...
View ArticleFlu death toll rises sharply in California, but cases appear to be waning
Deaths related to the flu continued to mount across California Friday, where many areas continued seeing higher levels of illness compared to years past even as the number of cases waned in others,...
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