Despite more acceptance, struggle and fear remain for gay Americans after...
When Nancy Tubbs came out in the early 1990s, she felt alone and isolated.In those days, there weren't many places for gays and lesbians to go in College Station, Texas, where she grew up and later...
View ArticleOrlando shooting's long list of Latino victims galvanizing gay people of color
Javier Hernandez, like many in the nation, awoke June 12 to the horrific news that someone had killed 49 people at a gay Orlando nightclub. The shocked 27-year-old was rattled, learning a single man,...
View ArticlePasadena woman arrested for rock-throwing vandalism in Arcadia, Sierra Madre
Police officers in Arcadia Saturday morning pulled over a woman in a black Mini Cooper who was wanted for throwing rocks into buildings and vehicles in Arcadia and Sierra Madre, authorities said.Sierra...
View ArticleOrlando Shooting: Attorney General says Omar Mateen investigation moving forward
ORLANDO, Fla. >> Although the killer is known, the investigation continues into what motivated and enabled Omar Mateen to carry out the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.Attorney General...
View ArticleTwo shooters sought following gunfire in Pasadena neighborhood
PASADENA >> Police found bullet casings from two different guns and a shattered car window, but no victims, after gunfire erupted in a northwest Pasadena neighborhood early Sunday, authorities...
View ArticlePasadena man arrested after sitting on porch with gun, yelling 'incoherently'
PASADENA >> Police disarmed and arrested a Pasadena man seen sitting on a front porch, waiving a handgun and yelling incoherently Saturday afternoon.Alfred Montoya, 59, was booked for brandishing...
View ArticleLA County catalytic converter thefts spiking, thieves moving away from...
On the morning of May 31, Peter Boada had a hankering for some doughnuts.He jumped into his 2007 Toyota Prius and started it up, but the normally quiet hybrid sedan sounded like a race car on the...
View ArticleSan Bernardino terror attack victims' loved ones offer coping advice in wake...
Last week's mass shooting is reopening wounds left by the San Bernardino terrorist attack, and the hearts of those still grieving now ache for the Orlando massacre's survivors and victims' friends and...
View ArticleAttorney General says investigation of Orlando nightclub shooter moving forward
ORLANDO, Fla. >> U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Sunday that the FBI will release a partial transcript of the conversations between the gunman within the Pulse gay nightclub and Orlando...
View ArticleTwo people wounded in Sunday night shooting in Pasadena
PASADENA - An investigation was underway in Pasadena today into a shooting that wounded two people, authorities said.The shooting was reported at 11:50 p.m. Sunday at Washington Boulevard and El Sereno...
View ArticleOrlando gunman to 911: 'I did the shootings'
ORLANDO, Fla. >>Newly released transcripts show Orlando gunman Omar Mateen spoke in Arabic to a 911 dispatcher and told a crisis negotiator that the U.S. needed to stop bombing Iraq and Syria.The...
View ArticleMother killed in Covina hit-and-run, daughter hurt
COVINA -- A woman crossing a street with her 10-year-old daughter was killed and her child injured in a hit-and-run collision Sunday night. The driver later turned himself in to police.The fatal crash...
View ArticleFake customer robs Pasadena gas station
PASADENA >> A man posed as a customer then robbed a gas station at gunpoint of an undisclosed amount early Monday.Pasadena Police Lt. Mark Goodman said no one was reported injured during the...
View ArticleMan caught after robbing Pasadena gas station of cigarettes
PASADENA >> A man robbed a local gas station of a pack of cigarettes but was later caught by police.Pasadena Police Lt. Mark Goodman said the robbery took place around 10 p.m. Sunday at a 76 gas...
View Article238 suspects nabbed across Southern California in child predator sweep
A two-month sweep of suspected child predators wanted for everything from negotiating sex tourism on the internet to possessing and selling pornography netted 238 arrests across Southern California,...
View ArticleWhittier Marine veteran stabbed to death in Hemet was celebrating sister's...
The Whittier man stabbed to death outside a Hemet bar this weekend had come to town to celebrate his sister's birthday and Father's Day with his family, his brother said.Nicholas Males, 28, was killed...
View ArticleFormer California Senator Ron Calderon expected to plead guilty to mail fraud...
LOS ANGELES - Former state Sen. Ron Calderon is expected to plead guilty today to a federal mail fraud charge, weeks after his brother, also a former lawmaker, admitted allowing bribe money earmarked...
View ArticleSettlement likely in lawsuit over 8-year-old's fatal beating in Palmdale
Attorneys are scheduled to appear in court Monday and seem poised to settle a lawsuit brought against Los Angeles County by the family of an 8-year-old boy beaten to death, allegedly by his mother and...
View ArticlePrison time for former LA Sheriff Lee Baca draws mixed reaction after...
A day after court documents confirmed that former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, community leaders and law enforcement groups gave opposing views...
View ArticleCalifornia near top of anti-Semitism list, ADL audit shows
Swastikas painted on sidewalks and walkways. Anti-Semitic taunts in a middle school campus, on a public bus, in the street. Harassing anti-Semitic voice mails.These are just a few examples of hateful...
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