Measure EE, the parcel tax for L.A. Unified schools, got crushed at the polls last week. But it wasn’t as big a loser as my column on EE’s failure. Reaction is running about 90% thumbs-down on my take, in which I said that our schools are shamefully underfunded, but that a clear majority of people…
Kim Goldman wrote to O.J. Simpson a few years ago, asking to visit him in the Nevada prison where he was being held for robbery and kidnapping. She wanted to see the man she says killed her brother, Ron Goldman, and Simpson’s wife 25 years ago Wednesday outside Nicole Brown Simpson’s Brentwood…
Family builds underground shelter – not for protection from a-bombs – but for protection from smog.
An elderly man was found dead after a fire at a house in Fountain Valley on Tuesday, June 11. Firefighters were dispatched at about 7 p.m. after a woman at a home burning on the 18000 block of Plumosa Street called 911, Fountain Valley Police said in a press release. Crews managed to put out…
Critics of a Los Angeles Police Department program that identifies potential terrorist activities called for it to be dismantled Tuesday, complaining that people of some races and ethnicities are unfairly targeted. An audit from the Police Commission’s inspector general said the LAPD mostly followed…
As he was leaving office in December, former Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas secretly blocked five deputies who worked with jail informants from being formally designated as liars and having their names released, in theory, to defense attorneys. In a Dec.20 letter released Tuesday by new District Attorney Todd Spitzer, Rackauckas tells the Sheriff’s…
An Orange County sheriff’s deputy on Tuesday denied telling a drug-addled informant to shoot up with heroin a man accused of stabbing to death a bar patron in Laguna Niguel shortly before officers took the suspect into custody. During testimony at a hearing on a defense request to dismiss murder charges against Craig Matthew Tanber, Deputy…
Planet 13 in Las Vegas has attracted international attention since it opened perhaps the world’s biggest marijuana store last fall, with 3,000 people shopping each day for newly legal cannabis products while surrounded by light shows and interactive art displays that feel natural a few miles off The Strip. Now Planet 13 has announced that…
As summer-like heat baked Southern California this week, officials cautioned pet owners not to leave their furever friends in locked cars with windows even partially open — and don’t forget about children and elderly people, either. And though high temperatures are expected to decrease by 10 to 15 degrees by the end of the week…
Attorneys for Charles “Chase” Merritt said Tuesday they do not plan to call witnesses in the life-or-death penalty phase of Merritt’s trial that started the day after he was convicted of murdering the four-member McStay family of Fallbrook. The defense team said it instead planned to appeal to any possible lingering doubts held by the…
