By LARRY NEUMEISTER NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, made a surprise appearance before a federal judge in New York on Thursday to plead guilty to lying to Congress about work he did on an aborted project to build a Trump Tower in Russia. Flanked by his lawyers, Cohen admitted making…

Driven by frustration with severe traffic congestion, new toll lanes on the 91 Freeway in Corona took in nearly $48 million — three times as much money as expected — in their first full year and are on pace to generate $50 million this fiscal year. The rosier-than-anticipated results, detailed this week in a report to a…

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE HONG KONG  — China’s government ordered a halt Thursday to work by a medical team that claimed to have helped make the world’s first gene-edited babies, as a group of leading scientists declared that it’s still too soon to try to make permanent changes to DNA that can be inherited by future…

Nathan Thomas wanted to give his three young children the life he never had — a stable home with two loving parents, maybe a backyard for them to play in and a spot for him to grill. After a few false starts in Lake Tahoe, Alabama and Nevada, he found what he was looking for…

Policing a town empty of people and absent of crime was never part of Officer Perry Walters’ training. Before fire leveled the town of Paradise, Calif., the calls that crackled over Walters’ radio were familiar to every American cop — domestic violence, disturbing the peace, drugs, burglary, vandalism. …

In 1939, pinball games were banned in the City of Los Angeles.

Some residents of Paradise, the mountain town leveled by fire on Nov. 8, will probably be allowed to return to what is left of their homes next week, officials said Wednesday. The town has been off-limits in the nearly three weeks since the Camp fire, California’s deadliest fire on record, devastated…

When the devastating Woolsey fire swept through parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties starting on Nov. 8, the flames left thousands of residents homeless or displaced. But while firefighters doused the remains of the blaze last week, hundreds still wait to be allowed back to their properties — more than 21 days after the…

Police asked the public on Wednesday, Nov. 28, to help them identify two more suspects in the theft of several Louis Vuitton purses from a luxury department store in Newport Beach earlier in the week. Three people have been arrested, but two remain at large after attempting to steal $20,000 worth of handbags from the…

Numerous Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials, including high-ranking executives at the level of chief and above, will be removed from their jobs once Sheriff-elect Alex Villanueva is sworn in Monday, his spokesman said. Those being relieved of duty include the undersheriff, the four…