Mayor Frank Shaw announces the first Harmonica Week in Los Angeles.

A team of attorneys asked a U.S. District Court in California to issue a temporary restraining order against the federal government Wednesday afternoon, arguing that children in several immigration detention facilities in Texas are being held in “deplorable” conditions in violation of an earlier…

In this file photo from August 2000, a snorkeler is seen in the Bimini Road, an ancient, underwater arrangement of stones that some say leads to the lost continent of Atlantis, off North Bimini in the Bahamas. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) A Torrance woman was killed in a shark attack in the Bahamas on Wednesday, according…

Calling the plan “torture” and “state-sponsored terrorism,” Los Angeles City Council members on Wednesday blasted a proposed rule that would deny federal housing aid to households that include anyone living in the country illegally, even when other members are eligible for such aid as lawful residents…

Facing dozens of frustrated residents at the board meeting Tuesday, June 25, Huntington Beach Union High School District Superintendent Clint Harwick tried to allay concerns from the start about toxic materials being near Edison High. An environmental consulting firm is conducting extensive tests at a shuttered landfill near the school, Harwick assured the audience. Results…

More than 100 city and county workers earned total compensation exceeding a half-million dollars in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange counties last year, according to new data from the California State Controller’s Office. The top earner in Southern California was Los Angeles County’s Correctional Health Services pharmacy chief II Marciela Guillermo, with total…

San Bernardino was the largest of five Southern California cities that failed to report their employees’ salaries and benefits this year in violation of a state transparency law. Colton, Murrieta, Artesia and Signal Hill also were among 15 cities statewide that did not comply with the law by an April 30 deadline, according to the…

Congressional Democrats are chiding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for thwarting a House committee’s investigation into the agency’s actions during Hurricane Harvey. The investigation was spurred by a March 5 Los Angeles Times report revealing that officials from the EPA and Texas Commission…

George Tyndall, the gynecologist accused of sexual misconduct toward hundreds of USC students, was arrested Wednesday and charged with committing more than two dozen felonies at the campus clinic where he practiced for decades. The physician was taken into custody at 7:45 a.m. as he exited his…

“Fire in the hole!” yelled a bomb squad technician as he used surplus Sears mannequins to demonstrate the risks of illegal fireworks Wednesday, June 26, at the Orange County Fire Authority in Irvine. The result of the demonstrations presented to the media: One unfortunate mannequin lost a hand from an M-80 explosion; another lost its…