By CATHERINE LUCEY, JILL COLVIN and LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump urged congressional Democrats to fund his long-promised border wall in a somber televised address that was heavy with dark immigration rhetoric but offered little in the way of concessions or new ideas to break the standoff that has left large swaths of…
Dave Min, a UC Irvine law professor who was endorsed by the California Democratic Party in his unsuccessful congressional bid last year, will challenge Orange County GOP state Sen. John Moorlach in the 2020 election. Min finished third in the June primary for the 45th Congressional District, missing the November runoff by 4,099 votes to…
In Los Angeles schools, when there are no nurses, teachers help kids with broken bones and fevers. Psychologists talk children down from hurting themselves or others. Many students arrive at school knowing little English. Interventionists step in and give them an extra hand. All are members of…
Federal prosecutors in California pressed ahead with a novel attempt to dismantle an outlaw motorcycle club, arguing to jurors that the group should be stripped of trademarks it owns on its coveted insignia as punishment for operating a criminal organization. Last month, at the end of a lengthy…
On his first day back from winter break, 11-year-old Merwinn Rojas got a taste of how his life could change during a teachers’ strike. The after-school robotics league he participates in three days a week at Foshay Learning Center, about five miles south of downtown Los Angeles, was canceled Monday,…
On the eve of a massively disruptive strike that would hit families at more than 900 schools, Los Angeles Unified teachers say they deserve a better deal on pay and working conditions. The district has given some ground in recent days but argues that on at least the money issues, budget projections…
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Authorities temporarily ordered an Anaheim bikini bar to halt alcohol sales after it was cited for multiple violations on Tuesday, Jan. 8. California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control agents announced in a statement they had immediately suspended the liquor license of Sugars Bikini Bar, 405 S. Brookhurst St., for 35 days following a joint investigation…
Two people pushed a car off of railroad tracks, moving an elderly motorist out of the path of an oncoming train following a collision in Santa Ana on Tuesday, Jan. 8. A white Pontiac Grand Am involved in a two-vehicle traffic collision at the intersection of 17th Street and Lincoln Avenue traveled into a nearby…
Former San Bernardino County gang prosecutor Michael Selyem, who was suspended in the wake of his racist rants on social media that triggered a backlash from civil rights leaders, has resigned from the District Attorney’s Office. Selyem, a former Orange County sheriff’s deputy-turned-prosecutor, voluntarily resigned on Jan. 2, county spokeswoman Felisa Cardona said Tuesday. Civil…
