The wealthy couple willing to pay him millions lived in Beijing, but William “Rick” Singer needed only to go to Pasadena to find them. Michael Wu, a financial advisor for banking behemoth Morgan Stanley, worked on the seventh floor of an office building in the city outside Los Angeles. Wu specialized…
Twelve people are killed after explosions aboard the tanker Markay sink the ship in Los Angeles Harbor.
The deputies pulled up to the South Los Angeles apartment complex, stepped out of the patrol car and quickly drew their weapons. Within 20 seconds, the incident turned tragic. Deputies fired 34 rounds at a white Kia that backed rapidly out of a parking space. The unarmed driver, Ryan Twyman, 24,…
Dagoberto Lopez begins each workday at Santa Anita Park at 4:30 a.m., checking on the five horses under his care: War Beast, Of Good Report, Carnivorous, Kissable U and Juggles. He checks their temperature. He makes sure they’ve had enough to eat. He gives them sponge baths. On race days, he braids…
A former teacher will spend more than 10 years in jail for molesting girls at the San Fernando Valley high school where he taught science and coached lacrosse, according to City Atty. Mike Feuer’s office. Scott Silva was convicted after a two-week jury trial of 25 criminal counts that included…
Los Angeles Trade-Technical College is facing a possible ban on postseason sports after an external review found evidence that it didn’t create educational plans for its student athletes and gave them special benefits. Such actions, if verified, violate state college athletics rules and could lead…
An off-duty LAPD officer was shopping with his family at a Corona Costco on Friday night, carrying his young son in his arms. Nearby, a couple were roaming the aisle with their 32-year-old son, Kenneth French, who family members have said had an intellectual disability. The two families came together…
The University of California on Thursday released a sweeping list of recommendations aimed at better policing of fraud and conflicts of interest in admitting students — a process triggered by the national college admissions scandal. The recommendations, which UC President Janet Napolitano now plans…
By JESSICA GRESKO WASHINGTON — A World War I memorial in the shape of a 40-foot-tall cross can continue to stand on public land in Maryland, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The justices, in ruling 7-2 in favor of the cross’ backers, concluded that the nearly 100-year-old memorial’s presence on a grassy highway median doesn’t…
Autonomous vehicles can already identify people in and near roadways. But human behavior is complicated. Is that pedestrian about to step off the curb and into traffic? Does that person in the crosswalk up ahead know a vehicle is approaching? Is the human distracted by another human or, worse yet, one of those little devices…
