Jared Gertner as Elder Cunningham When my kids were growing up, our house was very popular. We allowed MTV when other parents in the neighborhood hesitated and when a stop-motion cartoon named “South Park” hit the airwaves of Comedy Central, we let anyone who was in the house – heck, we went out...

The family of Army veteran Tom McDivitt got a little help Tuesday from volunteers with Habitat For Heroes, who were there to do some painting, carpentry, and general maintenance of their Stevenson Ranch home. McDivitt is the primary caregiver for his wife, Stacy and their four children, as well as a...

LASD Press Release, Wednesday 11:46 p.m.: On Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, at approximately 10:08 a.m., three males entered the Bank of America on the 19000 block of Soledad Canyon Road, Canyon Country, and carried out an armed takeover bank robbery. A fourth suspect was waiting in a getaway car. The suspects...

Don’t blame the dog. That rotten smell isn’t coming from the garbage or a broken gas main.  It’s a sea breeze of the undesirable kind. According to the Air Quality Management District, the smell is the natural result of a number of things, but it seems to be emanating from the Salton Sea, carried...

UPDATED 1:30 p.m. Monday An early morning accident on the southbound I-5 took the lives of two people and sent four others to the hospital, including three children who were airlifted to Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles. According to the Fort Tejon office of the California Highway Patrol, an unidentified...

It may be back to school time and the end of summertime vacations, but it’s also time to step up awareness of the things out there that can hurt us – like diseases passed from animals and insects to humans and their consequences. The incidents of West Nile Virus continue to climb, while more rabid...

When a child comes into the emergency room at any hospital, it’s a scary place. Between the lights and noise and activity, plus being sick or injured, the ER can be an overwhelming place. Nearly 9,000 children are brought to the ER at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital every year and the hospital...

Ken Pulskamp Saying that becoming a cowboy poet “is within the realm of possibilities,” Santa Clarita City Manager Ken Pulskamp has announced his retirement, effective in December. “This is just a good time for me,” he said. His two daughters are grown and moved away, and the list of accomplishments...

The southbound I-5 transition road to the northbound State Route 14 is closed for the investigation of a suicide. The closure is expected to last four hours. A male adult stopped his car shortly after 2:30 p.m. on the transition road of the southbound I-5 to the northbound SR-14 and shot himself. The...

Paul Mingyu Sang A popular Stevenson Ranch student was accidentally killed Wednesday when the sides of a sand hole collapsed and buried him. Paul Mingyu Sang, 19, a graduate of West Ranch High School and a freshman at The Masters College, was on a school-organized trip to the beach in Oxnard with several...