By FARES AKRAM GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian militants on Saturday fired over 200 rockets into Israel, drawing dozens of retaliatory airstrikes on targets across the Gaza Strip in a round of intense fighting that broke a monthlong lull between the bitter enemies. Three Palestinians, including a pregnant mother and her baby daughter, were…
By LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON — They’re talking about jailing people at the Capitol. Imposing steep fines. All sorts of extraordinary, if long-shot measures to force the White House to comply with Democratic lawmakers’ request for information about President Donald Trump stemming from the special counsel’s Russia investigation. This is the remarkable state of affairs between…
A new investigation into how the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and California’s 11 other Roman Catholic dioceses handled sex abuse cases could uncover more disturbing details of misconduct and institutional failures. But it’s an open question whether it would lead to more criminal charges. News of…
A Long Beach resident has been diagnosed with measles, the first case in the city since 2015, the Health Department confirmed Saturday morning, May 4. The man is a graduate student at UCI, Orange County health officials said. He is recovering at home. His age and personal details were not released. But he may have…
Here we go again, tumbling down the shaft and into a bizarro world in which school libraries lock out students who need them most. L.A. Unified elementary school libraries are on the chopping block once again, and library aides, many of whom could lose their jobs, are screaming for justice. Some…
The adrenaline was flowing through Maria Korcsmaros’ body as she tread water Friday afternoon, May 3, taking a break during a swim near the second buoy bobbing off the Corona del Mar coast. It was at this exact spot three years ago on May 29 that an estimated 10-foot great white shark sunk its teeth…
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Saturday morning in the remote Trinity Mountains in Northern California, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The temblor occurred at 4:24 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 18.0 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 10 miles west of Junction City…
Death row inmate Brett Pensinger, 56, who murdered 5-month-old Michelle Melander in San Bernardino County in 1981, died of natural causes Thursday, May 2, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced. Pensinger, who at the time of the crime was a 19-year-old Orange County resident, abducted Michelle and her brother after drinking with their…
By Esmeralda Fabián Romero || LA School Report NAACP branches in three Southern California counties that have some of the state’s largest populations of black students are calling to end the charter school moratorium adopted by their national board in 2016. The San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino branches have submitted separate resolutions to NAACP’s…
CATALINA ISLAND — A 1947 DC-3 — originally owned by Philip K. Wrigley — majestically soared over the newly completed 3,000-foot runway at ACE Clearwater Airfield at the Airport in the Sky. The silver plane, a World War II-era replica, was the first aircraft to touch down Friday, May 3, marking the opening of the…
