Rancho Cucamonga

Baseball Economics and Hit-and-Run Horrors: Readers Respond

Producer Khalief Brown: Beats for a Space Brawl

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] It's rare that you hear a rap song on the radio and your only thought is, "Who produced this?" That's what happened last summer when I first heard Kid In ... More >>

Music Picks: Lord Huron, Matthewdavid, Smell 15th Anniversary Party

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] It's rare that you hear a rap song on the radio and your only thought is, "Who produced this?" That's what happened last summer when I first heard Kid In ... More >>

Comedian Cash Levy Explains His Odd Path to Stand-up Success

See also: *5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles It's around 11 a.m. on a Wednesday as Cash Levy enters a banquet room within the pleasant, faux-sylvan Etiwanda Gardens event center near Rancho Cucamonga. Sixty employees of a major Southern California u ... More >>

Darnell and Tania Washington, Bonnie and Clyde of L.A. County, Wanted for Wild Crime Spree in Carjacked Minivan

An attractive Southern California couple is wanted in two counties this morning for the jailbreak and joyride of a lifetime. San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials say that 24-year-old robbery suspect Darnell Washington escaped from county jail on August 28 with the help of his wife, 25-year-old ... More >>

Michael Vega, 25-Year-Old Cyclist, Left to Die in Inland Empire Ditch by Hit-and-Run Driver

Not even a bike helmet could save 25-year-old Michael Ray Vega, the Norco resident killed in Rancho Cucamonga yesterday evening by a hit-and-run driver who left him to die along Foothill Boulevard. "You were a great dude," his friend Lacey LeBlanc wrote on Twitter. "No one deserves the fate you rec ... More >>

PopCon L.A.: Steve Sievers Dresses Like a Turtle and Brings His Supa Pirate Booty Hunt Web Series to Denny's

If you go to a lot of fan conventions in Southern California, you've probably seen Steve Sievers. Usually, he's dressed as a turtle, Daniel the Turtle, to be specific. That's the character he created and voices for the web-based cartoon series, Supa Pirate Booty Hunt. Supa Pirate Booty Hunt is abo ... More >>

Marijuana Dispensary in Upland Raided by Feds: Six Arrested As Part of Ongoing Obama Administration Crackdown

Don't say they didn't warn you. Federal authorities today seem to be making an example of the folks behind an Inland Empire chain of marijuana dispensaries run under the banner of G3 Holistic. Six people were indicted and then arrested today in connection with what the U.S. Attorney's Office in Lo ... More >>

Bicycle Theft Ring Targeted High-End Bikes on Craigslist, Used Facebook For Personal Info

As evil as cops paint these guys to be, you gotta admit, they were scary sophisticated in their use of Craigslist, Facebook and social manipulation -- if the story's true. Here's the deal, according an announcement by L.A. County Sheriff's officials this week: A crew of bike thieves targeted victi ... More >>

Luke Kang Beat Mother to Death With Golf Club in Rancho Cucamonga, Cops Allege

FacebookLuke Kang.​Twenty-six-year-old Luke Kang was in jail today, accused of beating his 60-year-old mother to death with a golf club. He was originally booked on suspicion of attempted murder but, after the victim died the next day, suspicion of murder was added to the allegations that are ... More >>

Tha Boogie -The Viper Room - 9/21/11

Daniel Kohn​Tha Boogie The Viper Room 9/21/11 Better than...waffles with butter. See Also: Meet Tha Boogie: "We Sent Raphael Saadiq Our Music, and He Sent Us His Phone Number" When you get the blessing of Raphael Saadiq, you must be doing something right. In the case of Tha Boogie, he conf ... More >>

Farrell's Expands Maybe Huntington Beach

Guzzle & NoshTwo ice cream sundaes flank the iconic drum at Farrell's in Santa Clarita.​Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour, our favorite place to eat a 50-scoop sundae served by teenagers in pinstriped vests and fake straw boaters, is expanding. Farrell's yesterday announced it will open two new Sout ... More >>

Spaceghostpurrp Ft. Speak: "Way Back," Or What We're Listening To Instead of "Otis"

Spaceghostpurrp and Speak​While you were running back Jay Z and Kanye's impossibly out-of-touch single "Otis" last weekend, Spaceghostpurrp and Speak were recording in Miami's Poe Boy studios. While you were recalling Jigga and 'Ye's humble roots, two of today's realest rising rappers were t ... More >>

Music Picks: Los Lobos, Lord Huron, Calculator, Exmortus

Also, Yes, Styx, the Naked and Famous and others

Meet Tha Boogie: "We Sent Raphael Saadiq Our Music, and He Sent Us His Phone Number"

Tha Boogie​It began with a MySpace message. Three Rancho Cucamonga teenagers who called themselves "Tha Boogie" were starting their music careers, and took to the social networking site to post some of their newest recordings for anyone to hear. But there was one man in particular they wante ... More >>

Cockfight in San Gabriel Valley Busted in the Act: Dead Roosters Found, Three Men Arrested For Watching Bout

LASDCockfighting accessories.​A major cockfight was broken up over the weekend in the San Gabriel Valley community of Valinda (near West Covina). Authorities said they found several dead roosters. What impressed us about this particular avian bout was that it was allegedly happening in the mo ... More >>

Doug Odgers, 23-Year-Old SoCal Paramedic, Killed in Early-Morning Ambulance Crash

FacebookDoug Odgers' profile picture​A 23-year-old Rancho Cucamonga resident and UCLA graduate was killed early Sunday morning when the ambulance in which he was riding crashed head-on into the base pole of a freeway sign over the 10 West, just east of Fourth Street in Ontario. California Hig ... More >>

Australia's In-N-Out: Oporto, Coming to OC

Various burgers served at Australian chain Oporto.​ Australia's answer to In-N-Out is coming to the United States, and its first stateside location opens tomorrow in Orange County. Founded in 1986, Oporto, which serves Portuguese-influenced Australian fare, "supposedly has a cult following in ... More >>

Alleged Victoria's Secret Bandit Nichole Homes Leads Deputies on a Chase, a Very Sexy Chase

A not-so-secret crime spree is alleged.​Sometimes the sexy factor at Victoria's Secret drives us a little crazy too. But this is just nuts. Authorities in San Bernardino say a 31-year-old woman spotted taking items from a Victoria's Secret in Victorville went on a crime spree that included an ... More >>

Looks good for Romero-Dutton law: It bans ousted California politicians from getting unemployment

California state Sen. Gloria Romero's  bill to prevent loser politicians who get ousted by voters from collecting California state unemployment insurance has made it out of a key labor committee in Sacramento. Well, thank God for that.John Nunez​Yes, you read it right. Thanks to a particularl ... More >>

Federal Judge Faults Discount Store For Latino-On-Black Discrimination

​In a rare case of minority on minority discrimination, a federal judge on Thursday approved a consent decree involving Big Lots discount stores in which Latino workers were found to have discriminated against and harassed some African-American employees. The decree -- which Big Lots agreed t ... More >>

Scoundrel Time: Alleged Mortgage Frauds Increasing

Today flyers posted on telephone poles advertising mortgage fixers are as ubiquitous in L.A. as gardeners' business cards. The collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market, combined with a plummeting economy and a questionable sense of rescue created by the Obama administration have led many Californi ... More >>

Planning for Disaster

An obscure group gets millions to make L.A. work, but “SCAG” is a flop

Air Board Revs Up for Clean Air

And truckers get in gear to protest low wages

Greed Runs Through It

One man’s journey to the end of the Colorado River

How Not to Manage a Crisis — The Timeline

One man’s journey to the end of the Colorado River

In Occupied Territory

One man’s journey to the end of the Colorado River

Who’ll Stop the Reign?

The big trial is over, netting several convictions -- read last year's story on the U.S. versus the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang

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The big trial is over, netting several convictions -- read last year's story on the U.S. versus the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang

Mean Girls

Now Jane Doe’s ex-friends say the Orange County rape victim was always a slut and a liar

Moving Into the Future

Now Jane Doe’s ex-friends say the Orange County rape victim was always a slut and a liar

An Improv-able Success

Teens gain confidence through comedy

Two Against One

Teenage love and murder in Redlands, California

Arnold, Pellicano and Politics

Where will The Pelican’s droppings land next?

A Doctor in the House

The asylum case of a Pakistani physician that no one wants to touch

Desperately Seeking Balance

Legislators stumble in their search for budget solutions

Letters

Legislators stumble in their search for budget solutions

Letters

Legislators stumble in their search for budget solutions

Us and Them

The Code of the Cop Bar

Taix French

The Code of the Cop Bar

The Myth of Solid Ground

On The Science, Pseudoscience and Lunatic Logic of Earthquake Prediction

Charter School for Scandal (page 1)

How a controversial academy scored millions in state education funds