By LAURIE KELLMAN WASHINGTON — It’ll be a snapshot of the state of the union. The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday turns on the credibility of its two star witnesses, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who says he sexually assaulted her. But there is much more electrifying the atmosphere…
A Los Angeles County judge ordered journalists Wednesday not to publish courtroom photographs of a Houston man charged with killing multiple homeless people in the L.A. area, a move that The Times plans to challenge in court as an unconstitutional prior restraint against the media. Superior Court…
A man caught looting homes vacated during the West fire in San Diego County in July has been convicted of breaking into one and trying to get into a second. Ardian Iseni, 30, faces up to seven years and four months in state prison when he is sentenced Oct. 26, a prosecutor said Wednesday. The…
University of California faculty leaders announced Wednesday they would launch a study aimed at finding out whether SAT and ACT tests accurately predict college success. Those who want the nation’s most prestigious public university system to make the standardized tests optional for admissions…
For months, the Los Angeles school district and the teachers union have been operating in different realities. In the L.A. Unified universe, the district faces financial doom. To teachers, it’s a stingy bureaucracy sitting on riches enough to boost their pay and even save public education. On Thursday,…
Officials are investigating an allegation of sexual misconduct by a student at an elementary school in Whittier. Whittier Police said they are handling the investigation into the alleged incident. Capt. Mike Davis declined to reveal details of the allegation but said it occurred sometime between Sept. 4 and 7. He said the victim and suspect…
Attorney Richard Foster, a former USA Water Polo president and U.S Olympic Committee board member, is facing disciplinary charges in State Bar Court for potential ethics violations stemming from his representation of Olympic swimming hopeful Dagny Knutson, according to a filing obtained by the Southern California News Group. Foster, a longtime power broker in international…
The Orange County jail’s telephone vendor improperly recorded another 617 confidential phone conversations between inmates and defense attorney Joel Garson over the past three years, bringing to nearly 1,700 calls improperly recorded by a Sheriff’s Department contractor since January 2015. Garson said 11 of the recordings of him talking to inmates were downloaded and sent…
LOS ANGELES — A man with an attempted murder conviction and a woman who has seven convictions for driving under the influence were among 150 people arrested this week in the Southland by federal agents targeting “criminal aliens” and other immigration violators, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Wednesday. In announcing the arrests, ICE officials…
Three years before Arizona sex crimes prosecutor Rachel Mitchell was thrust into the national spotlight this week, she advised the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Safe Sport program. “Rachel explains that the first step in the process is selecting a victim, or targeting a victim, and that there are a lot of different things that offenders look…
