By JONATHAN LEMIRE, FOSTER KLUG and DEB RIECHMANN HANOI, Vietnam — U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, leaders of two nations with a long history of hostility, opened their second summit Wednesday with smiles, hopeful talk and a friendly dinner that will set the stage for the much more difficult talks…
By MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL R. SISAK WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer told Congress on Wednesday that Trump knew ahead of time that WikiLeaks had emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and he testified that Trump is a “racist,” a “conman” and a “cheat.” Michael Cohen suggested in…
FULLERTON — A car slammed into a building in Fullerton Wednesday morning, sparking a fire causing two women to be hospitalized. Officers responded about 2:30 a.m. to the 1000 block of Brookhurst Road near Orangethorpe Avenue and located the car through a wall of the building and on fire, according to the Fullerton Police Department….
The tide has turned, so to speak, in favor of those who have been fighting to get to the beach at Hollister Ranch on the spectacular Gaviota coast. Recently, a Santa Barbara County judge put the brakes on a bad deal favored by area landowners that would provide only limited public access. But the…
Here is some information about violence near schools and what help is available for teens and their families. Where is this happening? Homicides in Los Angeles County have been steadily decreasing since 2000, when 1,073 people were killed. But there were still 634 homicides throughout the county…
Violence at times erupts with little warning inside Los Angeles County’s juvenile detention halls and camps. That’s what happened one February night two years ago as Edgar Arrondo — then a senior guard at a sprawling facility in Sylmar — walked a teenage detainee to a mental health evaluation. …
In the most dangerous neighborhoods in Los Angeles, thousands of students must navigate safe paths to and from school — traveling through multiple gang territories amid threats of robbery, harassment, sexual assault, kidnapping and other hazards. Dymally High School, in Green Meadows, and Hawkins…
Jaleyah Collier had just said goodbye to Kevin Cleveland outside a doughnut shop a few blocks from Hawkins High School on a spring afternoon in 2017. Get home safe, she told him before walking way. Minutes later someone drove into an alley nearby, got out of the car and asked Kevin, 17, and two…
Heavy rains are poised to cause the worst flooding along the Russian River in Guerneville in Northern California in more than 20 years. Here is what you need to know: Q: What is the outlook? ►About 4,000 people living in about two dozen areas near the river were ordered to evacuate Tuesday as the…
Hundreds of people marched and demonstrated in Westminster on Tuesday evening, hoping to bring attention to human rights issues in Vietnam as president Donald Trump visits that country. “In this country, we have animal rights but over there, there’s not even human rights. We want democracy and freedom for Vietnam,” said Son Do, of Westminster,…
