By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and ERIC TALMADGE VLADIVOSTOK, Russia — Russian President Vladimir Putin said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un confirmed during their first summit Thursday he is willing to give up his nuclear weapons — but only if he gets an ironclad guarantee of security beforehand. The Russian president stressed that Moscow and Washington…
By STEVE PEOPLES and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden formally joined the crowded Democratic presidential contest on Thursday, declaring the soul of the nation at stake if President Donald Trump wins re-election. In a video posted on Twitter , Biden focused on the 2017 deadly clash between white supremacists and counter…
This is a Los Angeles story, which is one way of saying that it’s about parking. Or to be more specific, a parking ticket. For nearly two years, Hollywood resident Lisa Soremekun fought City Hall, demanding reimbursement for the $73 parking ticket that was placed on her car — wrongly, she says…
He moves through USC without fanfare these days, just another bespectacled academic cutting across the quad by Tommy Trojan. Students flying by on skateboards and bicycles seem to take little notice. C.L. Max Nikias was just a year ago the biggest man on campus, a seemingly indomitable force known…
The 32-story, 454-foot Los Angeles City Hall opened with a three-day public celebration April 26-28, 1928.
SACRAMENTO — For the fourth time since 2014, the California governor’s office has stepped in to prevent a former Mexican Mafia leader who has renounced his past from seeing the light of day. In a three-page letter issued April 12, Gov. Gavin Newsom denied parole for Rene “Boxer” Enriquez, 56, overturning a decision by the…
About 2,100 apartment units, a boutique hotel, a three-acre park, four office buildings and a movie theater are just a part of an updated proposal for replacing the Laguna Hills Mall. Merlone Geier Partners unveiled its updated plan for the 68-acre Five Lagunas at a community open house inside the mall on Wednesday, April 24. Two…
New Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer announced Wednesday he will conduct his own investigation into the office’s use of jailhouse informants because it does not appear local prosecutors were reviewed in the state’s four-year probe. Spitzer made the statement in a letter sent to state Attorney General Xavier Becerra seeking clarification on whether the…
A suspect led police in a pursuit for about three hours starting in South Gate and winding through parts of Los Angeles and Orange counties on Wednesday evening, April 24, finally ending up in a discount store parking lot in Rowland Heights. Prior to the chase, South Gate police received reports of a dispute between…
Leaders of some Orange County cities and nonprofits are embracing new data showing details about who’s homeless in Orange County, where they stay and what issues they face, saying the information will point the way toward better solutions to a regional homelessness crisis. But others are warily eyeing the preliminary results of January’s point-in-time homeless…
