Orange County bosses will add 28,000 workers next year, Chapman University economists are predicting — 9,250 fewer hires than the county average in the previous four years. Chapman’s semiannual forecast shows Orange County jobs will grow 1.7 percent in 2019. In 2014-18, hiring averaged 38,750 jobs a year or a 2.5 percent annual pace. So more cooling…
Authorities say bomb threats sent to dozens of schools, universities, consulates and other locations across the United States appear to be hoaxes. At least 13 false threats were received across Los Angeles at major businesses and government entities, the Los Angeles Police Department said Thursday….
The drinks were flowing heavily in a Carlsbad bar on that Saturday night in early February, a Catholic seminary student said, so much so that he headed to the bathroom to throw up. While he was standing in the stall and vomiting, the priest he had been drinking with reached around him and groped…
Anti-gay remarks that a San Diego State economist made 16 years ago have sparked a political flap that led to the postponement of a congressional hearing on the minimum wage. Joseph Sabia had been scheduled to appear Wednesday before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on the effects…
LOS ANGELES — The southbound side of the Sepulveda Boulevard tunnel near Los Angeles International Airport will be partially closed overnight Thursday into Friday to accommodate maintenance work. The work by the city street-services and street-lighting bureaus is scheduled to begin at 11 p.m. and continue until 6 a.m. Friday. Crews will be performing maintenance…
A man in a pickup truck died early Thursday, Dec. 13, after colliding with a street sweeper on Imperial Highway in La Habra. The crash was reported shortly after 2 a.m. just east of Idaho Street. When officers arrived they found the front of the Toyota pickup heavily damaged. The driver was inside and pronounced…
HOUSEBy ALAN FRAM WASHINGTON — Rep. Nancy Pelosi all but ensured that she will become House speaker next month, quelling a revolt by disgruntled younger Democrats by agreeing to limit her tenure to no more than four additional years in the chamber’s top post. Within moments of announcing Wednesday she would restrict her time in…
When Sean Parker crossed California’s beach access police over his wedding in Big Sur, the tech billionaire agreed to create a coastal access app for the people. The app launches Thursday after an unusual collaboration between two very different, but very California, worlds.
When UC Santa Barbara art professor Kip Fulbeck visited a colleague’s class as a guest lecturer last year, he grew fed up with students who slept, played with their phones or left for the restroom and didn’t come back. He noticed that many of the offenders seemed to be international students from…
If you are in any way associated with L.A. public schools, you’ve probably been hearing quite a bit about the possibility of a teachers strike. The teachers union could call for one in the next few weeks. Talks between the union and the Los Angeles Unified School District appear to be going nowhere,…
