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Two suspects carjacked a vehicle and led Los Angeles Police officers on a wild high-speed chase through several cities and counties before being taken into custody this weekend. NBC in Los Angeles reports that the pursuit began when California Highway Patrol officers attempted to pull over a motorist in a black Honda Accord for a malfunctioning tail light.  The driver refused to pull over. For more than two hours, the...

Two suspects led Los Angeles Police officers on a wild high-speed chase through several cities and counties and carjacking another vehicle before being taken into custody this weekend. NBC in Los Angeles reports that the pursuit began when California Highway Patrol officers attempted to pull over a motorist in a black Honda Accord for a malfunctioning tail light.  The driver refused to pull over. For more than two hours, the...

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies were kept busy over the weekend with five separate accidents along Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) and a drug-related arrest. According to the story appearing on The Malibu Times’ website,  the first crash was a two-vehicle accident that happened at approximately 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 1st, near PCH and the Malibu Pier. One of the drivers attempted a U-turn from the shoulder and collided with...

Two people are now in custody after a high-speed chase that ended in a violent crash in the San Fernando Valley on Wednesday. FOXLA reported on the station’s website that police officers came upon a vehicle that is believed to have been stolen. The black four-door sedan, initially being driven by a female suspect with a male in the front passenger seat beside her, headed down the 5 Freeway in...

A wrong-way collision involving two vehicles just north of Los Angeles early Monday morning has left both drivers of those vehicles dead and another person seriously injured. NBC Los Angeles reports that the fatal accident happened at approximately 2:40 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of the 210 Freeway just west of the Ocean Boulevard exit in the La Crescenta-Montrose area. In a statement, Officer Dion Conley of the California Highway...

Authorities in Fresno report that a woman and her unborn child are dead after a hit-and-run crash over the weekend.  ABC 30 in Fresno reports that the crash happened just after 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, August 1st, at the intersection of Swift Avenue and Marks Avenue in central Fresno.  According to a statement made by Fresno Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Jeff La Blue,  the victim has been identified as 17-year-old...

The pursuit of a stolen vehicle has ended with two people dead and a third person injured in Garden Grove last night. KTLA reports that the incident began at approximately 6:00 p.m. in Stanton near the intersection of Katella Avenue and Beach Boulevard. Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputies attempted to pull over a car that had been reported stolen earlier. Carrie Braun, a spokesperson for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department,...

Tragedy has struck a young family in Pasadena after a child died in an apartment fire on Wednesday. Another child and both children’s mothers were also critically injured in the blaze. KTLA in Los Angeles reports that at approximately 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 29th, a fire began in an apartment on the first floor of a two-story, seven-unit apartment building at 169 East Washington Boulevard in Pasadena.  According to...

No one can ever predict when or where an accident will happen. Even in the safety of our homes,  our loved ones, especially children, can get hurt when you least expect it.  FM 98.1 KHTS’s Michael Brown reported on the radio station website that an infant had to be airlifted yesterday after a crush injury in Canyon Country Park. At approximately 3:30 p.m. on  Tuesday, July 28th, firefighters and paramedics...

A grandfather allegedly attacked in a parking lot earlier this month now has no memory of his family. The suspect in the incident is still at large. NBC in Los Angeles reports that in the early morning hours of July 12th at the Arco gas station on Longden Avenue in Irwindale, 62-year-old Jose Sanchez was attacked while he was filling up his pickup truck with gas.   The brutal and seemingly...