Over the last year, the Los Angeles Times has published a series about a controversial program that pays Los Angeles police and firefighters essentially double at the end of their careers. The latest installment looked at how those extra payments drove some former employees’ retirement income far…
LOS ANGELES — The twice-delayed launch of a rocket carrying a reconnaissance satellite into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County is scheduled Tuesday night, potentially giving the Southland a holiday-season aerial light show. According to United Launch Alliance, it will try again to launch the rocket at 5:57 p.m. The Delta…
At least three women say the former associate pastor of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Encinitas tried to seduce them. The allegations rocked the congregation Sunday, when parishioners opened the church bulletin to find an apology from Bishop Robert McElroy “to all who were subjected…
Sharon Gattas spent Thanksgiving this year among the ruins of the largest fire in modern California history, the Camp Fire that leveled the Northern California town of Paradise. “I am not a firefighter, I don’t run towards fire,” the Rancho Cucamonga woman said. “My husband did that; he’s nuts.” What she can do, however, is…
MIDWAY CITY — A sheriff’s SWAT team burst into an apartment in Midway City early Tuesday and arrested a barricaded domestic violence suspect to end a standoff lasting almost eight hours, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department reported. Deputies responded to a domestic violence call at 7:40 p.m. Monday involving a woman and a man on…
You’d be hard pressed to see it at the Emerald Cup, where the pot smoke was so thick it gave me a sore throat, but the good times are not rolling for many of Northern California’s cannabis farmers. The irony is as rich as the honey-colored extracts that have become the smokable consumer pot product…
Image from 1955 of the Buena Vista Reservoir, now empty, was used in the 1955-56, Know Your City photography series.
A man sustained life-threatening injuries, but was expected to recover, after he was stabbed near Plaza Square Park in the Old Towne area of Orange on Monday, Dec. 17. Dispatchers received a 911 call at 8:36 p.m. reporting an unspecified incident near the intersection of West Chapman Avenue and Glassell Street, according to Orange Police…
SANTA ANA — Orange County prosecutors have concluded that an i-custody death in Anaheim that has led the suspect’s family to sue the city should not result in criminal charges, officials announced Monday. The family of Christopher Eisinger filed a wrongful death complaint Nov. 29 against the city of Anaheim and Anaheim Police Chief Jorge…
Los Angeles school district officials on Monday backed off immediate plans to paint over a mural at a campus in Koreatown as they faced a growing chorus of objections. The mural at the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools is dominated by an image of actress Ava Gardner. But it has run afoul of the…
