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5 days ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
Patricia Krenwinkel, a former member of the notorious Manson family that carried out a series of grisly killings across Los Angeles, was granted parole, but a final decision on her freedom now rests with Gov. Gavin Newsom. In a statement to The Times, her attorney said that after five decades behind bars, it was time for Krenwinkel to be released on parole.
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1 week ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is reviewing hundreds of state parole hearings to see if any inmates who were denied parole were rejected because of faulty drug tests.
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3 weeks ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
It’s a bitter feud the likes of which are seldom seen in law enforcement circles — or at least those that boil over into public view. For over seven years now, Orange County’s top prosecutor and a decorated former cop have been locked in an acrimonious dispute that shows little sign of abating. Both parties have accused the other of fractured ethics and corruption, and even an independent arbitrator likened the situation to a simmering cauldron.
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3 weeks ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
A woman who tossed her boyfriend’s belongings from a balcony during an argument was killed after he allegedly threw her over a third-floor railing, police said. According to the San Diego Police Department, 61-year-old Irene Williams and 57-year-old Albert Turner had been dating for some time, but got into an argument Monday evening. Williams, police said, started throwing Turner’s belongings off the balcony of a third-floor apartment in the 500 block of West San Ysidro Boulevard.
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1 month 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.
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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.
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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.
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2 months 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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2 months 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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2 months 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.
