During a public meeting held by the Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council Community Advisory Committee, proponents and opponents voiced their positions on the plan to transfer all juvenile offenders to two camps in Saugus. While the proponents saw the use of therapeutic programs and less severe structural...

A judge has ruled that Measure J — a county measure that would divert funds to alternatives to incarceration — is unconstitutional, and county supervisors said this week they will continue to pursue the measure’s goals even without Measure J becoming law. Although Supervisor Janice Hahn called...

The William S. Hart Union High School District’s governing board approved a budget for the 2021-22 school year last week that details an $8.9 million deficit for the district. However, the district’s chief business officer said Tuesday school leaders are optimistic moving forward, with plans...

File photo: Katharine Lotze/The Signal. A big-rig fire that broke out late Tuesday morning spread to nearby brush on the side of northbound lanes on Interstate 5. The fire was first reported near the Lyons Avenue off-ramp at approximately 10:42 a.m. “The initial report was a semi-truck on fire,”...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Monday sentenced Matthew “James” Dorsey to 34.5 years in state prison for the stabbing murder of his estranged wife, Michelle Dorsey. All eight speakers, friends and members of the Dorsey family, requested a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the...

During the second day of testimony during the preliminary hearing for Noel Fisher, the Stevenson Ranch resident and Grammy-winning producer arrested on suspicion of 26 counts of sexual assault and/or rape, the second victim to testify alleged that he grabbed her arm and forced her face down into the...

A man who was arrested in connection with an alleged road rage incident that ended with deputies using their tasers has reportedly been arrested five times since March 2020. Matthew Delio, 33, was arrested on suspicion of running a car off the road near Plum Canyon and Golden Valley roads Monday. After...

A handful of celebrities, social media influencers and now hundreds of local business owners and community members have joined in to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to save a Santa Clarita boy’s life. Newhall resident Damian Markham, who turned 2 in May, is in a fight for his life — and...

A body was found under the Soledad Canyon overpass in Canyon Country on Tuesday, prompting a call to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau detectives. At approximately 5 p.m., officials from the L.A. County Fire Department received a call from the Sheriff’s Department regarding...

Medical examiners identified a body found across the street from the Castaic Lagoon as that of Marlon Francisco Menjivartorres, 35, of Castaic. Menjivartorres was found in a “riverbed,” across the street from the lower lake at Castaic Lake last week on June 8, according to Sarah Ardalani, a spokeswoman...