A veiw approaching the runway at the “airport in the sky” on Catalina Island. (Courtesy Catalina Island Conservancy) U.S. Marines and Navy personnel arrive at the airport on Catalina Island with 500 tons of equipment and tools to repair the main runway during the week of Dec. 17. (Courtesy Catalina Island Conservancy) Sound The gallery…
Residents of a two-story Laurel Avenue apartment complex in West Hollywood stood on the building’s front porch as dozens of protesters shouted at them. The residents were mostly white. The protesters were mostly black. What brought them together in a heated scene Monday night was the troubling,…
The man accused of being California’s Golden State Killer has been cleared of involvement in the 1975 murder of a 14-year-old girl in the Central Valley, prosecutors say. DNA testing excluded Joseph DeAngelo as a suspect in the murder of Donna Jo Richmond and — along with other evidence — indicates…
By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO WASHINGTON — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed special counsel Robert Mueller and remains his most visible Justice Department protector, is expected to leave his position soon after William Barr is confirmed as attorney general, a person familiar with the plans said Wednesday. Barr, who served in the…
By CATHERINE LUCEY, JILL COLVIN and LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump urged congressional Democrats to fund his long-promised border wall in a somber televised address that was heavy with dark immigration rhetoric but offered little in the way of concessions or new ideas to break the standoff that has left large swaths of…
Dave Min, a UC Irvine law professor who was endorsed by the California Democratic Party in his unsuccessful congressional bid last year, will challenge Orange County GOP state Sen. John Moorlach in the 2020 election. Min finished third in the June primary for the 45th Congressional District, missing the November runoff by 4,099 votes to…
In Los Angeles schools, when there are no nurses, teachers help kids with broken bones and fevers. Psychologists talk children down from hurting themselves or others. Many students arrive at school knowing little English. Interventionists step in and give them an extra hand. All are members of…
Federal prosecutors in California pressed ahead with a novel attempt to dismantle an outlaw motorcycle club, arguing to jurors that the group should be stripped of trademarks it owns on its coveted insignia as punishment for operating a criminal organization. Last month, at the end of a lengthy…
On his first day back from winter break, 11-year-old Merwinn Rojas got a taste of how his life could change during a teachers’ strike. The after-school robotics league he participates in three days a week at Foshay Learning Center, about five miles south of downtown Los Angeles, was canceled Monday,…
On the eve of a massively disruptive strike that would hit families at more than 900 schools, Los Angeles Unified teachers say they deserve a better deal on pay and working conditions. The district has given some ground in recent days but argues that on at least the money issues, budget projections…
