Kevin Lynch, left, shares his thoughts as William Sperko listens during a group session at the North Orange County Vet Center in Garden Grove on September 22, 2018. The weekly meeting is for combat veterans who want to learn how to become better dads. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Tristan Foust cares for…
Police evacuated a portion of a Chatsworth-area street Thursday morning as they tried to lure out an armed suspect barricaded in a home, officials said. Officers received a call about 5:15 a.m. regarding a man with a gun in a house in the 8600 block of Fullbright Avenue, said Officer Ray Brown,…
California’s employment winning streak started its ninth year as local bosses added 333,000 workers in the 12 months ended in August and unemployment fell in a month to 4.3 percent. Here is what my trusty spreadsheet tells me are 12 key California job market trends for August from the state Employment Development Department’s monthly report:…
It cost $2.2 billion and took 10 years to build. At its opening this summer, officials hailed the Salesforce Transit Center as a hub of the new San Francisco, part of a crop of new towers that are reshaping the city’s skyline. But on Wednesday, the bus depot remained closed after crews found cracks…
A large ladder allows Martin Sipma to paint the top of the Hollywood Bowl shell.
WASHINGTON — Christine Blasey Ford told the Senate Judiciary Committee and a riveted nation Thursday that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in a locked room at a 1980s high school party, as the panel began an extraordinary and historic hearing at which Kavanaugh hoped to salvage his Supreme Court nomination. “I believed he was going to…
Embattled Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of sexual assault at a 1982 high school party, Christine Blasey Ford, are set to testify Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The hearing in the Dirksen Senate office building is scheduled to begin at 7 a.m. Pacific time (10…
A man attending a meeting Wednesday evening at the Norwalk Social Services Center was arrested by sheriff’s deputies after he said he had a bomb in his truck. Lt. Robin Limon, of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Norwalk station, said the center, at 11929 Alondra Blvd., and nearby homes…
By LAURIE KELLMAN WASHINGTON — It’ll be a snapshot of the state of the union. The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday turns on the credibility of its two star witnesses, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who says he sexually assaulted her. But there is much more electrifying the atmosphere…
A Los Angeles County judge ordered journalists Wednesday not to publish courtroom photographs of a Houston man charged with killing multiple homeless people in the L.A. area, a move that The Times plans to challenge in court as an unconstitutional prior restraint against the media. Superior Court…
