The Los Angeles Police Commission will start accepting applications for residents who want to serve on the powerful boards that review serious officer misconduct. The commission needs to expand its pool of examiners after the City Council passed a measure last month to give police officers the…
Summer finally arrived in Southern California this weekend with temperatures in the 90s and a series of small fires around the region. Firefighters were able to put out the fires — including one near Dodger Stadium and another in the San Gabriel Mountains — fairly quickly. But officials say this…
Ayoola Ajayi, the man police say killed Mackenzie Lueck and then burned her body in his backyard, appeared to live a life of contradictions and unfinished business. He was kind to visitors and those who stayed in his home, which he rented as an Airbnb, according to his roommate. But other times,…
LOS ANGELES — L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti said Monday that he plans to lead a coalition of mayors calling on Congress to pass the Ending Homelessness Act. The legislation, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, would direct more than $13 billion to support the work of cities on the front lines of this crisis, deliver…
Restoration work underway on 17 historic cottages on the north end of Crystal Cove State Park received $2.9 million in funding from the new state budget. Crystal Cove Conservancy, the nonprofit that has spearheaded the massive restoration project, worked with Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris to secure the funding for the remaining cottages from this year’s general…
Five years ago, at age 39, Elaine Wang went through a painful breakup with her longtime boyfriend. Compounding her anguish, Wang recalled, was the ticking of her “biological time clock.” “For as long as I can remember, I have wanted children,” Wang said recently. “Here I was, completely single and on the cusp of not…
The University of Utah will hold a memorial Monday evening for Mackenzie Lueck, of El Segundo, whose body was found last week. The kidnapping and killing of Lueck stunned the university and sparked an outpouring of grief and mourning. Salt Lake City police announced Friday that Ayoola Ajayi, 31,…
A man was killed Sunday evening in a shooting in La Puentethat injured two other people, authorities said. Police responded to the 400 block of Tonopah Avenue at 6:32 p.m. and found one man, who has not been identified, with a gunshot wound to the upper torso, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department…
Members of a new governmental panel aimed at getting people out of Orange County’s streets and parks and from under freeway overpasses, and get roofs over their heads, left their first meeting Thursday with a single goal — to find money for 2,700 housing units over the next six years. But for members of Orange…
Two of the five State Senate seats that touch Orange County are up for election in 2020, and while both are held by Republican incumbents Democrats see both as potential flip districts, as the party hopes to make the county match its statewide super majority. But Republicans are confident that a controversial challenger in one…
