San Francisco supervisors were expected to consider a proposal Tuesday that could force drug addicts with serious mental illnesses into treatment. Mayor London Breed and other supporters of the proposal say the move — known as conservatorship — is necessary to help addicts who are often homeless…
Anaheim’s relationship to the city’s chamber of commerce was off during the last years of the former mayor’s tenure, but if a proposed one-year $425,000 contract is an indication, things are definitely on again. The City Council is expected to vote tonight, June 4, on whether to hire the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce to market…
Former Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti says he’ll fight a bid by the State Bar of California to keep him from practicing law in the state. The bar on Monday asked the State Bar Court to place Avenatti on involuntary inactive enrollment. It mentioned accusations that Avenatti stole nearly…
On Tuesday, voters living within the boundaries of the Los Angeles Unified School District will decide whether to pass Measure EE, a property tax to benefit Los Angeles public schools. The campaign came together quickly — with supporters hoping to build on the goodwill generated by teachers during…
Deep in the engineering labs at UCLA, students and faculty are hard at work on the future. In one lab, Jacob Rosen, a professor of medical robotics, shows off robots that can stitch up wounds and help rehabilitate stroke victims. Other faculty and students are developing a carbon-neutral concrete…
A man who had been sentenced to 22 years behind bars for a 2013 attempted murder in Orange County is one of two suspects in the fatal stabbing of another prison inmate from Riverside County on Thursday, May 30, officials said Monday. Corrections officers used pepper spray and a blast grenade to break up an…
Navy Judge Aaron Rugh has removed Cmdr. Chris Czaplak as prosecutor in the case of Edward “Eddie” Gallagher, a Navy SEAL accused of a series of war crimes including killing a teen ISIS fighter in 2017. Rugh announced his decision Monday, June 3, in an email to the parties involved. Tim Parlatore, Gallagher’s lead attorney,…
A shallow magnitude 3.7 earthquake was reported Monday evening 4 miles from Cobb, Calif., in Lake County, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:44 p.m. PDT at a depth of 0.6 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 12 miles from Clearlake, Calif., 15 miles from…
Police are searching for the suspect in the shooting of a person Monday afternoon at the Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance. The Torrance Police Department responded at 2:56 p.m. to reports of shots fired at the mall at 3525 Carson St. Upon arrival, they found one victim with a gunshot wound, who…
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission didn’t take anyone else’s word for it, officials said, but ran its own analyses to answer the nettlesome questions: How deep are the scratches marring canisters of radioactive nuclear waste at San Onofre? And do those scratches pose safety concerns to the public? With the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station as…
