I woke up on a recent morning looking straight at the wall on the right side of my bed. Being a side sleeper and in the habit of lying on my left side, I wake up facing that same wall each morning. On that wall is my copy of Rick Griffin’s famous “Flying Eyeball” poster…
One of two other men shot next to Nipsey Hussle on March 31 outside the rapper’s clothing shop is expected to be released from detention, his attorney said Thursday. Kerry Lathan, 56, was taken to Men’s Central Jail on a parole violation last week. A Sheriff’s Department spokesman could not say…
Turning over all of the emails exchanged between three UCLA coaches and five people indicted by federal prosecutors for conspiring to defraud top-ranked universities will take 103 days, UCLA record-keepers say. A week after the U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts charged 50 people in an alleged…
The Imperial County government website system has been down for five days. And, according to a document obtained by The Times, it may have been hacked. A Ryuk ransomware note that appeared online following the incident warned that the system network had been penetrated and demanded payment in bitcoin. …
Federal prosecutors from Boston have interviewed people in Los Angeles this week, asking about additional students whose parents have not been charged in the college admissions scandal, people familiar with the matter told The Times. The prosecutors, led by Assistant U.S. Atty. Eric Rosen, are…
Cartoonist Monkey Punch, best known as the creator of the Japanese megahit comic series Lupin III, has died of pneumonia. He was 81. His office, MP Pictures, said Wednesday that Monkey Punch, whose real name is Kazuhiko Kato, died April 11. The story of master thief Lupin’s adventures with his…
No one was looking at Bruce Isackson. Seated in a Boston courtroom recently among a dozen other parents implicated in a scheme to defraud half a dozen top universities, Isackson — a real estate investor from Northern California — was overshadowed by his more famous co-defendants. A few rows ahead…
By CHAD DAY, ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON — Public at last, special counsel Robert Mueller’s report revealed to a waiting nation Thursday that President Donald Trump had tried to seize control of the Russia probe and force Mueller’s removal to stop him from investigating potential obstruction of justice by the president….
A man barricaded himself inside a home in Stanton for more than seven hours before he peacefully surrendered to authorities Thursday morning. Deputies responded about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday to a residence in the 10200 block of Fern Avenue and tried to make contact with the man, who was suspected of violating a restraining order and…
Just as a long-negotiated agreement for how California and six other Western states will deal with drought on the Colorado River was about to cross the finish line, the river’s biggest user put up a roadblock. The Imperial Irrigation District in southeast California filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking…
