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A gang member was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a young father in Oxnard. David Guadalupe Calderon, 31, was convicted of murdering Edwin Herrera, 19, in a 2012 shooting, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office. On February 29, 2012, Calderon, who was a registered gang member, was driving through Oxnard with another gang member, Carlos Hernandez. They had a sawed-off shotgun in the car and Calderon was “looking to restore his credibility with his gang,” officials said. As they drove around the Lemonwood neighborhood, they suddenly spotted Herrera who was moving his car to avoid a parking ticket. Calderon pulled up next to Herrera, got out of his car while holding the shotgun and demanded to know which gang Herrera was a member of. Herrera told Calderon he was not affiliated with any gang. Despite that answer, Calderon shot Herrera in the neck at close range. Both suspects drove away from the scene. When the victim’s family heard the gunshot, they ran outside to find Herrera slumped over in his car. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where

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A 25-year-old woman with an unspecified medical disorder that requires medication was reported missing after last being seen Friday near Palmdale Regional Medical Center. Ruby Godinez was last seen in the 38600 block of Medical Center Drive around 7:30 a.m. Friday, according to the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. Deputies described Godinez as a 5-foot-2-inch tall Hispanic woman weighing 115 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt and gray sweatpants. Anyone with information regarding Godinez’s whereabouts was urged to call the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau Missing Persons Detail at 323-890-5500. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestoppers.org.

A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy was killed Friday in an off-duty traffic collision in Torrance. Deputy Daniel Okamoto joined the department in 2017 and was assigned to the Lomita Sheriff’s Station. The crash occurred in the early morning hours at the intersection of Crenshaw Boulevard and Skypark Drive, according to the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. Okamoto “was known for his professionalism, humility and unwavering commitment to his friends and colleagues,” Sheriff Robert Luna wrote on social media. Okamoto’s survivors include his parents, grandmother and brother.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. —  On one end, you had the Lakers fumbling their way through the game like someone waking up in a strange, dark room with no idea how to flip on the lights. And on the other end, you had the team the Lakers battled in the first round of the playoffs — all in their street clothes watching a collection of young players, others on 10-day contracts and G Leaguers threaten any shot the Lakers have to move up from 10th place in the Western Conference standings. In all the combinations and permutations that would decide the Lakers’ play-in future, Friday night in Memphis was the gimme. The Grizzlies had lost their last three games by a total of 47 points, their regulars either injured or shut down for the season. Thirteen different players were inactive. No one who played for Memphis on Friday touched the court last year for the Grizzlies in the playoffs. Yet the Lakers got caught, their hands down at their waists, the Grizzlies’ repeated jabs to the chin staggering the team with everything to play for. The Lakers eventually

A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was killed in a crash Friday. The deputy was identified as Daniel Okamoto, according to L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna. Okamoto was killed in an off-duty crash early Friday morning. Details surrounding the collision were not immediately released. Okamoto joined LASD in 2017 and served the communities of Lomita, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills, Rolling Hills Estates and San Pedro. Daniel Okamoto seen in a photo from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Daniel Okamoto seen in a photo from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. “He was known for his professionalism, humility, and unwavering commitment to his friends and colleagues,” Luna wrote in a post to X. “Our @LASDHQ family is mourning his loss, and our thoughts and prayers are with his loved ones and partners during this difficult time. Okamoto is survived by his parents, brother and grandmother. “May Daniel rest in peace,” Luna said.

Corona, Huntington Beach, Harvard-Westlake and Orange Lutheran are so evenly matched that it came as no surprise it would take walk-off hits to decide the winners in semifinal games played thousands of miles away in Cary, N.C., on Friday. Down to its final two outs with no runners aboard and trailing by a run in the bottom of the seventh inning, Corona got consecutive hits from Brady Ebel, Seth Hernandez, Josh Springer and Billy Carlson to pull out a 6-5 victory over Huntington Beach to advance to the championship game of the National High School Baseball Invitational. Springer’s RBI single tied it 5-5 and Carlson delivered a walk-off double. A couple of hours later, Orange Lutheran and Harvard-Westlake went into extra innings before the Lancers delivered their own walk-off single from pinch-hitter Vinny Hudson in the bottom of the eighth inning for a 3-2 victory. Corona improved to 17-2. Coach Andy Wise has Hernandez, one of the best pitchers in Southern California, set to pitch Saturday’s title game at 1:15 p.m. PDT against Orange Lutheran (18-4). Corona lost to Orange Lutheran 4-2 last month in

Friday’s kickoff of the annual “Make Waves” Film Festival, hosted by the local chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, was slated to be the culmination of months of planning by 21-year-old Cal Poly San Luis Obispo junior Kenneth Taylor. The mechanical engineering student from Richland, Wash. was known as much for his advocacy for the outdoors as he was for his enjoyment of it. Taylor was a founding member of the school’s Alpine Club and served as a trip leader for the campus’ Poly Escapes program, which offers trip-planning services and outdoor training for students. He loved snow sports and rock climbing, friends said, up until the end. School officials sent a campus-wide email Monday morning confirming that Taylor died Saturday “after an accident during a trip to Big Sur.” “The university is in touch with Kenneth’s family and is extending its full support to them and his friends,” Cal Poly San Luis Obispo University President Jeffrey D. Armstrong wrote in the email. “Our thoughts are with them as they grieve their loss.” Kenneth Taylor, right, was known as one half of “Kenneth squared,” a nickname

Ballet flats, low-rise jeans and Cosmopolitans are back in style, so it is the perfect time for all six seasons of “Sex and the City” to stream on Netflix. The HBO series, previously exclusively on Max, premiered April 1 on the streaming service, where a wider subscriber base pulled in first-time viewers and rewatchers who are ready and willing to share their thoughts on social media. This week, there has been increasing buzz about one of the iconic episodes in the series, when Carrie Bradshaw invites Mr. Big, the ex-boyfriend with whom she cheated on her current boyfriend Aidan, to the latter’s cabin. I couldn’t help but wonder — does Carrie Bradshaw’s Big versus Aidan love triangle still feel relevant? When it first premiered in June 1998, “Sex and the City,” an adaptation of Candace Bushnell’s newspaper column and book, broke a lot of barriers with its depiction of four single women in their 30s and 40s navigating their friendship and vibrant sex lives in NYC. (It also fell short in a myriad of ways, namely in how incredibly white, heteronormative and privileged the characters

Hard-drinking artist and itinerant contractor Charley (Alex Hurt) hasn’t been much of a morning person of late. Recalling the previous night’s events is a problem for him. But since Charley is the protagonist of a Larry Fessenden horror film, “Blackout,” he’s also been waking up half-naked in the woods and some of the splotches on his torn clothes are clearly blood. Already a sensitive sort, bitterly consumed with the economic, environmental and societal direction of his small town, Charley is also processing the death of his father — this in addition to grappling with the fact that he may be a hairy creature with an after-hours body count. It’s the kind of dilemma that doesn’t exactly help one’s sense of helplessness. Fessenden has long been a cult-horror mainstay as producer, director, writer and actor. He’s no stranger to the alchemy of woolly terror and human anguish, on budgets that favor ragged immediacy over slick, empty shocks. The appealingly scrappy and thoughtful “Blackout” continues an ongoing project to put a modern spin on the legendary figures of horror cinema, from using vampires to explore urban love

Over 100 dogs that were rescued from a hoarder in Riverside will now be placed for adoption. On Thursday, officials responded to a fire that ignited in a two-bedroom townhome. Inside the home, 113 small dogs that were being hoarded were discovered by Riverside Animal Shelter Rescue Department workers. All dogs were removed from the home and impounded at an animal shelter. Riverside shelter workers contacted Mission Viejo Animal Services Center for help and seven dogs were transferred to the center’s “A Mission for Home” program. The dogs will soon be available for adoption after they are bathed, spayed/neutered and evaluated by a veterinarian. Several dogs available for adoption after being rescued from a hoarder. (City of Mission Viejo) Several dogs available for adoption after being rescued from a hoarder. (City of Mission Viejo) Several dogs available for adoption after being rescued from a hoarder. (City of Mission Viejo) Over 100 dogs that were rescued from a hoarder in Riverside will be placed for adoption. (City of Mission Viejo) All surgeries, including dental operations on older dogs, will be funded by the center’s nonprofit organization