Here’s a look back at previous Los Angeles Angels spring training camps.

A new definition of “chutzpah”: Bribing a coach to get your unathletic child into an elite university and paying astronomical sums of money to have someone else take your kid’s college entrance exam, then declaring the bribes charitable contributions. In one fell swoop, you have managed to rip…

A college student from Palos Verdes Estates who was acquitted last year in a South Los Angeles killing was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of carjacking, according to the man’s attorney and arrest records. Cameron Terrell, 19, was arrested at 6 p.m. in Palos Verdes Estates, internal Los Angeles…

The daughter of McStay family slaying defendant Charles “Chase” Merritt testified Wednesday that her parents quarreled after Merritt didn’t answer a phone call from Joseph McStay on the evening of Feb. 4, 2010. Prosecutors contend that Merritt, in fact, was killing McStay and his family in their Fallbrook home on that very night. Sara Taylor…

As workers dismantled California’s apple-green execution chamber Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s death penalty moratorium was criticized as a slap in the face to voters and praised as a strike for humanity. Newsom’s executive order, blocking execution for 737 prisoners on death row at San Quentin State Prison, came just as efforts to hasten executions were…

An indictment issued by a federal grand jury on Wednesday, March 13, charges a Long Beach Man with three more felonies related to the 2018 bombing of an Aliso Viejo day spa that killed his former girlfriend. Stephen Beal, 59, had been charged with malicious destruction of a building resulting in death after he was…

Between October 2012 and April 2013, Doug Hodge, then the chief executive officer at PIMCO, an Newport Beach-based international investment management group, paid at least $300,000 to a private soccer club controlled by USC coaches, a college prep company and a non-profit as part of a scheme to gain admission to USC for his daughter…

On paper, the Key Worldwide Foundation might bring tears to your eyes — teaching empowerment to underserved girls, schooling homeless kids in entrepreneurship, bringing the Crips and Bloods together to play basketball “and develop consensus building programs to stop gang violence.” But these feel-good, make-the-world-better initiatives — detailed in the nonprofit’s annual reports to the…

NEWPORT BEACH — An increase in the number of private jets flying out of John Wayne Airport — and how that could affect the quality of life for people living nearby — was the hot topic in a discussion about a proposed county plan to upgrade general aviation at the airport. The Newport Beach City…

Felicity Huffman has been released from federal custody while Lori Loughlin is expected to face charges Wednesday in a sweeping college admissions corruption scandal. The two actresses were among dozens swept up in what prosecutors called the largest college admissions fraud scheme they’d ever…