CSUN Announces Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity Chapter Disbanded After Hazing Death

The death of Armando Villa, a 19-year-old Cal State University, Northridge student who collapsed and died while hiking barefoot in the Angeles National Forest, was the result of fraternity hazing and the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity has agreed to disband its chapter on the campus, university President Dianne Harrison announced.  “Hazing is stupid, senseless, dangerous […]

A Northern California man has pleaded not guilty to charges he stabbed a neighbor to death in Sylmar. The victim’s body was later found in a burning car at a cul-de-sac along the 210 Freeway. Carlo Giuliano Cresci, 23, of Richmond, was arraigned in the San Fernando Courthouse on Monday, Sept. 8. He is charged […]

SYLMAR (CNS) – A father of five is in serious but stable condition in the hospital after being shot from a thief who tried to rob a store in Sylmar on Tuesday, Sept. 9, police said. A liquor store clerk was shot twice during an attempted robbery in Sylmar Tuesday around 8:30 p.m. and was […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) – The prosecution is asking that former Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon — who was convicted of fraudulent voting and perjury for living outside the district he was elected to represent — be sentenced to 180 days in county jail and 1,000 hours of community service. In a sentencing memorandum released […]