The Los Angeles Police Department pioneered the controversial use of data to pinpoint crime hot spots and track violent offenders. Complex algorithms and vast databases were supposed to revolutionize crime fighting, making policing more efficient as number-crunching computers helped to position…
Actress Lori Loughlin and 15 other parents implicated in the college admissions scandal have been indicted on charges of money laundering and fraud conspiracy, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The indictments came one day after 13 parents and one coach said they would plead guilty in the far-reaching…
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday extended rent-control and eviction protections in the unincorporated areas until next year, after a lengthy hearing with dueling input from affordable housing advocates and the real estate industry. By a 4-1 vote, the supervisors continued…
Richard Cole, the last of the 80 Doolittle raiders who carried out the daring U.S. attack on Japan during World War II, died Tuesday at a military hospital in Texas. He was 103. Cole was mission commander Jimmy Doolittle’s co-pilot in the attack less than five months after the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese…
Marilynn Smith, one of the founders of the LPGA Tour whose 21 victories, two majors and endless support of her tour led to her induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame, has died at her home in Arizona. She was 89. Smith, who died Tuesday, was last seen in public March 24 at the…
A slew of posts slamming Muslims and undocumented Latino immigrants on Yucaipa Mayor Bobby Duncan’s Facebook wall triggered a harsh response Tuesday from civil rights groups and advocates. “These posts, if authentic — representing white nationalism and anti-Muslim bigotry — are morally incompatible with government service, and the city hopefully understands that and will launch…
LOS ANGELES — An Anaheim woman was sentenced Tuesday, April 9, to four and a half years in federal prison for defrauding the state’s unemployment insurance program out of more than $500,000 by using stolen identities to submit bogus claims for so-called employees who supposedly worked at sham companies. Rolanda Ashley, 49, pleaded guilty in…
A man brandished a gun during a Yorba Linda bank robbery on Tuesday, April 9, and fled with an unspecified amount of cash. The heist took place at the Opus Bank branch at 17672 Yorba Linda Blvd. at about 2:56 p.m., said Orange County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Wayne Rehnelt. He said a man carrying a…
Long Beach will play host to the California Democratic Party convention this November, almost certainly attracting candidates campaigning for the state’s presidential primary that will take place a little more than 100 days later, the city said Tuesday. Although the party hadn’t announced it yet, Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia tweeted excitedly about the agreement…
Motorcyclists attempting to pass vehicles on the Ortega Highway resulted in two deaths on opposite sides of the highway on Sunday afternoon. The California Highway Patrol said the first crash happened at around 3 p.m., when a motorcyclist was driving his Kawasaki west on Highway 74, also called Ortega Highway, near the Riverside/Orange county border….
