Carolyn McCuan, a 39-year-old marathon runner, had been feeling unusually tired for months when she decided on the afternoon of June 28, 2023, to take a rejuvenating walk along Aliso Viejo’s tree-lined, picturesque Wood Canyon Trail encircling Canyon View Park. As McCuan approached the entrance of the 12-acre park bordering her home, she spotted a … Read more
Los Angeles County’s two largest juvenile detention facilities, at risk of closure for failing to meet minimum standards of safety and care, won a last-minute reprieve Thursday, April 11, when state regulators allowed them to remain open. The Board of State and Community Corrections, the regulatory board overseeing California’s prisons and juvenile halls, voted to … Read more
The City of Commerce allowed a tenant with ties to a businessman favored by City Hall to openly use a city-owned warehouse to sell bulk liquor, food products and energy drinks for nearly a year in violation of its own Municipal Code, a Southern California News Group investigation has revealed. Commerce was notified, but did … Read more
An El Monte police dispatcher failed to tell two officers fatally shot by a convicted gang member that the suspect reportedly had a gun and was under the influence of PCP and methamphetamine, reveals a 911 recording obtained by the Southern California News Group. The frantic 911 call to the El Monte Police Department was … Read more
More than 20 new gun safety laws were passed by California state legislators last year following mass shootings in Monterey Park, Half Moon Bay and elsewhere. Those laws are designed to make it more difficult for potentially dangerous people to keep firearms, help trace perpetrators when one is used improperly and tax ammunition to fund … Read more
A developer that accepted millions of dollars from a massive program to house the homeless is under investigation by the state for failing to live up to its contractual obligations and stiffing subcontractors who rehabbed facilities in the Inland Empire, Thousand Oaks and other California communities. Pablo Espinoza, a spokesman for the California Department of … Read more
The Ralphs grocery store chain violated the rights of hundreds of Southern California job seekers by asking them on employment applications whether they had a criminal record and then denying them positions for minor misdemeanor convictions such as excessive noise and simple marijuana possession, according to a first-of-its-kind lawsuit filed by the state. The California … Read more
A 36-year-old man who defrauded more than two dozen Orthodox Jewish investors out of $25 million in a Ponzi-like scheme to fund gambling and private jet flights was sentenced Friday, Dec. 15, to 6½ years in federal prison. Yossi Engel, who previously lived in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles before moving to Israel in … Read more
