California K-9 sniffs out $300G in suspected drug money during traffic stop

Music producer Phil Spector, who participated in shaping up the music industry with his “Wall of Sound” method and who later was convicted of murder, has passed away at 81. California state prison officials confirmed the news via Twitter and revealed that the icon died on Saturday of natural causes at a hospital.

California Governor Gavin Newsom flew down to Los Angeles on Friday for the opening of a mass vaccination site at Dodger Stadium. Before Newsom stepped to the podium, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti introduced him as “not just California’s governor, but America’s governor.”

Disneyland has announced that the park’s annual pass program is coming to an end.

A reputed longtime member of the Mexican Mafia-- the prison gang-- was shot and killed at a California homeless encampment over the weekend, according to a report.  Samuel Villalba, 64, had a falling out with the group, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was found unresponsive on Sunday evening with multiple gunshot wounds to the upper torso in an encampment near the 91 Freeway in Long Beach and pronounced dead, police said.  The motive for the shooting remains under investigation, the Long

Police have arrested writer and producer Tim Gautier (above) in connection to the fatal shooting of his wife, Gina Gautier.

Detectives in California seized over $1 million in various hallucinogens and other illicit narcotics from a residential home that was also operating as a drug lab, authorities said Tuesday. Investigators executed a search warrant at a residence in Oildale, located just north of Bakersfield, on Thursday and discovered nearly 23 pounds of the hallucinogen dimethyltryptamine (DMT), worth an estimated street value of $1,040,568, the Kern County Sheriff’s Office said.

Naya Rivera's birthday has been honoured by her ex-husband Ryan Dorsey as he paid a loving tribute to her.The Glee star, who played Santana Lopez in the series, tragically died in July 2020 having drowned in Lake Piru in Southern California after using her last bit of energy to save her son Josey, five, who was found alone on a rented boat.

The “Station 19” actor clutched a small bouquet of sunflowers, which he left with Rivera, and covered his face as he left the cemetery.Rivera drowned last July while on a day trip with her son to Lake Piru in Southern California.

A San Jose man remained missing on Monday after he was swept out to sea off the Point Bonita Lighthouse trail near the San Francisco Bay entrance, the National Park Service said. The man, who was described as being in his 30s, was swept away after going off the trail to climb down some cliffs and got trapped by high surf.

"Jeopardy!" aired its final episode featuring its iconic host Alex Trebek.  Trebek, who passed away at 80-years-old back in November after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, made his final appearance on the long-running game show on Friday.The episode was taped back in October.  The three contestants in Trebek's final show were New York educator Jim Gilligan, Illinois software engineering manager Cliff Chang, and Yoshie Hill, the two-day returning champion from California who had won a

These alleged burglars did not “forget about Dre”, but they’re probably saying “f**k tha police” after ending up in custody.

California for a suspected aneurysm. The rap mogul posted on Instagram that he hopes to leave Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles and return home soon.

The owner and an employee of a Southern California bar and restaurant could each face a year behind bars following a dispute at the business in mid-December, according to a report. Authorities say the Costa Mesa bar’s manager, Luiza Mauro, is accused of physically trying to prevent a uniformed police officer from entering the Westend Bar on Dec.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor“The Ellen DeGeneres Show” will stay dark next week amid the growing alarm about rising COVID-19 infection rates in Los Angeles County and the rest of California.The syndicated daytime talk show has been airing reruns since Dec. 10 when DeGeneres announced that she had contracted the coronavirus.

On Wednesday, at the top of a conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci, California Governor Gavin Newsom revealed that the new, reportedly more infectious strain of Covid-19 first identified in the U.K. had been found in CA, specifically Southern California.