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Katie Evans, a 37-year-old mother of six, was killed by a drunk driver on her way back from the hospital three years ago today, leaving behind a loving family. On Oct. 6, 2017, Evans was returning home after visiting her twin daughters, who had been born three months prematurely at the UCLA Intensive Care Unit less than two months before, ...

Southern California Edison (SCE) has contributed over $2 million towards the Orange County Fire Authority’s helitanker helicopter during fire season, which is set to be available for use anywhere SCE provides electricity, officials said Tuesday. With 2020 brush fires burning throughout the state even before Santa Ana conditions have arrived, SCE has contributed $2.2 million towards the Orange County Fire ...

A man was arrested in Stevenson Ranch on Friday after deputies reportedly found him in possession of over 47,000 doses of methamphetamine. On Friday, deputies with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station were patrolling in Stevenson Ranch when they noticed a vehicle driving with a broken rear brake light.  “As deputies conducted a traffic stop to warn/cite the driver, they ...

One person has been arrested in connection to a Newhall assault Sunday night that left an elderly man beaten and sent to the hospital with “serious injuries” after he attempted to help a woman being physically assaulted, officials said. Around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, emergency responders received a call for an assault with a deadly weapon at the Newhall Metrolink Station ...

A vehicle fire on the 14 Freeway spread to nearby brush in the Newhall Pass Tuesday, prompting a full first-alarm brush response from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. UPDATE (1:55 p.m.): The blaze, which was later named the Crew Fire, grew to an acre in size before forward progress was stopped, according to officials with the Los Angeles County Fire ...

Proposition 25 (Prop 25) seeks to end the practice of cash-bail and replace it with risk assessments for detained suspects awaiting trial by Pretrial Assessment Services with the use of an approved risk assessment tool. The potential change initially entered California’s political arena in 2018 with the passage of Senate Bill 10 (SB 10), which proposed the changes a Yes ...

Data collection operations for the 2020 United States Census have been extended through the end of October after a court ruled that the Census Bureau had “acted arbitrarily and capriciously” in their attempt to complete the census by the end of September. In a ruling issued Thursday by the San Jose Division of the U.S. District Court in Northern California, ...

By: Gary R. Martin I first met Jason Gibbs when he announced his candidacy for the 2018 City Council election. At that time, I didn’t know much about Jason, other than his resume credentials, which were impressive but did not come close to accurately describing what Jason would bring to our community as a City Council Member and community leader. ...

Officials with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station are scheduled to host a National Drug Take-Back Day event, giving residents the opportunity to anonymously discard any expired or unwanted prescription drugs. On Saturday, Oct. 24, officials with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station are scheduled to accept unwanted medications from residents during a National Drug Take Back Day event. “Prescription ...

“Sweet” Lou Johnson and Ron Perranoski, both members of World Series winning Los Angeles Dodger teams of the 1960s have died. Perranoski, a reliever for the Dodgers for eight of his 13 seasons in the Major League, member of the 1963 and 1965 World Series championship teams and later Dodger pitching coach, died Friday at 84 years old after a ...