A team of sheriff’s deputies patrolling the Grapevine in northern L.A. County disproportionately stops and searches Latino drivers compared with other motorists, a Times investigation has found.
The UC Berkeley Institute for Governmental Studies poll that the Los Angeles Times is releasing Thursday uses a method that differs from our past surveys. Here’s an explanation of how it works, and why we’re doing it this way. Like many surveys, the Berkeley IGS Poll, directed by veteran pollster…
Republicans are at risk of a wipeout in California’s six most hotly contested congressional races, a new poll shows — a result that could radically reshape the state’s political map, with major consequences nationally. But the poll, conducted for the Los Angeles Times by UC Berkeley’s Institute…
In response to a public records request, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department provided The Times with data on traffic stops that the Domestic Highway Enforcement Team made from its start in 2012 through 2017. The data included information on the race or ethnicity of people stopped and the…
Rising Orange County home prices combined with rising mortgage rates pushed a typical buyer’s house payment to a 10-year high in August. And that monetary pain — $3,467 a month — could have been worse. CoreLogic estimates monthly mortgage payments by looking at purchase prices, down payments and the use of fixed or adjustable financing…
By ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON — A top Senate Republican said Thursday the confidential FBI report on charges that Brett Kavanaugh sexually abused women three decades ago “found no hint of misconduct” by the Supreme Court nominee. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, made his remarks — and urged his colleagues to confirm…
New Los Angeles Laker LeBron James is bolstering the security at his LA home after learning he was targeted by a team of burglars. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) LOS ANGELES — LeBron James has beefed up security at his L.A. home, bringing a team of armed guards to patrol his house after learning he was targeted…
Juan Romero struggled for decades with a memory he could not escape. He left Los Angeles and moved to Wyoming, later came back west and settled in San Jose, raised a family and devoted himself to construction work. But still he was haunted by what happened just after midnight on June 5, 1968, when…
California State University Chancellor Timothy P. White said Wednesday that he has asked academic leaders to study whether the SAT and ACT are valid predictors of student success, raising hopes that the nation’s largest public university system will ultimately drop standardized test scores as admission…
Under gray skies, a convoy of six tractor-trailers pulled up to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning, kicking off a protest to call attention to the plight of hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants — some of them truck drivers — who face deportation when their…
