California’s attempt to ease inmates back into the community is coming at a price: more prisoners, some with violent convictions, walking away before their time is up. Fifty of the state’s more than 126,000 prisoners absconded last year, almost half of them from a program that allows male inmates…
When California shifted its bullet train plan into high gear in 2008, it had just 10 employees to manage and oversee design of the largest public construction project in state history. Consultants assured the state there was little reason to hire hundreds or thousands of in-house engineers and…
Where Dodgers fans gather, blue heaven is found. We asked readers where they go to be with other Dodgers fans if they can’t make it out to Chavez Ravine, and like Dodgers bullpen coach Mark Prior during a ninth-inning save situation, you answered the call. The Greyhound Bar & Grill (Highland Park)…
From the beginning, USC has played a central role in the college admissions scandal. This week, there were new signs that federal prosecutors are continuing to burrow into the university’s role. They announced that a former soccer coach was cooperating with their investigation, and that could provide…
I thought the vaccination wars in California pretty much fizzled out in 2015 after we outlawed religious and “personal belief” exemptions for children whose parents don’t want to immunize them against diseases like pertussis, measles and mumps. Silly me. Lack of faith in scientific consensus is…
Shanti Raminani, 12, and Mia Turel, 13, skipped six grade levels to attend Cal State Los Angeles – the only university in California that accepts students so young. Experts say schools across the country need to do more to support whiz kids.
Thief steals aircraft, but leaves note on hanger door.
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles valet parking attendant who spent time in an Israeli prison for attempting to blow up a bus is expected to be sentenced Friday for illegally obtaining American citizenship in 2008 by deliberately withholding his criminal record and past terrorist associations. Vallmoe Shqaire, 51, has remained in the United States…
SAN CLEMENTE — The large anchor constructed from sand took more than five hours to create — a sentimental memorial marking the solemn anniversary of the day San Clemente teen Saylor Voris died from leukemia, and a way for family and friends to remember the popular San Clemente High cheerleader. It only took minutes for…
By EMILY SCHMALL and JON GAMBRELL COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Catholic churches in Sri Lanka canceled all Sunday Masses until further notice over concerns that they remain a top target of Islamic State-linked extremists, even as authorities said Friday a suspected local leader blew himself up in the Easter suicide bombings. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith told…
