The mother of a former UCLA basketball player who killed himself at the end of a barricade in a Sherman Oaks home in 2018 is suing the city of Los Angeles, faulting the Police Department for its tactics. Liza Stazel’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit, filed this week, claims negligence and wrongful death and seeks…
Isaac Manuel Orozco faces life in prison after being found guilty of aggravated mayhem, attempted aggravated mayhem, burglary and assault with a deadly weapon.
Former mixed-martial-arts fighter Jason “Mayhem” Miller pleaded guilty this week and was sentenced to a year in jail for smashing a large marble table at his onetime girlfriend’s La Habra residence and violating a protective order to stay away from her, according to court records. Miller, 38, pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony count of…
Q. I was driving along the 91 Freeway, approaching the 241 toll road, when I noticed a car in front of me with Mexican license plates. I was wondering what would happen if a vehicle from outside the United States used the toll roads. Would the toll roads try to mail out a fine for…
By AMY FORLITI and MATT O’BRIEN The woodsy community of Wolcott, Connecticut, doesn’t see a lot of crime. But when the police chief heard about an opportunity to distribute doorbell cameras to some homes, he didn’t hesitate. The police who keep watch over the town of 16,000 raffled off free cameras in a partnership with…
Some of the governor’s supporters are baffled by his decision to block two Bay Area cities from raising local taxes above state limits, exemptions he said were unneeded.
For five curmudgeonly decades, Art Beal collected trash and constructed his fantastical ad hoc home on a Cambria cliffside. But is it art or an eyesore? And what will become of it?
After a series of tense exchanges over California wildfires, the Trump administration and the state have agreed to continue their firefighting partnership under existing reimbursement rates.
As Sen. Dianne Feinstein chastises Chevron Corp. for an 800,000-gallon oil spill near Bakersfield, California officials confirm more leaking.
The University of California on Thursday unveiled a plan to raise tuition for incoming class of freshmen and transfer students, but then freeze it for six years.
