College Admissions Scandal: Lori Loughlin pleads not guilty to new charges

Q. Honk: This is my fourth attempt for a reply. I’m a reenactor for the Civil War and Revolutionary War. Our group has flintlocks and blunderbusses and the like we use for displays and acting. The reproductions fire blanks. Lots of smoke and noise. NO PROJECTILES!  Does one need a permit to transport these arms?…

Lingering winds were blamed for churning up a wildfire that erupted Thursday evening and quickly spread from a hilltop near Santa Paula, north of Los Angeles. Authorities in Ventura County ordered evacuations for about 7,500 people in an area that includes roughly 1,800 buildings as the blaze threatened the small, unincorporated rural community of Somis….

Swedish teen Greta Thunberg, the face of the youth movement against global warming, will join her Los Angeles peers in a planned climate strike

On Nov. 2, 1927, Los Angeles city and county officials gathered with executives from the Pacific Electric Railway to dedicate a new 1,000-foot viaduct.

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A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported at 2:33 a.m. Friday 63 miles from Ridgecrest, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

A man was hospitalized Friday morning with non-life threatening injuries suffered in a shooting at a Halloween party in Santa Ana. Officers responded to a home in the 2200 block of South Orange Avenue, near East Anahurst Place, at about 11 p.m. Thursday. They  found a man down in the street with two gunshot wounds…

Officials identified two Anaheim residents on Thursday, Oct. 31, who were in a car and died when it crashed, landing on a center divider of the 405 Freeway in Irvine. The single-vehicle crash happened Tuesday in northbound lanes of the Freeway near Irvine Center Drive at about 9:52 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 29, Orange County…

Winds that have battered Southern California are expected to die down — mostly. A red flag warning issued this week because of low humidity, dry brush and strong winds will remain in effect until Thursday evening, Oct. 31, for much of Southern California, but for parts of LA County, near where the Tick fire burned,…