During a World War II Victory Bond drive, the city of Los Angeles purchased $6 million in bonds using already approved construction project funds.

Orange County first emerged as a visible and often hard-line symbol of American conservatism in the 1960s and has figured prominently for the GOP in the decades since.

L.A. Times reporter Daniel Miller returns to the site of Big Willie Robinson’s storied track and grapples with the street racer’s complicated legacy.

Susan Burton, a former inmate who now helps other women transition from prison to society, was granted a pardon Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

A knife can been seen in the parking lot near a 7-Eleven on Harbor Boulevard and 1st Street in Santa Ana, where police took into custody a suspect in a double stabbing in Garden Grove earlier in the day on Wednesday. Aug. 7, 2019. (Photo by OnSceneTV) The suspect was arrested near a 7-Eleven on…

Hossein Nayeri masterminded the abduction of a Newport Beach marijuana dispensary owner and personally carried out the man’s torture and sexual mutilation, a prosecutor argued Wednesday, Aug. 7, during closing arguments in Nayeri’s criminal trial. Describing Nayeri’s alleged co-conspirators – former high school classmates Kyle Handley and Ryan Kevorkian – as “morons,” Senior Deputy District…

In the two years before Noah McIntosh of Corona went missing and presumably died, Riverside County social workers investigated reports that the young boy had his hands zip-tied behind his back and was dunked in cold water and that he showed up to school without pants.  Investigators found those reports unsubstantiated or inconclusive and kept…

The Newport Beach millionaire fugitive who was captured over the weekend in Mexico after being charged with killing his wife was denied bail on Wednesday, Aug. 7. Peter Chadwick was on the lam for four years until Sunday when he was discovered and returned to the United States. The 55-year-old real estate investor is accused of…

An investigation was underway after a man’s body was found near a 405 Freeway off-ramp in Westminster early Wednesday morning, Aug. 7, authorities said. The California Highway Patrol received a call just before 12:40 a.m. from the Westminster Police Department after the body was spotted by a caller off the southbound 405 near Bolsa Avenue,…

An overturned big rig forced the closure of a portion of the northbound 5 Freeway near Griffith Park amid rush-hour traffic early Wednesday.