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1 week ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
Investigators examine electrical transmission towers near the origin of the deadly Eaton fire in Eaton Canyon in February. The possibility that an idle, unconnected Southern California Edison transmission line somehow reengerized on Jan. 7 is now “a leading hypothesis” for what started the destructive Eaton Fire, Edison International CEO Pedro Pizarro revealed Friday. In response, Edison will take steps to harden other idle towers and lines across its network to prevent reenergizing incidents.
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1 week ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
Southern California Edison will bury more than 150 miles of power lines in Altadena and Malibu in the wake of January’s firestorms. Here, a scorched chimney rises above the rubble of a burned home on McNally Avenue, in Altadena. More than 150 miles of electrical power lines damaged by the Palisades and Eaton fires in Malibu and Altadena are slated to be replaced with underground lines, Southern California Edison announced Friday.
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3 weeks ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
The outside of an In-N-Out Burger in Azusa. A secret strategy to pay much less for an In-N-Out burger is no more. The ordering hack, used by some customers to pay just a fraction of the price for one of the popular restaurant chain’s secret burgers, has been deleted after corporate officers appear to have caught on to the sneaky work around. A popular burger known as the “Flying Dutchman” consists of two beef patties and two slices of cheese, with no bun.
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4 weeks ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes blasted a state sanctuary law that bars local law enforcement from contacting immigration officials when an undocumented immigrant is held in county jail, but he said he won’t direct his deputies to enforce immigration laws. “We have no desire to enforce immigration law — we never have and we never will,” Barnes said during a board of supervisors meeting Tuesday.
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4 weeks ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
The immediate risks faced by the firefighters who were on the front lines battling the Palisades and Eaton fires that tore through Los Angeles County may have abated, but long-term health concerns remain.
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1 month ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
Screenshot from a video recorded by a student at College of the Canyons of a person that was caught in the women’s bathroom. When a student at College of the Canyons caught a strange man’s hand reaching out under a bathroom stall and trying to record her with his phone, she yelled out. Then the two-year student started to record him. “Why are you recording?” the student says in a video posted online, as she confronts the man who is dressed all in black and using a jacket to hide their face.
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1 month ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
One person is in critical condition and rescuers are searching for trapped pets following an explosion at a home in the Pacoima neighborhood of Los Angeles on Thursday morning. One person was critically injured and a home partially collapsed after an explosion rocked a Pacoima neighborhood Thursday morning, officials said. The explosion was reported at 9:01 a.m. in the 13500 block of W.
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1 month ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
James Monroe High School was temporarily placed on lockdown Thursday after two teenagers were shot at a bus stop, police said. Two teenagers were shot near James Monroe High School on Thursday morning after they were approached by five suspects at a bus stop, police said. The shooting prompted the North Hills campus to go on lockdown as Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to the scene.
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1 month ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
FIGat7th open-air shopping mall in the financial district of downtown Los Angeles in 2020. A grassroots group is calling for a 24-hour “economic blackout,” and urging people not to shop at major retailers Friday as a form of protest against corporations, politicians and banks — and the social media-driven campaign has gained traction among several celebrities.
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1 month ago | 
latimes.com | Richard Winton |Hannah Fry |Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
Gov. Gavin Newsom is ordering the parole board to launch a risk assessment investigation into whether Erik Menendez, left, and Lyle Menendez would pose a risk to the public if they were released. Gov. Gavin Newsom is ordering the parole board to launch a risk assessment investigation into whether the Menendez brothers, who are serving life sentences for the 1989 murder of their parents, would pose a risk to public safety if they were released, defense attorney Mark Geragos said Wednesday.
