To hack or not to hack? San Bernardino terrorist's iPhone sparks privacy debate
An extraordinary legal fight is brewing with major privacy implications for millions of cellphone users after a federal magistrate ordered Apple Inc. to help the FBI hack into an iPhone used by the...
View ArticleChino Hills Powerball lottery winner: Where are you?
With two of the three winning ticket holders in January's $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot now known, the question still remains: Who bought the $528 million ticket in Chino Hills?In Florida, the people...
View ArticleSan Bernardino's IRC shooting investigation thwarted by Apple Inc.
An encrypted work-issued iPhone used by San Bernardino County employee and Inland Regional Center gunman Syed Farook is at the center of an imminent legal battle between Apple Inc.
View ArticlePolice vs. privacy: Apple iPhone hacking order just latest battle in ongoing war
On Tuesday, a federal magistrate ordered Apple, Inc. to provide a way into the work iPhone of Syed Farook, one of two people responsible for the Dec. 2 terrorist attack on the Inland Regional Center,...
View ArticleIn Apple's legal skirmish, economics mingles with privacy and security
The emerging legal skirmish between a U.S. magistrate and Apple, Inc. pits the government's security needs versus privacy concerns.And in the process, it threatens the ability of the American high-tech...
View ArticleSupervisor Hilda Solis on Exide clean-up funds: 'Two Americas' for too long
Gov. Jerry Brown announced Wednesday he wants the state to spend $176.6 million to test and cleanup thousands of homes contaminated with lead near the closed Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon....
View ArticleWhat was learned on the Gold Line Foothill Extension's first passenger test ride
The first passenger ride on the 11.5-mile Gold Line Foothill Extension went off with only a few glitches Wednesday, a preview of the public opening March 5 of the easternmost Metro Rail train in...
View ArticleHow a white suburban housewife's letter helped create Franklin, the black...
MONROVIA >> It was April 1968, two weeks after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, when a white schoolteacher in suburban Los Angeles wrote a famous cartoonist and suggested he add a "Negro"...
View ArticleLocal community things to know and do for the Pasadena area for February 18,...
ARCADIACollege savings event set for SaturdayIn celebration of its new "Start Small, Dream Big" campaign, ScholarShare, California's 529 College Savings Plan, will hold a "Start Small, Dream Big" event...
View ArticlePorn performers set to protest Thursday vote requiring condoms, eyewear on...
More than 100 adult film performers plan to gather in Sacramento Thursday to protest an expected ruling by California regulators that mandates condoms and eyewear for actors on all porn sets...
View ArticleMother of Pasadena shooting victim renews calls for justice
PASADENA >> Sarah Mendoza-Jaime, of Altadena, has spent the past 34 years helping the community in times of need through her work, but two months after the mysterious slaying of her 27-year-old...
View ArticleWhittier student's death on school bus inspires bus safety bill
Bus companies in California would be required to equip all school buses with child-safety alarm systems to ensure children are not left alone under a new bill introduced this week.State Sen. Tony...
View ArticleFelons arrested in Glendora with gun, suspected stolen property
GLENDORA >> Watchful neighbors helped Glendora police nab to convicted felons with a loaded handgun and items stolen from throughout the area early Wednesday, authorities said.Gilbert Gonzalez,...
View ArticleMan accused of seemingly random attack on Glendora police officer
GLENDORA >> Police subdued a man with a Taser and arrested him after an unprovoked attack on a Glendora police officer Wednesday afternoon, officials said.Miguel Arredondo, 30, tried to ram the...
View ArticleRosemead man killed in Irwindale motorcycle crash identified
IRWINDALE >> Authorities Thursday released the identity of a motorcyclist from Rosemead killed in a collision with an alleged drunken driver earlier this month.Maximiliano Michel, 29, died...
View ArticleJapanese internees want you to remember when they were incarcerated at the LA...
Bacon Sakatani can't help but laugh when he remembers reporting to Covina Park with only what he could carry 74 years ago. "It just didn't hit me at that time," Sakatani said on a recent afternoon in...
View ArticleMonrovia woman critical after attack at apartment complex
MONROVIA - A resident carrying her 2-year-old daughter was attacked and stabbed several times at an apartment complex by an unknown assailant Wednesday night.Monrovia Police said the 36-year-old woman...
View ArticleUndocumented immigrants hope U.S. Supreme Court vacancy will work in their favor
Avila Medrano was threatened with deportation to her native Mexico by a high school teacher in Arizona. Years later, she said she was afraid to speak up after repeatedly being sexually harassed at her...
View ArticleEl Niño may be out, La Niña may be in, says National Weather...
It may be goodbye for El Niño and hello to La Niña.The once-predicted "Godzilla" storm of El Niño has thus far turned out to be a little lizard in terms of Southern California rainfall, but weather...
View ArticlePalos Verdes Estates man charged with punching Mets fan in Dodger Stadium...
A 27-year-old bartender from Palos Verdes Estates was charged Thursday with punching a New York Mets fan in the Dodger Stadium parking lot, knocking him unconscious and causing him to hit his head on...
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