Three and a half million Southern California residents are expected to travel over Independence Day — a travel record for the holiday for the third straight year, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California. Watchful eye Travel is expected to increase by 3.9% locally and statewide compared…
Jenny Arnold fretted about her family’s late June trip from their home in La Palma to Chicago. The traveling party included Arnold and her husband Anthony, their daughters Alexis and Aubrey, their son Jax, and an aunt. They planned to fly out of John Wayne Airport. The family had made long trips before but this…
The cascade that once gushed over the face of downtown’s Ft. Moore Hill, then went dry for decades, has been quietly test-run for a few weeks— its volume reduced to a film to conserve water. Now, after a $6-million restoration, the Pioneer Memorial and its waterfall will be formally rededicated…
When she began investigating the trail of the Golden State Killer last year, Times reporter Paige St. John quickly realized there was a thread that had nothing to do with the rapes and killings themselves. St. John interviewed women attacked and found a striking lapse in how authorities treated…
Los Angeles residents celebrated 1929’s Independence Day by swarming the beaches around Santa Monica.
In the wake of the Los Angeles teachers strike, a group of key charter school supporters, concerned about political backlash, worked on a plan to stem anti-charter sentiment and regain control of local education reforms. The strategy under discussion was to “take back” the Board of Education and…
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Tuesday evening at 8:04 p.m. Pacific time, 11 miles from Clearlake, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake occurred 13 miles from Healdsburg, Calif., 18 miles from Windsor, Calif., 23 miles from Santa Rosa, Calif. and 26 miles from…
A first round of internal Orange County Sheriff’s Department records will be made public Wednesday, July 3, six months after the Southern California News Group and other media requested their release under a new police transparency law, SB 1421. In a Facebook post Tuesday, Sheriff Don Barnes announced the plan to post documents on the…
Attorneys representing homeless people want the judge in a south Orange County federal lawsuit to shut down a month-old outdoor shelter area in San Clemente that the city set up as a way to move people from other makeshift campsites in North Beach. In seeking a temporary restraining order from U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson,…
Lee A. Iacocca, an ambitious immigrant’s son and salesman extraordinaire whose blunt and swaggering persona dominated the automobile industry like nobody since Henry Ford, died Tuesday. He was 94. Iacocca, who spent his last years living in Los Angeles, died Tuesday morning at his Bel-Air home…
