Sonja Sharp

3 weeks ago | latimes.com | Sonja Sharp

Fontana police shot and killed a man they said brandished a gun at officers responding to a 911 call early Sunday morning, touching off an investigation. Kevin Reyes Portillo, 31, was shot in an apartment in the 9100 block of Date Street just after 1 a.m. Sunday after allegedly pointing a gun at the officers who opened the door. Police had been dispatched to the complex in response to a 911 call about domestic violence.

3 weeks ago | latimes.com | Sonja Sharp

On Oct. 29, 2022, the universe told Dr. Casey Means her fate lay in Los Angeles. President Trump’s new pick for surgeon general wrote in her popular online newsletter of her epiphany, which came during a dawn hike among the cadmium-colored California oaks and flames of wild mustard flower painting the Topanga Canyon: “You must move to LA. This is where your partner is!’”Los Angeles has been a Shangri-La for health-seekers since its Gold Rush days as the sanitarium capital of the United States.

1 month ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Jeanette Marantos |Liam Dillon |Gina Ferazzi |Sonja Sharp

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - A suspected bomb blast that authorities believe was "an intentional act of violence" outside a fertility clinic left one person dead and others reportedly with additional injuries in Palm Springs on Saturday. The blast was reportedly felt more than 2 miles away and severely damaged the clinic and several other buildings. The incident occurred just before 11 a.m. at North Indian Canyon Drive near East Tachevah Drive, Palm Springs officials said.

1 month ago | dailyitem.com | Jeanette Marantos |Liam Dillon |Gina Ferazzi |Sonja Sharp

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — A suspected bomb blast that authorities believe was “an intentional act of violence” outside a fertility clinic left one person dead and others reportedly with additional injuries in Palm Springs on Saturday. The blast was reportedly felt more than 2 miles away and severely damaged the clinic and several other buildings. The incident occurred just before 11 a.m. at North Indian Canyon Drive near East Tachevah Drive, Palm Springs officials said.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Jack Dolan |Melissa Gomez |Sonja Sharp |Deborah Netburn

The faithful in Los Angeles, America’s most Catholic city, were delighted — and a little stunned — Thursday to learn a Chicago-born priest with deep roots in Peru had been elected to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. The surprising elevation of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, to pope marks the first time someone from the U.S. has been entrusted with what is arguably the highest-profile position in global religion.