-
2 months ago | 
swoknews.com | Rebecca Ellis |Grace Toohey
LOS ANGELES — L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone woke up in his San Fernando Valley home Jan. 7 to a swimming pool filled with leaves and roof shingles. Marrone’s chief deputy, Jon O’Brien, told his boss that his Sierra Madre house felt like it was “going to get blown off the foundation.”kAmpC@F?5 eib_ 2]>][ E96 EH@ >6? 4@?DF=E65 (:?5J[ 2 7@C642DE 2AA A@AF=2C H:E9 DFC76CD 2?5 D2:=@CD[ 2?5 >256 2 “D62E @7 E96 A2?ED” 42==[ |2CC@?6 C642==65]k^AmkAm}@?6 @7 E96 h__ 7:C67:89E6CD @?
-
Jan 12, 2025 | 
newsobserver.com | Rebecca Ellis
A helicopter drops water on a fire near Topanga Village along Topanga Canyon Road on Jan, 8, 2025, in California. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/TNS) TNS A hang glider for four decades, 69-year-old Arthur Simoneau was a calculated risk-taker. And so, as residents fled the Pacific Palisades fire Tuesday, Simoneau headed closer to the inferno.
-
Jan 8, 2025 | 
mercedsunstar.com | Laura Nelson |Rebecca Ellis |Noah Haggerty |Daniel Miller |Jack Dolan |Ruben Vives | +1 more
-
Jan 8, 2025 | mercedsunstar.com | Laura Nelson |Rebecca Ellis |Noah Haggerty |Daniel Miller |Jack Dolan |Ruben Vives | +1 more
-
Jan 8, 2025 | 
kentucky.com | Rebecca Ellis
LOS ANGELES - Arturo Garcia said he's been working in the Palisades for 17 hours nonstop. His partner has been awake for over 24. Like the firefighters he was surrounded by the night before, he's guarding homes - not against the flames, but against looters, who might see opportunity in an affluent neighborhood suddenly deserted. "We're the only two guards that are up here," said Garcia, standing feet away from one of the stately homes he's been paid to protect.
-
Oct 2, 2024 | 
phys.org | Ron Lin |Rebecca Ellis
Faced with the prospect of an extensive, and expensive, seismic safety retrofit for its 1960s-era downtown headquarters, L.A. County decided to vet an alternative: a far newer building, located just blocks away. Not only was it built under stricter standards, the reasoning goes, but it was available at a massive discount compared with its pre-pandemic price tag.
-
Oct 1, 2024 | 
kentucky.com | Rebecca Ellis |Rebecca Ellis
LOS ANGELES - Many people who say they were raped or molested while confined at California juvenile facilities are out of time to sue the county governments that oversaw their care. On Sunday, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have changed the statute of limitations to give people sexually abused in juvenile facilities more time to sue.
-
Sep 26, 2024 | 
charlotteobserver.com | Rebecca Ellis |Noah Goldberg
University of California, Irvine investigators determined that biology professor Bruce Blumberg violated the university's policy against sexual harassment and "created a hostile academic and work environment." (University of California, Irvine/TNS) TNS UC Irvine professor Bruce Blumberg sat down at a quiet cafe and began composing a message. He'd arrived in Spain a few days ahead of an international conference, along with a graduate student he'd invited to participate.
-
Jun 30, 2024 | 
idahostatesman.com | Rebecca Ellis
DOWNEY, Calif. - A mentally ill man was fatally shot Saturday by Downey police in his backyard after a neighbor called the police on him for lighting fireworks, his family said. The Downey Police Department said it was responding to a call about a "disturbance" on Stewart and Gray Road about 6:15 p.m. Downey is 13 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. The family said Alberto Nicholas Arenas, 29, had struggled with psychosis since he was 12 and lived with his parents at their home.
-
May 28, 2024 | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Rebecca Ellis
LOS ANGELES - The joke around the hospital is that Dr. Sebo Amirkhanian Namagerdy does not leave Rancho Los Amigos, a premier rehabilitation facility run by Los Angeles County. His Mercedes is always in the parking lot. A former nurse found him to be such a permanent fixture at the Downey hospital that she compared him to "a piece of the material." Doctors at other county-run facilities have heard of the guy who's the "one-man-show" of his intensive care unit.
