Officers who conducted a welfare check at the home of Caleb Vazquez wrote that he was "involved in suspicious behavior idolizing nazis and mass shooters," and obtained a court order on Jan. 29, 2025, to remove 26 guns under a 2014 California law allowing the confiscation of firearms from people considered dangerous.
Buchanan High School is the site Friday and Saturday for the track championships, where City Section record-holder Lawrence Kensinger will try to win a state title in the shotput after his astonishing mark of 65-11 at the City finals broke a record established in 1973. Running events begin at 5 p.m. Friday to qualify for Saturday's finals.
The effort is part of TREEAMS - trees and dreams - which aims to see local kids plant 5,000 trees in the next three to five years in scorched areas of Altadena, the Palisades and Malibu. Students will tend to the roughly 2-year-old trees until they can be replanted in schools, parks and homes affected by the Palisades as well as the Eaton fire.
Officials in Southern California have ordered 50,000 people to evacuate as temperatures rise inside a toxic chemical tank, raising concerns of a massive leak or catastrophic explosion. The situation is happening in Garden Grove, CA, near Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm, which are both outside the evacuation zone and remain open.
Inside were tiny uniforms, stuffed animals, fading photographs, comic books, handwritten notes, even a pair of worn Buzz Lightyear wings saved from a long-ago Christmas morning. As the students from Country Day School in San Rafael de Alajuela, Costa Rica, stepped inside, many immediately dissolved into tears. Some buried their faces in their hands. Others collapsed into embraces with classmates who had spent nearly their entire lives on the same campus, a place where many had started as toddlers.
Gabriela Gonzalez, a 24-year-old with a large social media following, was charged Tuesday with one count of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and solicitation of murder in the alleged plot to kill Jack Avery, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said. Gonzalez's father, Francisco Gonzalez, 59, and her then-boyfriend Kai Cordrey, 26, face the same charges.
Sunnyvale leaders want to stop new smoke shops from popping up in town, especially near schools and other youth-oriented areas. The Sunnyvale City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a 45-day emergency moratorium to temporarily halt new smoke shop permits and introduced a separate policy banning nitrous oxide sales citywide. The proposed regulations come as city officials and residents have raised concerns about smoke shops opening near schools, selling flavored tobacco products and marketing items they said could appeal to younger customers.
Kelly Bartell hugged her daughter goodbye before she went to see her girlfriend, then never got to hug her again. Alexa Bartell, 20, had been on her way to see her girlfriend Jenna when three boys drove past her at 80-90mph and threw a 4kg rock through her windscreen. The rock hit her, and she crashed into a nearby field, dying at the scene. Mother Kelly never got to see her daughter again, as the funeral home said Alexa's injuries were so severe.
Two agents came to the former Why Don't We member and current solo artist's house looking to talk to him. "Jack hasn't done anything wrong," the agents told his mom. "We think he's a victim of something." The FBI went on to explain to Avery and his family that "someone hired someone" to kill him.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is one of the more common benefits for disabled children, but there are household income limits that apply, and benefits are capped at $994 per month in 2026. Parents need to understand all of the ways Social Security could help a disabled child, including into adulthood. And, there is actually a surprising way that a parent's retirement may help an older disabled child to get more financial support from the Social Security Administration.
Khimberly was a seemingly healthy student at Reseda Charter High when she was struck in the head with a metal water bottle during an altercation with campus bullies on Feb. 17, according to her family. Days later, she was rushed to the hospital for emergency brain surgery, placed in a medically induced coma and died. In April, the Los Angeles Police Department arrested a juvenile suspect on suspicion of murder in connection to Khimberly's death.
Prosecutors said Castillo knew about and authorized the September 2022 attack by opening the victim's cell, and then watched from afar as the beating took place. "Correctional officers are sworn to protect the public and the inmates," Santa Clara County Dist. Atty. Jeff Rosen said. "This officer betrayed the public, betrayed the inmates, and betrayed the badge. My office will hold corrupt correctional officers to account for their behavior."
The raid began at 4am. As the children slept, soldiers charged into the family home, rifles raised. They said they were entering under the emergency powers, says Rosa*, the family's matriarch, whose name has been changed for fear of retaliation. They pointed their guns at us. I thought they were going to kill us all. The soldiers quickly singled out her son, 16-year-old Jairo Damian Tapia Alvarez, and her nephew, 17-year-old Jostin Elian Alvarez Chavez, she says, separating the boys from the family. They said they were taking them in for an ongoing investigation and that, if we resisted, we would all be teargassed, she says.
Public defender Jennifer Redding argued in her closing statement that her client, now 14, acted in self-defense and could reasonably have assumed that Gutierrez was also armed. Redding's defense included evidence that Gutierrez's girlfriend had helped to spur and escalate the fight between the two boys, even allegedly saying, “You're going to fight my boyfriend one on one,” and that the two had been known to get in public conflicts with others.
Upon arriving at the compound, police encountered three dead adults, the presumed victims. One was a security guard, who police credited with stopping the shooting from being much worse. Nearby, after receiving calls about shots fired at a landscaper in the area, police found two male teenagers, aged 17 and 19, in a car, dead of apparent gunshot wounds. Police described the teens as the "subjects" who likely carried out the mosque shooting.
“It was insanely busy,” said Tennyson, who is 6 feet 6 and 300 pounds. “I took an Advil and served birthday cake, brownie, chocolate fudge.” There was no way Tennyson wouldn't answer the call for duty. “It's my first job as a teenager,” he said. “It's good for job experience.”
Carefully stored away in Jesse Holland's condo in East Brunswick, New Jersey, are the totems of a culture that nearly killed him. When I visited his place on a cold afternoon in December of 2023, it had been nearly four decades since Jesse first donned his dress blues as a first-year, or “plebe,” at the Valley Forge Military Academy, just north of Philadelphia. He showed me the uniform he was given at age 14, neatly folded, still hanging in his closet. Jesse's old textbooks and academic records from the Forge were tucked away, too, as was a towel and laundry basket the school had issued him. Also, a brass badge depicting Gen. George Washington praying on the Pennsylvania Revolutionary War battleground for which the Forge is named.
Alameda County supervisors approved a $36 million settlement for surviving family members, but primarily for the Trans' teenage son, Brandon Tran, who witnessed the killings and who is now 18 years old. When the crime occurred, Brandon Tran was 14 years old and his mother, Maria Tran, reportedly died in his arms. Maria Tran's mother and brother were also staying in the house at the time of the killings.
Celeste Calocane told an inquiry that her son, who has paranoid schizophrenia, was empty months before he killed students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, in Ilkeston Road, Nottingham, in the early hours of 13 June 2023. He then killed 65-year-old Ian Coates in the Mapperley Park area around an hour later, stealing the grandfather's van and using it to run over pedestrians at two locations in Nottingham city centre.
The team posted the photograph on a school Instagram page. It caught the attention of Temecula Valley Unified School District Board President Joseph Komrosky and member Jennifer Wiersma. "Speaking of dress code...are our teams now an 'OnlyFans' crew? Hats off to the kids that kept their pants on," Wiersma wrote in a caption for an Instagram story reposting the image of the students.
