Spectators on a Southern California whale-watching cruise were excited when they spotted a gray whale, then amazed when the giant mammal gave birth right in front of them. The birth and the first moments of the calf's life were recorded on cellphone and drone video Monday off Dana Point, south of Los...
More Than 800 Socal Supermarket Workers Test Positive for COVID-19
[aggregation-styles] NBC Los Angeles As the number of coronavirus cases soars in Southern California, the supermarket industry is getting hit harder than ever, according to data obtained by the NBC4 I-Team. The data shows there have been COVID-19 outbreaks at more than 137 Los Angeles area supermarkets in November and...
California Woman Pleads Guilty in ‘Birth Tourism’ Scheme
SANTA ANA — A woman who ran a Southern California "birth tourism" business that charged Chinese clients to help them give birth in the United States has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit immigration fraud. Dongyuan Li of Irvine also pleaded guilty to federal visa fraud Tuesday. Prosecutors say Li,...
Search Warrants Served in California Boat Fire Investigation
SANTA BARBARA — Authorities served search warrants Sunday at the Southern California company that owned the scuba diving boat that caught fire and killed 34 people last week. Agents with the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and other agencies searched Truth Aquatics' offices in Santa Barbara...
SoCal Millionaire Arrested in Wife’s Death After 4 Years on the Lam
LOS ANGELES — A Southern California millionaire charged with his wife's killing has been captured after four years on the run, authorities said Monday. U.S. Marshals spokesperson Lynzey Donahue said Peter Chadwick had been arrested but declined to provide additional details. The Orange County District Attorney's office scheduled a news...
Walters: It's Time to Derail the Bullet Train
A decade ago, shortly after California voters narrowly approved a $9.95 billion bond issue to finance a statewide high-speed rail train system, an official involved in early planning for the project confided a dirty little secret. While a 200-mph bullet train was the sizzle sold to voters, he told me,...
Should Community Colleges Build Dorms for Students?
Matthew Polamalu was spending 1.5 hours each day commuting back and forth to community college along Southern California’s congested freeways when he decided he’d had enough. He sat down at his computer and Googled “community colleges with dorms.” “I was just looking for the full college experience,” said the psychology...
Engineers Raise Risk Level for Southern California Dam
CORONA — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says a recent assessment has raised concern about the potential for failure of the spillway of a flood control dam on a Southern California river where 1.4 million people live downstream. The Corps said Thursday it has changed the risk characterization of...
Gigantic Sharks Make Big Comeback off California Coast
They’re freaking huge. They’re harmless. And, it appears, they’re making a comeback. After all but vanishing five decades ago, the humongous basking shark — some measure up to 30 feet long — has been spotted along the Southern California coast. Unlike their fearsome cousins, basking sharks have tiny teeth and...
Officials: California Terror Plot by Army Veteran Stopped
LOS ANGELES — A terror plot by an Army veteran who converted to Islam and planned to bomb a white supremacist rally in Southern California as retribution for the New Zealand mosque attacks was thwarted, federal prosecutors said Monday. Mark Domingo, 26, an infantryman who served a combat stint in...