Third of four parts. Read Part 1 and Part 2 Not so long ago, heroin had its hooks in her. Her first baby, now a 1-year-old toddler, was swept into state custody in 2017. Her next baby was due at the end of 2018. Tahtiana R. fiddled with the sheaf of papers on the conference…
Dov Simens said he was “playing Rambo” in a homeless camp on Wilshire Boulevard 34 years ago when he stumbled on a therapy group for combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. Through weekly sessions on the West Los Angeles veterans campus, Simens, 75, a member of the military’s secretive…
UC Merced Chancellor Dorothy Leland presides over the University of California’s newest, smallest and most diverse campus. More than half of her 8,000 students are low-income and underrepresented minorities; nearly three-fourths are the first in their families to attend college. This year, in U.S….
For months, some large California law enforcement agencies have been quietly making assumptions about sexual orientation, gender, age and other characteristics of the people they stop as part of a statewide, legally mandated data collection effort to understand and curb racial and identity profiling. …
For the first time in five years, violent crime was down in Los Angeles in 2018, with the number of homicides on track to be among the lowest in more than 50 years. The data mirror an overall drop in crime this year in the parts of L.A. County patrolled by the Sheriff’s Department, as…
A man severely damaged his hand after a bowl full of powder from fireworks exploded at his Fullerton home on Friday, Dec. 28. The man, in his 40s, was talking with a friend in front of a fire pit in the backyard of his home in the 1200 block of West Chapman when the explosion…
California year one These tables show the relative volume in 2018 of online sales for various cannabis products. Many factors contribute to regional differences in cannabis sales – from local regulations to the availability of products on the black market. Southern Californians were bigger cannabis consumers this year than their northern counterparts: They purchased products…
A coalition of media groups is formally opposing an effort by a San Bernardino County sheriff’s union to block the release of police disciplinary files under a new transparency law set to take effect Jan. 1. The group, led by the First Amendment Coalition, filed papers Friday, Dec. 28, with the state Supreme Court opposing…
The theme for Tuesday’s Rose Parade is ‘The Melody of Life’ which celebrates music, the universal language. There will be 40 colorful floats in the 130th parade. Typical L.A. traffic Floats usually take about 2½ hours to travel the 5.2-mile parade route. Factoids On the air: KTLA televised the parade for the first time in…
An Orange County dove handler pleaded not guilty Friday to a felony count of making criminal threats against a man who had hired him to supply doves for a funeral. The charge stemmed from a dispute between Mitchell Ralph Todd, 51, and a Laguna Beach man who contracted Todd’s company, OC Doves,…
