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Coastal fire victim has some advice for those burned out in Eaton, Palisades...
The fiery destruction of wide swaths of Pacific Palisades and Altadena sent Ramin Yazdi flashing back to the night in May 2022 when he stood in the street watching his home burn down in Laguna Niguel’s...
View ArticleUCI Medical Center patient loses left leg after undergoing routine knee surgery
A Perris electrician who checked into UCI Medical Center in 2024 for routine knee surgery is suing the University of California Board of Regents, alleging the surgeon and medical staff made a series of...
View ArticleEaton fire could be first big test for wildfire fund created to keep...
California’s Wildfire Fund, a state pool created six years ago to keep utilities out of bankruptcy if they are found responsible for massive property losses, could be headed into uncharted territory...
View ArticleTemecula man who dared deputy to arrest him gets $498,000 for wrongful arrest...
Riverside County has paid $498,000 to settle a wrongful arrest lawsuit by a Temecula man who dared a sheriff’s deputy to arrest him. Deputy Robert Glaser, a 14-year-veteran, made the arrest and was...
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Family of Altadena man killed in Eaton fire joins growing list of victims...
Attorney Carl Douglas announces he has filed a civil lawsuit against Southern California Edison on behalf of the late Rodney Nickerson’s family during a press conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday,...
View ArticleEdison, victims’ experts to begin physical inspection of towers suspected in...
For the first time since the Eaton fire ignited Jan. 7, Southern California Edison and investigators for the victims next week will begin physically inspecting the equipment that more than 130 lawsuits...
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Investigators climb Edison transmission towers in probe of alleged Eaton fire...
Southern California Edison Co. inspectors for the first time climbed giant transmission towers in Eaton Canyon on Thursday looking for evidence that could confirm whether the utility’s equipment...
View ArticleLawsuit blames downed power lines as second ignition point in Palisades fire
A new lawsuit blames part of the catastrophic Palisades fire — the worst in Los Angeles history — on downed power lines from wooden poles snapped in the hurricane-force winds. The suit, filed Monday by...
View ArticleACLU dismisses jailhouse informant lawsuit against OC Sheriff’s Department
The American Civil Liberties Union and a group of community activists have dismissed their 2018 lawsuit accusing the Orange County Sheriff’s Department of continuing to illegally use jailhouse...
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Public defender Scott Sanders, who upended OC’s legal landscape, retires...
The scandal that scrambled Orange County’s justice system, upending dozens of murder cases, began late on a Friday night in a legal office that formerly was a morgue. It was April 2012, long past...
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