By Neal E. BoudetteThe New York Times Tesla isn’t going private after all. In a statement late Friday night, Elon Musk, the electric-car maker’s chief executive, said he and the company’s board had concluded that they would not turn Tesla into a privately owned company. The move halts a process set in motion by Musk in…
If you live in Los Angeles, change is a guaranteed part of the bargain. The Lakers rise and the Dodgers fall. Neighborhoods gentrify. World cuisines marry and food trucks spawn. Businesses flourish and disappear. People move here from places near and far, bringing fresh energy and presenting new…
Los Angeles is a compromise. In exchange for open beaches and delicious tacos, we have signed away part of our lives to live in bumper to bumper traffic taking us to homes we can’t afford. Is your glass half-full or half-empty? Do you think Los Angeles is getting better or getting worse? If Los…
A 75-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of sexually molesting a 10-year-old, developmentally delayed girl in Santa Ana on multiple occasions. Police believe there may have been additional victims based on statements they say the man made. Francisco Ramirez Francisco Ramirez, of Santa Ana, was a volunteer at the Southwest Senior Center at Jerome Park….
Q. I am a retired police officer and former traffic-violator instructor. I believe I have found an inconsistency between the California Vehicle Code and the Department of Motor Vehicles’ Driver Handbook. Vehicle Code 27315 talks about people needing to be properly buckled up if on a “highway.” The handbook says, “You may not operate your vehicle…
On the fourth day of its second school year, an Eagle Rock charter school closed its doors this week, leaving parents and students disappointed, angry and tearful — and bucking the usual narrative of ceaseless charter growth. PUC iPrep Charter Academy had dual-language programs in English and either…
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Friday announced reforms to the city’s controversial retirement program that pays veteran police officers and firefighters their salaries and pensions simultaneously for the last five years of their careers. Under the plan, Garcetti said pension payments would…
The latest investigation into Oscar winner Kevin Spacey under review by the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office involves an allegation that he sexually battered a man in Malibu in October 2016. Prosecutors on Monday began reviewing the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s investigation into Spacey involving…
Former Adelanto City Manager Gabriel Elliott filed a claim against the city on Friday alleging whistleblower retaliation for pushing back on alleged illegal activities committed by Mayor Rich Kerr and now interim City Manager Jessie Flores. Elliott, 58, of Rancho Cucamonga served less than a year as city manager before he was fired last month….
A driver who killed a La Habra man while driving drunk in a rented U-Haul truck on the wrong side of the roadway was sentenced Friday to 15 years to life in prison. A jury last year convicted Dustin David Lish, 26, of second-degree murder for the November 2011 head-on crash that killed 20-year-old Joseph…
