Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón will ask a judge to resentence Erik and Lyle Menendez, two brothers serving life sentences for killing their parents, a move that could [...]
When Sean “Diddy” Combs was charged last month in a federal sex-trafficking probe, it unleashed a wave of lawsuits detailing how the music industry mogul allegedly drugged and assaulted men [...]
A man has been arrested in connection with an incident of punching and sending a beloved valet in West Hollywood to the hospital last month, Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives [...]
The candidate running to unseat Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León faced sharp criticism on Monday for saying “F— the police” at a recent meet-and-greet with college students. Ysabel [...]
After a dangerous stretch of dry gusting winds, weather conditions improved Sunday morning — aiding firefighters as they battle blazes up and down the state, authorities said.With high wind warnings [...]
A California man was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for abusing foster children he had assigned to care for in his home, including some who had been previously [...]
A Riverside man was arrested after the body of his roommate was found buried in a makeshift grave in a backyard, police said. Officers responded Tuesday evening to the 8700 [...]
A federal judge has struck down the latest Bureau of Land Management plan to manage off-roading routes in the Mojave Desert, saying it didn’t provide adequate protections for the dwindling [...]
DETROIT — Vice President Kamala Harris, who is registered to vote in California, said Wednesday that she still needs to take a look at Proposition 36, a tough-on-crime measure on California’s [...]
Francesca Eastwood, the daughter of screen legend Clint Eastwood, was arrested in Beverly Hills over the weekend on suspicion of felony domestic violence.The “Old” and “Twin Peaks” actor was arrested [...]
Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing six new lawsuits alleging sexual abuse, including accusations that he molested a 16-year-old boy at a party in 1998.The lawsuits filed in New [...]
A man was arrested Saturday outside former President Trump’s rally in Riverside County on suspicion of illegal possession of a shotgun, handgun and high-capacity magazine, sheriff’s officials said.Vem Miller, 49, [...]
If you spend much time in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, you will notice, amid the clamor of buses and trucks and car horns and vendors hawking their goods, [...]
The couple arrived at the Chase Bank in Palmdale as planned. It was early February and they were there to withdraw $200,000. Nearby, a private security guard stood watch, occasionally [...]
Five people are dead after a twin-engine plane crashed on Catalina Island on Tuesday night, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.Just after 8 p.m., deputies at the sheriff’s Avalon [...]
Gina Ferazzi grew up in the small New England town of Longmeadow, Mass. She has been a staff photographer with the Los Angeles Times since 1994. Her photos are a [...]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear appeals from ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft, which were asking to block California state labor lawsuits that seek back pay for tens [...]
In the waning minutes of Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, Gov. Tim Walz hit on a question that has become central to the 2024 presidential race — and to America’s [...]
A Long Beach man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge after authorities say he took a runaway underage girl he met online across the state border from Arizona and [...]
Every weekday morning, drivers arrive at the Little Tokyo Towers at 10 a.m. carrying precious cargo: seniors’ meals individually wrapped in tinfoil. Not too salty, not too sweet, each bento [...]
Schiff says fixing the asylum process long term, in a way that addresses public safety and also keeps migrants safe, will require comprehensive immigration reform. That, he said, will mean [...]
When Nora Bruhn bought admission to the Lightning in a Bottle arts and music festival on the shores of Kern County’s Buena Vista Lake earlier this spring, her ticket never [...]
Eureka, Humboldt CountyThe major city on California’s north coast, with a population of about 30,000Climate: 0 annual days above 100 degrees expected, 2035-2064 (1st percentile of 367 cities)Health and wellness: [...]
A recent UC Davis study found that as Central Valley residents go about their day, they regularly breathe in pesticides, including one that has been banned in California and another [...]
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bipartisan bill Friday making it a crime to farm octopuses for human consumption in California.The new law makes it illegal to raise and breed octopuses [...]
When 12-year-old Yahushua Robinson died while running during a P.E. class in triple-digit temperatures, his mother could not help but feel like the tragedy was preventable. Now, a little more [...]
With its shattered windows and cartoonish graffiti, the mansion on Mulholland Drive sits like a gaping wound in the Hollywood Hills.Broken glass spills out onto the narrow hillside road where [...]
Orange County is girding itself against a potential flood of litigation from victims of the Airport fire, a destructive blaze that was sparked by a public works crew and destroyed [...]
A gunman hijacked a Metro bus and led Los Angeles police on a wild chase that ended with one passenger dead in downtown L.A. early Wednesday, according to police.For more [...]
WASHINGTON — California House Democrats — seeking to connect former President Trump to the ultra-conservative policy blueprint Project 2025 — will hold a public hearing Tuesday to lay out “its devastating [...]
Faculty across the state have accused the University of California system of carrying out a sweeping campaign to suppress pro-Palestinian speech and protests in violation of state labor law.The Council [...]
Detroit has cars. Chicago has slaughterhouses. New Orleans has jazz. We have orange groves.Had.For a hundred years, the Bothwell family’s orange grove in Tarzana stood at about a hundred acres. [...]
Every hiker in Los Angeles knows that sinking feeling.You stare at the mountains (because that’s what we do when we have a moment) and see a dark column of smoke. [...]
California greenhouse gas emissions dropped about 2.4% in 2022 — an encouraging sign that the state’s carbon footprint is decreasing once again, even as the economy rebounds from the COVID-19 [...]
A Woodland Hills man who terrorized street vendors using violence, racist language and an ax must pay two victims a total of more than $2.8 million.On Wednesday, a jury found [...]
In a bustling hallway on the sixth floor of a downtown courthouse, Alcira Ayala sat on a bench with her husband and daughter, anxiously waiting for her eviction case to [...]
After nearly 20 years in Chinese custody, Orange County pastor David Lin was released over the weekend and has returned to the United States. Lin, 68, had been sentenced to [...]
Power shutoffs have expanded on the Palos Verdes Peninsula amid worsening land movement. After the loss of gas and electricity has thrown parts of Rancho Palos Verdes into turmoil, dozens [...]
Growing up, I realized that children are a product of their environment, so let me tell you a little bit about mine: I grew up in Secaucus, N.J., a town [...]
Federal authorities have arrested an Alameda County man after he allegedly assaulted flight attendants while traveling from Orange County to San Francisco, according to the U.S. Justice Department.Charles Angel Salva, [...]
Little by little, firefighting crews in Southern California are gaining control over three wildfires that have destroyed dozens of buildings, burned more than 100,000 acres and kept countless residents out [...]
Firefighting crews were working to gain the upper hand on several wildfires burning across Southern California Thursday morning, but cautioned that the threat remained for communities in the fires’ path.The [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — On the 32nd floor of a luxury condo skyscraper with panoramic views of San Francisco Bay, Heidi Sieck popped a bottle of champagne Tuesday evening, played “Freedom” by [...]
With local news struggling to survive, a collective of Los Angeles media executives and philanthropists launched an ambitious nonprofit group Tuesday to bolster L.A. County’s local news ecosystem, support small [...]
Four years after unveiling an ambitious plan to conserve 30% of California’s lands and coastal waters by 2030, state officials on Monday announced that they are closing in on that [...]
Gov. Gavin Newsom is heading east to headline a splashy big-dollar fundraiser for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in New York before the vice president’s first debate with former President [...]
A 4-year-old girl was fatally mauled this week by a dog in Visalia, authorities said.Officers responded shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday to a home in the 2300 block of West [...]
Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed emergency regulations aimed at reining in the manufacture and sale of illegal hemp products that contain intoxicating cannabinoids such as THC. The new rules would [...]
More than a year after he was caught on camera throwing a woman to the ground during a violent incident in a WinCo parking lot in Lancaster, a Los Angeles [...]
California officials are turning the screws on the city of Beverly Hills, where approval of a new hotel and apartment complex is moving too slowly for state housing bosses and [...]
