He’s a nice guy, a polished campaigner. He’s the mayor of one of the nation’s biggest cities. He’s also from the nation’s biggest state, a state that’s about to play a larger-than-usual role in his party’s presidential nomination process. If Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti enters the Democratic race for president in 2020 – and…
By JOSH BOAK WASHINGTON — U.S. employers dramatically stepped up their hiring in December, adding 312,000 jobs in an encouraging display of strength for an economy in the midst of a trade war, slowing global growth and a partial shutdown of the federal government. The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate rose slightly to…
By TERRY SPENCER and FREIDA FRISARO FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Five children heading to Disney World in a church van from Louisiana died along with two truck drivers in fiery crash on Interstate 75 in north Florida, the Florida Highway Patrol said Friday. The children were traveling in a large passenger van from Avoyelles Parish, Lt….
If teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District go on strike Jan. 10 as planned, about half a million students won’t find their teachers, nurses, counselors and librarians at school. Across the sprawling school system, which stretches beyond the city limits, parents are trying to sort out…
Six months after a state Supreme Court ruling forced local courts to provide court reporters in civil cases involving poor litigants, officials are working to hire scores of reporters while state court administrators are gearing up to ask for additional funding in 2019. Courts are hustling to fill…
It’s been a long two years since millions converged on Washington, D.C., for the Women’s March, an idea that grew out of a suggestion Teresa Shook, a Hawaii lawyer and educator, spontaneously made to some friends. Like many Americans, she was shocked that Donald Trump, who had been accused by more…
The Spruce Goose serves as a backdrop for Pres. Ronald Reagan speech at GOP fundraiser.
A teachers’ strike next week seems all but inevitable, but two developments on Thursday could change the course of events. First, leaders of the union representing Los Angeles teachers tentatively agreed to meet Monday with school district officials for talks — following 12 weeks without serious…
A man and woman who died in a suspicious house fire in Santa Ana on Tuesday, Jan. 1, have been identified as husband and wife. Flames reported at about 10:34 a.m. scorched the first-floor of the two-story house on West Manly Avenue, according to Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna. Residents Charlene Twee Nguyen, 57, and…
A pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle in Laguna Niguel died on Monday, Dec. 31, authorities said. The crash happened near near the intersection of Serenity Lane and Golden Lantern Street at about 7:30 a.m., said Lt. Ken Binning of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. Joe Santos, 58, of Laguna Niguel, was found dead at…
