SAN PEDRO, Calif. – A San Pedro family is shaken after they were targets of what authorities are investigating as a hate crime over the holiday season. The Scott family shared photos of their Ford Mustang being spray-painted with a racial slur as well as a Swastika painted on the bumper. The car’s tires were […]
A body found in a San Diego freezer last month may have been that of a woman who has been missing or dead for up to nine years, police said Thursday. “Out-of-town” family members who were visiting a residence called local authorities when they discovered the body in the freezer, police said in December. The […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Kevin Hines regretted jumping off San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge the moment his hands released the rail and he plunged the equivalent of 25 stories into the Pacific Ocean, breaking his back. Hines miraculously survived his suicide attempt at age 19 in September 2000 as he struggled with bipolar disorder, one […]
A suspect was arrested after a chokehold killing allegedly left a San Bernardino County man dead on New Year’s Day. The suspect was identified as William Durst, 54, from Santa Monica, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. Deputies responded to a home on the 55800 block of Montara Road in Landers at 11 […]
SAN FRANCISCO — In November 1978, Pete Holmes was among the hundreds of Black San Francisco residents killed in one of the most notorious mass murder-suicides in history. Three weeks later, Holmes’ granddaughter Kamillah Ealom was born in a San Francisco hospital more than 4,000 miles away from where her grandfather and others perished in […]
The message came through loud and clear: “Don’t Austin my San Antonio!” The first wave of responses to my Sept. 12 column on the emerging Austin-San Antonio mega-metro — alternately dubbed San Antonio-Austin — rejected the alliance emphatically. The cities are so different, the idea of pairing them seemed an insult to the older, larger […]
SAN DIEGO — Highland Avenue was lined with spectators once again to cheer on the return of the decades-old tradition of “Cruisin.” It’s all due to the grassroots effort of the United Lowrider Coalition with some help from local San Diegan and State Assembly Member David Alvarez with the passage of AB436, which repeals any […]
Tornados, days and days of scorching heat, ferocious winds, dangerous ice and wily microbursts. West Central Texas typically has no shortage of weather events, but 2023 was especially noteworthy in the Big Country and the Concho Valley. This swath of Texas endured so much weather in 2023 that National Weather Service meteorologists and forecasters keeping […]
SAN DIEGO — The new year is approaching fast and there are many ways to ring in 2024. San Diego, ranked the second best place in the U.S. to celebrate New Year’s Eve in a recent study, has lots to offer during the holiday season. From family-friendly events to holiday pop-up bars and bottomless mimosas, […]
(KRON) – The San Jose Police Department is investigating a homicide that occurred on Saturday. Patrol officers responded to the area of Calle De Guadalupe and Plaza De Guadalupe for a report of a person shot at approximately 7:26 p.m. on Dec. 30. Las Vegas Countdown to 2024: How to watch the New Year’s Eve […]
(KRON) — Five people were arrested by the San Jose Police Department on Wednesday in connection with an illegal prostitution and casino operation, police said. Officers also seized a large cache of guns, marijuana and cash at the scene. The suspects were identified as: Saolepea Liu, 42, of Antioch Nido Nguyen, 35, of San Jose […]
Dec. 29—Only have a minute? Listen instead While there was much that comprised the year in news in the communities of San Benito and Harlingen, residents and public officials endured events in 2023 that rendered one city in such pain that it took the entire Rio Grande Valley community to console them, and left the […]