The University of Hawaii is reviewing allegations of sexual misconduct against Charlie Wade, head coach of the top-ranked Rainbow Warriors men’s volleyball program, the university announced Thursday. The university’s announcement comes a day after a Southern California News Group report that Wade has continued to coach the Big West champions this season while being investigated…
Nearly five years after a man was found dead two days before Christmas, a man turned himself in for the crime, police in Hollister, Calif., say. The Hollister Police Department announced the arrest of Christopher Larios on Thursday, following interviews that it said provided enough information…
A Huntington Beach man was arrested Thursday, April 25, in connection with the killings of a former pro hockey player and a local activist whose bodies were discovered over the weekend in a Newport Beach home. Jamon Rayon Buggs, 44, was already in custody in Orange County jail on unrelated charges when Newport Beach police…
A young, autistic man gets into a university science program — he’s proved himself to be brilliant in mathematics. He reaches his first year of large science classes, where students are required to do labs and switch partners each week. Meeting a new person weekly proves traumatic for the man. Heartbroken, he drops out of…
Los Angeles County on Thursday joined a growing list of entities suing Southern California Edison, seeking to hold the utility accountable amid hints that its damaged electrical equipment may have sparked the devastating Woolsey fire. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, seeks…
By Mary Margaret Montgomery, MPT, MemorialCare director of clinical operations Contributing writer Recently, I was sleeping on a blow-up mattress in the middle of the downstairs living room of my sister’s house in South Carolina. I was awakened by a weird scraping sound. Confused and groggy from jet lag, I heard an unforgettable crashing sound….
A Pacoima man was charged with illegally storing a gun after his teenage son threatened to shoot one of his classmates at school, the Los Angeles city attorney’s office announced Thursday. Albert Sanchez, 48, was charged with two criminal counts of unlawful storage of a firearm and, if convicted,…
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,…
