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s By SOPHIA TAREEN | Associated Press CHICAGO — Most mornings, 62-year-old Maria Elena Estamilla wakes up with pelvic pain and dread that she faces the same fate as her mother and grandmother: fatal cervical cancer. The Chicago woman’s last full medical exam was in 2015 and she sees no options for care as a Mexican immigrant without permission to live in the U.S. She’s not eligible for Medicare, Medicaid or Affordable Care Act coverage. As a child care worker, she didn’t have employer coverage. She can’t afford private insurance. But things may soon change. Illinois is among a handful...

s A sexual predator who evaded capture for more than three decades was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders of two 6-year-old boys who were abducted near their homes in Anaheim Hills and Agoura Hills. Kenneth Rasmuson, shackled next to his attorney in a Pomona courtroom, showed no emotion as Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Juan Carlos Dominguez sentenced him under a plea bargain arranged in February with the District Attorney’s Office. Rasmuson pleaded no contest to the 1981 strangulation of Jeffrey Vargo of Anaheim Hills and the 1986 stabbing death of...

Forty-one people died from police pursuits in California during 2020 – making it the deadliest year for chases involving law enforcement since 2006 when a state law meant to improve safety took effect. In those 15 years through 2020, a Southern California News Group analysis of data from the California Highway Patrol shows, 476 people were killed: 281 drivers fleeing police 94 passengers in suspect vehicles 91 bystanders 10 police officers Meanwhile, collisions occurred in about a quarter of the 109,941 pursuits, with more than 15,000 people suffering injuries. And the number of deaths and injuries could be higher. The...

The drive to allow indoor high school sports to be played in California received a major boost Thursday, March 4 as a lawsuit challenging the state’s guidelines for youth sports reached a “tentative settlement” with the state that could have major ripple effects for student-athletes statewide amid the pandemic. The plaintiffs in a suit filed by two San Diego high school football players against Gov. Gavin Newsom, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the county of San Diego announced that the settlement includes guidelines to allow for indoor sports such as basketball, volleyball and wrestling to resume competition...