Salvador Hernández

3 weeks ago | latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández

Employees of security firm Lear Asset Management drag Teresa Borrenpohl out of a town hall meeting on Feb. 22 in Post Falls, Idaho. Five employees of a private Northern California security company, known for using controversial tactics, have been charged in connection with a February incident in Idaho where an audience member in a Republican town hall was forcibly removed by men in plainclothes.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.