Canyon Country East, Zone 8 Public Safety and Crime Prevention Information Snapshot 03/10/2014 – 03/16/2014   Last week, the following Part 1 crimes occurred in Canyon Country East: (1) Residential burglary/Grand Theft Auto (1) Shop Lifting (1) Residential Burglary. There was a Residential Burglary...

[KHTS] – Sheriff’s Department officials reported Sunday that Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner personnel recovered the skeletal remains of an adult man over the weekend, which were found in a ravine off Ridge Route Road and Highway 138 in Gorman. Officials are working to identify...

I must have struck a chord with some folks in HOA neighborhoods in one of my last columns. You know, those neighborhoods where you pay anywhere from $20 to $400 per month to the Home Owners Association so they can tell you how treat you own property. I’ve lived in such a place. In Virginia. Nice brick...

Hurrah for the U.S. Congress. (Did I really say that?) Both the House and the Senate approved a wilderness bill in Michigan earlier this month. The fact that they could actually agree on something, and the fact that the bill was wilderness, is amazing. Up to now, not a single wilderness bill has passed...

[SCCS] – Santa Clarita Christian’s boys basketball players set out to make history in 2013-2014, and as the sun set on their playoff run Saturday in a 63-48 loss to perennial powerhouse View Park (Inglewood), they can be confident that they have achieved it. The Cardinals (21-8) were 20-game...

College of the Canyons women’s golfer Ashley Windsor has been named the 2014 recipient of the California Community College Counselors/Advisors Academic Association’s (3C4A) Student-Athlete Achievement Award. The award honors a student-athlete who has overcome great personal, academic and/or...

Andrew Klausmeier Steve Karkenny socked a home run and drove in three runs and Andrew Klausmeier pitched six strong innings to lift The Master’s College past Biola 7-1 in the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader in La Mirada, earning the Mustangs a split with the Eagles who won the opener...

WOMEN   Rachael Ingoldsby Conditions were prime when The Master’s College women’s track and field team toed the line at the Occidental Distance Carnival where qualifying marks were hit and personal bests were met. The race kicked off with freshman Rachael Ingoldsby (St. John’s, FL) finishing...

A light, shallow earthquake shook the Castaic area Saturday at 8:12:19 a.m. It occurred 0.4 miles below ground in the Angeles National Forest in the Fish Canyon-Elderberry Canyon area, just above the western arm of the Castaic Reservoir. The 3.9-magnitude shaker was preceded by a deeper, small-but-measurable...

[KHTS] – Detectives with the Homicide Bureau of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department responded to Ridge Route Road south of Highway 138 in the Gorman area to investigate the reported discovery of possible human remains. The discovery was made near the location of a brush fire that...