Tensions remained high between the teachers union and Los Angeles Unified School District officials as the first Los Angeles teachers’ strike in 30 years continued into its third day Wednesday with no resolution in sight. United Teachers Los Angeles President Alex Caputo-Pearl repeatedly called…
Tougher requirements for marijuana purity that kicked in this year in California aren’t triggering the high failure rates that emptied shelves at cannabis shops last summer, when the state began phasing in mandated testing. The better results signal that the cannabis industry is stabilizing in its second year of regulated sales, despite a roller coaster first…
The Fullerton City Council is giving itself two weeks to see if it can find a consensus on who to appoint for a vacant seat. The council is accepting applications for the vacant seat through 5 p.m. on Jan. 23. A special council meeting will be held Jan. 29 to make the appointment. The council…
Herb Wesson, president of the Los Angeles City Council, speaks at a press conference for the American Federation of Government Employees, the union that represents TSA officers, in front of the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. The union is demanding politicians in Washington to end the…
Los Angeles students who go to school during the teachers’ strike may be more likely to spend their days watching movies than receiving academic instruction in a classroom. And some of the titles that have been screened could give them nightmares. When The Times asked parents to name the movies…
Some 70 years later, he remembered how it began. A German soldier at the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium approached him, he said, and declared in German: “Don’t shoot! I have three children.” Jules Herman Sitrick, who was then a young soldier patrolling alone, said he allowed the German to seek…
By BASSEM MROUE BEIRUT — The U.S. military says a number of service members were killed Wednesday in an explosion while conducting a routine patrol in Syria — the first instance of U.S. casualties since President Donald Trump announced his intention to withdraw troops from the country last month. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility…
By LISA MASCARO, CATHERINE LUCEY and JILL COLVIN WASHINGTON — Shutdown pressure on President Donald Trump mounted Wednesday as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on him to delay his State of the Union address and his own economists acknowledged the prolonged standoff was having a greater economic drag than previously thought. In a letter to…
Next week, thousands of volunteers will start heading out in the early morning darkness and, over the next few hours or days, count the number of homeless people in Southern California. When an individual being counted is willing to provide more information, they’ll answer questions on a survey. The local efforts will be part of…
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO NEW YORK — Sears will live on— at least for now. The company’s chairman and largest shareholder and chairman, Eddie Lampert, won a bankruptcy auction for Sears in New York, averting liquidation of the iconic chain, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. The person agreed to speak on condition of…
