News — CrimeAndPublicSafety

s A firefighting helicopter draws water from Dillon Reservoir on Friday, June 11, to drop on the nearby Straight Creek Fire. Photo by Elaine Collins No structures are threatened by fire near Interstate 70 Three small wildfires in less than 24 hours have Summit County fire officials worried. Things got started Thursday, June 10, when local fire districts increased the fire danger level from low to very high — something Summit Fire & EMS spokesperson Steve Lipsher said he has never seen. “In one day, we jumped three levels; we skipped moderate and high,” Lipsher said Thursday. “… Our humidity...

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...