Heidi Hetzer, the German businesswoman whose late-in-life decision to drive around the world in an American vintage car won her fans around the world, has died at her home in Berlin. Hetzer’s family said Tuesday she died at her home in the German capital over the weekend; the cause of death is…
LOS ANGELES — A judge on Monday named the father and older daughter of the late actor Kristoff St. John to act as special co-administrators for the limited purposes of selling a condominium the daytime series star owned, and to marshal the assets inside that property as well as in the rental unit where he…
California has the nation’s largest wage gap between middle-income pay and what the state’s upper crust earns. I filled my trusty spreadsheet with some detailed federal pay stats by state — annual wages for all workers, as of May 2018 — to compare California’s upper-income wages (defined by the 75th percentile, where three-quarters of all…
Thirty gray whales have died along the West Coast since the start of the year, a number that has experts concerned as they try to determine the cause of the spike. So far, 21 dead whales making their migration from Alaska to the warm water lagoons in Mexico and back have been found along California,…
A man was in the hospital Tuesday morning with gunshot wounds he suffered in the course of a carjacking in Santa Ana. Officers responded at 9:30 p.m. Monday to the 500 block of East Central Avenue and found the victim, who had been shot twice, the Santa Ana Police Department said. The victim was taken…
By EMILY SCHMALL and KRISHAN FRANCIS COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s state minister of defense said Tuesday that the Easter attack on churches, hotels and other sites was “carried out in retaliation” for the shooting massacre at two New Zealand mosques last month, as the Islamic State group sought to claim responsibility for the…
It’s not very often that you get a chance to relive something as profound as parenting a young child, but quite out of the blue four months ago, a little girl I love came to live with me. She is a close relative, and the circumstances that brought her to me are the usual combination…
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Tuesday morning five miles from Imperial, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 2:42 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 3.1 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was five miles from Brawley, eight miles from El…
Following a rain shower, staff photographer Jack Carrick took this image of Broadway in downtown Los Angeles.
A powerful earthquake hit the central Philippines on Tuesday, a day after a 6.1 quake rattled the country’s north and killed at least 11 people. The U.S. Geological Survey put the magnitude of Tuesday’s quake at 6.3, while the local seismology agency said it was a 6.2. The quake was centered near…
