On his first day back from winter break, 11-year-old Merwinn Rojas got a taste of how his life could change during a teachers’ strike. The after-school robotics league he participates in three days a week at Foshay Learning Center, about five miles south of downtown Los Angeles, was canceled Monday,…
On the eve of a massively disruptive strike that would hit families at more than 900 schools, Los Angeles Unified teachers say they deserve a better deal on pay and working conditions. The district has given some ground in recent days but argues that on at least the money issues, budget projections…
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Authorities temporarily ordered an Anaheim bikini bar to halt alcohol sales after it was cited for multiple violations on Tuesday, Jan. 8. California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control agents announced in a statement they had immediately suspended the liquor license of Sugars Bikini Bar, 405 S. Brookhurst St., for 35 days following a joint investigation…
Two people pushed a car off of railroad tracks, moving an elderly motorist out of the path of an oncoming train following a collision in Santa Ana on Tuesday, Jan. 8. A white Pontiac Grand Am involved in a two-vehicle traffic collision at the intersection of 17th Street and Lincoln Avenue traveled into a nearby…
Former San Bernardino County gang prosecutor Michael Selyem, who was suspended in the wake of his racist rants on social media that triggered a backlash from civil rights leaders, has resigned from the District Attorney’s Office. Selyem, a former Orange County sheriff’s deputy-turned-prosecutor, voluntarily resigned on Jan. 2, county spokeswoman Felisa Cardona said Tuesday. Civil…
The Santa Ana Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying a man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman at a bus stop. On Saturday, Jan. 5, police said a man wearing a #82 Dallas Cowboys jersey attacked a woman in her 50s waiting at a bus stop on the 1000 block of…
The house in Perris where prosecutors say the children of David and Louise Turpin were tortured, which appeared to have sold last week, is going back on the market. The house at 160 Muir Woods Road, which sold at auction on Jan. 2 for $310,360 to an unidentified bidder, will be up for bid again on the…
A woman who was sexually assaulted by two Los Angeles police officers will receive nearly $2 million from the city, according to an agreement filed in federal court on Monday. The settlement, which needs to be approved by the City Council, comes on top of nearly $1.8 million in payouts to three…
A controversial women’s jail project that has been in development for years is now facing serious opposition from key stakeholders who are demanding more therapeutic alternatives for women in Los Angeles County’s criminal justice system. The $215-million proposal to renovate an out-of-use detention…
