Traffic in the Westside of Los Angeles would be reduced by 24 percent if vehicles were charged a $4 fee during peak hours to travel the freeways and major roadways, according to a study released Thursday by the Southern California Association of Governments. This is the first study assigning fees to vehicle use that targets…
The Los Angeles school district has focused in recent years on boosting high-school graduation rates and sending more students to college. This month, it has taken a big step by having all juniors take the Scholastic Aptitude Test on a school day, for free. It’s not lost on district officials that…
Q. I am due to renew my license soon and am confused about the one answer I got wrong on the Department of Motor Vehicle’s practice tests: You are driving on a freeway posted for 65 mph, with traffic traveling at 70 mph – how fast should you drive? The correct answer was listed as:…
Like it has most 21st Century endeavors, digital technology has fundamentally altered the movie business. Photochemical film, which was the basic stuff of movies for more than the first 100 years of production and exhibition, has all but disappeared from sets and editing rooms. Just as significantly, though, movies are now shown digitally in some…
The city of Adelanto moved this week to sever ties with a controversial immigration detention center that bears the city’s name, but it’s unclear if that means the privately-run facility, which typically holds nearly 2,000 undocumented immigrants, will be shut down or expanded. Federal immigration officials said Friday that in the wake of the city’s…
Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes has temporarily suspended his plan to automatically delete all department emails more than two years old, just as a judge on Friday ordered a halt to any erasures. The ruling by Superior Court Judge Gregg Prickett prevents the sheriff from destroying emails related to the improper recording of attorney-client phone…
Restaurants and other food businesses closed by health inspectors in Orange County from March 22 to March 29: Sawali Grill Filipino, 3414 W. Ball Road Suite G, Anaheim Closed: March 29 Reason: Cockroach infestation Mama’s Kitchen, 1885 N. Euclid St., Fullerton Closed: March 27 (report) Reason: Rodent infestation Tuition Bites, 3444 E. Orangethorpe Ave., Anaheim…
A “virtual church” operating out of a Westminster strip mall has been shut down amid an FBI investigation into two pastors accused of orchestrating a $25 million Ponzi scheme that swindled hundreds of Vietnamese investors. The two clergymen with The Church for the Healthy Self are suspected of using funds from investors to purchase Rolex…
They filed into court, one after the other — the casino magnate, the Napa Valley vintner, the Hot Pocket heiress — having braved the Boston cold and a line of cameras and reporters outside the courthouse doors, to stand before a judge and have their rights to travel, to speak with codefendants…
They have been the objects of rage, mockery and countless articles. Some have already lost jobs. But in the coming days, many of the parents in the college admissions scandal will enter a courtroom in Boston to face criminal charges. And in doing so, the public will begin to see how they respond…
