By ARNIE STAPLETON | AP Pro Football Writer Bart Starr was an ordinary quarterback until teaming with Vince Lombardi and serving as the catalyst for the powerhouse Green Bay Packers teams that ruled the 1960s and ushered in the NFL as America’s most popular sport. The quarterback’s graceful throws helped turn a run-heavy league into…

By ELANA SCHOR and JUANA SUMMERS WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders in Congress have argued that impeaching President Donald Trump is a political mistake as the 2020 election nears. Most of the candidates running to succeed him seem to agree, for now. Fewer than one-third of the 23 Democrats vying for the nomination are issuing calls…

A homeless man was camping in a public space with an oceanview, despite a sign that warns that camping is not allowed. (Photo courtesy of Carson Grier) Carson Grier snapped a photo of the man’s tent, posted just feet from a sign warning there was no camping allowed along the beachfront bluff overlooking a popular…

Bart Starr, the Green Bay Packers quarterback and catalyst of Vince Lombardi’s powerhouse teams of the 1960s, has died. He was 85. The Packers announced Sunday that Starr had died, citing his family. He had been in failing health since suffering a serious stroke in 2014. The Packers chose Starr…

  When Molly and Dawn Molt moved to Laguna Hills in 1993 the biggest challenge they faced was finding a church that would accept a lesbian couple and their child. “I called 11 churches and all of them rejected us,” Dawn Molt said. “Some said they’d accept our son, but not us. But, we wanted…

SANTA ANA — A dance instructor who coaches teenagers for quinceanera celebrations is being accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old student in the city of Orange, authorities said Friday. Jesus Alamilla Caballero, 46, of Santa Ana, is charged with a felony count of lewd or lascivious acts on a child 14 or 15. He is…

The San Francisco Police Officers Assn. is calling on Police Chief Bill Scott to step down after he apologized for his officers’ raid of a journalist’s home. “It is time for Chief Scott to go. There’s no other way around it,” union leaders wrote in a statement released Saturday, one day after Scott…

Comics legend Stan Lee’s former business manager was arrested Saturday in Arizona, the Los Angeles Police Department has confirmed. Keya Morgan, 43, is charged with five counts of elder abuse involving the late comics mastermind, including allegations of false imprisonment, theft and embezzlement. …

A 102-year-old woman faces eviction from her longtime residence in unincorporated Ladera Heights so the landlords’ daughter can move in instead, according to an eviction notice the woman received. Thelma Smith was given notice March 8 that she must vacate the single-family home where she has resided…

The trash trucks arrived early Wednesday afternoon, and members of the cleanup team from the Los Angeles sanitation division came with protective coveralls and white masks. A mountain of rotting, oozing, stinking trash awaited them, stretching a good 20 yards along a skid row alley. Rats popped…