southern-california
An extremely rare tornado in the Los Angeles County area caused damage to multiple buildings and left at least one person injured on Wednesday, per local officials. Initially, the tornado—which touched down in Montebello, California—was listed as being unconfirmed. A team of experts from the National Weather Service (NWS) quickly arrived at the scene to […]
A group of five masked robbers plundered a Beverly Hills jewelry store in broad daylight on Tuesday afternoon. Footage captured by an onlooker and posted on Twitter shows suspects running with hands full of jewelry that they had just robbed from the window of Luxury Jewels of Beverly Hills. The owners of the store told KABC that the robbers […]
A California private school has apologized to parents after a video showed a preschool teacher leading her class in a political chant. “Who’s our president?” the teacher is heard saying in the footage. “Biden!” the students respond. “What do we want to do with him?” the teacher asks the 4- to 5-year-old students. “We want him out!” […]
Southern California was rattled by an earthquake Saturday evening. ABC affiliate KABC reports the U.S. Geological Survey measured the earthquake at a magnitude of 4.1 on the Richter scale. The quake, which had a depth of about 16 miles, hit about 6 miles northwest of Santa Paula in Ventura County, while also rocking various parts of Los Angeles County. […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets An oil spill of more than 126,000 gallons off the coast of southern California has washed up on shores, […]
A California man has been charged with two counts of murder for using a knife as a deadly and dangerous weapon after he allegedly killed his uncle and mother while she was on a Zoom call last week, KTLA reports. On March 22, Robert Anderson Cotton, 32, allegedly stabbed his mother Dr. Carol Brown, 67, and uncle Kenneth […]
Top Dawg Entertainment is linking with the Think Watts Foundation to host “Above and Beyond,” a one-day event in which they will distribute free healthy food to people in the Watts community. Beyond Meat, The Harold Robinson Foundation, and HACLA are sponsoring the event, which will go down on Wednesday June 10. Aqua Equity, Community Healing Gardens, GodissLove, […]
As the Easy Fire swept through Simi Valley, California on Wednesday, neighbors, volunteers, and basically anyone else who could lend a helping hand were being used to help evacuate the panicking horses, and move them away from the fast-moving wildfire. CBS Los Angeles reports that all made it out of the area safely except for […]
“This was definitely one for the ages.” Stu Mundel, aerial photo journalist for KCAL and KCBS, perfectly summed up a police chase on Wednesday that lasted an hour, and ended with the suspect surrendering after he exited his stolen California Highway Patrol vehicle. According to KTLA 5 News, authorities were initially trying to stop the driver for suspected reckless […]
According to Marc Stein of the New York Times, Kobe Bryant handpicked a number of current NBA players to attend a training camp last month at his new facility in California. Kobe Bryant, I’m told, held an invite-only camp for a few days in mid-August at his new facility in Thousand Oaks and had Kawhi […]