
Basketball coach accused of sex crimes appears in court
A former Santa Clarita Valley youth basketball coach charged with 15 sex crimes, including six counts of committing a lewd act upon a child, appeared briefly in court Thursday. Jeremy

A former Santa Clarita Valley youth basketball coach charged with 15 sex crimes, including six counts of committing a lewd act upon a child, appeared briefly in court Thursday. Jeremy

Four boys imitating a holdup, one pointing a cell phone like a firearm and another posing as the victim with arms raised, were themselves held at gunpoint by sheriff’s deputies

A small spot fire near the Metrolink station on Soledad Canyon Road was extinguished promptly and contained to precisely that — a small spot grass fire — by the firefighting

Deputies dining at a hamburger establishment in Valencia didn’t get a chance to finish their meal Tuesday when they were alerted about a man armed with a machete, seen waving

A Santa Clarita man was detained in a Valencia parking lot in connection with an ongoing investigation into allegations of physical threats, sheriff’s officials confirmed. Units from the Los Angeles

More than 500 gallons of jet fuel spilled onto the road and roadside near the northbound lanes of Interstate 5, just south of Gorman, after a big rig hauling 5,000

Five people, including a pregnant woman, a mother and her two daughters, were injured in a three-vehicle crash near Acton Tuesday morning that left a propane truck overturned and leaking

The unusual trend of cyclists and pedestrians injured in local traffic collisions lately intensified this past weekend with a bicyclist seriously injured Sunday, and a pedestrian hit but only slightly

As temperatures climbed to over 90 degrees for the first time in a long time Monday, firefighters responded to a dumpster fire in the Valencia Industrial Center. The fire, the

A woman accused of stabbing her girlfriend to death in 2017 appeared briefly — as she’s done at least four times before — for a pretrial hearing in San Fernando

A three-and-a-half-hour standoff with sheriff’s deputies near Hart High School ended peacefully Friday with the arrest of a 47-year-old woman on suspicion of grand theft auto. From about 3:30 p.m.

An out-of-town man was arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty Friday after witnesses phoned the sheriff’s station to say they saw the man beating a dog in a parking lot.

Three men including one on probation a day after he was released from jail were arrested late Friday afternoon after allegedly firing assault weapons near homes in Saugus. Shortly after

A motorist was rushed to the hospital Friday morning after being pinned inside their vehicle for more than 20 minutes after it crashed on the northbound lanes of Highway 14,

Bike cops hit the trails and paseos in the Santa Clarita Valley on Wednesday, issuing citations for trespassing. Deputies assigned to the SCV Sheriff’s Station Crime Prevention Unit got on

When Dan Richards went searching for his biological father and found a murderer serving life in prison who was on the verge of being paroled, he alerted the murder victim’s

Firefighters were dispatched to the Valencia Industrial Center Wednesday morning for what was initially reported as a sheared hydrant. At 9:36 a.m., Los Angeles County firefighters from Fire Station 126

Three women who ran stores in Palmdale and Littlerock were arrested in the Santa Clarita Valley on Tuesday on suspicion of fraud in connection with an alleged $6 million “food

A Valencia man accused of strangling his boyfriend in 2017 made a brief court appearance Tuesday, only to have his case put off until May. Christian Alexander Ortiz, 22, charged

Distracted Driving Awareness Month began this week, and California Highway Patrol officers plan to carry out two enforcement operations before the month is over. “We will be doing a couple