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A Long Beach man who was charged with multiple felonies following a crash that killed two children and injured four others north of Castaic on Christmas Day pleaded not guilty Monday. Jorge Preciado, 28, from Long Beach, was charged with six felonies in connection with a Christmas Day crash north of Castaic that claimed the life of 6-year-old Jayden Preciado ...

Selling a property in the Santa Clarita Valley often involves navigating specific geological and environmental factors that are unique to Northern Los Angeles County. When a home begins to show signs of structural distress, homeowners frequently wonder if a sale is even possible. The short answer is yes, but the process requires a deep understanding of local soil conditions, disclosure ...

A man was arrested at a road closure on the 14 Freeway, after California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers recognized him as the DUI suspect who ran over one of their colleagues during a DUI investigation hours earlier. Around 8:15 p.m. Saturday, CHP units received a call of a possible DUI driver on the eastbound 210 Freeway east of the 5 ...

A 36-year-old Santa Clarita man was tased and arrested Sunday afternoon after allegedly causing a five-vehicle crash and then fleeing from deputies on foot in Newhall. Deputies with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station responded at approximately 4:32 p.m. Feb. 22, 2026, to reports of a multi-vehicle crash at the intersection of Railroad Avenue and Oak Ridge Drive, according to ...

A Pennsylvania man has been arrested and federally charged after grooming a girl who recently turned 13 years old to send him sexually explicit material of herself and images of self-harm over the internet, a pattern of abuse consistent with nihilistic violent extremist (NVE) ideology that culminated in law enforcement rescuing her at a Santa Clarita Valley motel. Matthew Edward ...

In 1998, powerful El Niño-driven storms pounded Santa Clarita, causing widespread flooding, road closures, and infrastructure damage as one of the wettest Februarys in California history continued. The 1997-98 El Niño event brought a series of intense storms to Southern California, with February breaking multiple rainfall records. By Feb. 23, Santa Clarita had already endured weeks of heavy precipitation, and ...

A total of 22 people were arrested by law enforcement in Santa Clarita over the weekend, with most of the arrests involving alcohol or substance use. Of the 22 arrests made over the weekend in Santa Clarita, 18 were handled by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, while the remaining four were made by officers from the CHP Newhall Area ...

UPDATE (3:31 p.m.): Valencia Boulevard and Magic Mountain Parkway is open to drivers. Toppers Pizza remains closed Sunday afternoon. Previously published (1:00 p.m.) :A series of underground vault explosions outside Toppers Pizza in Valencia prompted an evacuation and closed the busy intersection of Valencia Boulevard and Magic Mountain Parkway Sunday. The first reported explosion occurred around 12:06 p.m. near Toppers ...

The northbound 14 Freeway was briefly shut down early Sunday morning after an overturned vehicle crash sent one person to the hospital. The call came in around 2:53 a.m. reporting a crash on the northbound 14 Freeway, just south of Newhall Avenue, involving a Dodge sedan that had overturned onto its roof, according to Michael Nasir, Public Information Officer with ...

On February 22, 1983, a standoff ensued at the Alpha Beta Supermarket in Newhall, leaving the suspect shot multiple times by a deputy. Late afternoon on February 22, 1983, Deputy Dan McCarty of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was on a routine patrol when he witnessed a car stopping hastily in front of the Alpha Beta Supermarket entrance. The ...