Priscella Vega is a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining The Times in 2019, Vega has covered breaking news and the Inland Empire for Metro and worked with the obituaries team to chronicle the legacies of California luminaries. She previously worked for the Daily Pilot, the Daily Breeze and the Long Beach Press-Telegram. Vega earned her journalism degree at Cal State Long Beach. She is based in the San Gabriel Valley.
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The West Covina Unified School District is working with police and Child Protective Services to review the allegations against the substitute teacher.
A Rancho Cucamonga man is accused of initiating a high-speed chase and driving off a cliff, surviving a 200-foot fall to the bottom of a canyon.
Officials confirmed 9 deaths in the storm statewide, as hazardous weather continued Tuesday, with mud and debris flows in east Los Angeles County.
Fontana is paying a contractor to shut down unlicensed street vendors. City leaders say they’re protecting local businesses. Vendors see an attack on Latino culture.
Six people were found shot to death Tuesday night off Highway 395 in El Mirage in San Bernardino County, authorities said.
The quake, which struck near San Bernardino, is the second to rattle Southern California in less than a week.
Next year, California will extend Medi-Cal benefits to the last group of undocumented people who have been left out of the program — those ages 26 to 49 — in what is expected to be its biggest expansion of coverage since the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.
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About 100 firefighters are trying to contain the blaze through ground and air measures.