With more than 30 fellow immigrants lined up to vote, Bruno and Maria Lopez took turns and followed all the steps – they checked in with polling monitors, took a ballot, filled it out. When they were done, they even got a pair of “I voted” stickers. It was all a rehearsal for the real…
Anaheim resident Tracy DuMouchelle recently walked into a health clinic to get her son a dental check-up. She walked out a registered voter. At AltaMed Health Services’ 52 clinics in Los Angeles and Orange County, a voter registration drive is just part of an expanding get-out-the-vote campaign targeting Latinos and others who live in the…
Goats and sheep from B & T Cattle in Brea clear a hillside on city land in Irvine off of Concordia West just south of the Concordia University Irvine campus on Friday, September 28, 2018. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) With Concordia University Irvine campus as a backdrop, goats and sheep from B…
The Los Angeles school district began mediation with its teachers union Thursday and also celebrated a contract agreement — but it wasn’t with the teachers. The mediation is confidential, though first-day signs were not so promising. When it was over, United Teachers Los Angeles released a harsh…
When the first woman came forward to allege that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her decades earlier, Kathy Gosnell decided it was time to share a painful secret of her own. The retired Los Angeles Times copy editor, now living in DeKalb, Ill., made her story public…
Following a 1949 cutback in legal Mexican contract laborers allowed into California, illegal border crossings surged.
By STEPHEN WRIGHT JAKARTA, Indonesia — Powerful earthquakes jolted the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday and a triggered a tsunami that an official said swept away houses. Indonesia had declared a tsunami warning after the strongest quake, which registered magnitude 7.5, but lifted it about half an hour later. It was followed by numerous…
By NICK PERRY WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A passenger on a plane that crashed into a Pacific lagoon on Friday said the flight attendants were panicking and he saw water pouring through a hole in the side of the plane before he was able to escape. Local boats helped rescue all 47 passengers and crew…
By LISA MASCARO and ALAN FRAM WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh gained the support of a key Republican senator Friday, virtually ensuring his nomination will advance to the full Senate a day after he adamantly denied the high-school-years sexual assault of a woman who testified she was “100 percent” he was guilty. The vote…
Q. Dear Honk: When and how was it decided that all city and county police departments surrounding Los Angeles would paint their squad cars with the same black-and-white combination? I am originally from Chicago, where all of the suburban and state police cars have painted their cars with their own color combination with none matching…
