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Santa Ana police are asking for the public’s help in identifying and locating three suspects involved in an armed robbery at a local gas station over the weekend, officials announced. It’s unclear exactly which convenience store and gas station was robbed, but Santa Ana Police Department officials said in a social media post that the incident happened on Nov. 14. Surveillance camera footage shows two of the three suspects browsing the aisles of the convenience store, buying items, and then leaving. According to police, that’s when Suspect 1 approached a man who was filling up his car with gas and…

Barring a major disaster or major economic disruption, the median home price in Los Angeles County will likely exceed $1 million in 2025. The median price of a single-family home in Los Angeles County is $956,210, up 7% from a year ago, according to data released this week by the California Association of Realtors. The median home price across the state is $888,740, up about 6% from a year ago. This comes even as mortgage rates continue to hover near generational highs, leaving many prospective buyers on the sidelines. But economists at the Association of Realtors, which represents sales-dependent real…

The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office, along with investigators from the Palos Verdes Estates Police Department, are working to confirm the identity of human remains found on a local beach over the weekend, officials announced. Details are limited, but in a news release, police said they found what appeared to be a human skull along the low tide line at Rat Beach in the 300 block of Paseo del Mar. After being notified of the discovery, PVEPD officers and detectives responded to the beach and discovered additional skeletal remains. Investigators with the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office responded to the…

For years, members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department lived a lavish lifestyle, luxuriating in Santa Ana dinners, West Hollywood bars and Las Vegas nightclubs. But the culprit was not the department’s salary, but her unsuspecting grandmother, authorities said. Roxana C. Laub, 33, of Santa Ana, recently pleaded guilty to two felonies: check forgery and fraudulent use of a credit card in her grandmother’s name, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice. She faces up to 30 years in federal prison for the bank fraud charge and up to 15 years in federal prison for the…

Marketing group Resonance Consultancy and multinational market research and consulting firm Ipsos have released their annual ranking of the world’s best cities, with five US cities in the top 20, including Los Angeles in 14th place. From a methodological perspective, the report surveyed 22,000 people in 31 countries and aims to analyze both “the performance and perception of cities around the world,” according to the official press release. It is said that the purpose is The data points used to generate the list include factors related to livability, loveliness, and prosperity. With all this in mind, London has been ranked…

The atmospheric river season is here again. The first big storm of the Water Year of 2024-2025 is arriving, and it looks like a gigantic storm when seen from space.The storm currently rolling off the northwest coast of the United States, which meteorologists have described as a “bomb cyclone,” is bringing atmospheric rivers. Strong winds and heavy precipitation are expected.The image below provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows a bomb cyclone and the atmospheric river below it dumping precipitation over Northern California and surrounding states. A bomb cyclone approaches California on Wednesday. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)…

Nearly half of Muslim students surveyed at California universities said they had been the target of anti-Muslim harassment or discrimination in the last academic year as pro-Palestinian protests erupted on campus, according to the American Islamic Council. This percentage has increased rapidly since four years ago. This was revealed in a new report by officials.The study surveyed hundreds of Muslim students at approximately 87 public and private campuses in California and found that 49% of students, or 352 out of 720 respondents, It was found that respondents had experienced anti-Islamic acts by, staff, or employees. School administrator.CAIR and the Center…

As it’s giving season and more people start completing their holiday shopping, scams are on the rise. Gift cards are popular as Christmas stuffers and last-minute gifts, but experts say they can be the easiest way to ruin a thoughtful gesture. Scammers discreetly hack into the packaging of gift cards that are still in stores and steal information before repackaging the cards. You can then connect that number to your computer using special software that notifies you when the card is purchased and activated. “30% of us have given or received a worthless gift card, a 21% increase from two…

Watching Coachella’s lineup disappear is usually a post-New Year sport, but surprisingly, news about next year’s performers arrived nearly two months earlier than usual. Lady Gaga, Green Day, Post Malone and Travis Scott will headline the 2025 edition of the festival. Coachella is scheduled to play over two weekends in Indio, April 11-13, 2025 and April 18-20, 2025, again with nearly the same lineup (Post Malone’s involvement was announced just yesterday, as tour dates were announced). was teased for including two performances in Indio on the list.) Strictly speaking, the presale already took place during the summer and has ended.…

The California Legislative Analysis Service reported Wednesday that Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers could face a relatively small $2 billion budget deficit next year, but the outlook worsens in the future. He warned that it did not take into account changes brought about by the incoming Trump administration. The Newsom administration agreed with the interim fiscal report’s key principles, saying the state “should expect greater uncertainty than usual.””Every budget in California can be affected by forces outside of our control, whether it’s a conflict overseas or the unpredictable stock market at home,” said a spokesperson for the Governor’s Treasury Department.…