An Ohio-based animal welfare group has filed a complaint with a federal agency about UC Irvine’s treatment of research animals that includes allegations a university spokesman said are “flatly inaccurate.” Stop Animal Exploitation Now sent a Sept. 15 letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture suggesting the 2017 deaths of four rabbits, a sheep and a…

Eye contact. A smile. A hand extended for a shake. David Freeman is making contact with two homeless women at a busy street corner in Anaheim. A Nikon d500 camera hangs from his neck, but he won’t take their photographs without asking first. “Hi,” he says, “my name’s Dave.” When they share their names, Freeman…

LAGUNA WOODS — Laguna Woods Village’s Third Mutual board on Tuesday, Sept. 18 discussed revisions to a 20-year-old policy that bans the installation of washers and dryers in three-story buildings. Active since Dec. 15, 1998, the original alteration standard has prohibited third-story members from furnishing their manors with said appliances, while terminating variance requests to…

After a year and a half of negotiations, Disneyland Resort hotel workers appear to have struck a deal with their employer, which would raise wages nearly $2 an hour and in same cases more. Unite Here Local 11 reached a tentative contract agreement with Disney late Monday that would cover about 2,700 of its 3,000…

A third Marine recruit has filed a lawsuit against a food provider claiming its negligent food handling caused him to become sick last year, leading to permanent kidney and brain damage and cutting short his Marine Corps career. In the lawsuit filed against Sodexo Inc., Tristan Abbott, 19, said exposure to undercooked beef in 2017 at…

When students enter school in California, they learn at a pace on par with — if not better than — those in other states. The problem is that they arrive far behind their national peers, and they never catch up. This conclusion, from a sweeping research project aimed at charting future education…

It was a sweltering weekday morning, and the vibe inside the Rev. Rosalynn Brookins’ Los Angeles home was festive. “Girl! You look great!” “Are you a Delta?” “Hello, room of God!” Ten women, all professionally accomplished, most ordained pastors, had gathered in Brookins’ living room to talk about…

In the Nov. 18, 1955, edition, the Los Angeles Times began a photography series titled “Know Your City.”

Marching down a trail deep in the woods east of San Juan Capistrano, Jason Andes pauses and squints at the ridgeline 50 feet to the south. The promontory would provide a mountain lion with an ideal lookout over the landscape of sycamore, coastal live oak and cactus. Jason Andes of Fountain Valley, talks about the…

Mountain lions may be “perfect killing machines” — as described by wildlife biologist and author Jim Williams — but they usually don’t have much interest in taking down people. “Statistically speaking, a person is one thousand times more likely to be struck by lightning than attacked by a mountain lion,” according to the California Department…