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Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department personnel discuss strategy to help search for a missing paddleboarder at Castaic Lake on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. Tyler Wainfeld/The Signal.

Search continues at Castaic Lake 

L.A. County Sheriff’s Department officials said Friday there’s been no update regarding the search for a man reported missing Sunday at Castaic Lake.  Deputies with the LASD’s Emergency Services Department said Monday they identified a 6-acre surface area for Castaic Lake, where they believe Espiridion Philip “Speedy” Camez, 61, fell into the water shortly after noon the previous day.   After

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Deputies detain break-in suspect 

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies set up a containment and later detained a suspect on Friday afternoon in Newhall after a male forced entry into an apartment and threatened to

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$50,000 taken in home burglary  

Residents in Newhall reported a theft of $50,000 after returning home to find shattered glass and forced entry on Thursday, according to a spokesman with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s

The fatal shooting occurred on the 25700 block of Vista Fairways Drive early Sunday morning in Valencia. Katherine Quezada/ The Signal

Homicide says no arrests in SCV’s last murder of 2023 

Homicide detectives confirmed Thursday there have been no arrests in their 16-month-old investigation into a bloody early-morning murder in an otherwise quiet, residential neighborhood in Valencia.  Devin Marshall, 37, died

Sheriff's deputies investigate the scene where a person was killed in a shooting Monday night near the intersection of Newhall Avenue and Lyons Avenue. Staff photo

Suspects plead not guilty to murder charge 

Two men accused in the shooting death of a Newhall man in the parking lot of Valencia Liquor June 17 pleaded not guilty at their arraignment.  Omar Garcia Ramirez, 25,

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Newhall hit-and-run under investigation 

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies are investigating a Newhall hit-and-run traffic collision that left a pedestrian injured Thursday.  Sgt. Bill Edson of the Crime Prevention Unit said the station

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CHP announces DUI checkpoint  

The California Highway Patrol Newhall-area Office will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint beginning at approximately 8 p.m. Friday and it will conclude in the early hours of Saturday morning, according

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LASD: Smash-and-grab investigation progressing 

A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Major Crimes Bureau official said Wednesday there is little information that can yet be released on the April 10 burglaries in which 10 businesses