The Huntington Beach City Council has postponed a vote on a proposed homeless shelter for at least two weeks, City Manager Fred Wilson said Wednesday, April 10. “Things have been moving quickly, and we are just not ready,” Wilson said. Rather than set a possible vote on the item for April 15, the City Council…
The Jockeys’ Guild is postponing an apparent stunt in which jockeys planned to ride without whips Friday at Santa Anita racetrack. The guild’s leadership said it had intended to collect feedback from jockeys about how horses respond in situations where a crop would have been used, according to a letter from the Guild to the…
Los Angeles has been anticipating a shock wave from schools Supt. Austin Beutner, who worked for months on a plan to “reimagine” the nation’s second-largest school system and confront its staggering challenges. Now Beutner says that he has settled on a significantly less radical shift than many…
Prosecutors said Wednesday they will seek the death penalty for the man accused of being the Golden State Killer. Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. is suspected of raping some 50 women and holding entire families hostage during a reign of terror in Sacramento and the Bay Area in the late 1970s, then progressing…
There will be extensive security presence at the memorial at Staples Center for Nipsey Hussle on Thursday as well as a procession from the memorial through the streets of South L.A. The Los Angeles Police Department will pull in officers from divisions across the city to maintain a peaceful and…
Los Angeles police suspect that a gunman tried to kill another person at a vigil outside Nipsey Hussle’s store, another burst of violence in the same spot where the rapper was fatally shot the day before. The shooting on the night of April 1 left two women wounded and occurred amid a massive stampede…
Charles Van Doren, one of the first intellectual stars of the television era as a contestant on the NBC show “Twenty One,” who quickly became the country’s leading villain after admitting that his winning streak on the popular game show had been rigged, died Tuesday. He was 93. As many as 50 million…
In early 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, newspapers across the country ran a sensational story: A group of Roman Catholic nuns and priests were trying to foment a Communist revolution in Guatemala. The Guatemalan government had accused priests and nuns associated with the Maryknoll order…
LOS ANGELES — At least 33,000 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power customers across the city were without power Wednesday morning, and another 2,739 Southern California Edison customers in communities outside Los Angeles were in the dark as a result of a windstorm that has been wreaking havoc in Southern California, downing power lines….
By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON — Scientists on Wednesday revealed the first image ever made of a black hole, depicting a fiery orange and black ring of gravity-twisted light swirling around the edges of the abyss. Assembling data gathered by eight radio telescopes around the world, astronomers captured a picture of the hot, shadowy edges of…
