A territorial cat showed a nosy coyote who was boss when he sent the canine predator running in Downey over the weekend.

Spring has arrived and so has a new generation of coyotes prowling for food in many Southern California communities.

A fifth told police a coyote lunged at him. State wildlife officers have killed seven coyotes. An eighth was killed by a sharpshooter hired by Greenwood Village, in Denver’s southern suburbs. “These ...