A Los Angeles police commander assigned to home duty after his unmarked car was found crashed and abandoned enrolled days later in a controversial retirement program that allows him to collect essentially twice his usual pay. By joining the Deferred Retirement Option Plan, the commander will begin…
Colleges and universities across California are scrambling to revise the way they handle sexual misconduct cases after a state appellate court ruled that “fundamental fairness” requires that accused students have a right to a hearing and to cross-examine their accusers. The decision last month…
Alex Villanueva’s upset victory in last fall’s L.A. County sheriff’s race hinged on the overwhelming support he got from immigrant rights advocates and Latino voters. By vowing to strictly limit his department’s cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and keep the county jails…
Betty Ballantine, half of a groundbreaking husband-and-wife publishing team that helped invent the modern paperback and vastly expand the market for science fiction and other genres through such bestsellers as “The Hobbit” and “Fahrenheit 451,” has died. Ballantine died Tuesday at her home in Bearsville,…
Their ceremony over, Miriam Lopez grabbed her new husband from behind by the collar of his dark blazer. The newlyweds then posed for a photo snapped on a smartphone as the groom, Henry Escalera, playfully pretended to escape. After eight years as a couple, they did it. “I finally nabbed him,” said…
At the end of a road off scenic Highway 79, in rural San Diego County, a building that once let visitors try their hand at slot machines and poker tables is now a shop that sells cannabis flower and marijuana-infused truffles. The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel opened the Mountain Source cannabis store about two…
State Sen. Holly J. Mitchell announced Thursday that she is entering the race for the 2nd District seat on the Board of Supervisors, further raising the prospect that Los Angeles County could soon be governed by an all-female board. Mitchell joins a field that already includes several candidates,…
By TERRY SPENCER and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON PARKLAND, Fla. — The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre a year ago renewed the national debate on guns and school safety, turned some victims’ parents and surviving students into political activists and at least temporarily ended the local sheriff’s career. But Thursday’s anniversary will primarily be about…
By ANGELA CHARLTON and JON GAMBRELL TOULOUSE, France — European plane maker Airbus said Thursday it will stop making its superjumbo A380 in 2021 for lack of customers, abandoning the world’s biggest passenger jet and one of the aviation industry’s most ambitious and most troubled endeavors. Barely a decade after the double-deck, 500-plus-seat plane started…
Police were investigating an apparent triple homicide late Wednesday night in a gated Newport Beach neighborhood. Shortly before 9 p.m. Newport Beach police received a call from Irvine police requesting a welfare check at 36 Palazzo, Newport Beach Police Department spokeswoman Heather Rangel said in a statement. The request came after Irvine police made contact with…
