Mark Medoff, a provocative playwright whose “Children of a Lesser God” won Tony and Olivier awards and whose screen adaptation of his play earned an Oscar nomination, has died while in hospice care in Las Cruces, N.M. He was 79. Medoff died Tuesday in a hospice surrounded by family, according to…
The gray sludge poured out of giant plastic buckets like pancake batter. Workers in neon vests and spiky cleats squeegeed it across a parking lot in downtown Los Angeles, smoothing it into a thin layer beneath a cloudless sky. This light-reflecting goop is part of L.A.’s experiment to cool the…
It was in the dramatic final moments of the HBO documentary “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” that New York real estate scion Robert Durst is heard mumbling: “Killed them all, of course.” To some, his comments served as a confession to a series of killings of people close to Durst,…
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Thursday morning five miles from Ribbonwood, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 8:09 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 3.1 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 14 miles from La Quinta, Calif., 16 miles…
A mountain biking group takes a break at The Sinks in Limestone Canyon. The three people on the right are Irvine Ranch Conservancy docents. From far right to left: Sharon Aspinwall, Jeff Bleck and Christian Lutkemeyer. Bob Aleman of Fullerton rockets up a hill in Limestone Canyon during an Irvine Ranch Conservancy outing. Sound The…
A Republican hoping to unseat Democratic Rep. Katie Porter in 2020 is drawing early criticism from a fellow challenger, and some political observers, because she doesn’t live in the district she wants to represent. Peggy Huang lives in Yorba Linda and serves on the city council. Yorba Linda is in CA-39, but the district Porter…
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…
