The Los Angeles teachers union announced Friday that it has scheduled a strike-authorization vote for later this month. A strike would not be automatic, even if a majority of members vote yes. But such a result would give union leaders the authority to call a strike without returning to members…
Police on Friday arrested a student at Cal State Northridge, accusing him multiple sexual assaults. Davis Moreno-Jaime, 19, was taken into custody and booked on suspicion of rape, police officials said. Investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department and the school’s police offered few details…
After more than a month of behind-the-scenes talks, L.A. Council President Herb Wesson and Korean community representatives have agreed on a site on the outskirts of Koreatown to temporarily shelter homeless residents, city officials said Friday. The uproar over placing a shelter in Koreatown —…
The Costa Mesa City Council and Orange County Board of Supervisors agreed in separate special meetings Friday to move ahead with a lawsuit to block a mobile needle-exchange service that recently received state approval to operate in Costa Mesa and three other Orange County cities. Costa Mesa council…
Newport Beach’s American Legion post is supporting the national American Legion in a U.S. Supreme Court fight over the constitutionality of a publicly maintained cross-shaped World War I memorial in Maryland. At issue is the Bladensburg World War I Memorial, which a local American Legion post erected…
A 19-year-old U.S. citizen living in Tijuana was arrested Wednesday at the San Ysidro Port of Entry with nearly 11,500 fentanyl pills in what is believed to be the largest batch of fentanyl pills ever seized at the U.S.-Mexico border, federal authorities said. Cristian Araujo Aguirre is accused…
A 36-year old Long Beach man was arrested on suspicion of a residential burglary in Garden Grove after neighbors held him down following a confrontation with the homeowner. During the melee, two other suspects got away in a black Lincoln Navigator SUV with paper plates, police Lt. Carl Whitney said. Chantha Van, 36, of Long…
By Sudhim Thanawala SAN FRANCISCO — A California requirement that new models of semi-automatic handguns stamp identifying information on bullet casings when fired is a “real-world solution” to help solve gun crimes, a divided U.S. appeals court said Friday in a decision that upheld the novel law. The stamping requirement and two measures intended to make…
A Marine recruit who became ill after exposure to E. coli at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, last year, and suffered kidney failure and seizures as a result of his illness, has filed a federal lawsuit against a food manufacturer saying its negligent handling of food cost him an opportunity to serve in the…
Some of the recreation areas closed during the Cranston fire near Idyllwild will reopen Saturday, Aug. 4, the U.S. Forest Service said. The original order on July 28 closed all Forest Service lands within the San Jacinto Ranger District and Santa Rosa and San Jacinto national monuments. “The new order means the majority of popular…
