This summer’s relentless California wildfires have claimed at least a dozen lives and destroyed more than 1,200 homes. But along with the loss of life and property, the blazes have also taken a tremendous toll on taxpayers and the state’s huge tourism industry. In less than two months, California…
DOWNEY — Police on Friday investigated the claim from a student at Downey High School that a man tried to grab her and pull her into his car as she left campus. The incident occurred Wednesday afternoon on the 11000 block of Brookshire Avenue as the girl exited the rear of the campus through the…
By Adam Bernstein, The Washington Post Robin Leach, a British-born TV personality and unapologetic practitioner of “Jacuzzi journalism” whose long-running show “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” ogled the world’s most conspicuous consumers consuming conspicuously, died Aug. 23 at a hospital in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. He was 76. The cause was a stroke, his…
“I’ll talk to you soon.” Those were the last words Eric Zink of La Palma heard his father, Dr. Barrett Zink, utter over the phone from Charlotte, Mich., where he had served as a family physician for 30 years. On Aug. 5, 2017, Barrett Zink was found dead in his car, parked on a desolate…
By Matthew Daly, The Associated Press John McCain, the six-term Arizona senator and the Republican presidential nominee in 2008, has chosen to discontinue medical treatment for his brain cancer, his family said Friday. In a statement, the family said McCain has surpassed expectations for survival, but “the progress of disease and the inexorable advance of…
Crews will continue to break down McFadden Avenue bridge this weekend, forcing the 405 Freeway to close again between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 25. The structure that connects Westminster and Huntington Beach is the first of 18 bridges to be replaced over the next five years as part of a $1.9…
From 1956: Los Angeles Times paperboy Jim Fitzgerald, 14, rides his horse Quelty on his route through Sleepy Hollow in Carbon Canyon.
On the same day Donald Trump was elected the 45th president, voters in Los Angeles County approved a half-cent sales tax that establishes a permanent revenue source for boots-on-the-ground strategies that will reduce smog and global warming emissions by getting motorists out of their cars and into electric-powered light-rail trains, subways and buses. Today, as…
Three people were killed and one was seriously injured Thursday in a fiery wrong-way crash that halted traffic on northbound Interstate 805 near Sorrento Valley in San Diego County, authorities said. The accident was reported about 4:35 p.m. near La Jolla Village Drive and Miramar Road, and all…
For the last year, construction on the corner of Avenue R and 40th Street East in Palmdale hummed along as a massive school campus took shape. On its Facebook page, Guidance Charter School posted photos of students holding shovels adorned with yellow ribbons and contractors pouring the foundation…
