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Property crimes have spiked around 450% in Altadena in the months since the Eaton fire ripped through the community in January, killing at least 18 people and destroying thousands of homes and businesses, according to law enforcement officials. On average, there have been more than 40 home burglaries reported each month since the fire in Altadena, according to Lt. Ethan Marquez with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Before the Eaton fire, the department responded to an average of six burglaries a month, Marquez said Monday. Thieves have targeted burned lots to find anything of value that may have survived…

BANNING — Two Banning seniors died in a house fire that also left two people injured, authorities said Monday. Dora and Chris Palacios were fatally injured in the blaze shortly before 5 a.m. Saturday on John Street, near Hargrave Street, just south of the 10 Freeway.  They were reportedly mother and son. According to the Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department, six engine crews were sent to the blaze at 4:50 a.m. and encountered smoke and flames emanating from the single-story house. Firefighters deployed to prevent the blaze from spreading to surrounding properties and encountered two people who had evacuated from…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico and the United States said Monday they had reached an agreement that involves Mexico immediately sending more water from their shared Rio Grande basin to Texas farmers after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened tariffs and sanctions earlier this month. “Mexico has committed to make an immediate transfer of water from international reservoirs and increase the U.S. share of the flow in six of Mexico’s Rio Grande tributaries through the end of the current five-year water cycle,” U.S. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said in a statement. Bruce thanked Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum for her involvement…

LOS ANGELES — Officially, Tyler Glasnow went on the injured list with shoulder inflammation. But the real diagnosis could be severe, Grade 1 frustration. Glasnow left each of his past two starts early with physical issues – leg cramping last week in Texas, a sore shoulder after just one inning on Sunday afternoon. Afterward, he expressed his frustration with an inability to get comfortable with some changes in his routine and mechanics – changes he made in hopes of preventing more of the elbow injuries that ended his 2024 season early. “Just making a lot of changes, trying to figure…

Two people were killed in a fiery vehicle crash into a tree early Monday in Claremont. The crash was reported at 2:10 a.m. on East Sixth Street near Mills Avenue, Claremont police and county fire department officials said. The vehicle, which appeared to be a Tesla, burst into flames after hitting the tree. Skid marks and a sheared parking meter can be seen where two people died early Monday, April 28, 2025, in the fiery crash of a Tesla into a tree on East Sixth Street near Mills Avenue in Claremont. (Photo from video by Randy Dominguez/Key News Network) Two…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST WASHINGTON (AP) — A disability-rights case at the Supreme Court grew unusually heated on Monday, including accusations of lying and references to one side’s position being a potential “five-alarm fire.” The appeal comes from a teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy whose family says some courts have made it too hard to sue public schools that fail to make sure students get what they need to learn. Her family appealed to the Supreme Court after lower courts blocked their discrimination case despite findings that her Minnesota school hadn’t done enough to accommodate her. Their attorney,…

MINNEAPOLIS — When the Lakers traded for Luka Doncic in early February, a consensus around the league was how much the Lakers would benefit from having two all-time decision-makers in Doncic and LeBron James on the court together, especially late in games. In the game’s most precarious moments, James and Doncic would find ways to make sure the Lakers were the team that got over the hump. And that doesn’t even account for the scoring/playmaking that Austin Reaves brings to the table. This was especially the general thought entering the Lakers’ best-of-seven first-round playoff series against the Minnesota Timberwolves, a…

While we bide our time awaiting word of the funeral ceremonies for the American democratic republic, whose death occurred, as California columnist Joe Mathews clocks it, recently, aged 236, we can only flail randomly at the atrocities being perpetrated out of the White House. When you pop your head up out of the foxhole for a look, sadly, it matters very little which way you turn your head. Chaos reigns. Not the fun kind. Shoot your service weapon in any direction in forlorn hopes of eradicating some part of the beast to temporarily help stave off the inevitable. This week…

The U.S. Department of Justice announced this week it is terminating hundreds of federal grants, a move that will impact several Southern California organizations providing victim services and working to prevent crime in local communities. According to Reuters, the Justice Department is cutting 365 grants totaling $811 million that were awarded to organizations across the country. The Washington Post reported that the Justice Department cited concerns about inadequate vetting processes under the previous administration as the reason for the cancellations. The cuts span a wide range of programs, including services for domestic violence survivors, trauma centers, crisis hotlines, police training…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI The Trump administration on Monday announced federal officials are launching investigations into Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review, saying authorities have received reports of race-based discrimination “permeating the operations” of the journal. The investigations come as Harvard fights a freeze on $2.2 billion in federal grants the Trump administration imposed after the university refused to comply with demands to limit activism on campus. A letter sent to the university earlier this month called for the institution to clarify its campus speech policies that limit the time, place and manner of protests and other activities. It also…