By SYLVIE CORBET, LORI HINNANT and ELAINE GANLEY PARIS — A shooting in the French city of Strasbourg killed four people and wounded 11 others near a world-famous Christmas market Tuesday, sparking a broad lockdown and a search for the suspected gunman, who remained at large. French prosecutors said a terrorism investigation was opened, though…
A 23-year-old Irvine man has been charged with murder for a suspected driving under the influence crash that left two people dead. Norman David Martin was arrested Tuesday in connection with the July 22, 2017 crash at the Jamboree Road and Main Street intersection. Prosecutors allege that Martin was driving a Chevrolet Corvette at speeds of…
For the first time in nearly 20 years, a Los Angeles County law enforcement officer has been charged with killing an unarmed civilian while on duty. Luke Liu is accused of shooting Francisco Garcia at a Norwalk gas station on Feb. 24, 2016, according to a complaint filed by the Los Angeles County…
Two thousand children receive gifts at the Old Plaza Church in Los Angeles.
If bird lovers have anything to do with it, dogs will no longer have run of a small patch of beach immediately south of the Santa Ana River mouth. The county land is officially off limits to dogs, but the ban is unenforced. The area has long attracted people and their dogs, whose unbridled and…
By MATTHEW DALY WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sought Tuesday to pressure Democratic congressional leaders into supporting his demand for billions of dollars to build his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, threatening to have the military build it “if Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country.” Trump tweeted the threat…
When federal prosecutors finally managed to put mobster Al Capone behind bars, it wasn’t for murder or bootlegging, but tax evasion. Fast forward several decades and government lawyers in Southern California say a similarly novel tactic could be the key to taking down the Mongols, a notorious motorcycle…
The giant image of Ava Gardner on the outer wall of a public school gym in Koreatown speaks to history. On that score, everyone agrees. But what the artist intended as an homage to the Cocoanut Grove, which once stood nearby, Korean groups say is as offensive to them as a swastika would be to…
It takes a particularly privileged, out-of-touch person to tell California college students that it’s no big inconvenience for them to travel up to seven miles to obtain an abortion pill. Good grief, Jerry Brown. What happened to your common sense, your compassion and your desire to help young…
The former entrance to the Selig Zoo sat for years following the zoo’s closing in the 1920s.
