Police and firefighters responded to reports of a distressed swimmer at Esplanade Beach around 10:30 a.m. Thursday but authorities were unable to locate the swimmer after hours of searching. The missing student was confirmed Friday by the university to be Hamzah Alsaudi,
Preliminary data show 312 people were killed in crashes on L.A. streets last year. That roughly works out to one person dying in traffic every 28 hours. Half of those victims were people fatally struck by cars while walking.
When you grow up in Anaheim close enough to Disneyland to watch the fireworks show every night from your backyard but your family can’t afford to go, you can’t help but feel like you’re on the outside looking in.
For Ana Reyes, whose Witherspoon-anointed mystery, “The House in the Pines,” debuted at No. 2 on the hardcover fiction list, the key was teaching a weekly autobiography course for older adults at Santa Monica College.
A convicted killer released two years ago is now being charged with the murder of a Camarillo plumber who went missing last summer and was found by hikers in the Santa Monica Mountains. Investigators said he was murdered for financial gain.