A real estate developer who touts herself as “California’s cannabis landlord” was arrested during a raid by San Bernardino police at her Pacific Palisades home, authorities confirmed Thursday. Stephanie Smith, 44, was taken into custody at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday and booked into the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, where she was being held on…
In 2017, the highest paid employee working for the city of Los Angeles collected a nearly $600,000 salary and $12,693 in health benefits, according to the state controller’s public pay database. Its lowest paid employee — reportedly earning only $1 that year — had a benefits package that also cost the city $12,693. In fact,…
California’s housing crisis collided with its school funding crisis Thursday, as Oakland teachers went on strike for smaller classes, more nurses and counselors in the schools and wages that will allow them to live in the increasingly expensive San Francisco Bay Area. An estimated 3,000 members…
Xavier Bias walked out of the Whole Foods Market in Pasadena and saw another woman looking to the ground puzzled at the white stuff covering the sidewalk. The woman wasn’t sure exactly what she was looking at. But Bias, who is originally from the East Coast, quickly set her straight. It was snow. …
Four people, including two doctors, were arrested Thursday in Southern California on federal charges of diverting dangerous narcotics — mainly highly addictive opioids — to the black market. The arrests were part of Operation Hypocritical Oath, a yearlong Drug Enforcement Administration probe targeting doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and clinic operators suspected of providing controlled…
Snow? Snow! How often do Rancho Cucamonga, Riverside, Pasadena or North Hollywood get a dusting? How about Zuma Beach and Malibu? Not often. Which is why the weather was the buzz Thursday among flatlanders and hill dwellers. “We’ve been getting a lot of phone calls about it and people are pretty interested. This is really…
The U.S. Olympic Committee has initiated a significant restructuring of the organization designed, according to USOC officials, to empower and create safe environments for American athletes in the wake of the Larry Nassar, USA Swimming and other sex abuse scandals. The re-organization outlined by USOC chief executive Sarah Hirshland in a letter to Olympic sports…
Some parts of Southern California got a light dusting of snow Thursday thanks to an unusually cold storm that dropped snow levels to the 1,000-foot mark. But it was nothing compared with the true snowstorm that hit the city 70 years ago. Here’s a brief history of L.A.’s famous snowstorm from former…
Cindy Borgeson was eating a cheeseburger at In-N-Out when she got a call from Newport Beach police that she thought would never come. It had been more than four decades since her 11-year-old sister, Linda Ann O’Keefe, had been sexually assaulted and strangled. The killer had vanished after dumping…
Parts of Southern California are having a snow day — or at least a few snow minutes — as a cold storm dropped snow levels unusually low. Communities including Malibu, West Hollywood, Pasadena and Northridge got hit with a bit of snow Thursday. But very little of it was sicking to the ground. The…
