The surfer walks through the sand, paddles into an ocean twinkling beneath the open sky and waits among the dolphins and sea birds for a wave shaped by the confluence of distant storms, local breezes, shifting tides and ocean bottoms. But there’s a dirty secret to the idyllic nature experience. Toxicity, greenhouse gases and non-biodegradable…
By ARON HELLER JERUSALEM — Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to be headed toward a historic fifth term as Israel’s prime minister on Wednesday, with close-to-complete unofficial election results giving his right-wing Likud and other nationalist and religious parties a solid majority in parliament. The outcome affirmed Israel’s continued tilt to the right and further dimmed hopes…
Strong winds Tuesday night downed some trees in the Los Angeles area and there were assorted power outages in the region. Wind takes out a power transformer west of downtown!! This one on video but we have seen so many tonight @KCBSKCALDesk pic.twitter.com/itqqJ4ogL0 — stu mundel (@Stu_Mundel) April 10, 2019 A tree has fallen…
The Los Angeles Police Department pioneered the controversial use of data to pinpoint crime hot spots and track violent offenders. Complex algorithms and vast databases were supposed to revolutionize crime fighting, making policing more efficient as number-crunching computers helped to position…
Actress Lori Loughlin and 15 other parents implicated in the college admissions scandal have been indicted on charges of money laundering and fraud conspiracy, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The indictments came one day after 13 parents and one coach said they would plead guilty in the far-reaching…
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday extended rent-control and eviction protections in the unincorporated areas until next year, after a lengthy hearing with dueling input from affordable housing advocates and the real estate industry. By a 4-1 vote, the supervisors continued…
Richard Cole, the last of the 80 Doolittle raiders who carried out the daring U.S. attack on Japan during World War II, died Tuesday at a military hospital in Texas. He was 103. Cole was mission commander Jimmy Doolittle’s co-pilot in the attack less than five months after the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese…
Marilynn Smith, one of the founders of the LPGA Tour whose 21 victories, two majors and endless support of her tour led to her induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame, has died at her home in Arizona. She was 89. Smith, who died Tuesday, was last seen in public March 24 at the…
A slew of posts slamming Muslims and undocumented Latino immigrants on Yucaipa Mayor Bobby Duncan’s Facebook wall triggered a harsh response Tuesday from civil rights groups and advocates. “These posts, if authentic — representing white nationalism and anti-Muslim bigotry — are morally incompatible with government service, and the city hopefully understands that and will launch…
LOS ANGELES — An Anaheim woman was sentenced Tuesday, April 9, to four and a half years in federal prison for defrauding the state’s unemployment insurance program out of more than $500,000 by using stolen identities to submit bogus claims for so-called employees who supposedly worked at sham companies. Rolanda Ashley, 49, pleaded guilty in…
