The controversy over the shocking number of horse deaths at Santa Anita racetrack this season veered onto political turf this week. Talk about treacherous footing. When U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday called on the California Horse Racing Board to halt racing at Santa Anita pending further investigation of 23 fatal injuries to thoroughbreds there…
By DAN SEWELL and DON BABWIN CINCINNATI — A day of false hope has given way to questions about why a man would claim to be an Illinois boy who disappeared eight years ago. The FBI declared the man’s story a hoax Thursday one day after he identified himself to authorities as Timmothy Pitzen, who…
By ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr is defending his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Russia investigation, saying the confidential document contains sensitive grand jury material that prevented it from being immediately released to the public. The statement Thursday came as Barr confronts concerns that his four-page letter summarizing…
As storm after storm dumped rain on Los Angeles, the streets grew quiet. Like most everyone else, criminals retreated indoors. This spring, with the end of the plentiful rains, violence bloomed along with the wildflowers. The famed rapper Nipsey Hussle was just one of many casualties as Angelenos…
Kaya Buckley is a fan of Nipsey Hussle’s music. Her friends at Crenshaw High School shop at the clothing store where he was shot and killed Sunday, less than a mile from campus. But the 17-year-old knew Hussle and identified with him most as a fellow community activist. She first met him at a Hyde…
Since taking office in December, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has faced criticism over his decision to reinstate Caren Carl Mandoyan, a deputy fired over allegations of domestic violence and lying to internal investigators. He and the L.A. County Board of Supervisors are now locked…
In an effort to obtain scientific data on crash injuries, the UCLA Institute of Transportation and Traffic and the National Safety Council set up a head-on collision between two school buses.
Preparing for a bombing mission against the Japanese in January 1944, Staff Sgt. Vincent Rogers wrote to his parents with his usual candor: He wanted to go home. Five days later, Jan. 22, Rogers’ B-24J bomber crashed shortly after take-off, killing him and six others. His body remained in an unmarked coffin in the central Pacific…
A sweeping class-action lawsuit was filed Thursday seeking up to $500 million in damages amid allegations Orange County sheriff’s deputies eavesdropped and recorded as many as 100,000 phone calls between prisoners and their attorneys since 2015. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court by attorneys Richard P. Herman, Joel M. Garson and Nicholas P. Kohan,…
The rising number of homeless deaths in Orange County, coupled with the intervention of a federal court judge, will spur an extra $100 million in health care spending for homeless people over the next three years. A package of initiatives approved Thursday, April 4, by CalOptima, the county’s healthcare program for the poor, includes spending…
