Salvador Hernandez is a reporter on the Fast Break Desk, the Los Angeles Times’ breaking news team. Before joining the newsroom in 2022, he was a senior reporter for BuzzFeed News, where he covered criminal justice issues, the growing militia movement and breaking news. He also covered crime as a reporter at the Orange County Register. He is a Los Angeles native.
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A fire on an abandoned Los Angeles property has led to another clash between Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman, with the mayoral rivals blaming each other for not tackling a problem lot that neighbors say has languished for years.
A man was unconscious when lifeguards pulled him out of the water Wednesday at Laguna Beach’s South Crescent Bay. He died after being taken to a nearby hospital.
Patterned after gun buyback programs organized by police departments, prosecutors in Orange County are offering gift cards for people to surrender e-bikes and e-motorcycles with “no questions” asked.
News reporters who were invited for a launch were held at gunpoint at Vandenberg Space Force Base on Monday.
A report detailing symptoms Boyle Heights residents around a burned-down warehouse confirms community members’ experiences, advocates say.
A water main rupture sent torrents of water through Westlake’s Beverly Boulevard corridor Thursday, flooding streets and surrounding a nearby homeless encampment.
As a deadline nears in the cleanup of millions of pounds of rotten food in a burned down Boyle Heights warehouse, residents and businesses are still dealing with the aftermath.
A city-imposed deadline for Lineage to clean up the rotting food in its Boyle Heights warehouse is looming, and a City Council member says the company won’t be done in time.
A police watchdog found that San Francisco police officers threw a man to the ground and pepper-sprayed him after they entered the wrong license plate into their computer.
A 32-year-old Garden Grove police officer allegedly had multiple sexual encounters with a teenage Explorer, starting in May.