Salvador Hernandez is a reporter on the Fast Break Desk, the Los Angeles Times’ breaking news team. Before joining the newsroom in 2022, he was a senior reporter for BuzzFeed News, where he covered criminal justice issues, the growing militia movement and breaking news. He also covered crime as a reporter at the Orange County Register. He is a Los Angeles native.
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Orange County Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer is grilled in civil trial over alleged retaliation.
More people are expected to travel this Memorial Day weekend, with many of them getting a head start Thursday.
A former investigator alleges the Orange County district attorney and others conspired to quash an investigation into possible corruption; the D.A. denies the allegation.
Two Tehama County teenagers, who were allegedly planning a mass shooting at a middle school, were arrested this week after a boy from Tennessee told police the teens were discussing the school shooting in an online game site.
Albert Turner, 57, was arrested after the San Diego Police Department said he threw his 61-year-old girlfriend from a third-floor balcony to her death.
San Bernardino agreed to pay $4.8 million to the family of a 28-year-old man shot by police in 2023.
A Southern California Edison tower that was being removed as part of an investigation into what caused the Eaton fire was removed after it made contact with power lines Thursday afternoon, officials said.
The tower suspected of sparking the Eaton fire was flown out of Eaton Canyon and will be examined by investigators as well as experts hired by those suing the utility.
Prison advocates worry that thousands of false positive drug test results have tainted the parole decisions for some California inmates.
California security firm CEO, workers charged after woman forcibly removed from Republican town hall
Employees of a private security firm based in Northern California were charged in connection to the detention of a protester during a town hall in Idaho. The company is known for using harsh, controversial tactics in patrolling California marijuana grows.