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…
By KEN MORITSUGU BEIJING — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, meeting in Pyongyang with Chinese President Xi Jinping, said Thursday that his country is waiting for a desired response in stalled nuclear talks with the United States. “North Korea would like to remain patient, but it hopes the relevant party will meet halfway with…
By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shot down a U.S. surveillance drone on Thursday amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington over the collapsing nuclear deal with world powers, American and Iranian officials said, though they disputed the circumstances of the incident. The Guard said it shot down the RQ-4…
Two Navy SEALS testified Wednesday, June 19, during day two of the trial of decorated fellow SEAL Edward “Eddie” Gallagher, including Chief Special Warfare Operator Craig Miller who told jurors he saw Gallagher drive a knife into the neck of a young ISIS detainee, leaving him for dead. Gallagher is accused of the premeditated murder…
BUENA PARK — A 28-year-old man was hospitalized Wednesday night in grave condition with injuries he suffered from being struck by a vehicle in Buena Park and the driver of the vehicle was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. Police responded to the 7900 block of Artesia Boulevard near Marshall Avenue about 9:20 p.m. and…
