LAGUNA BEACH — Law enforcement officials are crediting greater visibility and innovative police programs for a record low in violent and property crimes in Laguna Beach. New data from the Laguna Beach Police Department shows the city’s overall crime rate in 2018 was the lowest since 1988, when the department began tracking the numbers. That…
Nashville producer Fred Foster, who produced some of Roy Orbison’s most popular records and was the first to spot the extraordinary talents of Kris Kristofferson and Dolly Parton, has died. He was 87. Foster died Wednesday in Nashville, according to Martha Moore, his publicist. Foster, who was…
KTLA News anchor Chris Burrous, who was found unresponsive in a Glendale motel room in December, died from methamphetamine toxicity, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office said Friday. The coroner said hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease were also factors in his death. The…
Guy Webster, a self-trained photographer who helped shape the late 1960s music scene with album covers that became as familiar as the songs they held, has died at his home in Ojai. In demand by musicians and celebrities throughout his life, Webster died Feb. 5 at the age of 79. His death was not…
The neighborhood kids in San Diego’s Logan Heights took one look at Armando Rodriguez’s dark skin and gave him a nickname: Shadow. Then he grew up to cast his own light as a pioneering educator and civil rights activist who served in the administrations of four U.S. presidents. Rodriguez died Sunday…
Los Angeles has a new water project in mind that could cost $8 billion, take 16 years to complete and provide as much as one-third of the city’s supply. Local officials aren’t talking about building a new dam or lining the coast with desalination plants or towing icebergs from the Arctic. They…
Linda O’Keefe was 11 years old when she vanished July 6, 1973, on her way home from summer school in Corona del Mar. Her body, still clad in the flowered white dress that her mother had sewn, was found the next day. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled and her body discarded in the…
By TAMMY WEBBER CHICAGO — Police tapped into Chicago’s vast network of surveillance cameras — and even some homeowners’ doorbell cameras — to track down two brothers who later claimed they were paid by “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett to stage an attack on him, the latest example of the city’s high-tech approach to public safety….
By ANDREW TAYLOR WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Friday introduced a resolution to block the national emergency declaration that President Donald Trump issued to fund his long-sought wall along the U.S-Mexico border. The move sets up a fight that could result in Trump’s first veto. It starts the clock on a constitutional clash between Trump…
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in California ruled Thursday that a twin son of a gay married couple has been an American citizen since birth, handing a defeat to the U.S. government, which had only granted the status to his brother. The State Department was wrong to deny citizenship to 2-year-old…
