The man suspected of kidnapping and murdering 23-year-old MacKenzie Lueck of El Segundo wanted to alter his basement in a way that made a contractor feel “weird,” the worker said. Brian Wolf turned on TV news on Thursday, June 27 and was shocked to police searching the Salt Lake City home and that the owner,…
First of two parts There’s just a whisper of bone, ghostly and gray, in the X-ray image of Joshua Lash’s spine. The vertebrae spiral down, diffuse as smoke, until they reach a brutal and jagged conclusion: six stark-white images of screws embedded deep into bone, lashed together by metal rods. Dimly visible near the spinal…
The announcement by police that a Salt Lake City man was arrested on suspicion of killing University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck has sparked grief from her sorority sisters in Utah as well as her family in California. Lueck had been missing for days, but family and friends held out hope that…
Sex, lies and bullets flying wildly. Then there are the stolen drugs, illegal chokeholds, planted evidence, falsified reports and a police officer who lied to move up the adoption list for a puppy. Those are among the misadventures uncovered during the first six months of disclosures under California’s new police transparency law, Senate Bill 1421,…
Sexual assault in jail. Domestic violence complaints against an officer ignored. Knocked-out teeth followed by a cover-up. Those cases involving California peace officers are detailed in documents recently made public under a landmark transparency law that undid decades of secrecy surrounding police…
Omar Avila is lucky — unlike most of the vendors who sell their wares along the bustling Santa Monica Pier, his pushcart is licensed, plastered with permits, and has an A grade from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Yet, more than six months after a state law decriminalizing sidewalk…
PANMUNJOM, Korea — With grins and handshakes, President Donald Trump welcomed North Korea’s Kim Jong Un at the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone on Sunday, seeking to revive talks on the pariah nation’s nuclear program in a bid for a legacy-defining accord. Trump then became the first American leader to step into North Korea. It happened…
All animal exhibits were closed to the public Saturday at the San Diego County Fair in response to the death of a 2-year-old boy who was one of four children suspected of picking up the E.coli bacteria after visiting livestock displays this month. Dr. Eric McDonald, a county public health official,…
By GREGORY KATZ LONDON — America’s national pastime made a positive impression on British fans the first time they got to see the game up close and personal on British soil. That may have been helped by a warm, picture-perfect day in often overcast London — baseball weather at its best, played on a midsummer’s…
By ANNALISA CAMILLI and FRANCES D’EMILIO LAMPEDUSA, Sicily — The German captain of a humanitarian rescue ship with 40 migrants aboard has been arrested after she rammed her vessel into an Italian border police motorboat while docking at a tiny Mediterranean island Saturday in defiance of Italy’s anti-migrant interior minister. Jeering onlookers shouted “handcuffs, handcuffs”…
