More bad news for local tenants: Rents are rising at the fastest pace in 12 years, according to the local Consumer Price Index. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the slice of the CPI tracking the cost of renting show this expense in Los Angeles and Orange counties rose at a 5.6% annual rate…
Seventeen parents who had been separated from their children by immigration authorities were released from a detention center near Calexico this week, more than a month after they returned to the Mexico border to claim asylum in the United States. The parents had all previously entered the U.S….
ORANGE — A teenage murder suspect who escaped from juvenile hall in Orange was back in custody Saturday morning after 21 hours on the loose and his sister defended her brother’s actions. Ike Souzer, 15, was taken into custody without incident at 9 p.m. Friday at a McDonald’s restaurant near the corner of Euclid Street…
A teenage murder suspect who had escaped from a juvenile hall in Orange County was recaptured by sheriff’s deputies late Friday, officials said. Ike Souzer, 15, was arrested without incident by members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department inside a McDonald’s near Euclid Street and Glenoaks…
One of the men who was wounded in the shooting that killed beloved South L.A. rapper and community activist Nipsey Hussle has been arrested on a parole violation, according to officials and court records. Kerry Lathan, 56, has been held in Men’s Central Jail since Monday on a parole violation,…
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER BOSTON — A former Florida prep school administrator pleaded guilty Friday to taking college entrance exams for students in exchange for cash to help wealthy parents get their kids into elite universities across the country. Mark Riddell admitted to secretly taking the SAT and ACT for students, or correcting their answers,…
Beverly Hills businessman Clark Parker has resigned from Southern California’s air quality board following a Los Angeles Times investigation into charter schools he founded with his wife. The Times report last month found that the couple made millions off charter schools that offered little to…
One moment, Alfonso Morillo III was asleep in the back seat of his friend’s Nissan on the way back from Disneyland. Two weeks later, he awoke from a coma in a hospital. Morillo, now 23, and six others were injured Feb. 27, 2016, when a man who was street racing lost control of his Dodge…
LAGUNA BEACH — Robert Stewart Sant, a Laguna Beach High School lacrosse coach, has been arrested on suspicion of inappropriate touching of three girls on his team. Sant, 37, of Irvine, was arrested Tuesday, April 9, on three counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child, said Laguna Beach police Sgt. Jim Cota. Sant…
More than two weeks after Orange County and Adelanto officials said they were getting out of the immigrant detention business, the fate of some 2,500 people still held in prison-like facilities remains unclear. Though federal immigration officials declined comment Friday, they indicated last month that detainees in Orange County and Adelanto could be sent out…
