A Los Angeles-area raid seized over 100,000 pounds tied to Esparto. Experts say authorities should have made the connection, missed key warning signs. A man in East Los Angeles has been arrested in ...

That warehouse, and a company called TYI Importing, are owned by a man named Johnny Chek. When DOT investigators saw large numbers of containers from California ports going to this warehouse, they ...

Talk about an explosive situation: Los Angeles firefighters are anxiously monitoring a warehouse filled with 75 tons of confiscated illegal fireworks sitting alongside 27 pallets of flammable hand ...

Residents of Esparto, California, are still waiting for answers following a fireworks facility explosion that killed seven workers, as CalFire continues its investigation. IT’S NOW BEEN A MONTH AND A ...

A 17-year-old boy was killed after a high-powered, illegal firework exploded in a backyard — rocking a neighborhood with a blast so powerful residents thought it was a bomb. The explosive detonated ...

A longtime Yolo County sheriff’s deputy whose property was tied to a fireworks operation that exploded in Esparto, killing seven people and injuring two others, quietly retired two months after the ...

Attorney General Rob Bonta in August rebuffed a request from Yolo County officials to take over the investigation into the July 1 deadly fireworks explosion in Esparto and pointed to his confidence in ...