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Search on for hiker missing in Angeles National Forest
A "full-on" search and rescue is underway today for a hiker missing in the Angeles National Forest since Saturday night, a sheriff's spokesman said.
Family and friends gather to remember Dakota DeMott, who died in crash
Friends and family of Dakota DeMott gathered at a Canyon Country church Thursday morning for a memorial service honoring the young man who died in a traffic collision a year ago.
UPDATE: Valencia sex offender sentenced to 15 years in prison
ADDS DETAILS THROUGHOUT A 20-year-old Valencia man who trolled for teen girls on the Internet and hung out with younger boys so he could meet younger girls was sentenced to 15 years and four months in state prison Thursday. Michael Downs, who had faced 34 charges of sex crimes involving 17 victims, pleaded no contest on Thursday to molesting 15 girls in 2010 and 2011, said a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's ...
Family mourns Sarah Alarid
Members of Sarah Alarid's family stood over the ravine where the young woman's body was found Wednesday, paying their respects and wrestling with questions as to how and why the young woman drove off a winding mountain road New Year's Day, the woman's uncle said Thursday.
Chain saw-wielding vandals leave SCV residents in dark
Vandals with a chain saw left more than 1,300 Santa Clarita Valley residents in the dark for three hours Thursday after cutting down a utility pole, a spokeswoman for Southern California Edison said.
SCV's 2012 crime rate rises nearly 8 percent over previous year
Crime in the Santa Clarita Valley was up 7.74 percent in 2012 compared to the year before and rose in all areas, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials said Wednesday.
Crash in Newhall leaves 4 injured
A woman was taken to the hospital Tuesday afternoon following a two-vehicle crash on The Old Road south of Calgrove Boulevard, officials confirmed.
Reluctant inmate: attempted murder suspect declines to leave jail cell
The court appearance for a Canyon Country man accused of attempted murder was delayed from Tuesday until Wednesday because the man refused to leave his jail cell, court documents indicate.
UPDATE: Injured pedestrian dies in hospital
A 59-year-old man hit by a pickup truck in Saugus on Monday died early Tuesday morning as a result of his injuries, a sheriff's spokesman said.
Search continues for missing Canyon Country woman
// The search for Sarah Alarid, missing since New Year's Eve, moved to Newhall on Tuesday as family and friends continue to comb the Santa Clarita Valley for clues to the 19-year-old's whereabouts. Early Tuesday morning, searchers converged ...
Woman taken to hospital after collision in Newhall
A woman was taken to the hospital Tuesday afternoon following a two-vehicle crash on The Old Road south of Calgrove Boulevard, police and fire officials confirmed.
Man arrested in TV theft
Local sheriff's deputies arrested a man who used a shopping cart to steal a TV from the Walmart store in Stevenson Ranch Tuesday, a sheriff's spokesman said.
Family troubled by aspects of missing woman case
Family members of a local woman missing since a New Year's Eve party are particularly troubled about a few aspects in the case as they continue to scour the Santa Clarita Valley for clues.
UPDATE: Officials say burglaries may be connected
Local sheriff's investigators are looking into two "hot prowl" burglaries in Stevenson Ranch to see if there's any connection, a deputy said.
UPDATE: Rescue team finds injured bicyclist
UPDATES WITH MORE DETAILS A helicopter rescue team found an injured bicyclist in rugged terrain inside the Angeles National Forest near Acton Monday, airlifting the man to safety, a fire official said. Shortly after 11:40 a.m. Monday, paramedics with the Los Angeles County Fire Department received a cell phone call from an injured cyclist who had been on a bike trail near Aliso Canyon Road near the North Angeles Forest Highway, the Fire Department spokesman ...
Articles By Author - Jim Holt
Deputy accused of beating 19-year-old inmate
A Saugus man who works as a deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has been charged with assaulting a 19-year-old inmate in the back seat of a patrol car almost two years ago, according to the Los AngelesCounty District Attorney's office.
20-year-old Valencia woman arraigned on felony count
A 20-year-old Valencia woman was arraigned this week on a felony charge of hit and run causing injury or death following a collision with a bicyclist at a Newhall intersection last month, a District Attorney's spokeswoman said.
No injuries reported in two morning crashes on Highway 14
Crown Valley Road in Acton was a busy place this morning with traffic collisions reported on both the north and southbound lanes of Highway 14, emergency response officials said.
UPDATE: Newhall: Young woman talked down from freeway bridge
Quick-responding California Highway Patrol officers talked a young woman down from a freeway bridge Wednesday as she threatened to jump, a CHP spokesman said.
UPDATE: Sanitation district board OKs $334,000 ‘outreach’ contract
WHITTIER - Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District directors agreed Wednesday to pay $334,000 on public outreach as the district prepares to release a plan to reduce chloride in the Santa Clara River.
UPDATE: At least 4 injured in Highway 14 collision
Four people were hurt, including a mother and her 9-year-old son, in a multi-vehicle crash on the southbound Highway 14 freeway near Via Princessa on Tuesday.
Outreach on chloride in river could cost $334K
Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District directors are due to decide today whether to spend $334,000 on public outreach as the district prepares to release a plan for ridding the Santa Clara River of chloride.
Acton: Girl on slow recovery following devastating car crash
On Nov. 21 last year, Laurel Slothower of Acton received the phone call that every parent dreads.
UPDATE: Saugus Brush fire held to 4 acres despite high winds
Winds approaching hurricane force whipped flames through brush in Saugus on Monday, prompting swift reaction from firefighters who halted the blaze after it blackened more than four acres in Bouquet Canyon.
UPDATE: Powerball arrives in California
Tickets for the Powerball lottery went on sale in California for the first time Monday, and the new game was a big hit with one Castaic cashier selling the tickets.
Big winds may cause damage
Property damage due to high wind is expected in the Santa Clarita Valley today as two intense wind systems collide, a weather specialist said.
3 arrested in local Wal-Marts
Three people arrested recently for crimes allegedly committed at local Wal-Mart stores are expected to appear separately in court this month, charged with offenses including burglary, embezzlement and trespassing.
Pitchess East graduates first EBI class
Five dozen inmates at the Pitchess Detention Center proudly took the jail's podium Thursday as the east facility's first graduating class from the Sheriff Department's newly launched Education Based Incarceration program.
Valencia: Stuck in an elevator
Two College of the Canyons students spent their lunch hour in an elevator Thursday after the car got stuck, college officials said.
UPDATE: Valencia: Sheriff’s deputies chase, capture suspected vandal
A suspected graffiti vandal was detained at gunpoint today after a brief foot chase in Valencia, a sheriff's spokesman said.
