Veteran officers Sharlton Wampler and Antonio Villegas were named on Thursday as the two officers involved in the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Ezell Ford earlier this month. Complaints from residents in South Los Angeles about the lack of LAPD transparency
California lawmakers passed a bill for Gov. Jerry Brown to sign that will ensure transgendered Californians the ability to show gender status on their death certificate at the time of their death instead of at birth. AB 1577 was approved
On Tuesday, a few hours after Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto said that Illegal Aliens deserve justice in the USA and Gov. Jerry Brown welcomed all illegal immigrants to California, lawmakers in Sacramento passed a proposed ballot measure seeking to
Surveillance video caught a woman allegedly setting fire to a patio chair on the back deck of a nail salon in El Segundo, and police now believe she may be responsible for arson in at least seven fires within a
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, speaking in Los Angeles, said that it is time to give justice to illegal immigrants in the USA. Governor Jerry Brown and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti joined with Pena Nieto and addressed hundreds of
A major investor has withdrawn from funding the world’s largest solar farms near Silicon Valley after the Panoche Valley Solar project cleared major barriers to begin development. According to the San Jose Mercury News, Southern California Edison agreed to purchase
A seismologist at UC San Diego asserted that the 6.0 Napa earthquake that struck on Sunday should be a “wake-up call” for the Napa Valley wine industry, which had a substantial amount of inventory destroyed by a relatively mild earthquake. Tom Rockwell explained
A boy was critically injured during Sunday’s 6.0 Quake in Napa when a brick chimney collapsed on him. The boy was one of 172 people who sustained injuries, including concussions and broken bones, and were treated at several hospitals in
Sunday was a bad day for a 20-year-old wine cellar worker who survived a twenty-six gallon fish tank falling on his head during a 6.0 earthquake that injured scores of people, trashed buildings, destroyed roads and smashed hundreds of wine
According to scientists at the University of California at Berkeley, an earthquake early warning system operated successfully and was able to detect the quake ten seconds before the 6.0 quake hit on Sunday morning in Napa Valley. Although ten seconds
Ryan Zinke is running for U.S. Congress in Montana and is a former SEAL Team Six Task Force Commander and currently the Operations Officer for National Command Authority missions. The former Republican state senator is outraged that Mexico is still
Just before 3:30 a.m. Sunday, an earthquake rocked Northern California 10 miles northwest of American Canyon, six miles southwest of Napa, California according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The 6.0 reading on the Richter scale renders it the largest earthquake
Honey bees have become the latest victim in the three-year drought in California, where more than 80 percent of the state is suffering from “extreme” or “exceptional” drought. According to Gene Brandi, vice president of the American Beekeeping Federation, this
So far no suspensions have been handed out to Pittsburgh Steelers running backs Le’Veon Bell and LeGarrette Blount for their arrests involving marijuana possession and, in Bell’s case, driving under the influence on Wednesday. However, according to Sports Illustrated, the pair have apologized for their behavior.
On Thursday, a music video titled “F*** tha Police” called for revenge for the fatal police shooting of Ezell Ford in South Los Angeles on August 11. The video has prompted the LAPD’s union to issue a warning to officers to be
On Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder said in a news conference in Washington that he and the Department of Justice stand with the people of Ferguson. He added, “I went to Ferguson to provide reassurance; in fact they gave me
Curt Schilling said in an interview with Boston radio station WEEI that he believes the oral cancer he contracted recently was a direct result of dipping and chewing tobacco during his baseball career. The legendary pitcher, who won championships with
New Jersey Police are on the look-out for a man who allegedly committed three separate “knockout game” punches within a 15-minute time frame. The victims sustained bruised jaws and bloody faces. The assailant was described by police as a six-foot
Tensions heightened on Tuesday night as residents and activists grilled Los Angeles police officials with questions regarding the fatal shooting by LAPD officers of Ezell Ford, an unarmed mentally challenged African American, on August 11, 2014. Meeting at the Paradise
Punter Chris Kluwe has decided not to pursue a wrongful termination lawsuit against the Minnesota Vikings. Instead, he will accept a settlement that will provide an undisclosed sum of money to five gay-rights charities over the next five years. Kluwe
The Los Angeles Police Department blocked the release of the autopsy findings of Ezell Earl Ford on Monday, claiming that they regularly place a “security hold” on autopsies during early stages of an investigation. Ford was shot by police officers
Los Angeles has increased its water-wasting patrol officers, affectionately known as “water cops,” now that severe drought is hobbling 99.8% of California. Up until Monday, only one water-wasting inspector was employed by the DWP to monitor excessive use of water
Two South Pasadena High School students entering their senior year have been arrested for allegedly plotting a mass shooting to be carried out on the first day of the new school year on Thursday. According to the South Pasadena Police
According to Chicago Bears defensive end David Bass, who grew up about six miles from where Michael Brown was fatally shot by police, Ferguson was a “gasoline-soaked woodpile just waiting for a spark.” First of all, Bass says that Ferguson
On Sunday, a rally was held in South Los Angeles outside the LAPD’s 77th Division station, where about 100 protesters demanded that justice be done in the case of a mentally challenged 25-year-old who was fatally shot by police on August
