Angeles National Forest has reopened the San Gabriel Canyon for recreational use. The Williams Fire has been declared 100% contained and the canyon is once again open to the public effective immediately. The canyon offers our visitors a variety of recreational opportunities including, fishing, picnicking and hiking. Glendora Mountain Road and Glendora Ridge Road […]
UPDATE Friday 2p.m.: From the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office: –Three reputed Rollin’ 40s Crips gang members were charged today with robbing a Canyon Country bank on Wednesday then leading police on a high-speed chase as they threw cash out the car’s window, the District Attorney’s Office announced. Phillip Ely, 29, Lavelle Mosley, 22,and […]
Assemblymember Anthony Portantino and City of Hope 6th Annual “HIV/AIDS Action Summit” California Assemblymember Anthony Portantino and City of Hope today brought together a wide range of experts and activists for the Sixth Annual HIV/AIDS Action Summit with special guest, Project Runway All-Star Mondo Guerra. More than 300 high school and college students as […]
By Mary O’KEEFE “[On Tuesday] our U.S. Diplomatic Post in Benghazi, Libya was attacked. Heavily armed militants assaulted the compound and set fire to our buildings,” said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today during a televised press conference. Four Americans were killed including Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith, a U.S. Air Force veteran, and […]
Field inspectors with the South Coast Air Quality Management District are in the field today investigating possible causes of widespread sulfur odors. Since around midnight last night, AQMD has received more than 100 calls reporting a strong, foul rotten egg/sulfur odor. Residents have complained from a very wide area including the Inland Empire and much […]
UPDATE FRIDAY 10:16p.m.: The vehicle’s La Crescenta owner has contacted friends to let them know he is safe with minor injuries.He related to a friend that he was in the vehicle when it went over the side of Angeles Crest Highway and climbed up the mountain to the main road. There he was able to […]
Attempted Murder On A Peace Officer Suspects and Getaway-Van Still At Large. Armed and Dangerous felony suspect, Darnell Washington, escaped from county jail in San Bernardino County with the aid of his wife Tania on Aug. 28, and is now wanted for shooting a deputy sheriff in Los Angeles County on Sunday as well as […]
Members of the public are being tricked by jail inmates and others through a telephone scam. The increasing pattern was noticed by deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, who have been receiving an increasing number of phone calls from people who have been scammed. Members of the public have been calling the Sheriff’s […]
Crescenta Valley Sheriff Station is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing 96-year-old man. The elderly man who has Alzheimer’s walked away from the location in the 2000 block of Hilldale Drive. “He was reported missing at 2:05 p.m.,” said Lt. Fitch, CV Sheriff’s Station. He was wearing Khaki (tan) pants and a […]
The Altadena Area office of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) will conduct a sobriety/driver license checkpoint on Friday, August 31, within the unincorporated area of east Altadena. We would like to remind everyone to designate a sober driver. Driving under the influence is inexcusable and has cost the lives of too many people,” said Captain […]