Q. Dear Honk, I have two pet peeves. The first is people driving with their blue handicap placards still hanging from their mirrors! I have one, and this is clearly printed at the top by the hole for hanging: “Remove from mirror before driving vehicle.” Is it legal to drive with the placard hanging from the mirror? And…
Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang, the country’s second in command after the Communist party’s leader, died Friday of a serious illness, the government said. He was 61. The website statement said Quang passed away despite “utmost efforts to treat him by Vietnamese and foreign professors and doctors…
New details emerged Thursday afternoon about a gunfight in East L.A. that left two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies wounded and a suspected gang member dead. The incident began Wednesday evening when three people in a black BMW approached another trio at the intersection of Bonnie Beach Place…
Eileen Decker, a former U.S. attorney and deputy mayor, has been nominated to join the Los Angeles Police Commission by Mayor Eric Garcetti. If her appointment is confirmed by the City Council, Decker will be the second recent addition to the five-member civilian panel, which oversees the LAPD….
The law appears to have finally caught up with Marion “Suge” Knight. The rap producer and mogul had danced with law enforcement for much of his storied career, including stints behind bars. But on Thursday, he pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in connection with the 2015 hit-and-run…
Charles Rappleye, a resolute Los Angeles investigative reporter and editor who wrote critically acclaimed books about historical figures, has died at 62. Rappleye, who battled cancer for six years, had been working on a book about little-remembered President Zachary Taylor when he died at home…
Architect Robert Venturi, who rejected austere modern design and instead ushered in postmodern complexity with the dictum “less is a bore,” has died. He was 93. His family released a statement on his firm’s website saying Venturi died Tuesday at home in Philadelphia after a brief illness, surrounded…
The number of independent voters in San Diego County has surpassed the number of registered Republicans, government data show, representing a dramatic shift from several decades of GOP dominance. As of the end of August, there were 509,359 voters who registered as “no party preference” compared…
After news broke over the weekend that a woman had accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, AP Government teacher Brandon Cabezas didn’t have to ask himself whether he should talk to his students about it. His students brought it up. “This was definitely a robust discussion,” Cabezas said….
Sen. Dianne Feinstein was fighting for her political life in 1994, facing a tight election that was swinging on the issue of immigration. Proposition 187, which would cut many public services to those in California illegally, was leading in the polls and her Republican opponent for the U.S. Senate,…
