LANCASTER — With a rapid-fire but controlled cadence throughout, Rep. Katie Hill (D-Agua Dulce) engaged several hundred constituents gathered Sunday afternoon at Eastside High School’s auditorium to discuss a multitude of hot topics such as homeless, immigration raids and climate change.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The suicide bomber stood in the middle of the dancing, clapping crowd as hundreds of Afghan children and adults celebrated a wedding in a joyous release from Kabul’s strain of war. Then, in a flash, he detonated his explosives-filled vest, killing dozens — and Afghanista…
BATON ROUGE, La. — Former Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who became the state’s first female elected governor only to see her political career derailed by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, has died.
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Former USC athletic director Mike McGee has died at the age of 80, the school announced.
PHOENIX (AP) — The nation’s largest provider of shelters for immigrant children is looking to reopen two facilities that the state of Arizona forced it to shutter last year because of issues with employee background checks and allegations of abuse.
BOGOTA, Colombia — The U.S. has opened up secret communications with Venezuela’s socialist party boss as members of President Nicolás Maduro’s inner circle seek guarantees they won’t face retribution if they cede to growing demands to remove him, a senior U.S. administration official has tol…
By RAPHAEL SATTER
SACRAMENTO — The city of Sacramento has filed an unusual lawsuit to ban seven men considered to be a “public nuisance” from a popular business corridor.
PALM SPRINGS — A grand jury has indicted the former mayor of Palm Springs in a public corruption case that alleges he took $375,000 in bribes from real estate developers.
SAN LUIS OBISPO — The man who took a gun that a police chief left in a restroom will not be charged by the district attorney’s office.
LANCASTER — Southern Kern Unified School District’s governing Board approved a new salary schedule range for the District’s chief business officer position.
CALIFORNIA CITY — The City Council agreed to move forward with two federally funded street projects by approving engineering for the design phase of each.
LANCASTER — Authorities have yet to determine why a fisherman jumped into a lake at the Apollo Community Regional Park, which led to his death.
SAN DIEGO — Officials say they seized $2.3 million worth of marijuana mixed in with a shipment of jalapeño peppers at a Southern California port.
LANCASTER — The City Council last week continued a proposal to renew the City’s municipal law enforcement services agreement with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to address concerns about CARPing and the amount of overtime hours deputies work.
CALIFORNIA CITY — The median of California City Boulevard will have a new, more svelte look, as the city will remove the overgrown oleander hedges that have become a safety hazard.
PALMDALE — The Palmdale Water District is moving forward with a plan to steadily increase rates over the next five years in order to fund its operations, infrastructure projects and to build and maintain a reserve fund for emergencies.
GENEVA — From guitars to traditional medicines and from tusk to tail, mankind’s exploitation of the planet’s fauna and flora is putting some of them at risk of extinction. Representatives of some 180 nations are meeting in Geneva to agree on protections for vulnerable species, taking up issu…
SAN BERNARDINO (AP) — A Southern California man has been convicted of planting a pipe bomb beneath his wife’s vehicle six years ago in an attempt to kill her and the couple’s two children.
RIDGECREST — Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, the sprawling military base near Ridgecrest in eastern Kern County, suffered $5.2 billion in damage during the series of powerful earthquakes centered in the area last month, according to an assessment released publicly this week.
RIDGECREST — When Ridgecrest citizens head to the theater next year to see “Top Gun: Maverick,” they might spend more time looking at the background scenery than watching Tom Cruise fly through the air at amazing speeds.
CHICO (AP) — Another person killed in the deadliest wildfire in California history has been identified.
MT. SHASTA (AP) — A mother is under investigation for child neglect after her 7-month-old boy was found unresponsive at a Northern California campground.
PALMDALE — Volunteers are needed to help build two homes for veterans in Palmdale as part of the HGTV series “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”
CAIRO — Sudan’s pro-democracy movement and ruling military council signed a final power-sharing agreement Saturday at a ceremony in the capital, Khartoum, after weeks of tortuous negotiations.
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County dropped a half-cent Saturday to $3.596, the 17th consecutive decrease.
ROSAMOND — The Rosamond Community Services District is enlisting the help of two outside firms to review and evaluate its wastewater treatment plant processes and the electronic monitoring and control system used on that plant and its water distribution system.
NORTH HOLLYWOOD — The teenage boy who led police on a pursuit through the North Hollywood area in a utility truck reported stolen and crashed into a North Hollywood apartment building had been reported missing earlier in South Los Angeles, authorities said.
LANCASTER — The City Council unanimously upheld an appeal filed by the owner of Wonder Grocery Market, granting the business a conditional use permit to sell beer and wine but adding a condition to make outdoor aesthetic improvements to the store.
ROSAMOND — Three people submitted applications by Thursday’s deadline to be considered for a provisional appointment on Southern Kern Unified School District’s governing Board.
LANCASTER — The year is 1983. The Soviet Union is still in one piece. Ronald Reagan is in the White House. The crew of NASA space shuttle Challenger ventures into space and triumphantly lands at Edwards Air Force Base upon return. Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich is in his third year as the …
My visit to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library last month reminded me of something I’d forgotten about his 1960 campaign.
ATLANTA — Atlanta’s scorching August heat didn’t stop Megan Nelson from slipping on a long faux fur coat and dressing up like Cruella de Vil for her first Doggy Con convention, a pet event for costumed canines inspired by the upcoming Dragon Con convention.
PHOENIX — Dozens of people, mostly African Americans, huddled around tables scattered across a church gymnasium on a recent evening, discussing past run-ins with Phoenix police officers and ways to hold them accountable.
LITTLEROCK (CNS) — A man suspected of shooting a man to death and wounding another turned himself in to the sheriff’s department, authorities said Saturday.
MEXICO CITY — Jose “Mantequilla” Napoles, the Hall of Famer Mexican boxer who was a two-time welterweight world champion, has died. He was 79.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Police arrested at least 13 people and seized metal poles, bear spray and other weapons Saturday as hundreds of far-right protesters and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators swarmed downtown Portland, Oregon.
PALMDALE — Immigration has been an issue at the forefront of national news and politics for several years, and one that is unlikely to dissipate any time soon.
RAMALLAH, West Bank — A fictional caper about an antiquities heist set in an ancient Jordanian city has stirred widespread outrage over the film’s portrayal of historical Jewish ties to Jordan, shining a light on the tenuous peace with neighboring Israel and prompting the government to suspe…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Pagan gatherings are scheduled for three parks in Southern West Virginia in coming weeks, but those considering attending the public events and expecting to see witchcraft in action or arcane rituals being observed may be disappointed.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — As a child, Puerto Rico’s newest governor said she would stand on her balcony and hold imaginary trials, always finding the supposed defendants guilty.
HASLET, Texas (AP) — Acrid gun smoke clouded the sunny entrance of a Texas church on a recent Sunday.
NEW DELHI (AP) — Hundreds of people protested an unprecedented security crackdown and clashed with police Friday in Indian-controlled Kashmir, as India’s government said it was constantly reviewing the situation in the disputed region and the restrictions there will be removed over the next …
SANTA ANA (AP) — Orange County has reached a settlement with a former California jail nurse who says she was prevented from treating an inmate.
LANCASTER — A Lancaster man has been charged with fatally shooting his 13-year-old sister at their home, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office said Friday.
LOS ANGELES — A man who robbed an armored car guard at a Southern California shopping plaza was captured Friday after the guard fired gunshots that sent panicked shoppers fleeing, police said.
NEWPORT BEACH — A California man who previously escaped from jail and was on the run for a week was convicted Friday of kidnapping and torturing a marijuana dispensary owner who he mistakenly believed had buried large sums of money in the desert.
SAN FRANCISCO — A judge presiding over Pacific Gas and Electric’s bankruptcy case agreed Friday to allow a state jury to decide whether the power company’s equipment ignited a devastating wildfire in California wine country nearly two years ago.
SANTA BARBARA (AP) — Scientists have installed an underwater sound system they hope will reduce collisions between whales and ships in the Santa Barbara Channel.
LOS ANGELES — Actor Peter Fonda, the son of a Hollywood legend who became a movie star in his own right after both writing and starring in the counter-culture classic “Easy Rider,” died Friday at his home of complications from lung cancer. He was 79.
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