A new westbound 91 lane at the Riverside-Orange county line that would help relieve severe congestion has been given the green light, but transportation officials are abandoning the idea of turning off Green River Road ramp meters. After sometimes confusing rush-hour experiments in June, September and October, Caltrans has concluded that switching off the Green River…
SANTA ANA — Orange County firefighters extinguished a fire in a mobile home in Santa Ana Tuesday morning in just 20 minutes, authorities said. Crews responded at 1:57 a.m. to the Gables Mobile Home Park at 4801 W. First St. and located a single-wide mobile home with heavy fire, according to a statement from the…
BALDWIN PARK — A big rig overturned Tuesday on a freeway transition road in Baldwin Park, snarling traffic for hours. The single-vehicle crash occurred about 1:40 a.m. on the transition from the northbound 605 Freeway to the eastbound 10 Freeway, according to the California Highway Patrol. No injuries were reported. The No. 3 through 6…
As every day goes by, searchers are finding fewer human remains in the rubble of California’s deadliest wildfire. At the same time, they are slowly narrowing the list of the missing, which on Monday stood at 203 yet still down by about 1,000 from last week. But amid this work, authorities are coming…
Beyond the tree-shaded comforts of suburban living, L.A. residents by the thousands live in motels, vehicles, shelters and 400-square-foot garages. Teachers at Telfair Elementary School say families living in garages is more common now.
For hopeful migrants who traveled so many miles, the American border was supposed to be the beginning of a new life, not a return to the old one. But the day after American authorities rained down tear gas on men, women and children who had tried to rush the border, the brutal reality hit home:…
For thousands of Central Americans packed into a sports complex in Tijuana that’s crowded with tents and smells strongly of sewage, the journey has only gotten harder. After a clash at the border Sunday, United States authorities closed the San Ysidro Port of Entry for more than four hours and…
Nighttime image of MacArthur Park used in the 1955-56 Los Angeles Times Know Your City photography series.
Alex Villanueva, a little-known lieutenant who mounted an improbable campaign to lead one of the nation’s largest policing agencies, will replace Jim McDonnell as Los Angeles County sheriff, marking a stunning upset for a seat that hasn’t seen an incumbent lose in more than a century. Trailing…
Police arrested four people in Los Angeles who were suspected in the theft of designer purses from a department store on Monday, Nov. 26. Suspects took an unspecified number of Louis Vuitton purses from the Neiman Marcus store at the Fashion Island shopping center, 601 Newport Center Dr., sometime before 4:20 p.m., said Newport Beach Police…
