Violent and property crimes ticked upward in many Orange County cities last year, according to the FBI’s annual report released this week, but overall remained near the historic lows of recent years. Local crime rates among Orange County communities in 2017 were slightly out of step with the national trend – which saw modest drops…
A 53-year-old man has been charged with a racially motivated, knife-wielding attack in Fullerton, a week after another alleged hate crime in the city, records showed Tuesday. Bobby Willis Palm, who is white, was accused of trying to attack a black man with a knife, according to court records. The attack occurred just before noon…
With the bullet train project facing titanic legal battles in the San Francisco Bay Area and Central Valley, the last thing the state rail authority needs is a route into Southern California that would galvanize new opposition. But whether it can avoid such a fight remains uncertain after the California…
Just days after his aunt and uncle were reported missing in Houston, Ramon Escobar got in his Honda CR-V and drove west. The 47-year-old native of El Salvador traveled more than 1,500 miles along Interstate 10, stopping when he hit the Pacific Ocean on Sept. 5. Three days later, Santa Monica police…
Just east of the border fence construction, the Border Patrol has launched Operation Blazing Sands to deter illegal border crossings and thwart human smuggling attempts. The agency noticed an uptick in smuggling activity along a stretch of the border in the southeasternmost part of the California…
Tony Randall throws a fit as a concerned but calm Jack Klugman looks on in “The Odd Couple,” Neil Simon’s comedy, playing at the Shubert Theater in Los Angeles in 1975.
The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana region is the nation’s top metro area for clean-energy jobs and the Inland Empire ranks 16th, according to a study released Tuesday by E2, a national organization of environmental entrepreneurs. The state’s 519,000 clean-energy jobs are heavily focused in metro areas, where more than 430,000 of those jobs are located….
Los Angeles school officials have made a new offer to teachers: a 6% raise over two years. They also propose lowering class sizes at 15 middle and 75 elementary schools. The 6% raise would be retroactive: 3% would take effect with an agreement and go back to July 1, 2017. The second 3% would be…
The Los Angeles school district has selected an FBI veteran stationed in Europe as its next inspector general. William Stern is currently the chief attache to the Netherlands and to Europol, the European Union’s police agency. His contract will pay $179,900 per year and run from Jan. 31 through…
University of California regents will gather this week to discuss faculty diversity, policies on Native American remains and artifacts and the ongoing effort to add more California students without further squeezing those already enrolled. At their two-day meeting, which starts Wednesday at UCLA,…
