The Constitution protects against cruel and unusual punishment. But in late December, three female inmates filed a class-action lawsuit against Alameda County and the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office for violating that right on the basis of sleep deprivation. This week, a federal judge sided with…
Immigrant rights advocates expressed frustration Tuesday when county supervisors failed to ask a single question or make a comment during a public forum about the Orange County Sheriff Department’s dealing with federal immigration agents. Some of the complaints expressed by advocates – lack of transparency by the Sheriff’s Dept. and little accountability – were similar…
Two officers shot each other in the leg while trying to apprehend a suspect Saturday night in Elk Grove, Calif., authorities said. The Elk Grove Police Department received a call about an attempted burglary about 11 p.m. The caller said that a man was trying to enter a travel trailer and told police…
A shallow magnitude 3.7 earthquake was reported Tuesday morning 139 miles off the coast of Capetown, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 10:53 a.m. Pacific Time at a depth of 6.2 miles. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service and…
Two more people will plead guilty in the college admissions scandal, including a former USC soccer coach who has agreed to cooperate with the government’s widening investigation, federal authorities said Tuesday. Laura Janke, an assistant soccer coach at USC from 2007 to 2014, will plead guilty…
Santa Monica police said Tuesday that officials never received a report accusing former Lakers coach Luke Walton of sexual assault, and they are not currently investigating allegations made by a sports reporter. In a civil lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, former Spectrum…
Heidi Hetzer, the German businesswoman whose late-in-life decision to drive around the world in an American vintage car won her fans around the world, has died at her home in Berlin. Hetzer’s family said Tuesday she died at her home in the German capital over the weekend; the cause of death is…
LOS ANGELES — A judge on Monday named the father and older daughter of the late actor Kristoff St. John to act as special co-administrators for the limited purposes of selling a condominium the daytime series star owned, and to marshal the assets inside that property as well as in the rental unit where he…
California has the nation’s largest wage gap between middle-income pay and what the state’s upper crust earns. I filled my trusty spreadsheet with some detailed federal pay stats by state — annual wages for all workers, as of May 2018 — to compare California’s upper-income wages (defined by the 75th percentile, where three-quarters of all…
Thirty gray whales have died along the West Coast since the start of the year, a number that has experts concerned as they try to determine the cause of the spike. So far, 21 dead whales making their migration from Alaska to the warm water lagoons in Mexico and back have been found along California,…
