Sex, lies and bullets flying wildly. Then there are the stolen drugs, illegal chokeholds, planted evidence, falsified reports and a police officer who lied to move up the adoption list for a puppy. Those are among the misadventures uncovered during the first six months of disclosures under California’s new police transparency law, Senate Bill 1421,…
Sexual assault in jail. Domestic violence complaints against an officer ignored. Knocked-out teeth followed by a cover-up. Those cases involving California peace officers are detailed in documents recently made public under a landmark transparency law that undid decades of secrecy surrounding police…
Omar Avila is lucky — unlike most of the vendors who sell their wares along the bustling Santa Monica Pier, his pushcart is licensed, plastered with permits, and has an A grade from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Yet, more than six months after a state law decriminalizing sidewalk…
PANMUNJOM, Korea — With grins and handshakes, President Donald Trump welcomed North Korea’s Kim Jong Un at the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone on Sunday, seeking to revive talks on the pariah nation’s nuclear program in a bid for a legacy-defining accord. Trump then became the first American leader to step into North Korea. It happened…
All animal exhibits were closed to the public Saturday at the San Diego County Fair in response to the death of a 2-year-old boy who was one of four children suspected of picking up the E.coli bacteria after visiting livestock displays this month. Dr. Eric McDonald, a county public health official,…
By GREGORY KATZ LONDON — America’s national pastime made a positive impression on British fans the first time they got to see the game up close and personal on British soil. That may have been helped by a warm, picture-perfect day in often overcast London — baseball weather at its best, played on a midsummer’s…
By ANNALISA CAMILLI and FRANCES D’EMILIO LAMPEDUSA, Sicily — The German captain of a humanitarian rescue ship with 40 migrants aboard has been arrested after she rammed her vessel into an Italian border police motorboat while docking at a tiny Mediterranean island Saturday in defiance of Italy’s anti-migrant interior minister. Jeering onlookers shouted “handcuffs, handcuffs”…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday dismissed Jimmy Carter’s swipe at the legitimacy of his election and said the charge was nothing more than a “Democrat talking point,” while offering his own digs at the 94-year-old former commander in chief. Trump said he was surprised by Carter’s comments alleging that Russian interference in the…
By PAUL WISEMAN and KELVIN CHAN WASHINGTON — Once again, Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have hit the reset button in trade talks between the world’s two biggest economies, at least delaying an escalation in tension between the U.S. and China that had financial markets on edge and cast a cloud over the global…
Suki the cat during CatCon, the world’s largest cat-centric culture event at the Pasadena Convention Center on Saturday, June 29, 2019 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG) Catlovers wait to adopt a cat during CatCon, the world’s largest cat-centric culture event at the Pasadena Convention Center on Saturday, June 29, 2019 in…
