RIVERSIDE, Calif.—More than four years after the shooting deaths of seven Laotian workers at an illegal marijuana farm in Southern California, authorities revealed Friday that they believe the killings were carried out by gang members and pleaded with people to come forward with any information. Investigators believe the suspects were gang members of Laotian descent […]
LOS ANGELES—The pilot of a small plane attempted to make an emergency landing shortly after takeoff before crashing through the roof of a building in Southern California, according to air traffic control audio that includes panicked gasping and a female voice saying, “Oh my God,” moments before the crash. The crash Thursday left two people […]
California is considering restricting the travel of classic cars, according to a report by The Daily Caller. The state sent a questionnaire to vintage car owners after it considered creating so-called zero emissions zones. Joining NTD to discuss the move is Lauren Fix, an automotive expert at Car Coach Reports. She says classic cars are […]
PHILLIPS STATION, Calif.—California is beginning 2025 with a solid start to the winter snowpack, officials said Thursday, but they cautioned that more storms are needed to keep the state’s water supplies on track. Officials at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada, a mountain range that covers the eastern part of the state, recorded a snow […]
FULLERTON, Calif.—Two people died and 19 were injured Thursday when a small plane crashed through the roof of a sprawling furniture manufacturing building in Southern California where at least 200 people were working, police said. The people who died were believed to have been on the plane, while those injured were inside the building. The […]
LOS ANGELES—Two security guards at a downtown Los Angeles shopping plaza were wounded in a gunfight with a man as they tried to stop him from making off with more than $1,000 of stolen merchandise, police said Tuesday. The guards confronted the man as he left a Target store at the FIGat7th outdoor shopping mall […]
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—A man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a Northern California woman in what became widely known as the “Gone Girl” kidnapping has been charged with two 15-year-old home invasion sexual assaults, prosecutors announced Monday. Prosecutors allege Matthew Muller, 47, broke into a woman’s home in Mountain View, California, in September 2009, attacked her, […]
LOS ANGELES—The Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investigation after a private jet carrying the Gonzaga University men’s basketball team nearly crossed a runway as another flight was taking off Friday at Los Angeles International Airport. The plane operated by Key Lime Air was ordered by air traffic controllers to stop as a Delta aircraft […]
NEW YORK—Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 87. Lavin died in Los Angeles on Sunday of complications from recently discovered lung cancer, her representative, Bill Veloric, told The Associated Press in an email. A […]
ATLANTA—At least one Mega Millions player has plenty of dough to ring in the New Year after drawing the winning number. After three months without anyone winning the top prize in the lottery, a ticket worth an estimated $1.22 billion was sold in California for the drawing Friday night, according to the Mega Millions website. […]
Police in Seal Beach recently arrested shoplifters thanks to a new law under California’s newly implemented Proposition 36, which toughens penalties for certain theft and drug offenses—marking one of the first cases under the change, which began last week. As seen in a viral montage of security camera, dash cam, and body camera footage posted […]
Richard Perry, a hitmaking record producer with a flair for both standards and contemporary sounds whose many successes included Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” Rod Stewart’s “The Great American Songbook” series, and a Ringo Starr album featuring all four Beatles, died Tuesday. He was 82. Perry, a recipient of a Grammys Trustee Award in 2015, […]
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.—Persistent high surf and flooding threats along California’s coast had residents on high alert a day after a major storm was blamed for one man’s death and the partial collapse of a pier, which propelled three people into the Pacific Ocean. And two other men remained missing Tuesday, one of them presumed dead, […]
Two were rescued and one swam to safety Monday after a pier in California’s central coast partially collapsed Monday, local authorities said. The Santa Cruz Wharf, which was under construction, collapsed after facing turbulent waters and hurricane-force winds as a powerful storm passed through the Pacific Northwest seas. The Santa Cruz Fire Department rescued two […]
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26. Balaji worked at OpenAI for nearly four years before quitting in August. He was well-regarded […]
California officials have declared a state of emergency over the spread of bird flu, which is tearing through dairy cows in that state and causing sporadic illnesses in people in the United States. That raises new questions about the virus, which has spread for years in wild birds, commercial poultry, and many mammal species. The […]
Hollywood rolled out the red carpet for S.J. Creazzo and his latest film “Dark Night of the Soul.” It’s a suspenseful drama that tells the story of a woman racing against the clock after getting into a car crash. NTD’s Ruby Lovell was on the red carpet to talk to some of the high-profile cast […]
The Biden administration has granted California the authority to phase out the sales of new gasoline-powered cars, a move that President-elect Donald Trump will likely attempt to reverse. On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its decision to grant two requests from the state under the Clean Air Act. The EPA granted a Clean […]
Scientists discovered that some California ground squirrels are carnivorous, hunting and eating rodents instead of their usual diet of nuts and seeds, according to new research published Oct. 18. The study, led by the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the University of California at Davis, is the first to chronicle widespread carnivorous behavior among squirrels. […]
