The LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division has identified a suspect in the case of an assault and kidnapping of a 10-year-old Northridge girl. Tobias Dustin Summers was named as the only suspect in the case at a 3 p.m. press conference, available through live stream. Summers is described as a 6 foot tall, 30-year-old man with blond hair and blue eyes, weighing about 160 pounds and has a distinctive tattoo on his right arm. Summers has a criminal history that dates back… Read more

Northridge Fashion Center kicked off the 2013 Spring season of the Farmer’s Market and Family Festival with entertainment, food and rides Wednesday evening. Northridge Fashion Center’s seasonal Farmers’ Market and Family Festival brought out community members for an evening of family fun. Magicians, balloon animal artists, temporary tattoo artists, and face painters, were among the family friendly activities, als The Granada Hills Charter High School Highlander Marching Band also performed. Participants had the opportunity to ride the giant blow-up slide,… Read more

 A day after a single-engine Cessna plane crashed into CSUN’s East Field near Zelzah Avenue and Plummer Street, students and local emergency personnel continued to react to the scene. “I didn’t think it was real, it was a shock,’” said Erick Rodriguez, a 20-year-old Pierce College student who said he saw the plane go down while he was driving northbound on Zelzah on his way home from church. “I threw the car in park and grabbed my friend and we… Read more

UPDATED: 5:18 p.m. Two passengers escaped a single-plane crash with minor to moderate injuries Sunday afternoon, after their plane went down on campus near the intersection of Zelzah and Plummer. The plane’s occupants, a man and woman who were both believed to be in their 60s, were headed towards the Van Nuys airport for an emergency landing. They were transported to Northridge Hospital as a precaution, according to firefighter Rick Tanguay, who was among the first-responders with Battalion 70 of… Read more

>>UPDATE September 28, 2012. 12:01 p.m. Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that would require CSU trustees and UC regents to notify students 30-days in advance before tuition and fee increases are made, on Sept. 27. AB 970, the Working Families Student Fee Transparency and Accountability Act, also specifies that increases not go into effect for 90-days, giving students and families time to plan for the increases. The board of trustees will now have to justify fee increases, state the… Read more

>>CLARIFICATION: If plain clothes police officers were used for any police investigation, it would be at discretion of the chief of police and depend on factors unique to such situations. CSUN had its emergency confidence tested a year ago today when police were alerted to a possible gunman on campus that led to a search that lasted over eight hours, before the suspect turned himself in shortly after 8:00 p.m. The suspect, identified as CSUN student Gahren Moradian, initially captured… Read more