Eamon Murphy

2 weeks ago | thecamarilloacorn.com | Eamon Murphy

The Menendez brothers stand at the threshold of freedom. Defendants in one of California’s most notorious criminal cases, Erik and Lyle Menendez are now parole eligible after 35 years of incarceration. Convicted of the 1989 murders of their parents, the brothers lived briefly in Calabasas, where they committed burglaries of friends’ houses, before moving to Beverly Hills and shotgunning José and Kitty Menendez to death in the family’s living room.

2 weeks ago | theacorn.com | Eamon Murphy

If the process of depositing fire debris at the Calabasas Landfill is safe, why not test the debris? It’s a question that has local leaders frustrated—and one that L.A. County, owner of the landfill, and its Sanitation Districts, operator of the facility, do not seem eager to answer.

2 weeks ago | theacorn.com | Eamon Murphy

The turnover continues at City Hall in Hidden Hills, with Councilmember Adam Wasserman stepping down and his former colleagues quickly bringing back a familiar face to replace him—Stuart Siegel, who retired from city service in 2022 after 28 years on the council, and will now serve 16 months more. Wasserman, 58, was elected in Nov. 2024, having been appointed in March of that year to fill the vacancy created when longtime Councilmember Steve Freedland resigned in late 2023.

2 weeks ago | theacorn.com | Eamon Murphy

The Agoura High Engine Team is high performance. The group of seven students, under the supervision of coach Meg Heigl, will motor into this year’s national competition for Hot Rodders of Tomorrow, a timed contest in which high schoolers tear down and reassemble a small-block Chevy 350—one of the most storied engines in U.S. automotive history, and a favorite of stock car racers and hot rodders.

3 weeks ago | mpacorn.com | Eamon Murphy

Brandon R. Reynolds moved back to Los Angeles in 2015, he found he had a famous neighbor, and not just some garden-variety movie star. Settling in Los Feliz, south of Griffith Park, Reynolds soon felt the compelling presence of P-22, the mountain lion whose trek from the western Santa Monica Mountains across the 405 and 101 freeways, all the way to the range’s eastern terminus near the heart of L.A., became the stuff of legends, locally and beyond.