By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON — The White House is invoking executive privilege, reserving the right to block the full release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Russia probe, escalating President Donald Trump’s battle with Congress. The administration’s decision was announced just as the House Judiciary Committee was gaveling in…
LAGUNA BEACH — Greg Salmeri loves to collect eclectic items from around the world and then find the perfect spot for each piece. In some cases, it can take years. “The process of creating is hard to explain,” he said during a recent tour of his Laguna Beach garden, as he plopped down on an…
Nearly three years after the Drug Enforcement Agency announced it would end a monopoly on who can grow cannabis for legally sanctioned research, there’s still only one federally authorized cannabis cultivator in the United States. And the limited supply of research cannabis is hampering the speed, quality and range of studies that scientists can conduct…
Southern California is a hotbed of millennials still living at home with mom. In honor of upcoming Mother’s Day, real estate tracker Zillow studied where millennials — defined as folks aged 23 to 37 — were most likely to be living with mom — with mom alone, or mom and dad — among 50 major…
HUNTINGTON BEACH — Democrats are a minority in Huntington Beach — and no more so than on the City Council, with Republicans dominating five to two. That spread was even greater before the 2018 election, when newcomer Kim Carr somewhat surprisingly received more votes than the incumbent. But, pitting Democrat against Democrat, some of Carr’s…
Homebuying in what we’ll call the “Beach Blvd. Corridor” — in and around Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove and Westminster — fell 21% in what was Orange County homebuying’s slowest start to a year since 2009. CoreLogic stats show the lowest countywide sales count for any first three months of a year since the…
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Tuesday that he will revive a drug team that was sharply criticized for disproportionately stopping Latino drivers on the 5 Freeway but said the unit would follow strict constitutional guidelines to prevent racial profiling. The Domestic Highway Enforcement…
Two 18-year-old men have been charged in the robbery and beating of an 18-year-old man with autism in a parking structure at a mall in Rolling Hills Estates, an assault that was recorded on a witness’ cellphone and posted to social media, authorities said Tuesday. Korey Oscar Benjamin Streeter…
Los Angeles school officials would like the discussion over a proposed property tax to be about benefits to students, but the debate Tuesday was over parking garages. Disagreement centered on whether the school district meant to tax the spaces where people park and, if so, whether they went about…
Orange County officials said Tuesday that allegations made in a March 14 report by the American Civil Liberties Union, which argued there is systemic abuse and neglect at three county-funded homeless shelters, were “unfounded” or could not be verified because they came from anonymous sources. In a nine-page letter addressed to the ACLU of Southern…
