State officials have warned a Los Angeles group home for migrant youth that it could lose its license if it doesn’t comply more fully with state rules for the protection of children. A Times investigation published in late May found that Casa Libre had been cited by state officials 143 times for…
A longstanding dispute ended with the deaths of five people Friday following a shooting and an explosion in a quiet mobile home park in Central California, authorities said. Officials say Claude Adams, 64, shot and killed 70-year-old Kurt Bracke and 78-year-old Richard Hanen of Santa Maria at Casa…
The body of a well-known automotive journalist was found in a Northern California river last week, capping a weeks-long search for the missing man, according to a family friend. Davey Johnson, 43, had been missing since June 5, when he was test-driving a motorcycle for a magazine review. On his…
A Vietnamese American man from Orange County was sentenced to 12 years in prison after a court found him guilty of “attempting to overthrow the state,” Reuters and other news agencies reported Monday. Michael Nguyen, 55, pleaded guilty at his trial – which lasted about four hours – and asked that his sentence be reduced…
Officials are ramping up a search for a 73-year-old man who went missing while hiking in the Angeles National Forest over the weekend. The man, who hasn’t been identified by authorities, became separated from his group near Mt. Waterman on Saturday. Officials began the third day of the search at…
L.A. knows how to put on a variety show. But few productions brought together such an assortment of players and characters from across the city than a surreal talent show broadcast nationwide in 1987. The telethon brought together L.A. politicians, titans of business, actors, artists and an eccentric…
The Costco store in Corona was busy as usual on Thursday afternoon. Families were taking home large pizzas and rotisserie chickens for dinner and hauling away packs of toilet paper and paper towels to last the month. There was little physical sign of what happened nearly a week earlier when an…
On June 24, 1971, seventeen workers were killed by methane gas explosion in a Metropolitan Water District tunnel beneath Sylmar.
President Donald Trump’s announcement last week that “millions of illegal aliens” would be rounded up on Sunday, June 23 sent panic through Southern California’s immigrant community. News that he delayed the sweep for a couple of weeks did little to lessen fears. “The president’s tweet about deportation increased the already existing fear that my family…
Judith Krantz, author of blockbuster romance novels including “Scruples” and “Princess Daisy” that sold more than 80 million copies worldwide, died Saturday in Bel-Air of natural causes. She was 91. The news was originally reported by Deadline. Once called “the hardest working woman in trash fiction,”…
