Nathan Solis reports on breaking news with the Fast Break team at the Los Angeles Times.
He previously reported on court cases in Southern California for Courthouse News Service and, prior to that, covered county government in Shasta County for the Record Searchlight in Redding, Calif.
Solis grew up in northeast Los Angeles and his bylines can be found in L.A. Taco, the Eastsider L.A. and KCET’s Artbound.
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A Bakersfield police officer has been placed on administrative leave following his arrest on allegations he tried to get a teen to send him explicit material over Instagram.
The hidden cameras were found by a parent of a student. Staff immediately contacted police to report the discovery.
A kit-built plane crashed in Simi Valley, killing two passengers and a dog. It was the second crash of that model aircraft in the last five months.
Two people and one dog are dead after a single-engine aircraft crashed into a residential area of Simi Valley. Two homes were damaged.
A motive behind the workplace shooting remains unclear and the two victims remain hospitalized a day later.
The pursuit began in Camarillo with officers from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department and continued through Thousand Oaks and into Simi Valley.
The suspect was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment and being in possession of nitrous oxide. Police are asking for help in finding additional victims.
Many of the firearms appear damaged and are difficult to identify. The LAPD wants to catalogue which guns are destroyed or returned to their owners.
A mural honoring Lakers legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna, was vandalized in downtown Los Angeles. A GoFundMe account has been set up to restore the artwork.
A section of Pacific Coast Highway that could have been mistaken for a river has reopened thanks to fast-moving road crews.